taphangum

This book inspired me more than any other.

Thanks, i will try!

You would be wrong. For most atleast.

One of the more, genuinely great ideas i have seen on this site. I recently bought a domain name that would actually be perfect for this idea. Gitpush.com(i was building a git php deplyment platform).

Why don't you try the idea out?

Thanks, i literally just threw it up so that i could get the movement going. I will be editing it soon though.

Its had offers.

Don't know why this got downvoted. It is.

Edit: It has obviously been upvoted now. Now i'm getting down voted? lol. HN, i don't get you sometimes.

Awesome-ness. I love these kind of stories.

I'm actually working on an iPhone game, Link:http://beathub.net. Was rejected by YC before (not on this idea though).

Would love to talk more via email about possible partnerships, advice you may have.

Just started an Ask HN thread also for those who are interested in offering their advice on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2318920

Edit: Just got downvoted, i know how this comment can be seen as self promotional but it isnt. My intention is to be brief and to the point.

Clickable: http://beathub.net

Video mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsMMnnOp7RU

I'm sorry but i can't. Only web apps.

Just sent you an email

Ajax stuff can definatly make you pull your hair out.

I don't know too much about HTML5. I haven't had time to play with it but i think that you should take a look at node.js.

It could be what you're looking for.

I'm not really looking for a business guy (I'm a business guy turned developer/entrepreneur) as much as im looking for a designer who needs some help.

Thanks for the suggestion though!

Could you be a bit more specific about your idea? I could recommend a few resources that i've used to help me.

Just added that. Thanks Jeff

email me @ tapha[AT]live.co.uk and i'll get right back to you!

Not really, which is why i am offering my services. All my past projects have been personal, entrepreneurial, so they no longer exist online. I do have a git repo though. With a couple of projects that i've done and saved there.

Link: http://github.com/Tapha

Yep, very true. It is very hard to gage what the value is here.

I've still got work to do!

Thanks for the feedback. :)

I'll be sure to return the favour. Ping me anytime you need feedback. Email is on my profile.

Best,

Tapha

Because it is a very small market i would price it at about $1,000 for a song. So it would be a niche product, but also a luxury one.

I would agree that with Zuckerberg, that is probably the case. Andrew Mason however, had only been doing ThePoint for a year before he decided to pivot to groupon.

Yes, it is a bit of a vague example. But i think it still shows my point.

We live in a different world now, a world that moves VERY fast. In a world like this, IMpatience is a virtue. It's the only way your gonna keep up!

This may be a terrible illustration of my point but let's have a look:

Entrepreneurs time to a $1bn net worth.

Steve Jobs - 20 years?

Mark Zuckerberg - 3 years.

Andrew Mason - 1 year! (maybe 1 and a half)

I think that a bad idea becoming a good one is rare and almost like playing the lotto. Though i do agree that pivots rarely have anything to do with the tech involved.

Sidenote: Speaking of ideas, i just checked out yours, MyOnePage, i had a different idea that, strangely enough, i think could work well with it. I'll send you an email in a mo explaining it (didn't find your email add in your profile. Send me a shout at t[at]thesketch.org or reply here) i'll contact you asap. :)

Agreed.

The problem is that its intention often is misunderstood and it ends up just misleading people. It's supposed to be motivation for lazy entrepreneurs to DO something about their ideas but can be miscontrued and made to seem like any old idea, well executed, will win. Which from my limited experience so far, is just not true.

I'm starting to get very tired of this way of thinking.

Ideas are VERY important. They give you the direction and aiming point that your 'execution' will eventually be built from.

If the google guys had had the idea to let you search dog shoes instead of the entire internet (even though the idea had been floating around for a while), even if they executed it to perfection. They would NEVER have succeeded. Unless they 'pivoted' (got another idea/direction).

"If Chatroulette Had Facebook Connect, People Would Keep Their Pants On."

They also wouldn't use it.

meta.

You can do it in all of the above. In a relatively similar amount of time if your starting from zero.

What you should do is first try the base language of each and see which one is easiest to work with. Then you can go from there.

Honestly the most important thing is that you ship.

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