robmnl

Hi YCers,

Sometimes I stumble upon projects / startups really excite me.

Years ago, I was really excited about del.icio.us: so clean, so nicely developed. Now it's been overrun a bit, quality has gone down.

Today I stumbled upon http://weewar.com - So NICE! Well developed, so clean, just sexy.

I'd like to know, what are startups out there that really inspire you, that are really just the cream of the crop - the small little % of stuff that really matters to you?

I've been doing my own startup, and I can't say it has fulfilled me. I'm in a process of turning it around, asking myself what I really care about, what really inspires me. That's why I wanted to check with you guys / girls, what really inspires you.

Thanks, Rob

What's the startup, project you're working on right now?

I'm working on ONE, which is a collaboration platform for projects, tasks, invoices, ...

Want to bring some of the YC spirit back here, so many posts about normal internet stuff.

Could you share some really good feeds you have with me? Science, technology, design, green technologies, and even stuff that completely out of all these categories.

What are your favorite RSS feeds that you read daily?

Here's some of mine:

* slashdot * macrumors * airfarwatchdog for my city * steve dekorte * del.icio.us/popular * CSS remix * FaveUP * pain and glory in the IT world * Coding Horror

How often has your startup gone through an iteration where aspects of the idea or the whole idea completely changes?

PG points out that this happens, and I have definitely experienced this again and again - my startup has probably gone through 5 complete transformations. I figure that as long as I have the funds, and the software is getting better, that's ok. I'm committed to launching asap of course.

What do you consider flexible languages for spatial maths? I have a set of nodes in a space, they are connected to each other in a graph, have have different bond strengths. I need to navigate through nodes quickly, for instance grab a node and grab certain nodes that match a certain node strength that is adjacent through one or two dimensions/nodes.

Each node has attribute/values pairs, and I want to be able to query nodes by those attribute/values.

AWS SimpleDB is too slow.

I am an amateur python programmer, this is the last language I've learnt, this is my third week using it.

Before that I came from ruby, which I abandoned for it's speed.

Pretty good at jquery/javascript, which I spend time in, and, almost don't want to mention this, PHP. Of course SQL amateurish (learned joins only 4 months ago) but I really can't make a case for SQL being suitable for my needs. I have studied "SQL for smarties" by Joe Celko.

I have Ruby, Erlang, Smalltalk, or Lisp, or R(?), io(?) in mind. I do just know Ruby in this group, the others I have not much clue about. But I'd learn in a heartbeat if you can make a good case for your language of choice for my problem set.

Hi! Want to get some conversations going here. How's your startup doing right now?

Any planned launch dates?

What's your startup anyway?

We're quite busy with ours, we were ready to release a beta, but choose to redesign and refactor things again. What about yours?

What are your favorite startups/projects?

Preferably ones that are not very known, and that are innovative.