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Good Evening, Can anyone provide links to online forums and communities that offer the same caliber of knowledge and conversations as this board but that is more focused on enterprise software and B2B? Thanks,

Hey Guys, I’m looking for some advice for my wife from the HN point of view. My wife is an accomplished Journalist with a degree in communications and business from a good university. After taking a 5 year sabbatical to…

Theoretically, If you had over a decade of experience working in most aspects of enterprise software including, software engineering, team leadership / management, architecture, and consulting then you decided to begin…

I would like to make an observation about the state of enterprise technology. There has been a buzzword making its rounds in executive offices lately about “focusing on core competencies”. This buzzword is usually code…

Can you recommend a decent math primer for those of us who did not earn a degree in CS and would like to undertake the SICP text?

I am trying to build a side app on a budget (read almost no budget) and I need someone to create 1 or 2 informational graphics to go into a jquery slider. This would be something similar to the large image above the…

I have always read that when validating a possible new venture one needs to know what the size of the market is for the product or service you will offer. This seams like a simple task if you are opening a gas station…

I just realized that there are several medical doctors on HN. I have had a very simple app idea bouncing in my head for the last week and would like to discuss it with someone who has run or is familiar with running a…

You got rejected by YC. That may mean that your business idea/model is flawed or you simply do not have one. It may also mean that you have a great business going but it was not a good fit for the YC portfolio. Move on,…

Lets say you where a motivated person with experience in the software industry but wanted to create a product to sell into the restaurant industry. What steps would you take to gain the knowledge and contacts required…

I am launching a staff scheduling application to help small-to-medium businesses schedule and communicate with their employees. A similar application can be seen at http://www.findmyshift.com/ My current plan is to…

All, I am working on a SAAS project that will be serving small businesses (5-50 employee). I do not want to go the funding route until I have some paying customers and a few product iterations. I am pretty sure that I…

The original idea for this domain name was to create a site like card.ly that was geared towards tech professionals and software developers. But grander things came in to my field of view. the domain name is userna.me

I've been lurking here for quite a while and I am seeing the majority of upvoted posts are related to this language or that language. Is that really what we want this community to be? There are a gazillion online…

Hello, I'm building a new app that will have your standard cold start problem. In previous ventures I have witnessed people (through analytics) clicking to participate then bailing when they find they need to create an…

I'm working on a new boot strapped project and want to outsource as much as possible and as cheaply as possible. I have PSDs coming next week from a design firm. I can slice it into HTML and CSS myself but it will…

All, I inherited an antiquated classifieds website from a friend last year and have been in the process of rewriting the UI in a more flexible and cheaper to host technology. I have a designer lined up to help created…

Hi, I have a product vision and minimal prototype for a SAAS (or not) product to be used by software development teams. In most cases the economic buyer would be (in the case of a SMB company) a development manager (in…