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Looking for a Technical CoFounder
I have a website that needs help getting to the next level. The site has been producing revenue since July 2010, although it is not yet profitable. I need a Technical Co-Founder to help with this push.

We are an online marketplace for spas and salons to list their slower appointment times, typically at a discount. We partner with spas, and when a client books through our site, we take a cut of the transaction. Currently, we work with spas in Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, and Seattle.

The site is built in Django. Once an appointment is booked an email is automatically sent and we utilize Twilio for automated phone calls to the spas. There are between 5 - 10 transactions per week, but this needs to be pushed to the next level.

One of the biggest challenges is just getting eyeballs to the site. Currently we get 50 - 100 daily visitors, 1/3 of which is from paid traffic. We are looking to increase organic traffic. Ideas on this front will likely be the biggest driver of site success.

Why I'm a good cofounder for you:
I'm a business guy. I need a tech guy. But I'm not just a bum business guy. I've gone through Zed Shaw's Learn Python the Hard Way and Python Osmosis. I'm still not any good, but I really want to get to the point where I can contribute code as well. I will work hard to deliver as a business cofounder, while also learning the tech side.

I hustle. Hard. I went out and talked to hundreds of spas to get partnerships with them, I know the industry problems inside and out, and I have good connections with the businesses we work with. Further, I have managed contractors to build the site, to do some PR and marketing work, and to reach the spas. I raised money to finance the building of the site. I have a letter of intent for further investment once we hit higher revenue targets...access to more money.

What I'm looking for:

- Django and Python fluent

- SEO background

- Execute online marketing and email campaigns

- Grow our consumer side

- Location: Chicago preferred, but we can work it out with other locations

I'm not looking for a code monkey. I'm looking for a partner. I have a strong bias towards a local Chicago developer. Location, ultimately, isn't important because I will move to your city for the first couple of months to really get this thing going in the right direction. Working in the same room is very important to me.

Also, to be clear: I am NOT looking for someone who has a full-time job / freelance gigs, and wants to spend 10 hours a week on this with me as a cofounder. I'm fully committed to this and I want someone who is able to fully commit to it as well.

Why is this a great opportunity?:
- I am offering 1/3 equity in the company (terms to be discussed)
- The site is built, operational, and producing revenue
- A chance to take a project and help mold it into a success
- Proven to obtain funding and if necessary will secure more funding

Interested in talking more?? Contact me at andrew.dennis@spaciety.com and let's get the dialogue started.
Now if they could be employed and old occupations like fishing, farming, trading, and manufacturing were an option, may be many of them would also switch to them. After all, isn't risk calculations and average depreciation (through violence) just one step ahead of inventory management?
>"Because time travel is limited to these special particles, it is not possible for a man to travel back in time and murder one of his parents before he himself is born, for example. However, if scientists could control the production of Higgs singlets, they might be able to send messages to the past or future,"

This is absurd. If you can send messages back in time, then someone can build a robot that can accept messages from the future, and kill your parents that way^. Sending information back in time is a paradox. Period.^^

^An option available to everyone after the robot is built. Maybe this is actually enough to resolve the issues they're concerned with. I'm somewhat suspicious.

^^To be clear, I am not saying that the work is wrong or impossible, merely that their example is less than explanatory about why their theory does not have the problems of other theories.
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I think that in the beginning you really have to redefine success as: "Am I Making Progress?"

After lots and lots of progress and zero results, then you are probably on the verge of failure.
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CNN seems to have been doing everything in their power to make things more confusing and worse than it actually has been. To make matters worse, right in the middle of them stating that the reactors were experiencing a meltdown (this is over a day ago), they cut back and forth between videos of the explosion and videos of a natural gas refinery on fire. Classy act, that; clearly they're interested in journalistic integrity and accuracy. The expert they had on was attempting to do away with some of the insane sensationalism they were trying to lead him to admit had minor accuracies in them.
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Just emailed you. Bootstrapped startup with 2.5m iOS installs, just now expanding to web, and in need of Ruby/Rails/Web Frontend devs :)
How did you get the illustration of yourself (on the right side of your blog)?
There are a few methods in the .Net library for converting types called TryParse(). It's actually pretty handy, because it's an easy way get some string data munged into the type you currently want. Not that I would use this on a method that returns a matrix...
Thanks. For bonus points, I'm a single dad raising a little girl with no mom in the picture. She likes science and math, and has a few ideas for a website or two :P
That sounds useful, simple and elegant.

