eksurfus

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by eksurfus 9y ago
I've run a bootstrapped startup that's seen a lot of iterations in the last nine years. We started in the midwest, then transitioned two years ago to the valley when we were accepted to an accelerator. I deeply understand the oppo
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by eksurfus 9y ago
I co-founded a company with my boyfriend of 1.5 years, who later became my husband. Our company has been bootstrapped and profitable for the last 8 years. Initially, we were both slightly embarrassed to be both co-founders and in a relation
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by eksurfus 10y ago
Love this! Works great and simple design.
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by eksurfus 12y ago
It was mentioned at GopherCon that many developers use Windows in China. Golang's ability to compile on Windows makes it a natural choice. Most Chinese websites are built on the Windows platform [1]. Windows XP and Windows 7 have a 60.
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by eksurfus 12y ago
Congrats on taking the leap! I would love to see what you're working on.
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by eksurfus 12y ago
Thanks so much for the feedback. What market(s)/use cases did you consider when you designed your forms platform (eg medical forms for private practice, tax-related forms for government, HR forms for enterprise)? We are finding that ou
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by eksurfus 12y ago
We currently use this platform in-house for a K-12 application with 40K+ users. We found that there was a tremendously high hurdle to building forms-based applications to meet user expectations (eg rich-text editing, PDF generation, auto-sa
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by eksurfus 12y ago
You might consider a way to add additional value to your news site. One idea I've always thought would be cool would be to algorithmically determine news that is disproportionally more popular in other parts of the globe than where you
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by eksurfus 12y ago
We regularly perform PDF extractions at my startup. For each new client, we'll run batches of several thousand at a time. A more attractive monetization model for a customer like us would be $0.01-0.03/conversion ($100-$300 per 10
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by eksurfus 12y ago
As a YC Hacks participant, the most striking part of being there was just how genuinely friendly and helpful everyone was. Really a great experience.
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by eksurfus 12y ago
Checkout Steve Blank's guide: http://steveblank.com/visitors-guide/
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15 year old Invents New Method of Diagnosing Cancer(social-consciousness.com)
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by eksurfus 13y ago
Trevor, really appreciate the post. Any reason you chose elance over other sites (odesk, guru, etc)? Any additional tips (eg did you try encouraging certain freelancers with great credentials to bid on your work)? Just to toss it out there,
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by eksurfus 14y ago
SameGoal | FRONT END ENGINEER - CLOSURE LIBRARY, full time in Milwaukee WI (remote via video conference ok) Hey HN! We're a bootstrapped, profitable start-up looking for talented Front End Engineers to help pioneer a web-based, semi-structu