vkkan's comments

On: Demo Days: Obsolete. Over-Hyped. Disaster (India)

[vkkan]

i was trying to access your model but site shows Sorry. The Squarespace account thestartupcentre is not available. If you are the Site Owner for this account please login above.

On: Ask HN: Review my startup: Hackerfly.com

[vkkan]

Hi there,

Overall site looks professional, I have few questions for you to answer 1. Nowadays platforms are very unrealistic about their offering to developers for example recent twitter announcement? since you took lot of information from stackoverflow how do you cope in future? 2. Do you think really some one buy this? since if its a big corporation they will read all magic quadrant from gartner if its a medium or small size they will try to use the tech stack based on what resources they have and they try to reuse it so often ? 3. Do you think you can sell this to outsourcing shop ? big no ? Please take my question as constructive feedback not other way around.

[p1niu → vkkan]

Hi vkkan Thanks for your constructive criticism & questions. They're always welcome. My answers below:

1. SO data is available under the CC license. I don't expect this to change in the future. Regarding other data sources, I plan to use API or will need special agreements in hand with data providers.

2. You never know this until you try to sell. This is what I'm trying to figure out right now. If there's a good reason to believe that nobody wants to pay for this, I will proceed with plan "B" and will make the tool freely available and will need to find a different business model.

3. I would target the tool primarily at marketers, evangelists, companies building developer-focused products (books, courses, conferences, it vendors). I wasn't thinking about outsourcing shops to be honest.

[vkkan → p1niu]

Nice to hear your answers, but until you find out product/market fit no one can predict which way to go.

[jlarkin353 → vkkan]

+1 agree with most of the above. nice site though!

On: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

[vkkan]

more funny thing was at this page http://rahultyagi.net/About%20me.html

[robgolding → vkkan]

In few years he bang the world wide web with good computer ethical hacking articles!

[Achshar → vkkan]

The about me page has a space in it's name. This is embarrassing.

[wisty → vkkan]

Hostgator. Pretty swish.

On: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

[vkkan]

real funny conversation and still people tap information from various websites but not even giving credit to rightful owners , its shame

On: Need drug list for my app

[vkkan]

Thanks for the link, will give a spin

On: Bicycle created out of recycled cardboard for $9

[vkkan]

This is really awesome, well done cleantech product

On: Uploading, converting and generating thumbnails fo...

[vkkan]

does it supports bookmarks ? i.e. if the pdf document has internal links and bookmarks with the pdf those also ported to converted image?

On: Can't somebody fix the "Unknown or expired link" b...

[vkkan]

you mean in the web app? or in your blogs ? for both we can have small service to use broken link checker from w3 site will do right ?

[szajbus → vkkan]

He means Hacker News' next page link. The URL you get by clicking it is unique to you and it preserves order of stories when you navigate from one page to next, but it has short lifetime.

[ralph → szajbus]

Yes, that's right, but if you look at the page source you'll see fnid used elsewhere too, e.g. "add comment" IIRC. It's annoying to have typed a comment, hit add, only to find the continuation has been flushed from the cache at the server.

On: Feedback on landing page nevermiss.it

[vkkan]

I have updated the site as per your guidance thanks

On: Feedback on landing page nevermiss.it

[vkkan]

I will try to fix it as soon as I can and will let you know