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manasnutcase

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20
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July 19, 2011 (14y ago)
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0
Hello, I am Manas. I am a budding entrepreneur, techie, and amateur blogger. My websites: http://www.disruptive.in http://www.rishteykonnekt.com http://www.mingletrips.com http://www.manasrawat.com
  1. Startup Service - Idea Validation to building product, A/B testing and Marketing

    Hi Guys/Girls, We are based in India. We have launched 2 web based products - http://www.mingletrips.com and http://www.rishteykonnekt.com . During this, we have learnt many things: Quickly building landing pages and…

    2 points 3
  2. How to keep your faith and remain motivated to buiild your startup (manasrawat.com)
    1 points 0
  3. IPage deleted all my content, settings, emails, data - EVERYTHING

    iPage.com is the worst web hosting service. I had an account with them where I hosted all my a lot of stuff - my blogs, websites of my company and my friends' companies - mostly wordpress sites. Their renewal date was…

    6 points 2
  4. Whats wrong with these publishers. Didnt they learn basic manners? (manasrawat.com)
    2 points 0
  5. Ask HN: Should startup entrepreneurs read tech blogs/news regularly?

    Hi Guys/Gals, I wonder what you all think about it: Should startup entrepreneurs spend time reading tech blogs/news regularly? Mostly these are one/two people with a lot to do. But we find read stuff like HackerNews and…

    1 points 0
  6. Ask HN: Ruby/Rails or Groovy/Grails?

    Hey Guys, We are building a web app from ground up. We are using Neo4j for data management. Should we go with Ruby on Rails or Grails? ROR resources are far and few. But Java people are in abundance here. Im hoping they…

    1 points 3
  7. Web patents - what can be patented?

    Hi, The stories about web patents seem so bizarre. Like Yahoo claiming to own patent on showing ads based on some metrics. I wonder what all can and can not be patented. As in, how come Friendster or MySpace could not…

    2 points 1
  8. Does OKCupid have a patent on its matching algorithm?

    Hey Guys, do you know if OK cupid has a patent on its matching algorithm. I know google says they have some patent pending. But if we change the set of questions, can we use their process of "whats your answer, which…

    3 points 2
  9. Whats the new Tech Crunch?

    I used to be an avid Tech Crunch reader. The site show cased interesting startups. But now I dont find it interesting anymore. The editorial quality has gone down. The article selection has also changed. So, what are…

    1 points 0
  10. How should we promote it?

    Hey Guys, Heres our startup - Mingle Trips - http://www.mingletrips.com . It is for single travelers to meet other travelers/locals while traveling. All sorts of feedback is welcome. Especially, ideas on promoting it.…

    4 points 12
  11. Ask HN: Why PHP over Java?

    Hi, Why are most Webapps developed in PHP while enterprise apps use Java? I am asking this because I want to build a team for our next web app. We were recruiting PHP guys but I realize that most PHP guys have only done…

    2 points 5
  12. Ask HN: Whats easy and reliable contacts importer/inviter service?

    Hi, We need to allow our users to invite friends using their address book from popular email services like gmail, hotmail, yahoo, rediffmail and also from social networks like facebook, orkut etc. There are many sites…

    1 points 0
  13. Whats the best host for PHP - Facebook App?

    Hi, We are using PHP with Yii Framework. Currently we are using MySQL but will also use a NoSQL database in the next application. For Facebook app, we need an SSL too. We have no experience in UNIX and System…

    1 points 2
  14. I have posted many articles here. it still says manasnutcase (5)?

    Hi, I have 14 submissions on hackernews and 18 points (i found it by clicking on my name and then submissions) But it says 5 next to my name - what does that 5 mean? Does anyone know how the points work here on Hacker…

    1 points 2
  15. Does it make sense to build online medicine shop in India? (thegeneraltheory.com)
    1 points 0
  16. Ask HN: Can you recommend a source for free pics?

    Hi, I blog as a hobby and also work on testing some startup ideas very often. I dont want to pay for images for my pages and at the same time, wish I didnt have to use stolen images. Can you guys recommend good sources…

    1 points 5
  17. Idea Validation - First set of results for Match Social (thegeneraltheory.com)
    1 points 0
  18. Lean Startup - concept validation (Unbounce vs Launch Rock) (thegeneraltheory.com)
    1 points 0
  19. Hollywood: thou art the new Shylock. (thegeneraltheory.com)
    2 points 0
  20. Freedom of what exactly? (thegeneraltheory.com)
    1 points 0
  21. My domain name is searched 101 Million times on Google every month. (disruptive-by-design.posterous.com)
    1 points -1
  22. Google Adwords - they just misplaced a fax with of my credit card copy (disruptive-by-design.posterous.com)
    1 points 0
  23. Can anyone please help me with UI/UX design/brainstorming for Mingletrips.com?

    Hi, We launched MingleTrips.com last month as a platform to meet new people while traveling. We have around 500 users so far. I want to make the site more engaging and fun. Also, from the UI/UX perspective, I want to…

    2 points 0
  24. Facebook Ads rocks.. Google lags - Experience of an Indian advertizer (disruptive-by-design.posterous.com)
    1 points 0
  25. Whats the best way to track success of ad campaigns?

    Hey Guys, We just launched Mingle Trips and I am using various ads on Facebook to get initial users to the site. But my problem is that I do not know how many of them are actually converting - ie. creating a trip on…

    1 points 1