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>>> the Android "Present" is always a few steps ahead and some of us like it that way.

Ah, that explains Android's clear and longtime dominance over iOS in the smartphone market, then.
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Cool idea. Sometimes you would be willing to pay $250 to just get started.

If you have free time, do it yourself.
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Please balance my recommendation with that of everyone else that ends up replying, but here are my thoughts.

First, to your points:

1. If there is something unique the code does and you want to nurture the project in the open (e.g. GitHub) this can't hurt. If you just want to dump it and move on, save the work of open sourcing it if there is no audience and you don't want to carry it forward.

Just take the technical and non-technical lessons you learned from this and apply them to the next idea!

2. Hmm, this typically gains traction when the company/person offering the hosting has some expertise that is unique and/or trusted. Also forums are going to be a very hard sell, I don't expect you'd be met with much success here. Open source forum software is abundant as well as commercial solutions so there is a lot of competition and I don't know that much market for this.

3. People don't want to join a project that already puckered out. Adding people will not add energy back to the project if you and your co founder already lost it.

4. Sure, if you can get money for it. People won't appreciate you selling the personal information, but you guys can make that decision.

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In short, #1 and #3 should have been things you did going out of the gate when you first launched, e.g. the WordPress model. You could develop a community of more than just users around your idea.

Tossing a dead product over the wall into the open source community can help if you are Intel ditching MeeGo, but if this is "just another community" code base, I don't know that you are going to get any interest.

If the code is impressive, you could put it on GitHub or your repository of choice merely as a record of big systems you have built if you wanted to apply for a job somewhere in the future and show them something you made.

#2 is a total shift and forums... man that just seems like a long hard road to walk sales-wise if you are doing it as a fallback and are not excited about the idea.

Ultimately motivation, energy and persistence lead to success. It sounds like you two burned out on this already... just move on to the next thing that excites you.

You learned a lot, this wasn't a loss, just leverage it to make yourself even more optimized with the next startup.

That is my 2 cents.
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"Biggest one of them - UX of online forums"

I don't think that's forum owners main concern, I bet they're more interested in fighting Spam and Trolls.

So you gave yourself quite a hard task here. You went up against onstartups, hacker news and all the other startup communities.

You also built a forum, which I think is above and beyond an MVP as you could have used an off the shelf forum ?

But the best thing to come out of this is that you can clearly deliver an idea all the way to getting people to signup. Ditch this idea move onto the next.
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Compare Emacs versus any other paid text editor (not ide). Personally I would say that Emacs has a much better UX.

Remember UX doesn't just mean pretty corners and can be used by your grandmother (or Homers dad, if you grandmother is in fact awesome at computers) especially in the context of tools used daily.

But I will grant you that is is often to always the case when the intended end user is someone who isn't a programmer.
> A work can enter the public domain via expiration or forfeiture.

Perhaps you could support this claim.
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The UI complaints I recall reading (not an Android user) focused not on the visuals, but on response feel, including complaints about UI "stutter", supposedly from the garbage collector or other background processes.
It's clear from the feedback that you guys should be running auctions instead of charging fixed prices. Let the buyers choose the prices on a per-domain basis.
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>Compare Emacs versus any other paid text editor (not ide). Personally I would say that Emacs has a much better UX.

If you want an OS over your OS. For those that don't, use Vi.

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I don't think this is quite accurate; it's actually somewhat similar to say that there is no privacy in the real world because you have to travel through public property to get anywhere.

Anyone could follow you to any store, keep ultimate tabs on where you go and who you meet. Except that isn't a problem, it doesn't happen. And it's not that people don't see you go places; it's very unlikely that you can make it from your house to the grocery store without a bunch of people seeing your car and its unique identifier of a license plate.

The thing is that it is almost always different people that see your car on each trip, and those people would be hard pressed to connect your license plate back to your name or your house address.

