vantran

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by vantran 8y ago
Location: HCMC, Vietnam Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rails, HTML, CSS, JS, React, Mobile Email: vantran53@gmail.com We're 2 developers with more than 8 years of working with Rails stack. You'll get full-stack
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Stanford female undergrad on lack of women in STEM(stanforddaily.com)
5 points by vantran 15y ago|1 comments
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by vantran 15y ago
25. Uber for food We're working on that right now at munchery.com
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by vantran 15y ago
Emailed. I lost contact with you some time ago, but we were always wondering when the service would become publicly available. Glad to hear it's coming soon!
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by vantran 15y ago
Perhaps I wasn't clear. Collecting email addresses is fine, but make sure you're really getting people who are genuinely interested in your product. My point is that people shouldn't focus on hoarding emails. The focus should be on testing
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The rise of the startup landing pages(naivehack.com)
79 points by vantran 15y ago|18 comments
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by vantran 15y ago
I used to do what you did too. Pure PHP without frameworks projects always grow unmaintainable. At least go with a framework like CodeIgniter. Rails is great too if you prefer Ruby (which I do).
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by vantran 15y ago
Wow, thank you everyone for the incredible responses and support. I'm really glad people found the post useful. I didn't link to Munchery because I intended to write something to help future interviewees, not to promote the company. But it'
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Tanking the YC interview, some lessons learned(naivehack.com)
188 points by vantran 15y ago|41 comments
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by vantran 15y ago
I don't see why you can't just work on your idea while in college. Would be far better than dropping out while there's nothing to show for it.
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by vantran 16y ago
Investing in people over their ideas is always advisable. But let's not forget how brilliant people can still fail. Tons of bright kids come out of MIT, Harvard, Stanford, etc... Should you blindly invest in all of them? Instead, I prefer M
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by vantran 16y ago
Definitely. We're continually signing up new chefs and try to get the Bay Area covered soon. I'll keep you posted. Also, if you know any chefs, do refer them to us, we'll get them up and running.
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by vantran 16y ago
Clickable: http://gomunchery.com/via/yc
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by vantran 16y ago
Hi Mike. The way we solve that problem is by having fixed price per meal for each chef. Give us some time and we'll open it up to other areas too. Meanwhile we've love any chef leads you have. What's your email? (Mine is in my HN profile)
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by vantran 16y ago
I'd suggest doing at least email-based registration. Email is still the most common form of communication online. Although a lot of people have Twitter accounts, there aren't as many power users as email.
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by vantran 16y ago
I am disappointed that there's still nothing in there regarding foreign founders, who account for a fairly large percentage of new startups. Are foreign founders supposed to just plunge themselves into it and hope they don't get removed fro
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by vantran 16y ago
It's not that Mark is wrong. He doesn't try to answer THE question, because there is no right or wrong answer. It's not so black and white, yes you should do it or no you should not. What he did was giving great advice that should seriously
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by vantran 16y ago
I used to be like you, not using a framework for exactly the same reasons: I wrote everything myself, and since it's PHP, it wasn't that hard. I knew how to exactly when something was going wrong, I didn't have that power of clarity when I
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by vantran 16y ago
Wow, same as everyone, I'm most productive at night until morning.
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Ask HN: Best way to accept weekly subscriptions?
2 points by vantran 16y ago|3 comments
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by vantran 16y ago
Is your goal to do a startup, or become a programmer? If it's the former, I strongly recommend simply learning HTML/CSS/Javascript and make a killer front-end of your product without the back-end logic. Trust me on this. Not only is it fast
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by vantran 16y ago
You could also try out http://www.appcelerator.com/ It is similar to Phone Gap, and a lot of people use it to build simple iphone apps.
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by vantran 16y ago
that's harsh :(
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I can help you realize your startup idea(twoinacrowd.com)
19 points by vantran 16y ago|5 comments
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by vantran 16y ago
Checked out your blog some time ago when I was looking at Citizen Space website. It's interesting, just posted some comments ;)
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by vantran 16y ago
If you expect interns to do meaningful work, you should pay them something. It does not have to be money. Room and board is a great starting point. Is it full time internship? Then either add a small stipend or at least feed them Beer is al
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by vantran 16y ago
What are you looking to do? What do you want to learn about? There are tons of work in a startup, it's important to have some ideas of what you want to get out of the experience. Otherwise I'm afraid you might end up just doing the majority
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by vantran 16y ago
Hi David. The decision to go with SMS is because it was faster to develop (than a native iphone / android app) as well as supporting all phones. Soon we'll be coming up with a mobile version of the site that lets you do the same thing witho
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by vantran 16y ago
Yeah we're on TextMarks Plus. I was going to use Twilio but they don't have short code yet. No revenue plan atm, we originally built it to scratch our own itch. Then we thought we should share it with others. :)
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Show HN: TextMunch, a new SMS app to answer the daily question "What to eat?"
9 points by vantran 16y ago|7 comments

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