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How to choose a name for a web app? | LPTS: Some of these suggestions are awful.This explosion of companies named phoodcaphe.com and this dropping the e is not a good trend. It's cheap knockoffs of a few successful companies and products that did it well, like iMac and Flickr. You will not get the same advantages is terms of uniqueness and descriptivene... |
One page site/app + advertising revenue? | alaskamiller: It really depends on what you want to measure on an Ajaxy webpage. If you can discern metrics you can sell some form of ads based on that. Also, consider making the ads iframes/includes and refresh that at a given time interval. |
One page site/app + advertising revenue? | allang: AJAX changes the CPM (cost-per-1000-impression) advertising model, so you'll need a different type of ad network. The more mainstream ad networks haven't really addressed the issue for smaller sites, despite the fact that AJAX's popularity is peaking.There's something called CPI (cost-per-influence) advertising... |
One page site/app + advertising revenue? | noodle: i'd consider trying to solicit sponsorships for lengths of time. i.e. a banner that maintans a persistent banner ad for a month for the monthly sponsor or something similar.this would make you independent of pageviews and clickthroughs. you might not make as much $, but you'll not be as open to traffic change... |
One page site/app + advertising revenue? | rob: Use a CPM company instead like ValueClick where you get paid per impression, regardless of click. |
How to choose a name for a web app? | dbreunig: Pretend you are in a rock band or own an ad agency that pretends it's a rock band. Give yourself a non-sequitur of a name that doesn't attempt to communicate your already in-definable style.If you're stumped, take an adjective and a noun that don't go together; combine. Strawberry Frog. Velvet Underground. Ze... |
How to choose a name for a web app? | gscott: I like to go to tdnam.com and click on 'Closeouts' sometimes there are really good names in there |
How to choose a name for a web app? | ssharp: Easy!1. Pick one word that is somewhat related to what you do. Make sure it ends in "ER" or "ED".2. Add .com to the end of it3. Drop at least one of the vowels, preferably the last one.4. Register that domain!Bonus points if you can find a word that ends in a top level domain. Then, just add a random dot ... |
One page site/app + advertising revenue? | johnrob: Why don't you launch with no ads, and see if you actually get the traffic you are predicting? Worry about the ads later. |
How to choose a name for a web app? | mstefff: I'd just like to thank everyone again for their input. Hopefully soon ill be posting with not only a name but a live link. |
One page site/app + advertising revenue? | rksprst: Just have a timer that changes the ad every 30 seconds (or whatever time frame you want). Coding wise, should be pretty trivial. |
One page site/app + advertising revenue? | carl_: Start without ads, gain your traffic, ebay your adspace and then advertise these listings in the adspace your selling. Depending on your volume, niche and longevity it might work.Just an idea.EDIT: Sorry, just saw noodles point. |
One page site/app + advertising revenue? | gscott: Adbrite.com would allow you to sell ads for a length of time (day, week, month) instead of being based upon impressions or clicks. |
How to choose a name for a web app? | DaniFong: I threw together a script that could try to coin words (say, by taking any letter, plus a suffix that your really like) or attach words together, and then check that against whois.http://daniellefong.com/2008/03/01/on-naming-startups-and-ru... |
How to choose a name for a web app? | thetable: Follow brainstorming techniques. Write everything down, no matter how bad. Write down fragments that characterize your idea. Explore metaphors: If your site is about finance, maybe think about up/down movement, growth, even gambling and excitement. Visualize these themes and keep writing things down.I found t... |
One page site/app + advertising revenue? | goofygrin: OK, I cobbled it together this afternoon so HN gets an early (and ugly, designless) preview.http://www.mpghead.com/Basically allows you to determine how much you'll spend different from one vehicle to another just for gas.If you get 14mpg and you pay $3.50 a gallon, you're spending $0.25 a mile! It's almost... |
do you spend more time on HN when your work sucks? | brianlash: In a word, yes. I work for myself but that doesn't mean I don't get bored of the tedium of some of my projects. In those times I turn to HN. |
do you spend more time on HN when your work sucks? | suboptimal: Yes. Yes I do.But you should really eliminate the source of pain so you can get back to reading HN guilt-free (if that's possible).BTW they sound more like short projects if it's only two weeks (unless they're larger projects crammed into a two-week timeframe!). |
How to choose a name for a web app? | cmm324: Get a group of friends together, a bottle of wine and a laptop to record the stupid things you guys come up with. The next morning go through the list and whoola... most likely you have a good name that has a domain available.Good Luck,
Chris |
One page site/app + advertising revenue? | dbreunig: http://askyc.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/intro-to-advertising/ |
Lisp / functional programming freelance experiences? | ivankirigin: Have you considered joining a company that uses Lisp? Why do it on the side?I have a new theory about getting what you want. Just do it. It has worked splendidly for me so far.I would imagine freelance Lisp would be a good way to learn as well. Rather than toy problems, you can solve someone's real problem... |
