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Good feedback, I appreciate it.

"You need physical stores": Sort of. We need physical warehouses. The core of the Ernie's business model is that these locations will be much cheaper to operate than the traditional grocery storefront, therefore increasing net margins. They will take expertise to operate; luckily, this expertise is well-established and readily available.

"Your stores are going to have to be as big as a supermarket": Not necessarily. Our SKU count will have to be big enough to be compelling. But Trader Joe's has proven that a very low SKU count can still be compelling if the value proposition is there. Trader Joe's value prop is low prices. Ernie's is convenience. On top of that, we're cramming our SKUs into a warehouse layout. Our real estate footprint will be much, much smaller than a supermarket.

"What's the advantage over just ordering my goods online... ?": The advantage is in the operations model. Home delivery will always be a much more expensive grocery offering. This results in some combination of fees and/or higher prices. Ernie's is not price premium offering. No fees. It's cheaper for us to sell the same can of beans to you than it is for Safeway. Much less than a home delivery offering.

"40 minutes in a grocery store? / 73 hours per year?": We'll just have to agree to disagree on these points. Those folks that hate wandering around the grocery (or have small children, or are physically challenged, or have better things to do with their time) are who we are marketing to. I, for one, look forward to getting 3 days of my life back every year. :)
They bought the license. Are business deals not work? Do you need proximity to the creation to profit from it?
How do these services communicate with each other? How can a single page make hundreds of requests to build a page and yet get it all together in a fraction of a second?
You might consider hitting up Angel List if you haven't done so already. If you're trying to raise for that first store - "proof of concept" before you go after more funds - it seems that might be a good avenue to raise those funds. Good luck to you!

Edit: it will probably help a lot that you've already got a portion committed, btw.
Well, being hacked allows such financial attacks, obviously (one direction: dump zillions of BTC into the market, pick them up really cheap; other direction: ask for zillions of BTC, sell them really expensively).

There is also account security (e.g. changing my default withdrawal account to something attacker-controlled), for instance. Password security (people re-use passwords...) And perhaps an attacker can withdraw money or BTC from your Mt Gox account?

This is BTC - security amateur hour - so you may well be better than, say, Mt. Gox. But if you get going, you should have someone competent looking at the code. (tptacek and co do that kind of stuff, but he's not exactly a BTC fan. Also, this kind of work is expensive.)
I like it. One think to take into consideration is people's relationship with food. It's going to be a hard sell for some people to buy produce or meat sight unseen when selection can have a huge effect on quality.

That being said I think you could build a really interesting interface. Also tremendous overhead savings, no cashiers, baggers, carts, storefront. Basically just a refrigerated warehouse and limited staff.

Awesome.
For us (http://www.sparklingapp.com), Betalist worked very well. We used this site to collect beta testers. Check it out at: http://betali.st/
Post a video of what it can do. I (I'm sure we) would all love to see it!
I like the concept. My wife used to work for plumgood food in nashville and the infrastructure build out seemed really expensive... seems like you may be able to avoid that with this if you partner with a local grocery store so you don't have to manage inventory. I would start there and put all my focus on creating a killer shopping experience online-- there are a lot of intangibles of just cruising through a grocery store that have to be rethought when you take it online. Best of luck!
My workflow is like this:

- Create a feature branch off of development.
- Commit lots of times until that's ready.
- Switch back to development. Do "git merge --squash featurebranch" This introduces all the changes from the feature branch as uncommitted changes. View the diff to ensure it's exactly what I wanted, and commit them with a single, coherent commit message.
it'd be interesting to see these heatmaps in some sort of normalized way. for example, 'e' is the most common letter in english, so its the most commonly used letter in these programming languages. it'd be very interesting to see, for example, this heatmap with the intensities divided by each letter's frequency of use in the English language, or across a large set of data including a lot of different programming languages
Don't go through as in a technical problem or don't get a response?

I'd be happy to ask around and try to see what might be going on with a technical problem if you send me the details of what happens when you try to post.
It's a location thing. A number of stores have tried this by me, but only one has really pulled it off. People often use it for their big family orders that are well upwards of $100. In general, the place also has better prices than other stores. There are repeat customers, but shopping online certainly doesn't account for the majority of their grocery store runs. That said, the place constantly has a line of cars with huge orders being loaded into their trunks. Never small orders.

