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I own with my father a 30 unit building. With that, let me just address the tagline: "Connect with tenants effortlessly, automate rent with online rent collection, organize work orders, and much more!"

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Connect with tenants effortlessly - Not a good thing, Usually leads to excess work orders, more "asks" and petty squabbles about this and that.

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Automate rent with online rent collection - Not sure how this is going to work. We have a option for people to pay rent via CC, but most people opt to do it in cash/check. Since only a fraction would use this, I would have to add to my work load to manually enter their transactions in here to have data integrity.

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organize work orders- Definitely dont want this. If they need something done, they just go the manager and ask. Taking away that element will just create unneeded work orders. We already have a internal system for tracking needed work. I think the last thing we would want is to make it easier for the tenant to complain about things.

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...tasks, contacts and more!
I guess this is cool, but we never really have a need for this. You already have to file their rental application and other work anyways, so its not like you wont have this.

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I guess I just dont see the appeal. Its cool to have a nice online interface for this, but I know we wouldnt use it and even my friend who runs a 400 unit complex hates moving stuff to tech. Unfortunately, they always add more work then they solve. The last thing ANY land lord needs, is /MORE/ paper trail :)

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If you get anything from this, get this- I am a technical, HN user that owns a apartment building. I am (what you would assume) your absolute ideal customer.

And with that, I wouldnt use your product without significant changes.

~fin
Off-topic: But I really do love this little gem found on DocumentCloud - http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/10404-chris-kick-ass-...
Hot search trends, top trending topics, and top overall search movers ...
also, sorting the headcount column sorts alphabetically and not as you probably intended
I've only heard the version:

"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation, off-by-one errors and naming things."
Very well designed! One thing: out of context in a tab, your favicon could seem inadvertently religious†.

†: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_cross
I seem to recall an interview he gave in which he stated that NBL was Javascript 2.
They're probably both made by FoxConn or some other SEA OEM.
Perhaps the point is that you should refactor your code into modular code when it's required. In real applications there's a million different ways to modularise the code, it's extremely rare that you guess which way is right in the absence of actual requirements.
You're describing the difference between theory and practice. It's one thing to ask an interviewee to write a bubble sort on the spot, quite another to explore the purpose of implementing a bubble sort in a given scenario. In other words, why would a test rely on CS theory rather than an ability to derive a solution regardless of orthodoxy?
I was in a similar spot about 6 months ago, and was looking in the SoCal angel scene.

I found that having a prototype was awesome. Except that my prototype only had a few early users (under 1k, IIRC). The angels were impressed I had put it together (they said it proved my abilities), but it didn't prove anything about my business model or company or industry.

So, yeah, prototype can sell them on your skills. But traction is what sells investors on your business model.
One might also interpret the phrase "object to employing him" as being about a reluctance to let him through the selection process as a new hire (which is the context set by the question raised in the case of Martin Gaskell). In other words, it doesn't have to mean that Dawkins would have an employee terminated on those grounds. Since Dawkins isn't here to comment on that distinction, it's not fair to put the question of firing in the headline when it's not explicitly discussed in the article.
I'm not sure what "natural length" is, but my workflow for something like this on my Kindle 3 is pretty simple:

1. Subscribe to feeds from longform.org, longreads.com and givemesomethingtoread.com

2. Open interesting articles and save for reading later in Instapaper

3. Set up Instapaper to deliver wirelessly to Kindle

Bam! Instant periodic 'short story' subscription service.
Then you might also consider rewording your article's title to reflect the content more accurately.
Great looking site, love the idea. Forwarded your site off to a few friends who could use this. Best of luck to you!
Another thing that might augment your "no harm intended" message is taking steps to maintain the connection after you leave. Say you're leaving for personal reasons, and a month or so after you do, you might call up a colleague or two and see if they want to grab lunch or drinks. It can show that you still value them as people while still letting you get out of a situation you no longer want to be a part of.
Well, sure, but it's a predefined factorial operator. I'm sure the J version from first principles would be similar though.
Perl 5.12.3 has a handful of bugfixes over 5.12.2. It's a very small change. Anything interesting is in the delta between 5.10.1 and 5.12.0.
I had the same reaction. I personally would change the tab.
How is this different than propertysolutions.com?
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built-ins are not the same as implementations.
How about Google Voice for SMS?
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I went with '10' because some things really can't be done in 1, and 10 minutes is the absolute most I would ever consider watching for something to sell me on something. It's pretty hard to get me to watch advertisements in the first place.
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian Kernighan
That's awesome, I'd love to see a new generation of landlords that use stuff like this.

