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I think the problem they will run into is in expansion. If I need to go, I need one closer to me asap. I hope they partner with local businesses and incentivize them to keep restrooms clean and tidy.

Countries like India could really benefit from it. I always imagined a lock like Lockitron with a subscription based app to unlock clean bathrooms nearby. Leave reviews. I think this would become something funny and useful.

I am convinced that the more people get higher education, the better it gets for humanity.

This is a great list. I've thinking a lot about open/free education for masses in my wondering times these days. I was going to compile a list of available online courses just like this but more so in a semester wise fashion so that anyone interested can actually dedicate time accordingly as if they are part of a regular college curriculum.

As more and more courses come online, getting full-on degree becomes very viable by just attending lectures online, getting together with local students for group study or assignment, on-demand labs and support of mentors. There is greater need for open standard so that employers can start accepting these students as viable accreditation options for employment in their organizations.

I've used Cloud9 completely to make drumroll.io. Very impressed for Node.js projects.

I built this little tool to make it easy to handoff links/text from computer to phones. Would love to get some feedback from HN community.

In a nutshell once the app is setup, you can start sending links/text via drumroll.io to your devices. There is also a chrome extension to make it super easy to capture links drumroll.io/chrome.

This is great. I wish there were similar discovery pages for web dev, mobile dev, etc.

Totally agree. I think the key will be to find right values I can provide in a limited timeframe to target customers before getting down the path of completing version1.

lol. well said.

I see your point. My worry is mostly on the lines of wether I can fight with them as a solo founder working part-time on this. But on further analysis, I feel there is a chance of holding a good fight by focusing on certain niche markets as you've highlighted.

I do not necessarily want to fight on the Price but that is the only variable I can think of and start attracting smaller customers (who cannot afford my competitors pricing structure). This competitor seems to have brought in all the bells and whistles alongside the core of the product. My plan was to only focus on core pieces and get to side features as I start getting customer interest. Besides that, the customers buying their flag-ship product will find it useful to buy this product alongside. They both will complement well. I do think their vision seems to be different from mine where they are focused on various categories and I am on one niche.

Thanks for all the various options you've highlighted. I do feel compelled to try building out the core services to see if I can compete in certain markets. My biggest concern being unable to dedicate myself full-time unless it starts bringing in revenue I need to pay up for my bills. If you do not mind, I would like to send you a PM with info of my product site.

I think Ignition was always $29.99 or less. I don't remember seeing $99 any time. Is that what you payed?

I've been using logmein for over 5 years and although at times I was tempted to go Pro, I stayed with Free simply because there was no need for it. The free did wonderful job. I was able to login to my computers from iPhone, Mac or PC without firewall or dynamic IP problems (stuff that use to matter back then). I always wondered why they did not charge this awesome product. I do not mind paying for the service now but I wonder how will this impact less frequent users who wants to fix their mom's computer once a year or so? They say join.me remains free but is it as good as logmein Free? I had mixed results with it. Disclaimer: I own logmein stocks.

Few days ago Google emailed me saying they have credited all my advertiser balance on admob. But yesterday I noticed a debit of $50 on my credit card from them. I never ever used Admob for advertising but only as a publisher on some of my apps long ago. I can't wait to speak someone to resolve this after holidays. Something is surely messed up with admob.

Strongly recommend trying a co-working space nearby. I was at a similar situation and hated every bit of working remote (from home) until I started working from a co-working space near my hours (a couple miles). I made new friends, we have lunches together, play volley-ball at nights and I couldnt be more happier with a great job and friends I made.

Somebody should organize a Cruiseathon. Hackathon on a Cruise. I will be game!

I rushed to watch his talk... but nope.. wonder why he is not there.

There is definitely not much value here for risk involved (handing out your credentials to a 3rd party). Although interesting, the hack seems pretty straight forward. I wonder if they had to do something more complex for 2-face authentication enabled accounts (gmail) or that is not supported?

Thought there was something new being announced for Model X. Looks like its the same old model x web page. Am I missing anything?

I guess I am lucky that the text book still gets prescribe in some universities. I also think there is no other version of the text (I need to check that) I do not maintain it at all. And like I said, I solved most of the questions as part of the assignments and later worked out the left over ones, packaged it into a pdf.

Few years ago I wrote a solution manual to one of my text books (half of it was part of the assignments). I sell it on Amazon for $30 for pdf download. Been making around $200/month.

Probably coz the ecommerce sites are usually not mobile optimized and that leads to user totally abandoning the checkout.

This is what I get. Could be totally wrong and if so, please correct me.

App.net allows app developers to use app.net platform for a fee. App developers can integrate their user's app.net logins/profiles/network/photos etc. just like they do on facebook platform. App developers can also create users in the app.net platform. Users never see any ad. They also have good privacy settings. It's like win-win for both end-users and app developers. The only catch being app developers pay a nominal fee.

Honestly, this paper should be made as a mandatory reading in schools. Honoring modern science and economics.

Exactly. It's like comparing apples to oranges. I can imagine the scrutiny when it comes to support reps working from home. But when it comes to engineers, it's a total different ball game. I hope they change the title to "How Apple manages at home Support Reps"

I am curious to know how do you verify these addresses? what methods you use? I recently built one for a client using Google maps api and it was not as easy and accurate as I thought.

So how is it different from Express.js?

I would like to see some code examples.

I agree you Sridhar, that you guys have taken a pretty solid approach. I've been fan of zoho for a long time but unfortunately dont really use any of your products right now. I used to use them few years back but somehow lost interest in zoho offerings, dont remember why. I do also think that the blog post is quite bitter. It reflects frustration more than it shows your strength... any case, wish you best of luck and I hope you guys concentrate on each vertical product with more focus, may be with a separate marketing tactic and domain.

I would like to add Backendless http://backendless.com to the list. It's pretty similar to Parse in terms of API and Dashboard. I've never used it but met the CEO and loved his vision for the future of the company.

One usecase I can think of is when UI developers are working on a set of expected response from an API while the API is currently being developed by backend developers. Once the API is ready, UI devs can swap the uri.

I agree. I furiously kept trying for 45 minutes for IO and finally failed to acquire one. It was frustrating. Apple on the other hand closed it in 2 mins but reaching out after the failed attempt was nice serendipity.