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Ask HN: How does Groupon or Grubwith.us do their group payment system?
I have heard that they don't use PayPal. And I cannot imagine the hassle of rolling your own system. Any ideas? Maybe WePay?
I have already wrote the scripts (I used to write screenplays). I try to simplify each scene so that they can be accomplished by just using moving images (similar to dropbox's video). I know they used stop-motion to accomplish that, but I imagine there must be an even easier way to do it all on the computer.
What software would be good for that task? Flash?
Also, voice over syncronization is a different matter, but if you know a good tool for that, that will be helpful too.
But HN is so news oriented it doesn't give me the kind of hacker/entrepreneur community that I'm envisioning.
What are some other sites where hackers/entrepreneur go to just to ...
- discuss early stage startup ideas
- brainstorm implementations and solutions
- give each other feedback on prototypes
... as suppose to commenting on news? I guess like a forum?
Reading news gets old after a while and makes me feel like I'm just a follower not a leader.
I'm planning to start a web community if there isn't one. I did a survey to see if people would be interested here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1358654
But that post quickly got drown out by the noon news flood, which is part of the problem that I'm talking about.
(P.S. I do go to real-life meetups of hackers/founders. Those are great but scarce. The only good one I have been to so far in the Bay Area is "hackers and founders". And they don't even meet that often in San Francisco.)