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I'm a big fan of trading card games like Magic: The Gathering, and Cardfight! Vanguard, from the story being told by the cards, to the possibilities available with each draw of a card. However, I live in a city that doesn't have a game shop where I can find people to play with, and I can't drive.

There are three main questions I want my product to answer. 1. How do I make it easier for publishers to create awesome games for both iOS and Android? If I want TCG publishers to make versions of their game, I feel it's my job to make the API smart so the developers can worry more about the look and feel and not the details. I want the API to "know" the rules for each supported TCG, along with card effects and rulings, keeping track of life points, and stuff like that.

2. How do I make it easy to find people to play with, both online and in real life? At the heart of the product is a social network, where players can add cards to their collection, build decks, get deck advice, talk about individual cards, set up games, and more.

3. How do I make it easy for people to add cards to their online collection? How do I spot counterfeit cards? My first thought was to use a customer's phone, and using an OCR provider, but I'm not sure how to spot counterfeits, I'll keep working on it.

If you have any questions or comments, please leave a reply or send me an e-mail. Thank you for your time and consideration.

I was talking with my dad about his work when he started complaining about the volume of email he gets. After looking through his email, I started thinking about how people use email and where it fits in the workplace. I'm a fan of GTD, so my concept is a tool that handles your email, tweets, Facebook posts, and Google+ shares as next actions in the GTD system.

Down the road, I'd like to offer a developer API, because there could be uses for this tool beyond what I would imagine. I'd also like to offer four versions of this app, hosted for personal use, hosted for businesses, via AWS marketplace, and a deployable version for business who want to host in-house.

What do you guys think? I'm always open to comments and suggestions. Thank you for your time and consideration.

There are more than 8,000 known web APIs in existence, ofOfering from weather, to financial data, to the ability to search inside libraries. One thing I haven't found, however, is one API that lets the skilled developer manipulate and search multiple APIs at once.

A few questions. * I'm currently using a SQL style language to make adding more advanced features easier on my part, but if someone has a better idea, I'm all ears. * If a service requires user authentication (i.e. Twitter), my current plan has users passing in auth data in the body of a POST request, is this secure or is there a better way to do this?

If someone has any comments, questions, or ideas, please let me know. Thank you for your time and consideration.

For mental health reasons, my parents and I are considering a communal home instead of living alone, but I would rather live someplace geek friendly. Are there any such places? Thank you for your time and consideration.

I'm working on a startup (That I've talked about here a couple of times.), and I'm trying to find a co-founder. I have two questions.

1. I live in a small town in northeast Colorado, is there anything I can do until I can get moved to Denver to start looking?

2. I'm blind, (Not totally, but for all intents and purposes I'm considered blind.) How important should this be when talking to a potential co-founder?

As always, any advice would be appreciated, Thank you.

About eight days ago, I asked for advice about starting an on-line college that offers small classes and teaches using the tutorial method. (1) After talking with friends and family, and thinking about pewpewlasergun's advice, I've decided to do is create a service that offers a full range of courses on technology.

Some example courses: * Introduction to Mac OSX * Introduction to Linux * Programming (Python/Ruby/Clojure/etc.) * Web development (HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Rails/SEO/etc.) * Bookkeeping (Quickbooks/Peachtree/etc.) * Computer Science (I think it's sad that so few universities teach algorithms and data structures anymore.) * Introduction to social networks * And more.

I'm considering using Skype an the virtual classroom because it's cross-platform, and free.

All thoughts, ideas, and suggestions are appreciated. Thank you.

(1) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2923324

I had a professor who graduated from University of Cambridge, where they use a tutorial style course system, (for more information check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutorial_system, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge#Teaching, and http://oxcheps.new.ox.ac.uk/Publications/Resources/OxCHEPS_OP1_08.pdf (PDF)) which I think would work really well on the web.

The two main concerns I have are recruiting professors, and keeping tuition low while covering all financial bases. I'll admit, I have no clue what to look for in a professor other than the proper degrees and experience, and even if I do find qualified people, how do I convince them to join a new college? I'm not mentioning potentiiial professors not knowing the tutorial system yet, because I imagine most in the USA don't, they'll have to be trained.

Resources I found online (forgive me, I don't know how to add links.): * How to start an online college - http://www.ehow.com/how_4759165_start-online-college.html * School start-up consultancy - http://www.halladayeducationgroup.com/school_ser_form.php?gclid=CPvQkPe1lpgCFQETGgodmUX5mQ * The accreditation process and it's benefits - http://www.worldwidelearn.com/accreditation/accreditation-process-benefits.htm * How to start your own online college - http://melbrown1.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Start-Your-Own-Online-College

A tl;dr for those who didn't read the two wikipedia articles I linked to earlier. * Students write an entrance essay on a topic set by the professor. * Professor grades the essays based on criteria layed out in the syllabus and picks the top three. * Students and professor meet weekly to talk about last week's assignment, the students are give given a new assignment with a new set of source books and websites. * Additional exercises may be added based on the course. * It's just a pass or fail grade, there is no a,b,c,d,f scale as seen elsewhere.

Should I start this business? Keep in mind I know nothing about how the college system works. As always, comments, critisism, ideas, and resources are appreciated. thank you.

I've done some django development in the past and I'm looking to expand my horizons by learning Rails. Does anyone know of good tutorials or other resources aimed at people with previous web development experience looking to learn rails? Strangely, google hasn't turned up much that's useful.

I'm a blind person and I'm looking at applying to YC with a startup idea I'm working on, however because I can't drive I'm wondering what public transportation is like in the San Fransico bay area. is there a website that has information availabke?

(Sorry about the mispost.) I've been looking at both desktop and web-based software for David Allen's "Getting Things Done", but one thing I haven't been able to find is a service that lets you sync your project and action lists between the web, computer, and smartphones, si I've decided to fill that gap. Does anyone think I'll be able to succeed in this alresady saturated market? Or am I wasting my tmie?

As always, thoughts, comments, and suggestions are always appreciated. Thank you.

Around the 16th or so, my laptop quit booting, and while it's being looked at by my best friend, I’m looking for a new laptop. I have two problems that will make affording a new laptop hard;

1. I take home around $670 a month. (SSI, because it’s next to impossible to find private health insurance for my medical condition, panhypopituitarism, so I’m on adult Medicaid.) 2. I have no credit. (My credit’s not bad, I really don’t have credit.)

Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you for your consideration.

I'm working on a startup tht allows people to search for music by title, artist, lyrics, rhythm and more, and I think I'll have a working prototype in a few days, my main problem is where to host it so that investors, the RIAA, and others can see it?