Ask HN: EU) Moving UK Company to Ireland? - <AUTHOR> I have been running my company in the UK for almost a decade now, living there for most of that time. With the world going through kind of a rough patch at the moment, and the UK in particular, I am trying to prepare for what's next. We're hoping to move away soon (still unclear where to, however), but it will most likely be within the EU (I have an EU passport). My home country (not the UK) is a bit of a disaster for small companies, and I don't trust the UK gov enough to figure a way out of the situation anytime soon. So... seeing all the big corps have (for tax and EU reasons mostly) incorporated in Ireland, I wondered what the status quo is for non-resident company formation there. I've heard many things over the years, and apparently a lot has changed (improved) recently, too. I've also had a company incorporated with Stripe Atlas before in the US, but managing the whole Delaware tax/franchise thing remotely was a bit much for a one-man-contract-shop kind of operation. Ideally I'd like to be as close as possible to what the UK limited format was, as that allowed me to keep myself separate from the company, legally, and it helped tremendously in managing taxes so that a super large short-term project won't take me out financially.
Long story short: anyone (non-resident) recently incorporated in Ireland, perhaps even doing contract work for (mostly) EU companies and/or having revenue come in from SaaS subscription products? Anything I need to watch out for? I have been digging through the company formation websites, but it's been a bit of a mess to be honest. In the UK it took 15 minutes to get rolling and that was it.
Either way, thanks for reading and would love to hear how you guys are working through similar things (in the EU specifically). I've heard of the digital citizen thing in Estonia, but while that sounded great, I did a bit of research on it and it turned out not to be very practical. <comment><USER2> It's interesting you post this as I'm currently in the process of closing my Irish Ltd. and creating a UK one as I move over here (UK) as a tax resident.

The reason for doing this is that it's not clear to me how you can draw a salary and pay tax as a UK resident unless through a UK Ltd.? How are you planning on doing this as a matter of interest if you are not an Irish tax resident? I assume that for large corporations they can afford to create local companies in various EU countries that bill their Irish entity for "services". These local companies in turn pay salaries to PAYE employees.

Regarding company formation, I can't speak as a non resident, but setting up a company shouldn't be too difficult, it's just not as easy as the U.K. You can do it by yourself but there are many accountants that will do it for you for a fixed fee. They usually file all relevant documentation and transfer the company into your name.

The framework for company law was recently revamped in 2014. I'm a lone director and shareholder of a limited liability company with a family member acting as secretary. My accountant makes annual returns to The Revenue (HMRC) and The CRO (Companies House). I handle regular tax payments through ROS which is the online tax system.

</comment><comment><USER3> It might be worth considering northern ireland?</comment>


China deletes 'malicious' mobile apps - <AUTHOR> https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-gaming-tencent-holdings/china-deletes-malicious-mobile-apps-idUSKCN1PI0LO <comment><USER2> "China's cyber watchdog" to stop "malicious mobile apps that infringe on users' rights".

Are the unelected chinese authorities and their various ministries really worried about users' rights or is it just cover to control what their citizens/subjects see, hear and read?

I find it interesting how our media portrays this as china's authorities trying to control the internet. But when our media, politicians, elites pressure tech companies to delete, censor, etc, they don't portray it as an attempt to control the internet.

Anyone know if the chinese press are as hypocritical as our press? Do they portray our censorship as an attempt to control the internet?

<comment><USER3> As a Chinese I'd say that Chinese people are already used to rely on the government to perform this kind of control with no business incentives. For example, they limit hours you can play continuously to fight against game additives.

On the other hand, government is not like what Reuters usually portrayed (full of police and agents). Many agencies try to solve all kinds of problems in many ways, some elegant while some stupid.

For this exact action, I think it's something the adminstration thinks it would work to solve the immediate problem. They just happened to have the tool.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> It'll be interesting to see how society develops in this controlled environment.

>it had deleted more than 7 million pieces of online information as well as 9,382 mobile apps, and criticized a news app run by Tencent for spreading "vulgar and low-brow information.

It's very fascistic, anc is reminiscent of early twentieth century movements to eliminate undesirable behavior and create ideal societies. So far it's always resulted in misery, death and other horrible outcomes. Still a control/contrast to liberal societies will be interesting.

</comment><comment><USER5> The (presumed) lack of due process on banning apps, and the centralized control on what users may install (corporate or governmental) are concerning. But, judging from the article, it sounds like calling those apps 'malicious' is warranted, and I wouldn't bat an eye if the developers behind them were charged with some sort of fraud (assuming a fair trial).

So I'd rather we not conflate Chinese human rights abuses with what just might be consumer protection.

</comment><comment><USER6> What frightens me is that nearly all common mobile devices - that is android with google play services, or iOS - could do the same, technically speaking.

<comment><USER7> They already do, c.f. the "Apple banned my app" genre of blog post. In most cases, probably even this one in China, the apps are legitimately bad and users see aggregate benefit.