Make sure you're in an area that's largely populated by families, and make sure your prices are already good.
One thing that always worked for me is writing. I write a lot- emails, blogs, guest posts, tweets. It tends to get you a following that not only gives you a market to promote to but people to build for.
It's an absolute breeze to boot from the install ISO via QEMU. It boots pretty much instantaneously, and after that you just need to know Forth:

http://i.imgur.com/EjbhP.png

Incidentally, I really like this Forth's version of a locals mechanism: http://www.forthos.org/lvars.html
We aren't trying to compete with home delivery offerings. We are competing with the traditional supermarket model, which is still the dominant grocery model in the United States. Because population density in the many parts of the U.S. is low, home delivery has enormous challenges to profitability.

Supermarkets remain as the "normal" grocery solution, but leave a lot to be desired in terms of convenience, customer service and quality. We aim to fill that gap.
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We already have this in Australia:

http://www.colesonline.com.au/wcsstore/ConsumerDirectStorefr...
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Thanks! I have actually been working with some of the principals from Plum Good (including Eric, the CEO) on the Ernie's concept. I've learned a lot from their experiences.
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From the video, it seems like the main advantage is cost. Then again I happily pay the £50 (or whatever it is) for my unlimited Ocado pass, to avoid having to own a car in London, take the time to pick up the groceries, etc.
That's exactly what we thought, and so we started a site to allow easy conversion of USD/BTC:

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We've been in business for a few months now, and don't want this to sound too sales-pitchy, but our customers all love us because converting used to be such a headache. For payment methods, we don't accept credit cards (for chargeback reasons as you mentioned), but we do accept prepaid debit cards, and we have Dwolla, MoneyPak and Western Union as "instant" payment options.
"Being a salesman" consists in being a nice human and a little bit of an actor. Any self-respecting roleplayer can be one.
Sure, Amazon can fork Android, but can they contribute to Google's version? Can they collaborate and make decisions together? Not under this governance model...
I am so overloaded with 9/11 coverage I don't even want to click it. Really looking forward to Monday, 9/12, so I can go back to the old life, where I am only reminded of the impact of 9/11 two or three times a week, instead of two or three times a day.
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This is true, I expect him (or her?) to go far!

Unfortunately, seeing his age put me off depositing money into the account I just created. When dealing with my money, I want a team of people with a lot of experience in security and dealing with problems under pressure. He may have this, but at 17 its unlikely. My quick evaluation may be unfair, but I'm unwilling to take that chance with money, especially after MtGox showed us all what kind of problems could occur if not enough work is put into preventing potential problems.

So, at least for now, I'll pass. Having said that, the site looks great and I wish the creator the best of luck and lots of success!
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For tracking changes in flight costs, you should probably check out http://adioso.com (YC-funded).
Microsoft’s revenue from royalties HTC is forced to pay on each Android phone it sells is estimated to be between three and five times the company’s Windows Phone revenue, which could help explain why Microsoft has been so quiet to date when it comes to marketing its new mobile OS

I think the more important statistic is the profit Microsoft makes per Android device, compared with the profit per WindowPhone device. There are far more Android devices, so it's not surprising they make more from that "licensing" agreement (I'm loath to call it that when it's more like extortion). I find it hard to believe that MS would prefer (and make more money from) an Android dominated market compared to a WP7 dominated one, so I'm pretty skeptical of the idea that MS are holding back on WP7 because they don't mind Android dominating. I could be wrong though, maybe their Android licences really are that lucrative, and in that case God help us all because the software(-patent) industry is even more fucked than most of us ever imagined.
I'm not sure if it's a technical problem or if it's moderation, but I usually post from my email client and then later look on Google Groups to see if they show up there. Some times they do, some times not. When I post from Google Groups they seem to go through and show up twice, so I try and avoid posting that way.
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I agree that this is the ideal situation but I think the system has been perverted. A single developer alone will probably bring less money than if he was working in a company, but the money he earns personally increases.