When I get my utility bill - he calls and leaves me a voice mail with the total and then I combine it with my rent on a single check and send it in. That's not efficient by anyone's standards. Best of luck to you guys, maybe my next landlord will be using RentPost!
"sick" can be slang for great or cool. see http://onlineslangdictionary.com/definition+of/sick
Can you talk about what you did, the process from day 0 to now. I'd be interested in what you learned if anything.

This looks so awesome, but I'm not your market. I'll post this on my buildings HOA board.
I'm not sure that, as this article states

"Chrome automatically tries to determine if the user typed in a domain and tries to resolve it in the background."

When I first switched my windows ipv4 dns settings to use opennic i noticed:

chrome knows that a string typed into the address bar (one that isn't already eventually found in history or typed before) that ends with any normal suffix .com .uk etc. is a url, instead of just a query to be sent to the default search engine.

but it doesn't know what to do with strings that have opennic only suffixes like .free on them.

unless i make it clear that i am typing a url and not a query, by putting http:// on the front, it doesn't know that it is a url, because it has the non-standard .free or something on the end.

typing example.free or www.example.free for the first time just sends it to the search engine. so it seems chrome only knows/validates the official dns suffixes.
There's too much grey to make this black and white. What would you say to a closeted gay politician pushing anti-gay legislation? Would you not consider that person a fraud, just like someone saying their research is based on the universe being 13 billion years old when they don't really believe that?
Hah, good point. Probably should add a plan w/o the online payments to cut down on the internal cost so we can push out a cheaper plan.. Heck even a freemium plan
Nice job Jeremy. This works out a lot better than Sensei did.
If you want to take your business seriously and stay organized and stay on top of things, aside from rolling out your own system, there is no other way. You can't keep up with it all.

I'd address each of these things but I am tied down at the moment. Basically, it sounds like it isn't for you, and it won't be for everyone.
Arguably, the whole article is in response to this very idea. The idea is succinctly rephrased in his article (as a third party quotation) here:

"If Gaskell has produced sound, peer-reviewed literature of high quality then I see no reason for denying him the position, even if he believes Mars is the egg of a [giant purple Mongoose]"
Explanation 1: Imagine writing a lengthy blog post, article or something similar - and actually getting paid for it. That's what Amazon is trying here. By coming from a different angle, "books", where we have a traditional readiness to pay, Amazon is trying to create a pay-per-article business model.

Explanation 2: a Book needs to have a certain minimum length (80 pages or so). A magazine article has a certain maximum length (20 pages or so). Inbetween, there wasn't a market for selling something, so far. That's what Amazon is trying.

Explanation 3: Most business books actually have a few good core ideas, plus a lot of fluff. The fluff is to get at a minimum length and be at a position where you can actually sell "a thing" (book). It's so widespread that several companies like getabstract started selling just the core stuff. With the core stuff, Amazon gets nothing. This is a ploy by Amazon to get some of this business.
XSS prevention cheat sheet:

1) Never send untrusted data to the client.

How you do that isn't terribly important. It just matters that you do. Which is what that page is talking about: what you can do in order to never send untrusted data to the client.

Web developers would love it if there was a paragraph explanation that could explain how to prevent all XSS vulnerabilities in every site in detail, but there isn't.
That's a very good question. If you haven't done so already, may I suggest reading the book Kicking the Sacred Cow by James Hogan. He deals with this question all throughout his book.
I'd like to just give a big shoutout to the DocumentCloud team and their huge contributions to the open source community. I've been using underscore, backbone.js, and jammit extensively over the past few months, and it's been a joy to work with, and also well documented enough for me to extend and customize.

So, to the DocumentCloud team I say: a big THANK YOU!
I hate to say it, but most of the descriptions you provide about yourself as a landlord typify why people often dislike them.
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As long as those beliefs don't interfere with the requirements of the job.
On the one hand, I'm 100% inclined to agree with you, but on the other I think he might be ok.

My last landlord added me as a friend on Facebook when we signed the lease, and was actively attempting to use email and smart phones to facilitate communication. I've heard similar stories from other folks, so we may be at a tipping point where landlords are more open to SAAS tools, primarily because of the ubiquity of mobile apps and Facebook etc
Even if a doctor's belief in the stork theory of
reproduction is technically irrelevant to his competence
as an eye surgeon, it tells you something about him. It
is revealing. It is relevant in a general way to whether
we would wish him to treat us or teach us. A patient
could reasonably shrink from entrusting her eyes to a
doctor whose beliefs (admittedly in the apparently
unrelated field of obstetrics) are so cataclysmically
disconnected from reality.

