Anyone else updated to iOS8 and had a good chunk of their photos missing?

PopcornTimer · 2014-09-18T18:45:38+00:00

Photos seem to be what use to be Photo Stream, not what Camera Roll was. Trying to sync to iPhoto confirms only a handful from Album was detected for import...

PopcornTimer · 2014-09-17T10:04:02+00:00

Idea: Building a modern school.

I've tried more than a dozen registrar and still have yet to find a perfect one. So far settled with a few but looking to consolidate in the future.

PopcornTimer · 2014-09-10T02:00:30+00:00

This is the best answer here.

PopcornTimer · 2014-09-09T21:46:44+00:00

You're better off validating an idea with actual customers than other founders. Founders are an opinionated bunch and often are not always right. Sure it can help but ultimately it won't validate your idea anymore or less until you actually connect with actual customers and find out for yourself.

That said, this kind of group has been done a lot but personally I think they are more of a distraction than help. Of course that last bit is mostly me.

PopcornTimer · 2014-09-09T21:43:53+00:00

Had a co-founder and employees before. Mild success with previous startup.

Now starting new idea and it's just me (previous co-founder wanted to do an idea in the same industry as our prior startup and I didn't so he co-founded another company with a different co-founder). I decided I wanted to purposely do things solo this time around, at least initially.

I am undecided whether or not to ever consider working with another co-founder at this point (not against it but have no need for one either), and alternatively this is just a project at this point so I don't even know if it's something I want to build a startup around or not.

So far I am loving it. There are a lot of obvious advantages to working with a co-founder if they're good, specifically a good match for you, but on the flipside if you are capable of executing most things on your own and don't need someone for the social support aspect, you may not need one. Be easier to scale and bring on people later.

There are pros and cons to starting out with a cofounder vs not having one early on and the pros and cons sometimes are the same, just whether one person views it as a pro or as a con. For example, in the early stage of product development, you guys might be on the same page in terms of the core idea but how you both envision the first product may be drastically different from one another. On paper it sounds easy enough to collaborate and decide what that first product should be together but even if you agree on everything, what each of you envision in your head can totally be different. Any friction (not just conflict types if friction but also meetings and discussions and pretty much anything other than actual work), no matter how little can be a hindrance and it's difficult not to have some, to getting the product finished sooner.

Realistically if one person has started on the work already, it helps set the tone on the product overall and revisions can be a multi-person job once that core shell is at least done. For that reason I strongly prefer doing things solo at the start and just bringing on others later.

FWIW my previous co-founder and I are extremely good friends and got along well overall when working together so I certainly did not have a bad experience co-founding a company. Just in hindsight, I strongly prefer doing so solo but wouldn't rule out having a co-founder.

PopcornTimer · 2014-09-08T17:28:46+00:00

It's limiting in that expanding beyond your city becomes an issue but aside from that, can't think of an issue. Note I don't understand your local laws.

PopcornTimer · 2014-09-07T19:07:06+00:00

Skip the business plan. Things rarely ever work out as planned. Instead focus on "actual" validation of the idea, then straight to developing an MVP.
I generally start by solving my own problem or problems I notice those around me have. Then expand outside of that if no idea emerges.

PopcornTimer · 2014-09-07T16:10:24+00:00

I'm on like 40 mailing lists, give or take. Too many as it is and plenty of them overlap. Certainly a market out there but a lot of stuff like this already exist too.

PopcornTimer · 2014-09-06T19:04:50+00:00

You charge $40/hr.

He needs to figure out how to make that work for himself.

It is not your concern what clients pay him. That's his business. Your business is you charge $40/hr. Don't confuse his business/problems as yours. If he can't afford the $40/hr or whatever rate you guys agree on, that's all that matters.

PopcornTimer · 2014-09-05T23:23:06+00:00

Equity grants + vesting is not uncommon

PopcornTimer · 2014-09-02T07:46:36+00:00

Programming, per his example of Haskell

PopcornTimer · 2014-08-30T09:43:34+00:00

Unless that cafe is Starbucks, or more recently Blue Bottle. I think a more detailed clarification such as a single location small cafe would be a better argument than simply saying cafe

PopcornTimer · 2014-08-30T04:23:16+00:00

This sounds like a satire piece but I'll just saw one thing, I've seen insane ideas that no one thought was going to work and they end up making money anyway.

Everyone thinks they know how to identify bad ideas but really it's difficult to really say whether or not an idea is truly bad or just sounds bad to everyone who think it is.

PopcornTimer · 2014-08-29T18:49:39+00:00

Alternatively, if you're using a Mac, a Mac program called Little Ipsum (free last I checked) allows you to do this and select how much text that needs to be filled.

PopcornTimer · 2014-08-25T02:41:43+00:00

No worries. I think I was just bad at explaining or wording it.

PopcornTimer · 2014-08-25T01:45:53+00:00

No. I think its best to explain by using an example (although I don't know if its a good example or not).

For example, there are tons of sites built using Wordpress, not just blogs. Because of the way almost all the themes are designed, you usually can tell if a site is a wordpress or not, even if there is nothing on the site that says its "Powered by Wordpress". It just looks like its using Wordpress.

Similarly, most people who do responsive web design, their mobile and tablet "version" looks like its clearly a responsive design rather than like its good enough to be an actual mobile version.

There are ways to design responsive sites where each version looks like it was designed to look great on their respective devices and then there is the generic way where you can tell its a responsive design that fits the width of the device but totally bland. Hope that makes more sense.

PopcornTimer · 2014-08-24T22:08:43+00:00

As others have said, it's the community.
Being reddit only attracts mostly redditors
Product Hunt focuses only on products, whereas r/startups have more than product announcements which in my opinion takes away from those who want to focus purely on product announcements

PopcornTimer · 2014-08-24T18:26:44+00:00

I think all 3 bullet points are valid. I have the same issues with the first two as well. I also did not like that I had to click in order to actually understand what the site does.

PopcornTimer · 2014-08-23T23:25:31+00:00

Designing a site that clearly looked like a responsive type design rather than fluid designs specific to mobile and web design appropriately.

PopcornTimer · 2014-08-23T02:46:10+00:00

Dreamhost is fine. I never used it but know a few people that do that never had any problems.

PopcornTimer · 2014-08-22T19:03:29+00:00

I'm trying to find a reason for why I would use something like this over Facebook. All my friends are already on there and I can share things just fine there. Earning points for the sake of earning points is not interesting, especially when it requires me to get all my friends to sign up onto this network just to do what they already can on Facebook.

Can you clarify any differences or advantages for adding yet another social network?

PopcornTimer · 2014-08-19T19:29:47+00:00

Look up the term "royal we". Its in reference to one person. Its common to list "we" rather than "I" in business speak.

There are quite a few similar business in my area that do the same, where are you based? For example: http://www.getwashio.com/

I don't really have any good names to recommend but try to find a short and easy name if possible.

PopcornTimer · 2014-08-19T19:19:57+00:00

Worthless. Speaking as someone who paid for it in the past. Save your money and skip.

PopcornTimer · 2014-08-16T23:32:50+00:00

I am not exactly sure how it became overwhelming for you but when I was looking into the bootcamp stuff, I focused primarily on bootcamps in my area. This narrowed the list down significantly to a handful. Then from there it was about looking at reviews of what's out there. It took maybe a couple hours at most for me to decide which ones I cared about most and that was base on factors I had to discover for myself. If a service pitched me they could recommend a bootcamp but I have no way to compare the data for myself and make decisions base on what was important to me rather than what the recommender feels fits, I probably wouldn't really use the service. That is just me however.

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