I live in Playa del Carmen, MX a lot of expats live here and recently i have been meeting programmers or remote Startup devs working here, internet is unstable once in a while in depends where you live. There are a couple of coworking spaces and plenty of coffee shops where you can work close to beach.
Hey this is not the end, it is an opportunity to sell this technology to some company that has problems streaming video PopCorn Time is just the proof that it works and it can be used to solve real world problems. So i hope you find a successful exit.
Another interesting fact is that the more successful female founders are, they will later have the money to fund other startups as it happened whit the young founders, now a huge portion of successful founders invest money in other's young founders ideas so it will happen whit the females.
It still happens, i have seen here in Mexico in the Gov Agency that collects taxes when they send something to print/export pdf's they keep moving the mouse or their progress bar doesn't move at all. But they made this natural i think it is part of the training they receive, maybe some devs there tough it was the only way to get the rid of that bug, JUST KEEP MOVING THE MOUSE!.
The author is describing at least 3 positions on his post, it is insane to be responsible for the amount of work that it requires the proccess of building a web application.
It would be better to hire 3 different amazing people on their field (front-end dev, back-end dev and designer) and most of the times you will get a better result. two heads thinks better than one.
I (the author) would agree that it's insane, but it's often the case that when products get created, there's only one UI developer at the start. More importantly, if you DO have all those skills, you'll keep getting those kinds of opportunities.
Of course sometimes you have to do the hard work, but now that you are hiring instead of trying to find a person that master 3 fields, look for someone that master two of them, maybe the two where you feel less comfortable, a designer can easily fit front-end or a back-end dev is able to work on front, that may help to find someone capable to start working and later they would learn the next set of skills you need to be considered a unicorn, hackers love to learn.
i would also recommend http://pixfirst.com awesome SaaS for photographers it helps photographers sell photos online, they store photos for and you set the price, sends email to client once photos uploaded, you can tag photos and create albums out of those tags so people only see their photos, it is a really interesting startup.
Imagine the new world that would be open to the malware/spyware if DRM is enabled they will easily use this to hide their shitty stuff and not allowing anybody to see whats going on, how does w3c is going to let that happen :S
Hopefully Firefox wont be open to implemment this shit on their browser.