Lisp / functional programming freelance experiences? | randix: If you follow the link: http://www.software-lab.de/download you will find a Lisp that the author (and I) has used in many projects. I believe he has been freelancing for over 30 years, and at least the last 12-15 have been using this (or predecessors of it) language. I have also been freelancing for 19 years a... |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | amichail: Try Google's GWT. |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | bprater: If you are familiar with web programming today, Ajax isn't a tough technology to master. There are hundreds of simple frameworks you can start with. Grab any of them, find a simple tutorial and start tooling around.The concept is simple: send and load information without refreshing the webpage. You'll use the ... |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | breily: http://www.w3schools.com/Ajax/Default.AspThis gives a pretty good introduction at what is actually going on. The framework I've used (Prototype) abstracts away the details (like constructing the XMLHttpRequest) but its always good to know whats going on below the surface.If you know any python, this link - htt... |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | jsdalton: Try jquery.BTW, it's not so much that ajax is "hard" without a framework. The problem is with the varying ways different browsers implement javascript and the DOM. A good framework (like jquery) abstracts away many of these variations and allows you to concentrate on the more interesting hard problems. |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | jrockway: The other comments in the thread seem to tell you to use a framework, and that's great advice. But you need to learn plain javascript first. You say you've mostly done PHP, so there are some programming concepts that are essential in javascript that you haven't been exposed to, namely functional programming... |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | Bluem00: I really liked the book "Pragmatic Ajax: A Web 2.0 Primer" (http://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Ajax-Web-2-0-Primer/dp/09766...)It provides an overview of the more popular frameworks, and explains the ideas behind rich web interaction (and Google Maps in particular). |
Lisp / functional programming freelance experiences? | Zak: I've done a few paid projects using Lisp. It's usually not too hard to talk people in to when they aren't committed to a particular technology already and are hoping to get the best combination of cheap/fast/good. I have a project coming up involving small-business networking for a particular company's customers a... |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | rms: start with javascript... |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | SwellJoe: If you don't already know JavaScript, and probably even if you do, Douglas Crockford's videos are awesome. He also covers the DOM, which is intrinsic to working with AJAX.http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/Start with "The JavaScript Programming Language", and then do "Advanced JavaScript" and finally "An... |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | tlrobinson: If you already know Javascript, all you need to become buzzword compliant is this: http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/xmlhttpreq.ht... |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | pfisch: Whatever you do do not under any circumstances use plain javascript. It will not work at all in IE. Isn't it ridiculous that javascript is not even functional as a language unless you extend it with a framework?I advise prototype. |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | mxh: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/web/libraryview.jsp?...Particularly tutorial 5.It's a pretty good/quick overview of how all the bits of Ajax (JS, the DOM, XHR, Markup, etc.) work together, along with brief, functional examples. Should get you orientated in a hurry, then you can dive into the various topic... |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | rantfoil: You need to learn Javascript before you learn AJAX. AJAX is really a simple set of method calls, the harder part is really understanding DOM manipulation, event handling, etc.I highly recommend the Sitepoint books -- "Simply Javascript" and "The Art and Science of Javascript." Between these two books, you get... |
Web API's That Allow Commercial Usage? | mstefff: forgot to mention..excluding those 'eye-candy' api's like google maps and charts, etc |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | axod: Instead of 'ajax' which doesn't really exist, I'd recommend learning javascript. Don't start with a framework or library, just learn the nuts and bolts of the language.The incompatibilities between browsers are really really over-hyped, so I'd say using a library isn't worth it. At least until you have a solid un... |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | tokipin: http://rajshekhar.net/blog/archives/85-Rasmus-30-second-AJAX... |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | Dylanfm: I found the book "DOM Scripting" great. There's a brief intro to javascript syntax, then alot of focus on using javascript with the DOM and making sure you do it according to some best practices. The book finishes with an intro to ajax and is followed by a book called "Bulletproof AJAX" by the same bloke.