This statement seems to work when applied to something like "babies come from storks", but it generalizes poorly. There are simply too many incorrect beliefs floating around; it's difficult to find someone who has resisted all of them. Would you refuse treatment from an ophthalmologist who believed:

1. The seasons are caused by Earth approaching and receding from the Sun?

2. Fixed-wing aircraft fly because air moves over and under the wing at the same rate?

3. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb?

All of these are just as wrong as stork-babies or creationism, and all are just as relevant (ie, not at all) to ophthalmology. I don't demand that my doctor rigorously examine every belief they hold, merely the ones related to surgery. Frankly, a creationist surgeon is much less worrying than a surgeon who believes wi-fi causes cancer.

My colleague takes the view that this YEC is entitled to a job
as a professor of astronomy, because he keeps his private
beliefs to himself while at work. I take the opposite view. I
would object to employing him, on the grounds that his
research papers, and his lectures to students, are filled with
what he personally believes to be falsehoods. He is a fake, a
fraud, a charlatan, drawing a salary for a job that could have
gone to an honest astronomer. Moreover, I would regard his
equanimity in holding two diametrically opposing views
simultaneously in his head as a revealing indicator that there
is something wrong with his head.

There's an idiom that goes something like "reality is what keeps happening even if you don't believe in it". If a creationist is able to perform correct science, I see no reason to dismiss it out of hand. Especially considering the wide variety of creationist beliefs now extant in the US -- even if he believes Earth was created six thousand years ago, he may be willing to concede that the Universe is roughly fourteen billion years old.
Startup I work at just pivoted towards an idea I am designing in my spare time.
The previous model for this start-up I am working at just went belly up and now they are considering pivoting towards something I am working on designing in my spare time. How does this affect the non-compete and non-disclosure stuff I signed with this company previously?
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Darwin would not have got very far with Dawkins in charge.
Does this process payments from Canadian banks?
Found it confusing too. Easy fix would be to add a new row in the table with the numbers so it appears in both the table and the graphic.
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I started about a month ago... As someone with a background in Java/C++/Python, here are some more that have caught my attention:

- The ability to assign types as ClassName<Protocol>, instead of the protocol specifying the type completely. Neat, I guess...

- Because it's message passing, you get duck typing for free, albeit with compiler warnings (you send a message, and wouldn't you know it, the selector exists!). Not that I recommend this approach over protocols.

- The awesomeness of @selector, especially if you're coming from Java and used to writing anonymous classes everywhere simply for the sake of making functions first-class entities.

- The lack of public/protected/private visibility modifiers and how variables are suddenly part of the public API when you define them in properties. Say you have a variable you want to keep private, but you need to frequently update its value. You go ahead and define @property (nonatomic, retain) for it so within the class so that you can simply do self.varName = newVarValue to update it. But now all your clients/outside clients will see; you need to write the release-and-retain setter yourself in the .m file to prevent this.

- The minimalism of Xcode. Hey, it's faster than Eclipse, thank $DEITY for that. But when I want to alphabetize the filenames in the left sidebar, I have to go to Edit -> Sort -> By Name for _every_ file group?
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I totally agree. All the quirks and idiosyncrasies of ObjC go away after a week of coding in it. What's more difficult to adopt is Apple's Cocoa framework. Coming from a background of most UI frameworks, Cocoa is just simply different from anything else out there. You're gonna find yourself going to developer.apple.com and stackoverflow.com for even the most basic tasks. It requires a different way of thinking about problems because the solutions are so different. Developers who have only dabbled in MVC will find themselves forced to adopt MVC and all its overhead for applications large and small.
Something that makes it easier to be a property owner is great. I see this not going after the current market but people like me who want to make renting easier.
I agree with you.
I was laid off from my last company because I didn't like the direction of the company and wasn't happy with the work. At the same time, profits were down and the company needed to downsize.

I still got all of my work done and was by any measure a successful, participatory employee, but my personal direction didn't mesh well with the direction and culture of the company.

It seems reasonable to me.
How many potential customers have you talked to that said they would 100% purchase this?

While I would love it if you'd prove me wrong (go, do it! be a success!), your responses here appear a little naive. Spending 2 years building something like this is very impressive, but it doesn't sound like you've talked to very many customers. (I get that just from the vague statements you're making about "these days", "starting to realize", etc.)

I know nothing of the space, so I can't comment to that. But it does sound like you would benefit greatly from doing some customer development, Steve blank style.
I think you hit the nail on the head.. thrilled if your manager adopted this... Management companies are offering things like tanning packages, gym memberships and all sorts of crazy perks to get tenants, this is yet another advantage for them over the competition.