However, is it as flexible as UNIX-based command line wizardry? (I don't know anything about PoSH so this is an honest question.)

My common complain with Windows is that it makes cookie-cutter tasks easy to do, but once you stray a little from the established path you get into big trouble. Suddenly there is no GUI or simple shortcut, and you have to dive into sparsely documented registry settings, download or buy additional tools, and so on.
all sorts of extremely mysoginistic pop culture suggests not that "the Japanese are so civilised", only that they are merely different.

It's interesting that sexual violence strikes such a chord with us westerners, but we think nothing of glamorizing gratuitous, sadistic physical violence. We have a popular television series where the hero is a psychopath serial killer with a heart of gold. In some of the Hannibal Lecter movies, Hannibal was arguably portrayed as a hero and he cannibalized people!
I agree with that. The reporters thing seems to be a fresh take on it -- my impression from the beginning of the comment I replied to and the blog post from the other day was that it was just a lot of normal persons enquiring. Interfacing with reporters obviously is bound to be frustrating.
Good luck. I am in the same situation.
I had a promising lead coming out of my submission (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2320490), but it did not work out due to conflict of schedules. I hope that you will be able to find someone. Best of luck.
Can you imagine the same happening in the US?

No, we would have both tax cuts and relief efforts funded by deficit spending. That's something you can do when your debt to GDP ratio is 60% and when the world considers your bonds to be risk free.

It's trickier for Japan to do that - their debt to GDP ratio is 200% already (second only to Zimbabwe).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_pub...
A small percentage of people pay for priority matching, but I also just launched it. I have a few other ideas on how to monetize that I haven't put in place yet.

Right now it's definitely losing money, but I'm hoping that dynamic will change at scale (a dating site is more useful when there are more people on it).
Like pretty much every other music program, I played with it for 5 minutes and probably will never touch it again.
I'd be up for it.
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Dear downvoter, would you buy a car that falls apart (or blows up killing the passengers) when it runs out of gas?

If something can go wrong, it will, given time, go wrong. Even if there is one chance in a million for the whole chain of countermeasures to fail in tandem, give it a million chances to happen and you end up with a good chance of it happening.
"Honey, will you change my library password?" (Pulls out ring.)
Does looting commonly follow earth quakes in a large percentage of other countries?
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Sounds like you've made some great steps already. A technical co-founder could really take you to the next level. I would however not rule out working with them part time before, as jumping head on in with a new technical cofounder is a bit like getting married after a first date. There should be a bit more of an exhaustive process gone through, which will payoff much better in the long run for you.
I mean this dead seriously: People complain about the abstractions like "Monad" in Haskell, but I'm yet to see anything as abstract and difficult to reason about as a decorator around a facade delegating to an implementation of a factory factory of something probably producing a concrete instance of some other pattern monstrosity.
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The history of Llamasoft by Jeff Minter is a great read.

Not exactly what you asked for as he begins in 1978 as a 16 year old just starting college and he learns most of it by himself rather than being taught.

http://www.wayoftherodent.com/guests/bob_yak2.htm
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In theory you could pack the values in yourself into the larger columns.
CNN actually sent out breaking news alerts for both. Silly.
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Ok, so I read down further and I'm wrong.
I should also note that it's not very surprising that AVL restructurings show up as expected O(1) empirically, since many AVL trees are BB-trees, and it's been shown for BB-trees under the assumption that the root approximates the median - which is certainly true in most experimental settings. So It's quite possible the expectation isn't O(1) for pathological distributions, not to mention sequences.
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There are part/system failures in cars that result in death, just as with nuclear reactors.
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Especially considering they're actually paying monthly for it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2330694
Do startups that are not making profit qualify as non-profit organizations?
Honest question - how does code review work among "peers" with no seniority. Hypothetically speaking snicker say one peer likes to churn out reams of nonsense code and the other peer is looking forward to a sense of maintainability.

Yes, I already know your first answer: "Switch jobs".
Why do people bother researching into time travel? Even if it's possible, it's potentially a massively dangerous act.