The ... |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | brk: Lots of good comments here... http://www.miniajax.com has some cool ajax "widgets" that can help you tackle certain problems with digestible chunks of code. |
Lisp / functional programming freelance experiences? | tritchey: We do much of our web development at http://bitfauna.com in Lisp. Most of our clients don't care what language we use, and wouldn't know Lisp from Ruby or Python. At the end of the day, the client cares about whether the site is a) working b) economical.Lisp is not all we end up doing for clients, and we have... |
Lisp / functional programming freelance experiences? | dlweinreb: I recommend that you get in touch with Clozure (www.clozure.com). They know more about contract Lisp work than just about anybody. There are many consultants who work, via Clozure, for companies doing work in Lisp.Or, apply for a job at www.itasoftware.com. I love working there. See http://dlweinreb.word... |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | iraw: You should learn the basics before letting some higher-level framework do all the magic for you.There are some good articles about AJAX on the Mozilla Developer Center: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAXYou can begin with http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX:Getting_StartedYou can also find some good ... |
Web API's That Allow Commercial Usage? | nreece: Our startup - Feedity ( http://feedity.com ) - allows commercial usage (as part of our Pro account). The service basically allows anyone to create RSS feeds from virtually any webpage, and use the feeds for personal subscription, mashups, or online publishing. |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | JayNeely: Frocer, I'm in the same position, minus having had a fair amount of programming experience(only a couple of Java classes in college). Would you be up for exchanging IM or other contact info, so we each have someone to bounce things off of as we learn?My e-mail's in my profile, and the offer is open to others ... |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | initself: Head First AJAX by O'Reilly. |
Test driven web development | rsa: Test Driven Development by Kent Beck is a good book to get you started. |
Where do I start if I want to learn AJAX? | posborne: The way I picked up AJAX was by looking of some of the simpler articles on the basics (don't worry about cross-browser to start with) around the web. The basic concept is quite simple and it is easy to get up-and-running if you have experience with client-side and server-side scripting.For me, the firebug to... |
Intellectual property 101 | michael_dorfman: I'm not a lawyer, but I just went through a round with one on a similar issue. In my jurisdiction (which is outside the US) the principle was that code was protected, and ideas were not (unless patented), BUT if I went ahead and built a product that was suitably similar to one I had worked on before u... |
Intellectual property 101 | brlewis: The company holds copyright to all the code you write on company time.In theory, abstract ideas in the code are not patentable. Patents are supposed to be specific embodiments of ideas. In practice, you totally need a lawyer if you or the employer are considering patents. |
How do you work? | nurall: I came across this old article about how successful people work just recently. And I started wondering if there was some gap between how these guys work and how you guys work your time?My question is to you HNers: How do you guys work?Thanks!p.s: I am pretty a whole bunch of HNers will consider themselves fairl... |
How do you work? | ojbyrne: Having worked as a programmer and spending time at B-school, I'm about to tell you the secret that explains all the conflicts between managers and programmers.Many is the programmer who's said "I get more done after midnight than most people do the rest of the day."But at B-school the saying goes "I get more d... |
How do you work? | wallflower: "How is managing a team of techies different from managing other kinds of office workers? Technical people are motivated by interesting work. They will put up with abominable working conditions if they get to work on something that interests them. I've managed people who had to be sent home at night. But te... |
How do you work? | calvin: I'm chained to an 8-5 shift currently.I do my "real" work (or at least interesting work) when I get home and work on my own projects.Generally, I pick one task to focus on and pound away on it for a few hours. I am assisted in the process by an eclectic variety of background music depending on the focus and th... |
How do you work? | ggruschow: A dozen accomplished people tell what works for them.If having a life like those folks is what's called "accomplished", I want to be a failure.To answer the question though, I do my best (most productive & efficient) work when I'm working 6 to 9 hours a day in an office with a few other smart caring coworker... |
best (toy) robotics platform? | noodle: another option is lego mindstorm sets.beyond that, there aren't any cheap, flexible, powerful home robotics kits. |
best (toy) robotics platform? | apgwoz: One of my college professors used to build all sorts of things with a http://www.fischertechnik.com/ set. I think he once mentioned that it was somewhat compatible with Lego blocks, but I see no evidence of that. Perhaps some pieces work... |
What load balancing software do you use ? | samueladam: http://blog.emmettshear.com/post/2008/03/03/Dont-use-Pound-f...http://www.igvita.com/2008/02/11/nginx-and-memcached-a-400-b... |
What load balancing software do you use ? | mattculbreth: I´ve used nginx in Rails and Pylons environments with good success. These apps don´t get much traffic so that wasn´t a consideration, but the ease and simplicity of nginx is fantastic. You never have to do anything with it once it's initially configured. |
What load balancing software do you use ? | blader: Nginx: http://highscalability.com/friends-sale-architecture-300-mil... |
What load balancing software do you use ? | SwellJoe: I've used pen, Squid, and LVS. All useful for different situations, though LVS is just not practical for the vast majority of situations.PerlBal looks really cool, as being written in Perl means it has some of the same kinds of flexibility that Squid has (a good reason for Squid is that you can write your ow... |
What load balancing software do you use ? | anotherjesse: I'm a huge fan of both Nginx and HAProxy - used together.[internet] <-> [Nginx] <-> [HAProxy] <-> [app servers]Nginx is a great webserver, but isn't a good load balancer. You can install a patch that improves the balancer - http://brainspl.at/articles/2007/11/09/a-fair-proxy-balancer... - but it still isn... |
What load balancing software do you use ? | DenisM: Consider also using multiple DNS A records - the selection would be random thus balancing the load.