Obviously the important difference is that in this case it's a government agency and not a private company. With Android at least, it remains the case that a (reasonably adept) user can side-load any app she wants.</comment></comment>


Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail (2016) - <AUTHOR> https://cpbotha.net/2016/08/06/moving-12-years-of-email-from-gmail-to-fastmail/ <comment><USER2> I have a curious question about Fastmail. Since it is an Australian company, will the recent change in law make it a less ideal mail host regarding privacy?

<comment><USER3> Relevant post from FM:

[https://fastmail.blog/2018/12/21/advocating-for-privacy- aabi...](https://fastmail.blog/2018/12/21/advocating-for-privacy-aabill- australia/)</comment></comment>


W3schools.com down? - <AUTHOR>

Is it really down or smthing? <comment><USER2> down for me too actually, a lot of websites are not showing up right for me. mostly google-related services</comment>


The Rise of MOS Technology and the 6502 (2003) - <AUTHOR> http://www.commodore.ca/commodore-history/the-rise-of-mos-technology-the-6502/ <comment><AUTHOR> _" As one might guess, Engineers discussing a $25 version of a successful $300 product, did not impress Motorola management. Conversely, Management's failure to pursue obvious improvements to their chip did not impress Motorola's engineers. When Chuck received a formal letter from management telling him to stop working on a cost reduced version 6800, he saw an opportunity."_

That is the essence of advancing technology, right there.

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> read this post, _" Commodore Back in Germany"_ first ~ [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12539051#12542958](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12539051#12542958)</comment>


Required Reading (for pythonistas) - <AUTHOR> http://ericholscher.com/blog/2010/nov/17/required-reading/

<comment><USER2> What's Pro Python like? <http://propython.com/> The online preview stops just short of showing whether the contents are actually useful.

<comment><AUTHOR> Here is a review: [http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/publications/book_reviews/ful...](http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/publications/book_reviews/full_review.php?id=653)

<comment><USER2> thanks. not exactly positive :(

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER3> Pylon's unit testing guidelines was a very insightful read. Thanks!

<comment><AUTHOR> I thought so too.</comment></comment>


Don't call Brian - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/OpenLiveWriter/OpenLiveWriter/commit/1236b0393f8a07876cc597fa09e1ff51ed41ab93 <comment><AUTHOR> I'm glad MS finally open-sourced LiveWriter (yay Scott Hanselman!), but I wonder who is Brian, and how many times was he called?

<comment><USER2> Brian Lambert is about as skilled a UI programmer as you are likely to meet. He was one of the early developers at Onfolio, a startup and product that Microsoft acquired and out of whose ashes Writer arose. IIRC Brian was long gone by the time we started working on Writer, but plenty of his code ended up shipping in it.

I imagine there must have been scores of more colorful comments by Brian and others that got scrubbed before the open source release.

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> I'm Brian. "Don't call Brian" sounds like a new sitcom on ABC starring Jon Cryer.</comment>


Women and the slowing global population - <AUTHOR> https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/women-and-the-slowing-global-population <comment><USER2> > Although fertility has stabilised at levels above two children per woman in > some countries, in the countries of Central Asia, the fertility rate (which > had been close to two) has risen to around three children per woman. This is > linked to the fact that many women there are having the number of children > they want to have.

That last fact is interesting. The average ideal family size reported by adults in the US is 2.7, with 40% believing that three or more is ideal: [https://news.gallup.com/poll/236696/americans-theory- think-l...](https://news.gallup.com/poll/236696/americans-theory-think-larger- families-ideal.aspx). The birth rate is quite a bit below that. In countries like Spain or Germany where the birth rate is below 1.5, the ideal number of children is 2.2+.

<comment><USER3> My pet theory is that humans are poorly adapted to modern life. More specifically, there is something about the information environment that scrambles whatever mechanism we have for determining if we are doing well enough to bring more children into the world. I mean, it has to be that, since objectively speaking families in the developed world are able to provide for children at a level higher than anywhere else in the world, both past and present, yet we are having less children than we want.

<comment><USER4> _> families in the developed world are able to provide for children at a level higher than anywhere else in the world, both past and present, yet we are having less children than we want._

Answer in 3 words: Real estate prices.

If you're a couple in the developed world you probably want to give your kids living standards to match. Fat chance doing that unless you and your partner aren't high earners

<comment><USER5> Among other things. Ability to "provide for children" seems highly subjective, according to our surrounding conditions.

Having 2 goats in a town with no goats = able to provide.

Having a McMansion in a town with bigger McMansions = worried about ability to provide.

<comment><USER6> Depends if you took out a mortgage for the goats.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> Posting from a throwaway account for privacy on this one.