Nobody should have the power to alter events outside of the present in any way, shape or form. Period.
You should approach this on a case to case basis, depending what your site does and what is actually needed. Having built many services before, I've always chosen what is right in that case. If there is data & content to show before registration, go for it. A public photo/video site like Youtube would be very different from a hosted e-mail provider like Gmail.

In Utopic case, there is very little to show the user otherwise, as a lot of what we have built is based on Facebook API data. We could have longer about pages, screenshots etc, but that would be it.

Many have asked us for other registration/login methods (e-mail registration, Twitter etc) but for us what you would end up with would be an empty site, resulting in disappointment.
This is why google wave wasn't a failure, despite it as a project failing, google docs, to mention one product is benefiting so much from this.

Looks amazing, and I use google docs so much for collaboration on notes, etc and this will just bring it to the next level.
> You are directly trying to impose your value over someone else's value, with the assumption that you are correct.

I feel this takes political correctness too far. What if someone else's values are that theft is fine, if they need something. If you see someone stealing a bike, should you do nothing because you don't want to impose your values on them?
Yea, amendments to the bill would be best IMO.
I could never accept such an offer. I hope that Vladimir will gets at least a minimum U.S. hourly rate for his efforts. Edit: A minimum US hourly wage is a very decent pay in Russia.
Do you have a portfolio or GitHub profile? You mention Backbone.js. Do you hang out on #documentcloud on freenode?
This is a great starting list, would it be possible to even go a step further and put starting times for each of them. Of course many of the steps continue to go on long after they start... does a developer ever stop reading HN? But many of the later items like play/build are a bit later than day 1 for someone looking to dive into this.
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You mean the one which is being reported across hundreds of free websites, where most of the content is being generated for free by "citizen journalists" holding camera phones?
I'm from Cedar Rapids as well. You really need to qualify the claim there was looting in CR. The term is rather loaded and conjures visions of angry Iowans raiding the local Casey's on John Deeres. The burglary rates did rise somewhat; but there was definitely not a feeling on lawlessness or looting. During the height of the flood, thousands of citizens from across the city helped sandbag. The only thing that saved the last remaining water pumping station was a concerted effort to build a large sandbag wall against the Cedar River.

After the waters receded many groups helped clean up countless houses in the hard-hit areas. While I wouldn't say we have quite the serene calm of the Japanese, I think communities in the United States still can effectively work together.
That's funny because I got something very similar as a job interview question the other day, and my first response was basically, "Put it in Redis. Next question."

Yeah... I didn't get that job.
Some supporting background information here.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/03/the-strange-case-of-jos...

I'm not touting the veracity of this link. I'm only trying to show that the intent of the original article should be questioned.
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What I love about this pitch from a non-technical co-founder -- he tells us:

1. What he brings to the table, that he can/will hustle and is committed.

2. What he has already accomplished/shows that he can and will hustle. He is actively trying to learn more about the technical side.

3. He's very clear about what he's looking for.

4. He knows that he needs help and he's not shy about asking for it.

Good luck!
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Thanks. Yeah, we originally had somewhat of a technical cofounder who did great work for us. He, ultimately, had a lot of other stuff on his plate...so it didn't work out. It's a lot harder to move forward than I thought without one.
yeah git in google code soon! (or not...)
> If there had been only 35 or 4000 deaths then Chernobyl
> would not be considered a catastrophic event up to this
> day.

It wouldn't. Oil and coal industry killed waaay more people. Heck, take Banqiao Dam alone. Nobody cares. Water is safe, nuclear is scaaaaaary.
Wow, the stabilizer has a huge effect, congratulations to Green Parrot on some awesome tech!
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Thanks for the feedback! We're thinking hard about sorting, filtering, personalization etc. From one side some people require that, at the same time it adds to the clutter on the page. We don't want to add features that only small % of users would use.

Regarding FB permissions, you are absolutely correct. In our case, we need the FB wall posting right only if a user wants to like/share via an API from Utopic to FB. Will think if it would be a good idea to move asking for that permission to the point when a user wants to share something on their wall the first time. We ourselves never initiate any wall postings.
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I hadn't even noticed the if - I was thinking it was loops all the way down....
When you have factories making factories, it's time to hoist the flag, get out the knives and start slitting throats.

-- after HL Menkin
I would buy that in a heartbeat.

My two year old loves too watch movies and look at pictures on the iPad but can't help herself from pushing the Home button. The iPad would be great for car trips with the right case - and the home button is the biggest issue.

