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I checked with Heroku regarding this before considering using it. It seems that you should not be seeing the above (atleast on their latest cedar stack).

When you make a new push to Heroku, they seem to make sure to setup the code on a different machine, get it up, and then finally redirect the incoming requests from the load balancer.

Firstly, Congrats. Around half a million users in three months is a great achievement.

But as for 'now what?': I noticed that there is nothing in your list that I would state as being a direct win/win. Almost every item on your list seems like a distraction (yes, a distraction that will get you the really important money).

The exception is your suggestion of 'premium features'. But, if not done correctly, you start competing with yourself - and your free users might start to resent you. Instead, what if you focused on one or more features that are:

(a) free but bring you revenue - like helping users sell albums (and taking a small cut).

(b) require payment because of some limitations - like showcasing a users profile for a day.

Looks interesting. The kind of thing that I would want to come back to if I am looking for something in one of the few categories that you support. I was just looking at UserVoice and GetSatisfaction the other day and would have loved something like this.

I want to see a lot more categories. Currently, I feel like you support way too few areas for me to even want to remember you guys. Try to launch something like your take of http://alternativeto.net

Also, I can see what you guys are doing might be interesting for me to use to monitor my company and our competitors. There might be an interesting business model for you there.

I would like to see it. It reminds me of the SourceMap work that was on HN just yesterday.

Anyway, I am not sure how this site works - but I find it helpful: http://builtwith.com/

Seems like Rails. See here: http://builtwith.com/dcurt.is/

One of the nice things about Pivotal Tracker was that it was opinionated in just the right ways.

That being said, I like Trello as well. I will not be surprised if Trello provides an imported for Pivotal Tracker because of the uncertainty of this news.

A 10 second pause at the end of the round is not enough for me to get a drink of water. A button would have helped me.

Fun. I would love a pause button, so that I can take a break - or look up the person's profile that it just showed me.

My thoughts: Do you have even one person who is using the site? - If yes, get a quote from them. Show us their pictures. Social proof makes it easier for us to trust the site. - If no, talk to friends, refine the idea. Get 10 (ideally 100) on the site. Ask them why they are using it, and change the phrasing on the site appropriately.

Personally, I can't imagine needing to Archive a repo. Yes, repos get old, but that's what a source repo is for. If you can give me reasons, then I might signup.

Now, maybe you are: 1. offering me a way to save money because GitHub charges per repo. If so, tell that on your homepage. 2. offering me a way to save time by not having to see junk. If so, tell that on your homepage.

I agree with your points. I categorize them under growing pains. Good UX is not easy - especially when you have such a large number of users and products.

If you look into the reasoning for many of the cluttered items, you will see things like "doing X would make it more readable/useful/etc for the general population".

Perhaps I am just an optimist. My fingers are crossed.

Microsoft's diversification is not really a good thing. IMO, it is no use building lots of technology without being good at any of it.

My belief is that Microsoft will improve, but I would not go there because they already have their technology goals right. (I would go to Microsoft as an intrapreneur trying to fix their technology/innovation story).

I am not a Google Employee - but I do want to defend Google here. Yes, Google used to be a technology company that empowered its employees to innovate. However, in the process they built a huge amount of UX Debt.

Bad UX was forgivable a few years ago, but that is no longer the case. Google has not figured it out yet, but with the web maturing, I am glad that they are trying to evolve to be a more UX focused company.

One of these days I will see an a detailed comparison of some of these Java cloud options (from GAE, to Heroku, Amazon Beanstalk, Cloudbees, and now Jelastic).

Given that I want to launch a side project on the cloud, this is very relevant to me, but I don't have the time to try all of them.

Interestingly, seems like they are building a platform similar to CloudFoundry and OpenStack.

Quick Answer: Yes, you can start the company. BUT, you can't work for the company that company. Mostly, work = getting a salary.

If you are trying to start a company, feel free to incorporate it and own all of it. I would suggest worrying about getting paid once you have revenues coming in.

Then hire a good lawyer to figure out your options.

If you see huge growth getting paid should be easier with investors (IANAL). Alternatively, you can have it run on the side with the company collecting the revenue that you can eventually retire on.

I actually think Martijn does understand that many patches will still get rejected - but he would like to still see some community contributions getting in (as opposed to the current message of 'stop contributing').

I personally think that a project with source available under an OSI Licene but no effort to respond to or build a community is not really an open source project.

Highlight: Stop submitting patches to Guava - it is too much work for us.

My Favorite response (from Martijn Verburg): "...could you guys work with the community to teach them to submit better proposals/patches? Many open source projects are able to do this from the Linux Kernel through to hobby projects like PCGen. Perhaps talking to their committer teams might give you some insights."

More frameworks like Bootstrap is not a bad idea. But, if you don't want a hundred websites that look like Twitter, then perhaps the right answer is having a themes that are based on Bootstrap - like what http://wrapbootstrap.com/ and http://bootswatch.com/ are doing.

Sounds like one of the scheduled maintenances. You might find these links helpful:

1. Tips on graceful degradation for your app (Java specific): http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/howto/maintenance...

2. Scheduled Maintenance Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/embed?src=4chlpo92ci2f54...

3. Downtime Notification Group / Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/google-ap...

Awesome. It needs a little polish, but I am looking forward to tweaking it and trying it out.

Very nice.

This will be helpful to implement something like G+ 'Send feedback' mechanism.

Those sound really good - but aren't they exactly what Trello is already doing?

I like it. Solving Project Management pains is hard. There are way too many tools that don't work. I like your approach - having a very fast interface to add and move items makes a significant different.

That being said, how do you intend to be different from Trello?

Buying the tech helps them get there faster. Also they don't just buy another product, HipChat has a very fanatical user base. It will likely be easy for Atlassian to get it adopted by the rest of their user base.

For someone thinking about building a java version - this might help: http://schemacrawler.sourceforge.net/

(I don't think that it supports noSQL.)

Like the idea - unfortunately I will not be in Boston that weekend. Hope it happens again.

It would be great to have this free for individuals - so that they can see if they love it or not. Either make it completely free for them, or free for 2-3 micro-funnels, or free for managing ~250 leads (like highrise).

After that it would be ideal to charge a little ($5/month) for the next 2-3 users, and more for larger teams. Ofcourse, give more features as the team sizes grow.

Note that your market is larger than a CRM.

Yeah, all his arguments are true for most bugtrackers.

By Jira he seems to really mean 'Jira at Apache' - which is their bugtracker for most projects.

Great idea. I have been wanting something like this ever since the popularity of Pinterest.

I don't see why such sites are invite only. It only means that I might be too busy when I get the invite and might not come back - unless I hear about it again (in my opinion, it only slows growth).

Feedback: 1. Would be great to have the site be a little faster. 2. I would love to be able to see who all the discoveries within a domain - something like http://snip.it/d/blog.kissmetrics.com/

Good idea. I like your video. Unfortuantely it seems that you are out of tokens - so I can't get you more feedback than that.

Looks very interesting, but way too much to read.