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combiclickwise | 13 years ago | on: The Magic of the Brain Dump

I love it too. I love the design and how simple it is.

Some of my stuff is in workflowy as well. I use it as an intermediary app for select projects.

combiclickwise | 13 years ago | on: The Magic of the Brain Dump

Thanks.

I use Remember the milk for organizing the list from the brain dump. I also have used evernote. Both are pretty good. They also allow you to take it beyond brain dumps. Remember the milk, has reminders (sms, email) which is very useful.

combiclickwise | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: A HR news aggregation tool I made

Thanks :-)

Its actually 3 columns. but if you are seeing 2 then there probably is a css issue. Can you tell me what platform you are on?

I noticed the hovering issue now. Thanks for that. I will correct it.

"It would be better IMHO if hovering cell would show the description instead of hovering the links" - interesting. I will definitely try and see how that feels

combiclickwise | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: All the design principles in one place

Its not because of the content, its really because once you signup you can start taking notes against any projects/project ideas you have. I felt it was worth it to ask for a sign up.

Some people might want to see the content. I am thinking of putting some of it pre-signup. Till then I request you to signup and give it a shot. I am not here to spam, don't worry.

combiclickwise | 13 years ago | on: I just cannot get along with Apple

I understand that some of them are just things I am used to in Windows. I didn't say I didn't want to learn. Only, not as a reply to this post. I can always pick up on it elsewhere but my point was only about the intuitiveness, usability of the product. I would love to know the trick for maximizing windows reliably. I did search for it once and gave up quite quickly.

combiclickwise | 14 years ago | on: Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India

There is some truth to this. A long while back when I was doing projects, I got a project from a US company.

When after a week of understanding the scope, I quoted my price at around $150/hour they were shell shocked. The work was for redesigning systems that simply were not scaling (designed originally by a US company by the way). At the last minute they backtracked and demanded that since I was from India and the cost of living was much lower, I should charge them around the standard $25/hour.

I can never compete in the project game - and I dont want to anymore - because of this attitude by every single US company that I have ever interacted with!

I passed them on eventually to a $20/hour company in Delhi, even while I explained to them that none of the coders there had any experience with designing systems that scale.

There is also a tendency to feature creep the project since it is only $20/hour which amuses me and is a sure fire recipe for failure. When we ask them if they want a project manager or an architect who can work with them on architecture/ feature set selection they refuse because they cost way more than the coders.

I am not saying your experience is not true, I am just saying that given the attitude towards India, it is bound to the experience more often than not.

The non-completion of the project above could have been for many reasons... feature creeping, inability to communicate what the client wants, language differences and yes, downright bad coding. Since you were not able to clinch the project - which I believe is simply bad salesmanship, like in my case earlier - your "I told you so" rant is based on a massive leap of faith that you or any "US based" programmers could have finished the project on time, which I am simply have no reason to buy.

combiclickwise | 14 years ago | on: Coming soon: A way to find and connect with other website owners

I didn't know about humans.txt. Thanks for pointing that out. I will study it.

From the first look I feel it means to do something different from what I intend to do.

In my answer to bsenftner's question below I have explained what I want to accomplish(don't want to repeat it here and clutter the thread). I wonder what you think.

combiclickwise | 14 years ago | on: Coming soon: A way to find and connect with other website owners

why, why at all? Good question... my original thought was that it would be a great place to forge partnerships, link exchange programs, meet suppliers, technology providers and infrastructure providers and even end customers in the field for web services.

I find that very difficult to do currently as the data and secure access is scattered all over the place.

I am willing to challenged in this assumption of mine and I agree that I am just starting with tools for only a fraction of that vision and will have to figure out the rest as I go along.

I agree with the need for the filter... I thought about that too.. but I want to start off with the easier definition to begin with just so I can get something off the ground.

Bloggers will be a very important part of the whole thing and is included in my definition of website owners. When the site is fully ready, they will be handled as a special case.

This was thought provoking. Thanks a lot.

combiclickwise | 14 years ago | on: Free Stanford Class with Steve Blank

What a great opportunity! For someone like me who lives in India, this is a fantastic opportunity to learn from Steve Blank himself.

His book has changed the way I work but I feel there is a whole world of difference in actually learning from him in a class room format, doing exercises and taking it step by step.

combiclickwise | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: SpendStudy is now free

I got some feedback from HN about the pricing which made me think honestly about the pricing structure I was adopting.

So I have now made a free version sans the text messaging facility. Please do let me know what you guys think

combiclickwise | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: My 24 hour project SpendStudy.com

"Not really spending much" lol, same here.

Its a good idea to make it free. Completely free maybe.

SMS is the only thing that costs me real money so I am thinking maybe that could be included in the paid version.

I was rushing through the coding and domain setup so much that I didn't think through the free option at all. Thanks for pointing it out and thanks for commenting :-)

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