For me personally it's never seemed worth it, even though I am well off and healthy. I've never been with a man I trusted enough to feel safe with, like he could protect me or take care of me while I was in the vulnerable state of pregnancy / early motherhood. Partly this is emotional and not rational, I'm capable of taking of myself. The men, on the other hand, have all had chronic depression.

I told each of them fairly early on in each relationship that I did not want to have children, but I never told them why. It's a harsh thing to say, right? "I don't want to have your children because you have depression and so it'd be worse than raising kids alone."

But I would rather never have children than try to raise them with someone who can't get themselves to work on a regular basis. My partner right now already needs so much from me, if we had children there'd be nothing left of my life.

He is a brilliant, loving person, but if it weren't for birth control I'd never risk a relationship at all with someone like him.

All this exposition is for my point: which is that even if you have food and shelter, there's reasons to not be willing to bear the responsibility of a(n additional) child.

<comment><USER8> You have a lot of respect from me and all men who appreciate honesty! There's a lot of us out there, trust me -- and we are able to handle ourselves and aging parents quite adequately as well.

I was also very open with my wife when we sat and discussed whether we should live together (4-5 months into a very successful and passionate relationship where absolutely nothing was ever wrong -- that was 4 years ago). I told her in very plain terms that since she is yet to invent herself -- she is still very young -- and since only I provide the money, then I am not willing to increase the stress and responsibilities on myself just because. I was very upfront and told her outright that if her plans include kids then we should just remain casual passtionate lovers and not seek a deeper relationship.

She agreed with me on the no-kids policy -- and we started living together -- because she feels that where we live (Eastern Europe) life is way too hard and economically unstable to bring a kid into. She is quite a bit younger than myself but already suffered a lot and our relationship naturally evolved into this sacred island where we both find comfort, love, passion, friendship and time for ourselves. We feel ZERO desire to have kids even 4.5 years into the relationship.

My wife, like your partner, is also a brilliant and loving person but I don't know how much more years I can provide for both of us (and my widowed mother) before I collapse. We are both well aware that the modern civilization is as unnatural and hostile to the human soul as it can get and that many people simply cannot adapt and end up being an endless drag on somebody else... but she knows that she eventually has to adapt. I take a lot of bullets for her in the hopes of her repaying the favor one day but if it doesn't happen then we could eventually part ways.

...I am way too chatty these days. Sorry.

What I am getting at is this: IMO your partner should have some direction and goal. It's a very good strategy against depression and is recommended in many therapies. Receiving a soft ultimatum from your loved one -- "I am giving you 5 years to reinvent yourself and start participating in the family's finances" \-- might sound harsh but definitely lands people right back in reality. Money does not grow on trees. Depression is a b1tch but you need a strong partner standing right beside you and not always behind you. Your partner must be aware of that.

Don't take this as an unsolicited advice. I am mostly saying that I strongly relate with you and I am sharing my thoughts on the topic. Keep going!

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> I get the feeling this article is conflating birth rate with actual population growth. One reason why people have less children is that more of them survive. Happy to be shown I'm wrong though.

<comment><USER10> > I get the feeling this article is conflating birth rate with actual > population growth.

It's not. Fertility rate for the US and the developed world is below replacement. And in the developing world, it has been dropping consistently.

> One reason why people have less children is that more of them survive.

That's a reason why women don't have 5 or 6 children, but that's not a reason why women has less than 2 on average.

<comment><USER11> In an agricultural society children are an asset. In an industrial or service based economy children are a sacrifice. This has always been my view on why birthrates are declining.

<comment><USER12> I share your view. I believe it was during the industrial revolution where the family was redefined from an economic unit to a loving unit. Kind of strange how nowadays it feels like it has always been this way.

<comment><USER13> It reminds me of the fact that despite how permanent our life patterns feel, we're never more than two or three generations from completely changing our social norms and life patterns.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> > But - big picture - what's important is that reproductive rights are > extended to all women and men.

Reproductive rights for men as consistently ended at the point of conception, with the modern feminist movement seemingly being one of the strongest voice against men having any rights beyond that point. Did Professor Peter McDonald just mistype when he includes men in this part off the article?

<comment><USER15> I don't think this is a fair analysis of either current feminist thought or the current state of affairs. The reproductive rights of men are important and there's no suggestion any should be removed, but that doesn't mean that in a sexually dimorphic society both members of a childbearing couple (or more generally, all members of a childbearing group) have the same _options_.

Men and women both have the right of bodily autonomy. In a "traditional" childbearing couple of one straight, cisgender man and one straight, cisgender woman, this identical right expresses itself in very different ways between them, but that doesn't mean that "reproductive rights for men are ended at the point of conception" unless you really, _really_ try.

<comment><USER14> Talking about bodily autonomy to be the start and end of reproductive rights is a bit unfair to the concept at large. Planned parenthood is not "planned bodily autonomy", except given a different name. Planned parenthood, pro- choice, and similar initiatives talk about the choice to be a parent and the benefit in society where children are born from adults that want to have children. There is no physical reason why a sexually dimorphic society can not provide planned parenthood that gives both adults the same choices, rights and responsibilities regardless of gender or if its woman - man, woman - woman or man - man. In Sweden we even have a new law where the state will sponsoring single women that want to become single mothers through artificial insemination.

