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It will probably be cool if you let users be able to customize the reward for inviting folks. For example, if I'm launching an app, it doesn't matter if you're number 1 on list or 1,000. Everyone will still be downloading at the same time when the app is released. Perhaps some users will want to customize such that when you invite 20 friends, you get x, when they sign up, you get y.

Good concept though.


Thanks man!

HelloList can definitely do that (need to make that more obvious), mainly because it's just a simple platform. People sign up and promote it and such, and on the backend you get an ordered list of all the entries including info like who referred them, number of referrals, when they signed up, ordered by their rank (can dl it as a CSV too). Whether you let just the top 100 in your beta for free, give everyone who referred >3 people something, give the top 500 people a "badge", or etc., is entirely up to those building the list.


Found that 6.5 hours is perfect for me. I sleep at like midnight and snore my way to 6:30am when my alarm goes off. In that 6.5hr period, I don't wake up at all. I then go to the gym for about and hour and listen to music just doing nothing for 15-30mins before I start planning for work.


Impressive! How do you motivate yourself to go to the gym every morning? I tend to run in the evenings which is really nice now that the sun doesn't set until at least 9pm.

I really can't cope on less than 8 hours of sleep for extended lengths of time. It completely wears me down and I get tired and ill. Usually what happens is that when I get up at say 6:30am I am completely exhausted by 7:30pm. If I get up a bit later I can usually function until at least 10:00pm.


We sleep in cycles which last about 90 minutes each. Assuming it takes you around 15-20 minutes to go to sleep you wake up at the end of a sleep cycle and don't feel drowsy. What also helps is going to sleep at the same hour every day, like in your case.

I did the exact same thing as you, I would always go to bed at 11.30 PM every day and wake up at 6AM. After a while I'd wake up a minute or two before the alarm went off.


Came here to ask this as well.


There's one animation that I think compares it to a matchbox. Except the object is camouflage-colored, for some reason?


Have you had a poor experience with Elance or something? Just curious, since I've used it twice before and plan on using again shortly.


Find another co-founder? what is his/her role in the project?


Of course this is the obvious answer, but, the op already knows that. They are asking because, they have some conundrum that they can't put heir finger on. We need more information.

Why losing a co-founder is a problem? Only they have the technical ability? Only they have the insight to the sector? The fund depends on their name? The fund depends on the partnership? co-founder is irreplaceable in some way? Op has time limits? Op lacks the technical/social abilities to replace partner?


I don't have the technical abilities, that's the only thing. Definitely the co-founder is replaceable. I have just hire someone to continue the work and see how things go before asking to be a co-founder and don't burn money on salaries in this very early stage. What would be your recommendation for me?


It's the talent finding question, we are all having and fighting right now. If you watch HN carefully you would see that we have at least 4 - 5 talent finding guidelines or startups popping up daily.

HN is a good place for looking for talent, but you need to give more information about what you want to build. Also you need to create interest in people because it's really an early stage venture with low funding. Considering money is the first incentive you need luck, or you need to show that you have the chance to become a unicorn.

Also you may try angel.co.

So good luck.


Thank you for your comment :)


Is the developer, I'm the business person. I have just hire someone to finish our MVP.


favorite comment so far. What do you guys do?


Thanks :) We let small businesses create their mobile-optimized website from a phone. Check out http://mdot.it


Wow, I didn't know how the scrolling worked until I looked at my scroll bar. It's neat! A great sense of design.


Nice looking site... congrats


Looks great, very nice, congrats. would anyone give me feedbacks on my website? www.tiwy.org watch the video and you can search for rentals in London, England ;) thanks!


I was actually at the same fair, I was tempted to leave my own booth a few times to go sign up. It does look promising.


LinkedIn is quite good too.


I also find LinkedIn very helpful.


Thanks for the feedback!


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