This is true on the internet when your mail, your news source, your social network all are separate entities that have no real way to link between each other. Many people knowing a tiny portion of your identity is very nearly the same thing as none of them knowing anything; and with only the smallest amount of effort that is easily possible to achieve on the internet.
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I don't know how good they are, but there are several FaaS products:

http://vanillaforums.com/

http://www.invisionpower.com/hosting/
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Yes, as a Brit I was quite surprised about that ;-)

As for the other side, there's not just the issue of who builds for them but who builds with them. If the industry perception of Oracle becomes establised that they're awkward, litigious and have an attitude problem, who's going to buy the licenses and build products against their platform?
Iphone was first, so there is still some catching up to do but in terms of raw numbers more phones are sold with Android on them than iPhones.

But hey, Diesel jeans doesn't have to be good to sell. They just have to have Diesel on them.
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> I brought up the topic of Android vs. iOS

Why?
I shouldn't have to sign up and sign in to check it out. A 'public' forum page so that you can just check it out (see what people have posted) would go a long way. 95%+ of people who use things like HN and Reddit are lurkers (I consider myself primarily a lurker). From what I can tell, it is a redding/hn clone just by looking at the landing page. (Possibly with enhancements, but who knows).

Basically, I want to know what I'm signing up for that is half the problem. So it isn't clear what it does.

It also isn't clear how sign in works. There is a button and it looks like I need to type in a user name and password, but there is no username or password field. Should be top right, above the button that you have.

If you really think that you have 'solved' online forums, why not market it to a larger audience? Offer free public and pay-for private forums, or use ads.
I live in Los Angeles, where the car is king. My 30 min commute by car is 1:15 by bus. It's more efficient timewise to code at home and then drive to work.
I was more envisioning a reddit/HN segmented by science/engineering disciplines.

In the current journal system, editor-votes have absolute veto power, and reviewer votes have large upvote power. This has led to much progress, but it is unclear that it is the best system possible.

Then there is the whole segmentation question, which is a big tradeoff between S/N and coverage of the space. An example: Physical Review A, B, C, D & E used to be one journal -- Physical Review. Phys Rev had a green binder, and people would keep these dead-tree objects on shelves for reference. Well, the publication volume kept growing: Some wag calculated that rate of growth of the volumes on the shelf would cause their edge to exceed the speed of light. (He also pointed out that no information would be exchanged, so there was no violation of physics.)
Silk is supposed to be dynamic and work on AWS when it helps and locally when it doesn't. In your case I'd assume Silk users would have a slower, but successful, time using your site.

Perhaps they'll still make it easy to identify so that you can give Silk users the best experience possible, but there's no way it's just not going to work.
This echoes my thoughts, though I'd also add:

It's not got 3G. So what, my phone does wireless tethering.

It's not got a camera. So what, my phone has a camera (or two).

It's not got email (built in). So what, my phone has email.

It's not got GPS/Maps. So what, my phone has.

It's not got bluetooth/HDMI out/various Google integrations or whatever etc. You get the idea.

I've personally never been able to justify a tablet, when I already have an expensive phone and laptop. A cheap tablet for playing games, reading or surfing the web though, why not? All it needs to do is provide the bigger screen yet handheld form factor.

The only problem I see is the conflict between wanting it to have all my bookmarks and other settings etc. and wanting it to be a shared family device. Oh, and not being in the US. But I'm not really aware of anything stopping random generic brand from building one of these at a similar price point. The big boys will want to try and build an ecosystem and therefore avoid giving me what I want which is just a cheap, net-connected touchscreen.
> But I have never seen anyone's career affected by which journals they review for. It might happen, but if it does then it's news to me.

Oh they absolutely are. Academic CVs are full of listings of which program committees you're on. You start being a member of a committee for a smallish conference (in programming language research, something like VEE or PLaS), then try to move up to a few medium size ones (CC, perhaps), and finally you make it to being on the program committees of the top top journals (PLDI or POPL).

I decided not to go down the academic career path after doing my PhD, but it was pretty plain even to a PhD student that being on good program committees is part of your career progression.
To be fair, blocking the whole AWS/EC2 ip range is not being a very good web citizen. Surely there are better ways of detecting and throttling bots?
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There is no such thing as a CEO of pre-product startup. Get off of it.
Agreed. The time and money you can waste doing domain search and logo design far exceeds the $250 price they're charging. Having done this a number of times myself, $250 is a major bargain for something that is vetted and pretty much ready-to-promote.