For example, do "nslookup google.com" |
What load balancing software do you use ? | swombat: We're hosted at EngineYard, which use nginx with a fair load balancer plugin that ensures that new requests are assigned to free mongrel instances (yeah, it's RoR).Works great.Daniel |
What load balancing software do you use ? | jrockway: I use perlbal, which is nice-n-simple. Add a few lines describing where your backend servers are to the config file, save it, and start perlbal.For our $WORK applications, we just have an apache that proxies to the backend FastCGI apps. We don't have a ton of load, so that works fine. (We might be switchin... |
What load balancing software do you use ? | ubudesign: what is your app server? or is this only http? |
What load balancing software do you use ? | brianr: I'm using nginx in a couple different setups: nginx -> paste (pylons)
nginx on one machine, three other machines with 8 instances of paste each. Nginx proxies directly to the paste port (which incidentally is also itself a threaded server, but I've gotten best results by running several instance per box). Volu... |
What load balancing software do you use ? | thingsilearned: We use HAProxy because we're very session based (each user sees an entirely different thing) and HAproxy was a good choice for that. I wrote a post on setting it up a few weeks ago.http://leavingcorporate.com/2008/03/03/session-based-load-ba... |
What load balancing software do you use ? | holygoat: I like Pound very much: it's simple and robust.However, I recently noticed a memory leak. We use healthchecks on our production machines, which means a consistent rate of hits every few seconds, 24/7. After about 3 months, Pound had chewed up 1.7GB of RAM, which caused memory usage alerts in our monitors.Not ... |
What load balancing software do you use ? | rcoder: I've been using Apache 2.2 with mod_proxy_balancer to do load balancing for PHP and Rails apps for over a year now, and had pretty good experiences with it. Since I support a lot of existing Apache servers, the configuration is easy for me to work with, and the ability to do authn/authz and SSL termination at t... |
What load balancing software do you use ? | azsromej: I've used nginx and have been able to adapt old htaccess rules to get everything I used to get with apache. It's good on memory and I've never had a problem. |
What load balancing software do you use ? | merrick33: ultramonkey in front of apache / php / postgresqlIt was very smooth to setup with debian, but my first experience setting it up was with redhat and that was tortuous |
What load balancing software do you use ? | subwindow: I'm using Pound right now in one large installation, and nginx in another smaller installation, but it still has decent traffic.I definitely prefer Nginx. It seems much faster, and has definitely given fewer headaches. It seems like an issue with Pound crops up every few weeks. My Pound config file is abo... |
What load balancing software do you use ? | andy: Why use software? I have a hardware load balancer at Softlayer and for $99 bucks a month it's totally worth it. |
What load balancing software do you use ? | jawngee: We use hardware load balancers, Cisco CSS 11501's. |
What load balancing software do you use ? | photomatt: Recently switch all of the WordPress.com load balancers to be nginx. They push a little over a gigabit of traffic right now and about half a billion requests per day, no sweat. We use Spread + Wackamole for failover, there's more info on Barry's blog:http://barry.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/load-balancer-update... |
Any users of SimpleCDN? | FiReaNG3L: Did you check http://cachefly.com/ too? I'm also shopping for a cheap CDN and this an alternative I know. |
Best IP geolocation service? | andybelike: i was recommended maxmind: http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country |
Best IP geolocation service? | davidu: Depends on how you plan to use it... |
Best IP geolocation service? | technoguyrob: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=136091 |
Any users of SimpleCDN? | aaroneous: http://www.velocix.com/compare.php -- I saw these guys come across my feeds earlier in the week. They're a CDN offering up to 500gb (per mo?) of caching on their edge network for free.I have no clue as to the size of their map, or quality of service, but since it's free it may be an attractive option for boo... |
Any users of SimpleCDN? | jbyers: Haven't tried simplecdn. This pricing seems at first glance to be too clever, but if they can do it, it's certainly less than any competitor I've seen.We use Panther Express (http://pantherexpress.com). More expensive, but not nearly as much as Akamai and other big guys. No commits. Fantastic network. |
