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This is a pretty bare-bone POC app. While shutting down service when no internet makes sense, I am currently not doing it. But rest of the time, the service keeps listening on the queue all the time, even if there is no data in the queue.

I am wondering how much battery drain it could cause. Whatsapp also has this MessageService that keeps running all the time in the background & it has not been a battery hogger I guess.

Yup, thats right. Sorry for lame landing page. We have a prototype ready but before deciding to formally put it out, quickly wanted to run it down with a few people to see if there is actually some interest. Its largely inspired from the Buffer guy experiment to validate before he decide to finally build it - https://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-wee...

Are you sure that your ISP can really figure that you are sharing internet with others at their end ?

Even if they do, legally speaking, will you sharing the internet connection on your name with your flatmate / family members would amount to breach of contract ? In all likelihood, your flatmate shares the cost of the internet with you. Isnt this case is exactly the same, somebody else using your internet & helping you offset some of your cost. Am I missing something here ?

You are mostly right. Everybody has an internet connection now a days. There is sizeable migratory population which could get benefitted from such a system as they dont need a new wifi connection every time they change place provided neighbours have Griggi. Its chicken & egg for sure.

What we are trying to do is similar to what Uber did to cars. Not everybody need to own a car. Similarly, not every household need a dedicated wifi connection when you can borrow some from neighbours.

Apart from city center, big apartments are another good case for Griggi. Big apartments in cities have a good number of migratory population.

Free WiFi hotspots that works is still a rarity in city centers of developing nations. Griggi is also an attempt to organize the unorganized free WiFi hotspots. A couple of guys are trying to solve this problem by building a mobile app that does the job of remembering username password of free wifi hotspots. Griggi is an attempt to solve the problem at the root. But I agree that it also makes things more challenging for us.

Ya, you pay to buy Karma GB & use it at a Griggi WiFi. The idea is, if the concept becomes ubiquitous, people will be constantly looking for Griggi WiFi when they are close to residential/commercial establishments. You may have someone using your WiFi too :-).

We are also going to put a feature which would let people manage their free WiFi hotspot with Griggi as well.

The vision is to be the default WiFi sharing platform across the world. As a user, you just have your Griggi username, password & you use it to connect to every other WiFi hotspot.

Its like Fon except :-

1. There are no telco partners. We directly sell to consumers.

2. Data sharing & usage is metered. You accumulate then you use it elsewhere. Its called Karma GB.

3. We are also thinking of putting up a feature that lets you enable 'free wifi' if you are a cafe/restaurant owner and you need a DIY solution for your customers. Thinking of keeping it as paid feature.

Its coovachilli with a community & book-keeping server that keeps an account of how much others using your wifi & how much you could use of others. Its very close to Friefunk project actually.

It should be able to support any linux based router OS. The router package is combination of WifiDog (http://wifidog.org), wshaper & a couple of home-grown scripts. The server side is authPuppy (http://www.authpuppy.org/) tightly integrated.

Most of the linux based OS will support the above packages. For others, we are yet to test.

Friefunk actually is a pretty cool project. Any such initiative would typically require quite a bit of community involvement if it has to grow organically. How big is the Friefunk community btw ?

Have you tried www.hackerrank.com ? I have not personally used it. Also, I am not a big fan of algorithmic problems either.

Thanks Peter for the explanation. I think I agree to your point.

In addition - probably the rise & fall in impressions for the keyword is not to do with the keyword ranking. Any idea on this ?

So Ruby & RoR are two different beasts. If you come from hey-I-already-know-a-web-MVC background, you might skip learning Ruby & directly jump to learning RoR .

If you go RoR way - Michael Hartl's tutorial - http://railstutorial.org/ is probably the best place to start (I did that when I was starting with RoR). Codelearn - www.codelearn.org should be the next best.

Disclaimer: I am the founder of Codelearn

If you guys are curious to know how the team is created, check the job opening http://www.codelearn.org/blogger-who-wants-to-learn-to-code....

Its Ruby on Rails itself :).

Probably I was too quick to create the plugin :). The link you mentioned is pretty much doing what I am doing except for the tooltip part.

I think I just took the parent plugin handicap & fixed it. But guess Jquery plugin is already doing it the way I am doing it.

Thanks for pointing.