Looking through the brands, nothing really fits any of my current projects but I would definitely consider coming back to check again and again.
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What mechanical_fish said. This was a "tipping point" in HackerNews's coverage of this issue. It's been raging in academia for years, and progress has been slow but steady.
I think a fuller outline of some of the copying (pictures worth 1,000 words) was linked by Gruber: http://www.reddit.com/tb/kr14a
I admit that's the way I phrased it, but I meant to say "Why iOS when you have other avenues if you want to work on your own thing?"

In other words, iOS seems to be a very bad choice for someone who wants to make money, when you could do a, say, SAAS web app, or a traditional app. Sure, you probably won't START making the same money as a traditional job with those, but the cap is much higher.
In the free market, anything goes. In the domain market, there's a finite space within which we have to work in. If you want to buy a domain at a ( 250/8 = 31.25 ) 3100% markup, so be it.
Open Source is great for infrastructure stuff like server operating systems and programming language implementations. It hasn't had many (if any) wins against proprietary software for user-facing apps.
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I always read it as: The candidate is well connected and has enough spare time to do reviews.

(FD: I've reviewed my share for IEEE. Now I have no time.)
Why wouldn't they assume that? Amazon surely knows that some people block AWS servers (AWS customers sure know!).

You also have to realize that Amazon gets the advantage of crowd sourcing--in short order they should know who's blocking what and not even have to make the original requests to be blocked.
I started to have a look, but I don't see a way to preview the content of the site without creating an account. I don't know of many online discussion forums that follow this pattern. HN, Stack Overflow, and even Experts Exchange allow you some sort of access to the community (read-only) prior to signing up.

Experts Exchange is actually a great case study in the distrust engendered by walling off your content behind a sign-up requirement. Stack Overflow has taken off like a rocket. I can browse every bit of user contributed content on their site without creating an account. Experts Exchange has a sizable community of people who actively dislike them. I think SO has the better model.
Agreed, and I'd include the whole lot as guilty of immaturity. Google basically gets nailed by a patent holder, and they complain because the patent holder filed a claim against them? And they call them out for "extortion"?

I guess I can go violate someone else's patents, then when they complain, I can say they are extortionist.

And here I thought these companies were supposed to be full of smart people.
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Yup. Live in London & I code on the tube sometimes, only if it's quiet and I can get a seat. I use a Macbook Air which makes it a ton easier than if you have something hefty to carry around. It's really useful for ticking of small bits of work.
Why not continue what did you do to market it? There's lots you could do which is slightly different to normal techniques. I think you need to try something new and if all fails continue with this plan of action.

When you're ready to give up you're usually much closer than you think.
The best tool I've found for screwing around with domain names is wordoid which I'll link below

While it seems the database hasn't been updated in awhile, it definitely gives very good/quick results without hours of work.

http://www.wordoid.com
I like this idea. I think for smaller companies that can't afford a graphic design artist and a whole kit for their company, this is an attractive, fairly inexpensive option. It also has a kick start element to it. At the beginning lots of companies spend time and effort on their branding when they should be concentrating on their product, marketing and growth. Pre-branded domains give them a starting point to jump off from and is a timesaver.
You should seriously consider reserving handles on twitter and other services and providing it to the user of your service, else a squatter can easily register handles on these services for the domains you list on your website.

I am not too comfortable with this service though, i don't like the thought of you squatting away hundreds of good startup names. Partly because the price point of $250 sounds very expensive to me, at least as someone sitting in India.
This is a terrific idea.

Feature request: I'd love to subscribe to categories and get updates when you add new domains. E.g. "Please email me when you have a new domain related to health or hardware."
Wouldn't that just be a straight up design/branding firm?

It is far easier to pick a random name and match it with some random generic branding, than to be given MySpecificProduct.com and build a brand around that. Branding companies charge a lot of money because it (generally) takes a lot of time, effort and expertise to build good brands.

