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Most of early stage startups struggle with product design(UX, Graphic etc). Their priority is mostly on releasing the MVP and get customers. Designers and Techies on HN, how was your experience working as cofounders…

Running is extremely minimal and hence supports very limited options. I am trying to understand the market from the perspective that "Should such minimal apps exists?" Kindly check it out and let me know what you think…

What you enjoy the most? Most of the blogging platforms use some kind of toolbar. I was wondering are there any blogging platforms which support markup and being useful. I am focusing on live editing. Not like you write…

Say on Netflix or Amazon or Apple TV, how do you select what to watch next?

Hello Everyone, TL;DR I am offering interview as a service (taking first round on your behalf) for technical roles (0-8 yrs exp) for $150 each. Would you be interested? Generally (assumption) even after the resume has…

I could never really use twitter much. I am just trying to find out if I am in minority or majority.

I am wondering what do you do about the fact that the comments etc. are not available through RSS feeds. Aren't the comments equally important part of the news itself?

Is it really that necessary. Does it ever makes sense to develop something in its entirety (some level which kind of makes it feel like a complete product and not a in-haste release). Thoughts? Did you ever do otherwise…

Almost all the startups start with a VPS hosting. The problem (haven't verified) is that when you are measuring performance metrics, they can be hell lot misleading because of the extra s/w sitting between your app and…

What one design change you would make in iPhone if you were Jony Ivy?

While building a product: Developing all the features without customer feedback, not launching quickly enough etc.<p>What else?

Ok, I will admit. Its not the simplest app but yet its not the most complicated one either. The rather frustrating part is that most of the time is being spent in rendering views. Here are few examples. - Completed 200…

If you can give one basic/source of all reason, that would be great.

I know this question is vague, so if someone can share their stories like when they started out, what was their setup and what was the point when they had to think about scaling up. I have an RoR app which I am about to…

For a text based site(mostly), what is a good load time(universally). I have written a RoR app and its taking somewhere between 100ms to 300ms to load (it fluctuates) and I was wondering if thats good or bad. My guess…

During startup phase, how do you manage all your contacts? During initial phase when as a founder you are doing everything including sales as well, what tool is best for managing all your leads. There are many sales…

Linode recently did an upgrade of its entire infrastructure. I was wondering whether anyone has felt any performance boost? Anyone on HN did any performance comparison on their linode setup?

I have been trying to do this for last couple of months. There are negatives (such as a bit of lack of attention) and as well positives (I can keep bottom at one place for a little longer). I was wondering is there…

If you had all the money in the world, would you still be doing what you are doing right now? I am curious how many of us are actually living their dream.

I have been using ruby for last couple of years and I can say that I am in love with this language because of its such a simple syntax. I have very limited exposure to python and would like to know from guys who have…

Hello Everyone Please review my idea about leasing hardware to startups? I hear everyone has one or two laptops/mac mini which you are not using so much (mac or win). How would you like to lease it for some amount…

Google's is deprecated. Yahoo is not supported. Wondering if anyone has heard of something which I could not get to while searching online. Any experiences? If paid (obviously not insane), then how much and was it worth…

Do you use your apps mostly in maximized state? Do you click to move focus or ALT-TAB? This is one thing I still find slightly annoying. Both clicking and ALT-TAB seem very uncomfortable to me. Any innovative ideas on…

I am feeling a lot of anger over Google's decision to rate limit searches done through APIs. Earlier it was free but there were some conditions such as you cannot change the order of the search etc. But now, the same…