Full-screen could actually be mis-leading. I meant Lightbox only. The original Lightbox plugin does resize the image to fit the screen, but probably all Lightboxes work like that.

I am not sure about the other plugins, but this is how it is different from the parent plugin (ref - https://github.com/jbutz/bootstrap-lightbox)

1. The parent plugin could attach to one element through the HTML changes. The JS change - you need to explicitly bind the lightbox to click event. In the current plugin - you do not need to edit any of the existing HTML. Just add one line of JS to view all the images (or probably a select few) in Lightbox on the page.

2. While providing this feature, it might not be evident to the user that clicking on the image shows it inside Lightbox. Hence the tooltip.

Thanks. Just be careful of the hacks & see they dont break anything existing on your website.

If you are using Bootstrap Lightbox separately - make sure the other lightbox div id dont conflict with 'demoLightbox'

Actually no. Its purely technical. Here are the steps :-

1. Limit user privileges http://linux.die.net/man/5/limits.conf

2. Create a jailed environment & copy limited binaries in the environment for him to execute http://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/

It is pretty big a technical problem. Most of the server selling guys anyway do the above things. They miss the web based shell though.

Quick tip that could be relevant for Indian businesses - Most of the invoice recipients insist on the invoice sent on the letterhead.

While asking for an image/banner to be used as letterhead could be too 'tedious'. How about letting the user attach company logo in the email & you process it as letterhead.

Company logo & name below it on the left, company address on the right. May be - make the background color gray to show it as letterhead.

Point 1 & 2 taken. I agree to your observation. The user should be shown 'Aha' moment ASAP & we are only delaying it which is bad.

Point 3 - guess this is classic example of we founders trying to show the philosophy as the first thing to the user. While he/she wants to learn RoR. Guess we should create a separate link 'Philosophy' on the main page & link the content there. Something like https://supportbee.com/ .

Point 4 - guess the command out is too long (especially the rails new part) which is making it look long.

Point 5 - a linux user is needed at the backend & hence there is a signup process for that. We need to figure out a sub-optimal way to provide console access to non-signed up users as well like what Codecademy etc do on their main page.

I agree. Some of the images are plain wrong actually. They show screenshot of older version of Codelearn Playground. We will fix them.

Thanks Saurabh. Pleasantly surprised to find you here :).

Its Hindi (national language of India) for me & Kannada (a local language here in India) for my co-founder. We are reasonably good with spoken English but guess the written part is reasonably bad. We are on a lookout for a good tech guy who likes what we are doing, loves to write & can help us with the content creation & proof-reading.

Thanks. Do give the Codelearn Playground a spin. The tasks are not prominently visible & you would need to wade through the lessons to see them. Would appreciate some feedback here or you may drop them to us personally - founders@codelearn.org

Caution: Things should be reasonably stable but you may expect some beta hiccups. Some hiccups might also come due to high HN traffic. We have reasonably low traffic otherwise. The server is a small EC2 instance.

Our bad. Being non-native speakers, guess the grammar is bad. Please excuse.

It looks like a proposal mail, full of emotions. Being an entrepreneur, totally understand the point that a co-founder is not less than a spouse.

IMHO even after reading this, he/she does not want to continue, you should stay separate for good & concentrate on the venture. Co-founders are like boyfriend/girlfriend, you dont look for one, but find one on the way :).

Wish you, your co-founder & the venture - best of luck.

Being an Indian, I agree that it is a mad race & it is very tough to identify the right guys in the vast pool of students coming out every year.

I faced similar issue in my previous startup & to solve it, started http://stalkninja.com . It is a way a deserving & self-starter student can differentiate himself/herself from the rest even if they are not from one of the top colleges like IITs.

Thanks for sharing the link. I am behind the initiative. Just curious to know how did you come to know about us ?

Small disagreement. I am working on an initiative to create a platform to connect co-Founders. We floated the issue on various places in LinkedIn (the places are frequented globally). We got a good response, but I wanted to start with a local effort first. There was no India specific place where I could have floated the idea to get the feedback. Did that at Hacker News India & got the validation results. I think its a great place for people, not only to validate their idea inside India, but also to show-case their India-specific effort to Indian audience. There are numerous google-groups inside India that can help you, but the whole concept of karma, up-vote, down-vote is missing; for which I think I should thank Prateek whole-heartedly for the much needed initiative.