After the point of conception what rights do men in general have? Its not their signature on the paper that specify who the parents to the child are. They can't decide if they will become a parent or not. All rights and responsibilities are exclusively decided by the mother, as the law dictate. Bodily autonomy has nothing to do with those laws, and the human right of bodily autonomy doesn't need to end simply because men are given the choice to decide if they want to take the responsibility to be a parent and raise a child.

<comment><USER15> Making that about women vs men is missing the point entirely, which is part of why i was explicit about alternate childbearing groups. If you have two woman in a childbearing group, then the one who is pregnant has the option to terminate or continue the pregnancy, while the one who is not pregnant does not have these options. It is entirely about bodily autonomy - you cannot force anybody to either undergo an abortion or not undergo an abortion. It is a medical process with side effects, effects on one's mood and mind, deeply personal implications depending on how "human" exactly you feel a fetus is, et cetera.

Drawing that as "men have no rights" is deeply reductive, because it isn't about men vs women, it's about the childbearing person vs the non childbearing person(s), and fundamentally does come down to that the same rights have very different implications depending on a person's position.

You have the old joke, "this law isn't discriminatory, both rich and poor are banned from sleeping on the streets!", and in this case it essentially holds true. What you're seeing isn't discrimination, both the childbearing person and the non-childbearing person(s) have the same right to not be compelled into or out of an abortion, it just isn't a right which helps very much if you aren't pregnant.

It does work out that the average man in a childbearing couple doesn't have an "out", but there's no way to implement that "out" without imposing on the rights of somebody else, whether it be by compelling action, or by suddenly threatening to revoke a promise of support that a new childbearing parent desperately needs for them and their child.

<comment><USER14> > you cannot force anybody to either undergo an abortion or not undergo an > abortion

No one is arguing for forcing someone to do anything. Forced abortion or non- abortion would be the opposite of having reproductive rights and bodily autonomy as human rights. Every human rights advocate are against this and rightly so.

> but there's no way to implement that "out" without imposing on the rights of > somebody else

There is. It is called paper abortion, or simply the concept that naming yourself as a parent to a child should be a voluntary act by an adult. Conception is no more a promise of support than conception is the promise to give birth to a child. We don't say that women have made a promise to give birth to a child just because they had sex, so it seem strange to say men in contrast does make such promise. The only promise of support should come from society at large to give every child the same possibility in life regardless of how much money their parent or parents has.

Human rights. Human liberty. Choice and freedom. Not about forcing someone to do something against their will. The benefit of adults that want to bring a child into the world compared to adults that are forced by culture or law is very striking and as the article points out essential progress in society.

> If you have two woman in a childbearing group, then the one who is pregnant > has the option to terminate or continue the pregnancy, while the one who is > not pregnant does not have these options

Just a side note, but I don't think there is a legal system that I know which would force the other woman to pay child-support against her will. The child- bearing mother can't write on the paper that the other woman is the child's second parent, and instead the law forces the non-bearing woman to voluntary request to be the second parent. It is indistinguishable from the process that reproductive rights for men would be, and operates as a clear example of how it would work in practice.

<comment><USER15> It's a... difficult area, for sure. The scenario where some guy and some girl have a one night stand and then nine months later he's on the hook for a whole tonne of money is a Very Bad scenario, because obviously there's no promise of support inherent in that, and I'm not gonna pretend that scenario has never happened, and in cases where it has it's difficult to suggest that more nuance shouldn't have been taken.

I don't think it's reasonable to suggest that "paper abortion" is a workable concept in the general case, though. If a couple is a couple and they break up eight months into the pregnancy, then suddenly you have one person who is about to lose their financial support _and_ their ability to financially provide for themselves, but "Child Support" as a concept isn't there for the parent, but the child.

The main difference between actual abortion in this case and paper abortion is that paper abortion still involves a child, and you can't get away from that. That child needs supporting, and permitting the "provider" member of a traditional "provider/childbearer" childbearing couple to vanish late in the process totally screws over the child, and that's what child support laws are there to avoid. There's definitely cases where this goes wrong, but I don't think I've seen much evidence that those are anything but a tiny minority.

>Just a side note, but I don't think there is a legal system that I know which would force the other woman to pay child-support against her will.

I think that's probably true, unfortunately, and I think that's very silly and needs fixing. A two-woman pair is effectively identical to a man-woman pair (save obviously for usually requiring artificial insemination).

>The only promise of support should come from society at large to give every child the same possibility in life regardless of how much money their parent or parents has.

