ummm is this twitters first revenue making step????

am i really far off or has everyone overlooked this? or are they going to give it away from free because their more concerned about growing the community rather than making $$$

I don't think he failed, I think he just realized that his idea was crap.

If you can chalk that up to a good learning experience and something that should be written about, then I guess every Tom, Dick and Harry should be Nobel Prize winning Pulitzer Prize waving success.

i really like it i've loaded this twice though and you changed the search from what i can tell. the first time it was pick a dish, now its pick ingredients

I know there were some comments about picking ingredients instead of dishes, but the search for picking a dish then selecting which ingredients you wanted was really good.

People will often know they want to eat a prairie oysters (for example - not that there's anything wrong with that) and not know what to put into the mix. With a list of ingredient (that make up prairie oysters) where people can check off what they like from recipes and get a custom recipe, thats amazing. don't get rid of that.

I dont know which is better, ingredient search or recipe search, but dont ditch the recipe one. for the love of god

its probably gets 110mpg based on the % of fuel that is gasoline. ie the fuel is 99% ethanol and 1% gas so the car runs a regular 20mpg but because only 1% of that fuel is gas it gets a magical 2000mpg (20/1%). Their probably doing something shifty like counting the ethanol as free energy and therefore not including the ethanol burned in their MPG calcs...

its an interesting point thats made. I do believe that google leaves things available/open to us, the users, because we can build useful thing from their ground work. This in turn might get people to spend more time online and therefore use their money making system even more. so the more free stuff google puts out, the more users build on it and the more google ends up making. S-M-R-T

I also totally agree with the point that todays (well for the history of startups) get-in build a user base and get out really is no way of creating anything sustainable. things will need to change. Great read

far from possible - it actually takes more energy to pull apart an O-H bond than you get from burning H2. it has to do with the polarity of the bonds (oxygen holds on the hydrogen stronger than another hydrogen atom would). I just looked it up and the heat of combustion of H2 (energy released from burning) is about 280kJ/mol. while the dissociation of H2O (energy to pull it apart) is about 920kJ/mol..... so 3-4 times more energy to pull water apart than released by making it.... now if you strapped a solar panel to the roof and a wind turbine to the front.... maybe...... ...... nah that still wouldnt be enough..... complete bs

just curious to know if you have a plan to make $$ other than through ads

outside of ads and affiliate marketing, yes i do. that wont matter till i find an audience but a plan exists.

that could be a potential exit...something to dream about i guess. but lets not get ahead of ourselves. this was simply an experiment to see if i could really build a useful app. built - check! useful - TBD.

sounds like good advice to me

Im sorry, but unless this 'math' is going to educate these terrorists, it's not going to do anything. How do you beat something that has no concern for self preservation? Kind of sounds like the race to find psychics during the World Wars...

I'm also in the midst of creating a startup, but in canada and i can tell you location does matter. Whether its finding like minded people to partner with or finding good programmers or finding investors that know what the internet is, location is key.

If you were to go out to Calgary for example (huge oil producing town, for those that dont know it - everyone's there for oil) and tried to find someone that wanted to invest in a startup instead of oil, you'd be there forever and chances are you wouldn't find 1 person with any kind of relevant experience or knowledge. You'd be pitching to rich people without useful backgrounds. They would be expecting immaculate pro formas (which very few startups have) and would laugh you out of the room when you asked them for 100k to seed anything. 100k isnt worth their time, it costs them 400k to simply do a background check and due diligence on you.

so in short, location dictates the people that are around you and yes, that matters more than anything.

Then ask for $500k for an oil-related software startup. If location dictates the people around you, then you have to adapt your ideas to the people around you.

If the mountain won't come to Mahomet...