I personally blame a whole generation of people coming out of management school thinking they deserved a higher salary than anyone else when in fact they were doing a job that was equally important (no more, no less) than any worker in the company.
Once the copyright has lapsed, it has lapsed. Unless they did something special beyond simply extending the period then there's no way to renew the copyright.
I think it's embarrassing for Microsoft to make more from bogus patents than from their own actual product. If I were them I wouldn't try to brag about it in the press. Heck, if I were them I probably wouldn't even do it in the first place.

This is why Microsoft have lost their way. Instead of focusing on their own products and innovation, they try to make money through other less honorable means. And sadly it runs deep into Microsoft's corporate culture.

Their actions as of late are making me reconsider whether I will want to use any of their new products in the future. They should realize that a lot of those Android users are also potential Microsoft customers for other products of theirs (desktop Windows, Xbox, Office, etc). They shouldn't try to piss them off with stuff like this, by extorting money from other of their favorite companies, especially when the way they do it is highly questionable.
> Every time I read about the X-th "clone with Dropbox's functionality" I wonder where it will store its files.

I have a different reaction: I keep wondering how long Dropbox can lead in a market with such low barriers to entry.
Hey, shocker, someone pretending to care in a technically-oriented place. This isn't a sign of the problems at all!
When copyright periods are described, they describe the amount of time after the author's death that the work remains copyrighted. Your music is your own while you live with no limitations; this is about your estate and your inheritors deriving profit from your work, not about you.
Does this First Amendment require that you allow people to release porn movies as U rated? So why does labelling online, via a dedicated TLD suddenly mean that the First Amendment needs to be repealed?

Moreover most, if not all, such "speech" (dissemination of pornography) will ultimately be commercial and so not come under the full auspice of the First Amendment protections.
I'll be honest, I'm skeptical. And I'm sure investors are skeptical too after spectacular failures like WebVan and Kozmo.

Sure these sites were different than what you are trying to accomplish (Online --> Deliver to your door vs Online-->Pickup at local store), but they still have similar problems. Groceries operate at razor-thin margins, and being a warehouse of food will only take you so far (just ask WebVan). How do you know if your "Ernies" associate will pick a ripe apple vs a bruised one? How can Ernies be "friendly" if all the interaction is ordering online/pickup at the store?

The biggest question for me is, what is to stop the competition from implementing this if it sees initial success? Order online --> Pick up at store already exists for many types of businesses, if Meijer or Publix or Acme Grocery co sees success, they'll probably add this to their options, at a much easier cost than you will (as they will already have retail stores). What competitive advantage can you use that can fight against this?
Here in Miami we have these drive through convenience stores called Farm Stores. They just recently rolled out FarmStores.com which lets you order online, then schedule a pickup, and roll through and get your stuff. Very convenient, the $5 service charge I could do without, but still convenient.

The concept of only having a limited set of distribution/pickup points makes a ton of sense, much cheaper than home delivery. You are effectively offloading 2/3 of the delivery cost to the customer themselves.

Things I think this could miss out on:
- Impulse shopping
- higher margin items added
- psychological benefits of grocery experience (ooh that'd be tasty, let me buy that).

fascinating marketplace to be in IMO. I'd pay not to have to wait 10 minutes in the deli counter for some sliced turkey.
I love that you're going after a market so ripe for disruption, appreciate your coming to Hacker News for feedback/community, and I wish you the best.

But I think you have it backwards...

The real problem is not the time spent in the supermarket, it's getting there and back. You're addressing the wrong issue.

Many people want their groceries delivered for all kind of reasons:

- They have small children they don't want to take with them.
- Weather.
- Traffic.
- Health issues, elderly, shut-ins, etc.
- They don't have a car.
- They work and can only go the same time as everyone else who works.

On the other hand, if they are going to the trouble of driving all the way to the supermarket, then they might as well go inside:

- to examine and choose their own produce
- to examine and choose their own meat
- to examine and choose specials (which can be done well on-line)
- to handle and compare similar items
- to consult with the butcher/deli manager/etc.

The negative attitude of employees you cite in your video has never been an issue for me. The only real issue has been the check-out lines: there are never enough, the lines are too long, and they are expensive to operate.