We aren't pioneering the space here either, there are half a dozen competitors.
Did you notice that most of the comments on the facebook blogpost are made by ladies?

Looks like they are more concerned about the security of their accounts than men do.
Uh, ok. This is a product marketed to land lords, not to tenants. I am giving the opinion for the target.

Im sure the same thing could be said about attorneys. Its the way the world works. Tenants like asking for misc bullshit and landlords hate doing them.
I agree the pricing seems low. I was shocked at the low monthly price considering how much money changes hands for an average rent check.

Does the target market behave more like consumers than businesses?
Believing that the Universe did not exist before some time T does not make you a Creationist in the sense of the word that is employed in this discussion.

It's believing that the value of time T is such that it conflicts with innumerable results from geology, physics, and astronomy that does.
Check out http://www.landlordmax.com/ and especially the blog. This guy (selling Java-based desktop tenant management software) managed to eke out quite a profitable business in a few years time. His blog has stats, afaik with sales and nr of users etc. (he used to hang out on the old BoS boards (maybe still does?) and was one of my inspirations back then to get into actual product development).
Website looks great but the copy needs some serious work.

The main phrase:

Start Simplifying Rent™ in the RentPost Cloud

If you make the lady at my leasing office read this, she will be like 'What????'

Connect with tenants effortlessly

I don't think the landlord wants to connect with the tenant. He is interested in collecting rent.

"We're just getting warmed up; get on the bandwagon."

Why should I care that you are warming up?

You don't want to invest in yesterday's technology.

I don't care about technology, I care about how you can solve my problems.

We want to work with you to continue to build RentPost to best fit your needs; we listen!

So you are suggesting that RentPost may not fit my needs.

I think you are in the same market as this software:

http://www.landlordmax.com/

Look at their website. It's not pretty like yours, but the website copy is all about the customer's needs/problems.

E.g.

Find out who's late paying your rents in seconds.

Over 100 reports at your fingertips for you to analyze how your properties are doing within seconds.

Good luck.
That's as good an advertisement for 'iterate' early and often as we'll see around here. Two years of development and that's the first response you give, I guess either you're not the target market or maybe they should have connected with actual users a bit earlier.

So this makes me wonder, was this product developed on the 'they will come' methodology or was there actual end-user involvement and piloting with early adopters during the development phase?

If the latter then you're simply not the target market.

Where I live if you have a property that is 'to let' you contract out the handling of all the details to an agency that manages a large number of properties and you just pocket the cash every month.
I liked Moneyball a lot, very interesting read. I felt it encouraged me a bit to take more risks, regardless of what others think.
There's also a typo on the tour page in the 'Few Goodies' section. You wrote 'Fuly' instead of 'Fully'.

Other feedback: I am overwhelmed how great your design is.
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I think sick is the new wicked/cool/insane.
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So, they're enabling HTTPS, but telling people that it's an account setting and adding an authentication system that will lock out Farmville players. Why am I not impressed?
Which is exactly why one shouldn't be barred from employment based on personal beliefs... It is Dawkins who makes the comparison between religion and disease or disorders, no?
Beautiful, technically and visually. The only reason for (business) failure would be if you released it 20 years too soon. I sincerely hope you're the one to make the tipping point.
What about the way he's currently doing it? Status-quo is a viable, and often the toughest, competitor.
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Perhaps it's what you're going for, but accenting the "t" in the wordmark the way you do, is little too "jesus-y" for my tastes. This is especially true of the favicon.

Then again, I know for a lot of folks this isn't necessarily a turn-off.
Love the site, unfortunately I'm definitely not in your target market :) One quick & easily implemented suggestion for you: put your phone number in a more prominent place.

My company targets business owners as well, and at first I buried our phone number on the contact or about page. After talking with some customers I decided to not only make it more prominent, but to put it at the top of every page. Best change I ever made, the conversion rate of people who call us is astronomical.

Business owners, especially ones in 'offline' industries, often want to hear your voice before they decide to work with you. Anyways thats just my 2 cents, congrats on the launch!
Would you refuse treatment from an ophthalmologist who believed:

1. The seasons are caused by Earth approaching and receding from the Sun?

2. Fixed-wing aircraft fly because air moves over and under the wing at the same rate?

3. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb?

People generally expect a physician of any specialty to have a solid grounding in biology. The first two are cases of ignorance of physics; the third is of history. As such, you'll likely find more people willing to accept a physician's ignorance of them (more so the third, which is a matter of history, than the first two, which are about physics).
The tagging made by users in their photos and face recognition is different.

When a user has to tag someone they are given standard sized box to drag over the person you want to tag while the face recognition systems selects only the face of the person no matter how big or small it is on the picture.