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I would like to ask people here to take a look of the service Tweeplies (= Twitter + Replies :-) (http://tweeplies.qwe3.com/) which we created recently, and let me know what you think about it -- do you find it helpful? How often do you need it? Do you find Twitter a nice place to ask questions and get results? Everything is helpful! The code is open and available on Github, and it's very simple. The idea is to show replies to specific "status" on Twitter, and as we didn't find how to do that easily, this is how Tweeplies was born.
Thanks!
http://tweeplies.qwe3.com
I would like to ask you guys to review our recently launched project Strawlink - it is a Web service for the online candidate screening process. Our target auditory is mostly small business owners (who need to hire people) and professional recruiters (who hire people all the time).
What exactly Strawlink does can be explained very simple - we facilitate the screening process. Most of you, who were looking for a job, probably went through this process like hundred times! The reason is simple - especially nowadays, when companies receive hundreds (some receive thousands ;-) applicants for single job -- and employer needs to identify top talent fast and easy. And this is what screening is what -- you certainly cannot waste time for "face" interviewing everybody. And Strawlink is for screening of your job applicants.
We tried our scoring mechanism in different companies worldwide, internally, and because it worked out very well we decided to make it as a separate product. This is how Strawlink was born.
Please, all the feedback is very welcome. You can register here -- http://www.strawlink.com/referrer/hackernews Currently we will credit accounts of all new registrations, so you would not need to spend any money while trying us out.
I would really love to hear opinions from potential candidates (what do you like and what you don't like if you will be screened with us?) and from small business owners who hire people (what would you like to improve? do you want other pricing plan? anything else?).
Thank you!
Any advice will be helpful and appreciated - I do have a lot of questions, cause I never did that myself before.
1) When it is smart and necessary to create a company? -- we are about to launch and provide paid services. I know we can still act as a private person, but then all the legal actions (if any :-) will be against private person, and it will be persons' responsibility. Companies like "protect" people against that, right?
2) Which type is preferable - C-Corp or S-Corp? We will be looking for funding - angel or VC, so need to think ahead not to have this as a problem to get funds.
3) How to register company easier? I found a bunch of sites, but which one is better? Any experience?
4) We are living in California, and company needs to be in California or in Delaware (I heard that last one is easier with the taxes questions, etc.?) What happens if we'll relocate eventually to different state?
5) Do we need to have an office address? Or some specific P.O. Box? We are living in apartments, so we definitely will move, so all the addresses are kind of "temporary" ;-)
6) Where can I find information on which tax forms do we need to fill and when? For the company? We do not suppose to have a lot of going on there for now, so I hope to be able to do that myself, but need some guides...
7) Any rules or guides on how we need to log our investments into this company? I.e. my partner invested 5k and me invested 6k, so do we need to put this legally somehow? We trust each other, so we don't really need that, but may be it's legally required?
8) Do we need business account (checking, credit)? Probably we don't need it, but may be it will be smart to open small business credit line from the very beginning to grow eventually?
...and anything else you can add. Thanks!