This, though, I can agree with wholeheartedly. I would be 100% behind abolishing child support as the current concept in order to replace it with a general child support system not dependant on the financial situation of either parent - kind of like UBI but for the child. We don't have that yet, though, so we're just kind of working with what we have, and what we have is a very imperfect system that prioritises the child above the parents, because the child has no choices in anything and is in need of far more protection.

<comment><USER14> > If a couple is a couple and they break up eight months into the pregnancy

Since a woman is not allowed to wait eight months and then decide to have an abortion there is a argument to make that men should have to follow the same time limit. This is not about giving men _more_ rights then women, but rather equal reproductive rights.

> I would be 100% behind abolishing child support as the current concept in > order to replace it with a general child support system not dependant on the > financial situation of either parent - kind of like UBI but for the child.

Here in Sweden I would claim that we have such support system already but the political climate is as hostile to giving men reproductive right as it is in countries without it. Every child is guarantied housing, food, school and about 125$ per month as a form of UBI until the age of 18 that by law must exclusively go to support the individual childs needs for everyday items like clothing. There is also an addition to the UBI per child if a family has multiple children.

> a very imperfect system that prioritises the child above the parents, > because the child has no choices in anything and is in need of far more > protection

The concept that children is at risk or worse when they only have a single parent is not very consistent in political discussions. In the last years the support grown very large that single women should be allowed to start a family through artificial insemination (paid by the government), and I have not seen any political opposition that talks about the child must have two parents. The outcome for the child is identical to that of paper abortion, but politically it is very different.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> Ethical question - is it unethical to contribute to a charity/foundation/whatnot that works towards people having fewer children, given that such would inevitably be most effective in third-world countries where the birth rate is highest? Or would that be western imperialism pushing our values on the less developed world?

<comment><USER17> Such a charity would possibly educate women or increase access to safe sex, how is that a problem? Speaking as a citizen of a developing country, I personally wouldn't mind at all.

<comment><USER18> To quote Idiocracy, the people seeking out contraception are the ones we want reproducing, either because of their values or their genes.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER19> I think a lot of these articles miss an important consideration. The underlying economies of the world have functioned on an unseen assumption: the population (i.e. consumers & producers) always increase. This has been true for the entirety of modern history. There should be some discussion on how that changes once the population either stops increasing, or declines.

This is somewhat discussed with the aging baby boomer generation being larger than their childrens, but that dynamic will likely become the new norm in many countries. Japan in particular is experiencing this first hand with one of the lowest birth rates.

</comment><comment><USER20> The problem is that this slowing of birth rates due to the improvement in women's status will basically destroy those societies. Those societies where women have low status shall inherit the Earth while the rest peter out. Too bad that a good thing has to be self-defeating.

</comment><comment><USER21> That was the only one thing me and my wife were in complete agreement - 0.5 sons (either 0 or 1). Did vasectomy 2 months after kid was born, because I knew she would change her mind :D And no, I won't reverse, I am deadly afraid of needles and doctors.

<comment><USER22> Highly intelligent and conscientious people (which I presume as a HN reader you are) having fewer children leads merely to Idiocracy :-(

Look up the work of Richard Lynn, get that reversal, and do it for civilisation :-)

<comment><USER21> Yeah, I have heard that argument from many friends. This is the failure mode of current civilization - child rearing has been made too damn expensive and even a legal liability for responsible people, while irresponsible people reproduce like rats and that's ok then. I see that happening, but I won't change the tide and I won't pey the personal cost.

<comment><USER8> Agreed. Our local gypsies exchange the same babies on queues for social help and never have to be worried about not having money for food while I have to bust my health and reduce my life expectancy to not be thrown out of my rented flat and have food in the fridge. And I have to produce kids so I can help the world?

 _No._

I refuse to bring kids in such an uncertainty. I don't "owe" our civilization nothing. I can die tomorrow and it never did anything for me except demand more and more bills and trying to scam me into yet another loan or an expensive buy that I don't need. That civilization is not entitled to dictate anything personal in my life.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> I would argue that the exponential increase in population in the 20th century was a "bubble", explained by the discovery of antibiotics and other advances in medicine. People that were not expected to live past the life expectancy (which was 40 years or so) lived on, thus overlapping with the next generations.

If there won't be any other similar breakthroughs in medicine, I don't think the exponential growth can last much longer, people will be born and die in a more predictable pattern.

</comment><comment><USER24> A wise person here once suggested viewing the world population as a parallel computer, with each human mind working to move us forward. With this view in mind, as soon as space travel opens the solar system Malthusian philosophy dies forever -- we are going to need as many people as possible both to colonize and to discover answers to all the new problems that will arise. What would technological growth look like with a trillion minds across the Galaxy inventing and discovering?

<comment><USER25> War.

<comment><USER26> Please expand upon whatever you mean by this one-word comment.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER27> Why the assumption that a smaller global population is better?