Something tells me there is a big market for kid-friendly iPad accessories...
Do I need a license for MP3 if use mp3 sounds in my iOS apps?
Or are developers covered by whatever license Apple worked out with Thomson

http://www.mp3licensing.com/
Sorry guys, it's mainly to do with the security settings on your browsers. I am using JQuery/ AJAX to call the proxy on my server which is getting blocked by your OS/Browser. This is the only optimum way that I could think of to parse the Hacker news website and reformat the HTML
True, different target groups want different services. Some want more automated approach, some more manual personalization. Some need to know top news and see top videos, others want very specific niche stuff. There are markets for both, we believe.
Someone good will always be in high demand. Edit: How about going to campuses around Chicago and posting an add for a co founder? There may be a Zukenburg type of a kid out there waiting for his potential to be discovered? Also, they may be willing to devote a lot of time to the project. Just have them sign an NDA...:P
I can't imagine a greater human achievement than time travel.
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> events outside of the present

I hate to break this to you, but there's no such thing that you can describe as simply as "the present". Since we're talking about time travel here, it's important to remember that relativity is real, and that every single atom in your body exists at a different "present".

Our GPS satellites are time travellers. Their distance away from Earth is so great that we must compensate for their different perception of time, or our reported locations would be way off.

You should not be so absolutist in your views, especially when you don't have an accurate understanding of time.

I also take issue with you suggesting that nothing dangerous should be "bothered" with in research. Look where the Manhattan project got us: We have safe nuclear reactors all over the planet, we have sent a few spaceships outside the solar system (Voyager 1 and 2, for example) that run on nuclear reactors. We know that nuclear research presents great danger, but the rewards are so huge it's worth it.

All knowledge is worth some danger, especially the truly incredible knowledge like finding out that our understanding of physics is incorrect, or building spaceships that leave the solar system.
Typically it should only take 9 months to construct one. Some prerequisites apply.
But people still feel the need to show themselves superior by making comments that are utterly unhelpful. They could simply remain silent.

I agree entirely that the OP should do their homework. I agree entirely that the question really merits no reply at all. The point is that the quoted article can be paraphrased as saying "Be helpful, or shut up." That got so many upvotes, and yet here is the same unhelpful, destructive behaviour.

I guess in short it's a case of "If you can't say something nice (helpful) then don't say anything at all."
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They typically don't take out nearby villages as well, but point taken.
It wasn't just fee paying schools that would have had BBC micros, the government was actively promoting computing in schools during the early eighties - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microelectronics_Education_Prog...
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And then you thought, hold on, better let everyone on HN know first?
No, that's just the easiest way to put a valuation on it and create a way for employees to actually exercise the shares they hold.
To answer the question in the title: Yes.

To answer the question in the body: No.

A company can remain in private hands and distribute profit to shareholders through dividends and to employees as bonuses.
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Nothing at all. I didn't say there was anything wrong with it.
The good thing about time travel is that it would make FTL space travel possible as well.
That's probably tongue in cheek, but in case it's not: No, absolutely, definitely not.
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This was done deliberately as a feature, but you didn't like it :( All the external links will be opened in a new window if that is helpful
Don't you mean 800μSv - microsieverts?

Seems to me like they have a long way to go until 100mSv - millisieverts
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There is a way to launch services on demand. You can programmatically (and via sc.exe) query/stop/start services. It'd be no big deal for apps to start, check the license service, start if needed, and stop when exiting.

Are you saying the "high end" apps on Mac OS X don't install other processes for licensing?

Also, some of those license services allow floating licenses over the network -- maybe it's the same codebase?
I, unlike many, appreciate your efforts. Upvoted. I need to make a bookmarklet that checks SearchYC before posting I guess.
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Not being an active Windows user I'm not fully aware of the problem, but it sounds like you're building a duct tape defense here. Defending Norton's sins with a less well-known competitor or GC slowdowns because they're a lesser evil are both valid points

But neither approach the deeper observation that the software development community and/or conventions introduce a lot of harm in the user's perspective.

It would probably require Apple to redesign iTunes and institute a large impediment to installing legacy apps. I think that's exactly the point though, right? itunes is doing mildly hostile things and anything that's "legacy" at that point is going to be build during an era of user hostility.
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For some reason, your browser is blocking the JQuery/ AJAX calls.