If you are seeking large amounts of investment, why don't you just attack the real problem: getting out of the supermarket without waiting in line. All the necessary technology is already available. I just want to fill my cart and go home.

Please don't become another Webvan. Take that money and leverage current technology to eliminiate check-out lines in existing supermarkets forever. That's what people really want.

We don't need more infrastructure. We need better use of technology in existing infrastructure.

Bar codes dragged us that industry into the 20th century. RFID can drag it into the 21st.
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As a network programmer, we've been talking about the cloud for a long time ... it was a generic mechanism describing how systems were interconnected. With Cloud computing, we're actually combining two different ideas that already existed ... the resiliency of a network with many redundant links, and the creation of computing clusters that provide redundancy and fail-over.

I guess I don't have a problem with this particular buzz-word. What I do have a problem with is people that claim to be using cloud computing but clearly just relabeled a product/service that is not.
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Facebook also had to pay $100,000 to buy the .com. That's not really a possibility for most of us.
Also, it allows you to set hour and minute of birth, but the rest of the site doesn't use them.

Since it has second-related marks, it would be nice if it was working with hours and minutes as well.
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GForth, a popular ANS-Forth implementation, has very extensive documentation: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/

This particular Forth is based on the eForth dialect. There isn't a ton of documentation that I'm aware of, but it's almost entirely self-hosted, and if you can read Forth the source is fairly short and well-commented: http://www.baymoon.com/~bimu/forth/

For a gentle introduction to Forth I recommend Starting Forth (http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/) followed by Thinking Forth (http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/), both by Leo Brodie.
It will help a lot if you moved the email signup to the homepage... Its not bad that it is in the "Plans & Pricing", but it helps to promote the free option and get people to signup.
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The idea is to provide a granular live feed of playlists shared on Twitter. Initially, Spotify playlists are supported. Playlist URI:s are examined and indexed, making each and every playlist searchable. Technically, node.js and socket.io is working together to provide the dynamics of the UI and the live feed.

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You know, trying to provide ACTUAL VALUE. I understand that you suck at that as much as your "identified competitors."
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I am going to get downvoted for criticizing an ideology - especially capitalism, which I would consider HN the best place for. We'll see.

These technological evolutions are not lightyears away. They are around the corner and they are coming fast. Also, remember that with each branch of technological evolution comes a whole subset of mashup-ability. There are countless jobs to be had by these innovations.

Of all communities, you'd think HN would be the highest order witness to the fall of capitalism since many of the startups and weekend projects seek to automate, or otherwise kill off manual intervention (read: jobs).
Take a few of your favorite properties, YC or otherwise, then take a look back 20 years and compare the industry they represent today.

What if Airbnb became a household name, do you think that will increase the employment at Best Western?
Or an open MLS system. Increase real estate agents?

Internet businesses, in general, seek to destroy inconvenience and under the best intentions. Just as I am sure capitalism works under the best intentions, despite child labour and deforestation.

50 years is not so ridiculous to plan for. We're giving our parents and grandparents flack for not taking care of our planet - "Where was your foresight!", we say. And here we are doing no better. We've already rolled into the same comfy cognitive dissonance.
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I do my best to avoid busses. (I've always been more of a fan of switched point-to-point connections than busses, to tell the truth.)

In all seriousness, if I get hit by a bus Tarsnap probably won't live on without me -- but it runs itself smoothly enough that there should be plenty of time for people to download their data.
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There are essentially four categories of promotion you need to do:

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2) Hustling. Get in touch with as many bloggers and mailing list owners in your niche as possible, offer to guest blog, reach out to journalists with a compelling story, and so on. Do the heavy work so that all they have to do is say YES. This is at the core of hustling.

3) Paid advertising. Online and offline advertisement can be amazing tools to grow your business. You need to be careful though, and optimize your campaigns or it's very easy to bleed money.

4) Affiliates and rewarded referrals. Give an incentive to those who want to promote your app. You can give monetary compensation to your affiliates or provide some perks to your users (e.g., free premium account for you when you refer someone who buys a premium subscription).