Most of the things that make life good come from other people. People are moving to cities because, on balance, it's better to live around more other people than fewer. Prices for natural resources continue to fall in real terms, because we have more than enough - the most limited resource that modern civilization depends on is human ingenuity.

<comment><USER28> > the most limited resource that modern civilization depends on is human > ingenuity

The most limited resource are ecospheres. We currently only have one of those. Overtax that one up and things go downhill.

</comment></comment><comment><USER29> >Imagine a world with double the amount of people living in it.

I find it mildly disturbing that the author assumes everyone reading this sentence is going to agree that it's an ominous prospect. Obviously, the implication is that it would be a world of fourteen billion people the vast majority of whom are on the brink of starvation, but we've (as a species) overcome Malthusian obstacles before. Why shouldn't having as many thriving human lives as possible be a goal worth striving for? If every human life has intrinsic (not to mention economic and cultural) value, then declining reproductive rates are a form of opportunity cost, not "one of the most important ... achievements in human history." And if we can't agree (or at least agree to act as if) every human life has intrinsic value, we're on our way to undermining the foundations of peaceful coexistence.

<comment><USER30> FWIW, this idea is what philosophers call "the repugnant conclusion", and the problem it presents is largely unsolved in normative ethics. It's one reason that I don't think formal ethical reasoning is a useful activity: in the end, we do what feels right or wrong, and we can't reason ourselves into a feeling.

[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/repugnant- conclusion/](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/repugnant-conclusion/)</comment></comment>


Show HN: Croningen – cron for the cloud - <AUTHOR> https://croningen.io/ <comment><AUTHOR> I'd be interested to hear any feedback you have... or any bugs you notice :)

<comment><USER2> like the random server assignment for job execution

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> Too expensive. Better rent off a $5 VPS and run my own cron. Or use some AWS service that does the same.</comment>


Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-Founder? - <AUTHOR> Wish HN did something like this monthly. 24 year old, software engineer here. <comment><USER4> I'm a Melbourne, Australia based developer that's been working on a product that can launch any pull request or commit into a self contained, sharable environment accessed via a simple link. A few people are working in this space but my product has a few features that others don't have which I can go over.

I'm at the point where we use the tool continuously at my day job but I'm fairly time poor to take it beyond that. I'd be looking to connect with others that have built and promoted similar developer tools.

Personal homepage: richardson.co.nz

<comment><USER5> That's an interesting idea. Is there some way to follow or subscribe to anything for updates?

<comment><USER4> I haven't setup a formal mailing list yet but send me an email at email@example.com and I'll make sure you get updates.

<comment><USER4> Edit: A signup form can be found at [https://forms.gle/cMB2mDbt5342bQ8P9](https://forms.gle/cMB2mDbt5342bQ8P9) if you want to keep up to date.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> Technical engineer looking for a businessman.

The EspUSB is a WiFi-controlled keyboard and mouse. A small dongle fits completely inside a USB port, and creates a WiFi network that you can connect to from your phone. It shares a web page, where you can drag the cursor around, or type in text, and have it appear directly on the computer. A video of it in action is on YouTube. [1]

The original open-source design is by [cnlohr], and is available on Github [2]. It was around from 2016, and I waited patiently for someone to manufacture it so I could buy it on eBay/Tindie/AliExpress/etc. Nobody built it.

Finally I studied the design files, figured out the BOM from the schematics, guessed a load of manufacturing parameters, and got PCBWay to build me 3 prototypes. They work!

I've since updated the firmware to let me type in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Thai, etc - not only English and German. This is particularly important for foreigners in such countries, where it's easier to type on a virtual keyboard on a phone, instead of putting stickers all over a laptop keyboard.

Now I'd like to order more EspUSB devices, so that other people can get them too. 8 people have expressed an interest so far, and one of them wanted 10 units. I can afford to buy 100 units at $25 each from the factory, if I'm confident that I'll have either the money or the devices at the end. I do not want to make a profit on it; if you do, you can keep the money. If you're willing to handle the business side (FCC/CE certification issues, tax, import duties, etc) and assure me that I won't be sued, then I can get you the devices.

[1] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPBzOaLbWhM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPBzOaLbWhM)

[2] [https://github.com/cnlohr/espusb/wiki/Getting-Started- Guide](https://github.com/cnlohr/espusb/wiki/Getting-Started-Guide)

<comment><USER7> Just wanted to say I'm so damn impressed. Don't stop hustling friend, you're going to make it if you keep pushing forward!!!

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> Not a co-founder per-say, but I'm open to connecting or collaborating with other makers in San Francisco. I'm a software engineer with experience building web applications and services. Most recently working on Dapps/Defi, but interested in other spaces as well. Let's grab coffee!

[https://bryce.is/writing/code](https://bryce.is/writing/code)

<comment><USER9> What's your e-mail? pinging you.

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> I am. Currently at 2.5k MRR working alone. We build tools journalists love by aggregating, benchmarking and integrating hundreds of APIs under a single web interface.