Any users of SimpleCDN? | danielrhodes: I haven't used them, but be careful of their offer. If you look at their pricing, the $1 is for one credit, and they charge you a certain number of credits based on the size of your file. Here's the catch: it could get very expensive for you if you have a site that is long-tail with lots of files, but on ... |
Transitioning From PHP to Django | aneesh: How popular is the app? Does it work nicely now? Depending on your answers to those, do you really need to rewrite? |
Transitioning From PHP to Django | goofygrin: The first thing I'd try is to reverse engineer the model from the database (this is something that django can do).As long as your database design is somewhat decent you'll likely be ok. if not... well you might want to build a new model and migrate your data :) |
Any users of SimpleCDN? | berkun2: We're using simplecdn to distribute 20 training videos on out site in HD... so far so good, no complaints, videos are real long which is why we went with them. |
Transitioning From PHP to Django | jjguy: I've worked with SQL for a long time, with a variety of implementations and front-ends. Django's object model hurt my head. I didn't get it. There's simply too much black magic.e.g, how is: Entry.objects.filter(
headline__startswith='What').exclude(
pub_date__gte=datetime.now()).filter(
... |
Amazon flexible web payments? | thomasswift: I would love to hear anyones thoughts as well. |
Amazon flexible web payments? | kirubakaran: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive#t...http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958http://searchyc.com/flexible+payment |
Amazon flexible web payments? | ivankirigin: we at tipjoy are designing a new payment system. If you have any ideas or design requirements for an API, especially for micropayments, let us know: http://tipjoy.com/feedbackI've used both PayPal & Amazon's FPS. I would accept both if only because enough people feel strongly about one. |
Which mobile platform is your favorite? | vlad: I like iPhone now through next summer, an iPhone/Android 60/40 split afterward over the following year, by which time (two years from now) RIM should be in trouble, possibly even worse than Microsoft, who knows how to make software, hardware, and SDKs, and might release a great business phone with 3G, WIFI, and a... |
Which mobile platform is your favorite? | DenisM: I will start myself having programmed both for Google Android and Windows Mobile.In the grand scheme of things, the two platforms are comparable in the amount of joy and pain they cause and it takes roughly the same amount of effort to get things done.Windows Mobile:+ C# (popular, easy to learn language)+ IDE w... |
Which mobile platform is your favorite? | jamess: From the software engineer's point of view, there can be no question that Symbian is by far the nicest platform to work on. It's got the same two decades of heritage as pretty much every other popular operating system that exists today, but it shows what can be achieved if the people who designed the OS in the ... |
Which mobile platform is your favorite? | davidw: Android: it's open source. It might not be an initial advantage against something like iPhone, but in the end, I think it's very compelling. |
Which mobile platform is your favorite? | mcxx: What about OpenMoko? It will soon become available to the masses, it's fully open, cheap, extendable etc. |
Which mobile platform is your favorite? | axod: The web. I just don't see the point in native apps these days when you can do pretty much all of it via webapps. |
Free (Quality) Financial/Stock Content/Widget? | mstefff: Oh yea..I'm currently using Google/Yahoo mobile finance quote pages in an IFRAME, but they are pretty ugly and I'm not sure if thats legal.. |
Is Facebook worth $15 Billion? | Hates_: IMHO - No. |
Is Facebook worth $15 Billion? | epi0Bauqu: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2008/04/facebook-back-of... (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=161583)http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2008/04/facebook-back-of... |
Why be an option/futures/day trader when it is zero-sum? | utnick: Don't some people, especially big organizations buy options/futures as hedges for another investment?... so it might not be a true zero sum game in the sense that some of the players aren't really playing to win.. they are just putting money in for insurance |
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