There is also the fact that it would become a designer-client relationship than a merchant-customer one. Clients get to dictate what they want (to a certain extent), customers see what they are getting before they buy. What if they built a brand around MySpecificProduct.com and you didn't like it?
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yes, I do blame cisco. They sold it to them with full knowledge of what it was going to be used for. It's not like they just ordered some routers off of Newegg. It's very likely Cisco personnel have been actively making sales and providing support for the Firewall operations. That is why you pay the cisco premium after all.
FWIW, I like to know whether you tried marketing this in an offline way to increase the community.

Did you try going to startup events and provide an access for the event members to create a niche community for them?

Though the concept is good, I feel you should reach to the audience when the merits are not clear over HN.

Since you are based in India, I feel you may go to the weekend startup meets and toss up this idea.

My 5 paise...
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"Amazon Silk will facilitate a direct connection between your device and that site. Any security provided by these particular sites to their users would still exist."

Between your device and that site doesn't sound like terminating at AWS.
Also, the SPDY connection to AWS is secure which gets you a leg up on sites that aren't using SSL.
I've found that an important tool for me is establishing a routine just like if you were going into the office to work (albeit allowing less time for the commute).

Shower.
Shave (unless in Grizzly Adams mode).
Put on clothes that you would be willing to wear outside the house.
Eat breakfast.
Go to work.

I personally find that the ritual helps to put my mind in "work" mode.
Mozilla's JS engine does, and there is at least some work being done to hook Node up to it.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Guide/Iterators_...
Not everything is a technical problem. If there isn't a place as of yet like an online network for entrepreneurial people, it is not because no one was able to do a site or a forum where such people can hangout.

There is chicken and egg problem at play here.

If I had designed and launched a site exactly similar to HN or Stack Overflow, it would have been empty and dead, even if it would look exactly the same. The reason those 2 worked was becaue those that started it had some number of followers already to get the ball rolling.

Just my 2 cents.
I've been working from home for the last 5 years or so. The best tip I can give anyone is to "act" like you're at an office.

I set up a spare bedroom as an office. I have it set up like an office, and I keep non-officy stuff out of that room. I get dressed for work every morning in casual attire, but I impose a personal requirement that my shirt has to have a collar (usually a polo). I keep an open Skype channel with my remote office as frequently as possible, even if I'm not talking to the person on the other end. The sounds of an office on the other side help me keep the office mindset.

Basically, I solve the problem by pretending that I'm in an office. Maybe that's silly, but it's worked really well for me.
It looks like you lost your drive after about three months (judging by the messages in your Twitter stream).

That's not long enough to build a self-sustaining community. You did the easy part which was within your expertise (coding a site), but the hard part, which not many people can do, is building a community.

I agree with @tomcreighton. You should simplify, rebrand (rather than redesign: your entire brand needs attention. What problems are you solving for me? What am I going to love about your site? What about it speaks to me?) and relaunch. It looks like could be something I'd definitely use.

Try to find someone who can help you build your community. It's very difficult to do but you need to address the brand first. If you don't have a brand which resonates with people then there won't be a culture in your community.
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1) Ensure your 'ebay' query doesn't automatically correct the spelling, likely a general problem -- For LastPass I have hundreds of results like: Disney Trading Pin - FASTPASS PIN SET OF 5 -- perhaps throw out results without the keyword in the result set returned.

2) My ranked sources are weird -- google.pl is one of the top sources.

3) My topic cloud has URLs in it which looks... bad.

4) LastPass must be broken up into Last Pass in places as Ben Rothelsberger is prominent in LastPass' topic cloud.

Good luck!
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> Why would they assume local connect would work when AWS times out or notices it was never able to fetch a page?

Retrying upon a 400 error is normal and permitted per the spec. Why would you not retry upon a timeout?
In the footer you should consider not having so much capitalized text. It's hard to read and resulted in me not even attempting to read it. I would continue to use it as the column headers in your footer because caps works well in short bursts for emphasis.
Completely unrelated and a bit off topic, Matador restaurants were started by two friends of mine in '03 or '04 and are HUGE now. Just seeing the name-check pop up makes me proud of those guys and how far they've come from being a couple of bar managers in Queen Anne.
Great idea and great icon set. I will be using this right away!
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