Our tech is a 'lingua franca' of APIs. We started with newsrooms but the benefits apply pretty much to any large Enterprise. Newsrooms were a good first vertical because they are desperate for innovation.

Hit me up: moura at the oko.ai domain

<comment><USER11> Interesting idea. When I hear "lingua franca of APIs" it makes me think of GraphQL.

</comment></comment><comment><USER12> In Los Angeles. Looking for a tech lead co-founder and roommate at the same time

I've been working on a mobile app since 2014 when I became fed up with $300 badge scanners at trade shows while in a tech sales position. It's pivoted towards a short-and-sweet point-and-click cloud organizer for business cards and contact data syncing and is built with the Azure OCR computer vision API in mind for signal processing. It's in the Apple App store called Sales-Linked (rebranding to Slink or Slinked). I've been searching for a tech lead for the software development team in Armenia and for rapid prototyping while going to market (beachhead is professional networking events such as Network after Work).

Roommate of 3 years is returning to the East Coast, leaving a private master bedroom and bathroom in a 2-bedroom 2-bath apartment open Dec. 1. He will be taking all the living room furniture.

Walking distance to Downtown Culver and Palms Metro Station and adjacent to 10/405 interchange. Amenities include gated parking, central a/c, balcony, vaulted ceilings, friendly neighbors and incredible landlords. (Pet-friendly too)

This is a very Silicon Valley move (where I'm from) to incubate a SaaS product toward commercialization and seed capital from institutional investors. Looking for the right person who is ready for the next adventure in their lives towards financial freedom. 50% equity stake for the risk. $1250 monthly rent.

About me: From Sunnyvale, son of an immigrant who was in the start-up scene in the 80's. Been in LA since 2010. Dropped out of my Graduate Program at USC in Biomedical Engineering to join the LED lighting manufacturing world. Currently busy growing TopGrow Lighting with my co-founder and high school friend (who still lives in Sunnyvale) manufacturing LED lamp replacements for marijuana cultivation, and my personal brand on Instagram as an arts & culture writer (@jhazani)

I've been the crash test dummy for the app while doing the field sales of TopGrow and have found it indispensable with all the contacts I gain as a necessity of being customer-facing. But it falls short as a full product with the necessary features of contact filtering and above all else: OCR scanning and data exporting.

If you're intrepid enough, I invite you to check the place out and see where things go.

<comment><USER13> In my trade show experience, the $300 scanners are terrible and most of the time don't scan. I'm not sure if it's typically a scanner issue, a QR code issue, or a system issue, but everything the scanner actually works it's a surprise!

I'm on the wrong side of the country, but will keep an eye on you guys and hope to see you at some shows soon.

<comment><USER12> Thanks!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> I'm a software developer with a weird background: autodidactic since early childhood; always working obsessively on a personal project; freelancing since about 2005 as a last-ditch solution to financial distress.

For the past several years I've been working on a novel computing interface, and approach to software creation. I've failed to launch or even complete a satisfactory demo because without funding I just can't seem to finish anything; every road looks too long at some point, and I reboot. Or I take on some paying work, and when I come back to it my thinking or dependencies have changed, and I reboot. The result is many broken projects and no demo / MVP.

I'm obsessive and highly resistant to compromise, and I need help managing time and money. I need a strong business partner who can understand my vision and help me to stay on track, and make things happen while my head is down (or in the clouds).

I need help getting funding. I need help scoping an MVP and getting it in front of early customers.

But what is it? See the deck linked in my profile, and please ask questions. I can't seem to get people to see it without very lengthy discussion. Even then, I know they aren't seeing what I see. I can't express how frustrated I am.

I can't stop. I feel like, because I _see_ it, it's my _responsibility_ to the world. I imagine all the people that it will help, and know that if I fail I will have let them down.

I'm doing unrelated work now to feed myself, and making very slow progress. Please, somebody unshackle me so I can do this!

<comment><USER15> I don't understand your business or deck. It seems like a chatbot...but maybe smarter...somehow? Because you're going to bring users into the loop...with threads? But also you charge $99 per hour for developers?

I don't get what the product is or the market or the opportunity...

I'd recommend that you check out the AirBnB deck and then go back to your and simplify it: [https://www.slideshare.net/PitchDeckCoach/airbnb-first- pitch...](https://www.slideshare.net/PitchDeckCoach/airbnb-first-pitch-deck- editable)

Just my .02

<comment><USER14> Thanks, Rabid. I know I'm not being clear.

The goal is to present a _magic software interface_.

I want to say, "forget about apps. What do you want to do? How can I help you?" ...and be an interface to the people who can make these things happen, whether it's location-based services, "business logic", or integrations with other platforms.

I want to offer a service like Magic, for _concierge_ , but include software development as one of those services. Lazily, on demand.

