PencilAndPaper

Im not a 'bro'... brah

How much traffic did your site(s) get?

People keep asking the OP about his apps, and their answer is very a very vague "the account has 2 droplets which serves 2 mobile apps and does crawling 20-30 sites hourly".

My question is what do the apps do? That could easily be where the violation of the TOS is happening. Child porn? Fraud?

The lack of clarification is making the OP seem shady. Whats to hide?

Awesome!

My partner and I sleep alone. We are both light sleepers.

Sleep masks make me sweaty and squish my eyeballs. I opted for tying a silk scarf around my head instead. Luxury.

There is so much less IE8 BS in back end. Front End takes 800% of my time because of variable browser nonsense. Even with JQuery.

I totally relate to your frustration here, but you are being petty in your reaction.

If you would like to change the way the language works, hostile personal attacks are more likely to turn people against your cause.

Im no neuroscientist or psychologist, but the stress of being sized up by other monkeys based on superficial first impressions that you know you dont happen to be very good at making, is WAY different than the stress that gets produced when a "cryptic" system needs fixing.

For me the former situation leads to lots of bad feelings including irritation and incredible anxiety. I have often considered the latter type of situation fun times. For a lot of programmers difficult puzzle solving stress is good stress.

From what I have witnessed from current in-the-box hiring practices is a lot of extroverts get hired who are good at spin and presentation. Quite a few managers never detect that they are actually not great programmers because they are brilliant at sucking up and putting on a show. Those skills dont always hurt, but they shouldnt be considered a deal breaker for a programmer who actually gets good work done.

Best practice I have ever encountered is when interviewers give out interview questions in advance to allow to the interviewee a while to think about the problem in quiet.

I love the idea of short term contracts for both parties to suss each other out.

I was only in India for a month and I am not joking or exaggerating that the constant threat of sexual violence also gave me what people could call PTSD.

Even making eye contact with men was perceived as an invitation. I could do nothing right. I tried adopting local garb, covering, being a shadow basically. I wasnt even alone; I was with my boyfriend the whole time!

I dont know how to talk to people about my experiences there without sounding like a complete grump. I would never have been able to imagine how brutal India was for everyone, including women, without going. Thank goodness I could leave!

Thats true. I hear you on the reporting. I have a bias because I am used to looking at tables of data maybe!

Just some first impressions about your pricing. Seems steep to me for something that I can whip together fairly fast myself (and I imagine most with JS skills could). Maybe I am not your target audience though. Its a great idea nevertheless!

It works for me now. Thinking more about it my ff has been acting up lately... it was probably my browser.

Pricing page doesnt work....

1. Dont rush into anything that costs you a ton of money

2. Spend as much time learning about yourself as you do about different career fields

3. Dont take advice from career counsellors or program advisors. In my experience most of the time they are sales people in disguise.

4. Talk to seasoned adults who have been doing what they are doing for a while (lets say at least 5 years). In most professions it is not weird to ask for an informational interview, and they are super useful. A lot of the time people you interview with will try and find you jobs or other leads.

5. Remember it is your life, not your parents. Making them happy wont necessarily make you happy and you have to live your life.

6. Volunteer (if you can afford to)

7. Travel (if you can afford to). check out youth/student working visas in foreign places.

8. consider if your personality and lifestyle is compatible with career fields you are considering. For example, if you like stability and routine, Film might not be your thing. If you like to move about and use your body as well as your mind, computer stuff might drive you batty. If you want a life outside of work, and dont want to be working all of the time, dont become a nurse, etc

9. Check out trades apprenticeships. Trades are high in demand, you get paid while you are in school (in Canada at least), you have a job most of the time, and at the end of it you make way more money than most people. If you decide the trade you have chosen isnt for you, you will at least be making enough money to put yourself through school again.

10. Meetup.com. Find a group that meets about something you are interested in and join it.

After 5 it becomes unmanageable for me. I typically have a little more than that. My remedy is similar to my data management strategy: If its junk deal with it now. Delete/close the tab now rather than filter through it later. Anything I think I might need later gets tagged into Delicious.

I think very few people truly do great things all on their own. Go the social happy route. You cant make a difference if you cant connect with people.

Is it really that hard to catch up? I hope not.

Who cares if they showed up as a swat team or as one 'friendly' sheriff. Thats not the point. The point is that we are being surveilled in the most creepy way.

Mount your ipad on your wall and start calling it a telescreen.

14" T430s here. I love it and it weighs nothing. It plays excellently with Linux. The battery life is supposed to last 5hours, but only lasts 2-3. I might have a lemon battery though. I still recommend it.

ORIGINAL QUESTION: Is there anything I can do to save my SaaS startup?

Its kind of insane to suggest someone jump bail and flee their country without actually knowing their full situation and them as a person.

You are giving this advice not even knowing which country the poster is in!

Forget the ring. Its a thing. Take the extra money and take a pre-wedding trip to Central America! Memories dont get lost down kitchen drains (at least until the alzheimer's kicks in).

If my BF wasted thousands of dollars on something I might lose and something that will probably prevent me from easily sliding my hands into the pockets of my somewhat tight jeans (rings with stones are super annoying that way), I would second guess becoming financially united with him, but thats just me.

Dont get gobbled up by the consumerism surrounding weddings and marriage. Your GF doesnt want a fancy wedding and expects a cheap ring. So, thats good, she sounds cool. Dont tempt her to become a bridezilla. This is how that starts.

>If the data is open, there's an opportunity cost of a significant competitive advantage

I think I get what you are saying, but if you could elaborate on what you mean by this, it would also be helpful!

:)

I am all about Open here. I like that idea, but I am holding off on being too serious about money-implicating stuff for now. Just want to work on validating the concept: will people actually use the site, am I making any design or technical blunders that are preventing that, etc.

I WANT to go Open, and totally would if groceries were also Free and Open and my landlord decided not to charge me rent. We'll see where it goes and how much money promotions and event postings could bring in.

I am glad you are bringing that up though. I should start thinking about it harder.

Re nursing, it turns out from a survey of prospective users of the site that very few people are interested in looking for 'nursing spots'. I initially added it on the advice of a friend who was a very new, shy breastfeeder. I agree on your politics.

will do

Thanks. Beta isnt necessary, you are right.

Money... not sure yet.

Thinking of charging a couple of bucks for people to post events/extra curricular lessons (festivals, summer camp, karate). Also thinking of charging a couple of bucks for businesses to run promotions in the popup info window of a their place in the map. Maybe later on the data will be useful for real estate, kinda like Walk Score. (??) Im more nerd than business, so I am having to think in new ways on the money question!

Awesome, thanks!

Were you on a mobile device?

It does/should prompt you to share your location so that it can zoom to your area accordingly. Did it not prompt you? (uh oh)

Terrible advice! Stressing people out typically makes them less competent and more prone to error. Teenage passive aggressive drama rarely works well in the workplace... or life in general.

For basic use, wifi is widespread enough, especially at gringo hostels. Not sure about working, but I was contemplating bringing my laptop on my next SA trip and getting work done. What I worry about is how much of an obviously wealthy person I would appear as(relative to locals)if I set up my laptop anywhere away from the hostel. I dont like overt displays of wealth because it makes me feel icky, but it would also make me a prime target to rob. Im curious what other people have to say though...