We just put our ping pong scores on the whiteboard at AppHero, but I think Wattpad built an app that publishes their scores to their website for one of their Hack Fridays: http://www.wattpad.com/life
I haven't done a ton of work with 100tb.com, just a couple servers with them a few years back. It's great bandwidth. They're a SoftLayer reseller, so the nextwork blend is pretty good. I never got close to the 100tb cap, so am not sure if they'd impose some metering if you're doing it on a recurring basis. I feel like most of the people I've talked to about 100tb.com have gone in with the mentality that it's nearly unlimited, but end up using less than 1tb. If you aggregate across a ton of resold servers, I bet it's possible to make the model work pretty well.
Totally agreed. I tried to get that across in the interview for the article. It's pretty hard to say that the pay-for-ranking firms help users, and I think Apple's just taking a first stab at combatting them. I think there's a lot more they can do to improve the ranking algorithm in helping to combat these firms.
As a user and as a developer, I really hope these changes help move some of the blatant junk off the Top Lists.
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That's a great idea. We're hosting with SoftLayer and have been considering doing something similar. They offer free bandwidth on the private network between data centers (and have pretty good pings between them). With a cloud server in each data center, you could achieve a similar thing while avoiding the need for VPN and not paying for extra bandwidth.
Agreed, and chances are that you won't create a $10M company on your own. Include a reasonable ESOP, a chunk for investors, etc., you're at a lot less than $10M.
Also, building a $10M startup isn't exactly guaranteed. When you factor in the future value, expected exit, dilution and the risk, I think it'll work out to a lot less than $1000/hour. But I don't think that's such a bad thing. I'd bet if you talk to most founders, they'd tell you that they didn't start their company with a big number in their head - they started it because of passion, drive and the desire to make a difference. $1000/hour consulting doesn't equal that sort of lifestyle.
Raising a small ($25k-100k) friends and family round shouldn't take you more than a couple weeks. I guess it depends on your startup, team and financial situation, but I feel it makes sense to take the dilution, and get going with your startup rather than putting it off while doing consulting.
I'd rather raise money. For me, startups are all or nothing. I believe focus is critically important to an early stage startup. While splitting time between consulting and your startup gives you a broader view of the world, it spreads you thiner, and means you make less progress with your startup.
I always remember that 100% of nothing is nothing. If you really believe in an idea - enough to spend time on it - raise some money, don't worry that you now own a smaller part of it, and change the world.
15" Early 2011 MBP, 8GB Ram, SSD, 27" Apple LED. I also have an 8-core Mac Pro, but find myself rarely using since getting the latest MBP (which is crazy fast, and with the SSD, feels faster than the Mac Pro in daily use)
The server that was taken from Marco was a blade server, and he just rented a single node in the blade. Locking the single blade he was on wouldn't have prevented the situation that occurred, as the FBI seized a number of enclosures, rather than servers. Most likely, the agents who took the servers didn't understand a blade server, and took the entire enclosure, rather than pulling a couple nodes out of the blade.
It depends on your merchant account. I recently opened an Authorize.net account, and they gave me a couple different options, though it was suggested to me to collect the full name, address, zip and CVV, it's a matter of balancing risk on your end as well. With my Authorize.net account, the fees remain the same regardless of which pieces of information I collect, but if there begins to be a bunch of fraudulent transactions, my processing account will come under question, and it's possible I won't be able to continue processing until it's cleared up.
I ended up deciding to collect full name, zip and CVV, but not address. It's a matter of balancing UX and fraud. Recurly does a pretty good job explaining Address Verification and Credit Card Verification in their documentation: http://docs.recurly.com/payment-gateways/authorize-net#avs
Happy to test larger models that utilize the memory capacity if helpful.