Presenting everything in threads, including graphical elements, is what I see enabling this wizard of oz approach to creating new software on demand.

It's also how I imagine eliminating the clutter of 'traditional' software. Instead of throwing a bunch of buttons, links, and menus at people and hoping they can navigate it... Slater just tells you what to do next, and never shows more than a small handful of choices at a time... and always gives you a way to ask for something different. And if it's something unexpected, it gets handled by a human, and that's how we learn what to build. If a human isn't available immediately, it will ask for permission to holler back later (push notifications, email, etc).

I don't think words do it justice. I just have to show it. FML.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> SF-based. Legal tech. Lots of domain expertise. Shopping a product for acquisition now, hoping to build another. I'm moderately proficient in Python but need a technical partner. Ideally looking for someone who is into NLP. Reply here if interested in chatting.

<comment><USER17> I'm interested to have a chat.

Data Scientist by profession - dealt only with NLP

      built models saved 300K/yr
      awaiting approval - brings a new 8M at 10% market capture

Worked at a leading mass tort (300 people) company recently acquired by a bigger settlement company (10k+).

Reason for switching is the snail pace now.

Side projects:

      extracttable.com - image processing

      notyce.me - <USER3>

      nextround.ml - <USER3>

Drop me an email (id in the bio) if you think I'm a match.

<comment><USER16> I don't see a way to reach you via your profile/bio except to fill out the Extractable contact form. I've added an email to my profile if you want to get in touch.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER18> Yugal is my 2nd startup. Previously built and sold Gazemetrix.

Have a bunch of experience in Social, B2B SaaS, Machine Learning. Looking for a co-founder who can write code and is willing to learn and unlearn quickly.

Yugal is a peer-to-peer service marketplace where Youtubers hire other youtubers to help with specific tasks in the creation workflow such as editing, sound, script, thumbnail design etc. Running a successful YouTube channel requires you to be good at a number of things - script, editing, voice-overs etc. It is nearly impossible for a single individual to be good at all of these. Yugal makes creators successful by letting them skip over their skill gaps and get work done by other creators who already have those specific skills.

</comment><comment><USER19> I've been building this crowdmapping tool for a long time now, and would love any help I can get.

[https://canvis.app/demo](https://canvis.app/demo)

TypeScript and React skills would be great.

But what I really need is some sales and marketing hustle. I have been invited to be the tech provider on some research funding proposals, but aside from that don't have much time to hunt down more customers, or to lay SEO ground work. My extra time and energy goes to coding.

It's niche. No unicorn here. Although I'm still confident there is a market out there because it's supporting much more expensive and cumbersome competitors!

If you are even slightly interested shoot me an email at email@example.com

<comment><USER20> I like the idea, whats your stack like. Mapbox/React/Typescript/PostGIS ?

Small suggestion from someone who has been purchasing these things for a company before on a small scale, have an option between Free and "Contact Us for pricing" even if you price it >>> than your costs it gives a ballpark for whether I should make the effort to contact you or if it is too expensive right off the mark.

<comment><USER19> Thanks! Great suggestion on the pricing, thank you.

You've got the stack right, but I'm using Firestore instead of PostGIS. Since I don't need spatial queries (yet) and it let me get up and running quickly as a solo dev.

Totally happy to chat more about it, just reach out

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> I am. I'm building an automated design tool that converts design tool files into auto generated code or a templating language that can be used to render views / flows natively on web / native mobile. I'm looking for someone who can help with web front end and backend, I work horizontally across the stack on iOS / Android building SDKs and native mobile experiences. I have 6 years of experience in the industry, have been part of a successful acquisition and now mostly highly interested in building this design company idea.

Why am I building this? Companies waste too much resources on building design then handing off later — essentially 2X the work. Giving designers / product people this sort of technology would empower them to validate their ideas quickly — essential to finding product market fit quickly.

Where I'm currently at: \- I have an exceptionally fast text editor \- I can convert 3 of the major mobile design tool files into a templating language than can be used to render native views on the fly \- Mac app centered around this technology \- Lots of hard problems solved around the current idea

What I'm looking for: \- someone who is as excited about this idea as I am \- someone experienced in backend and web front end \- Next steps are finalizing UX / porting a web app for people to use (sort of like Figma) \- integrate in analytics services \- versioning system for designers

Reply to this post if anyone is interested I'll post an email to connect to if anyone cares.

<comment><USER22> Hi, I'm working on something similar but targeting Web frameworks for the moment. [https://skelet.app](https://skelet.app)

<comment><USER7> Need that mobile app. Good luck!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> I'm based in London, UK and currently working on idea for a fintech for gig workers. The idea is to be the aggregrator for gig workers and have a marketplace where we partner with the likes of credit unions for loans/savings products for example. I'm currently doing customer development and revamping the website based on the interviews so far.

Still doing this part-time as I have a day job as a Data Scientist at a UK Fintech Alt Lender. Although I have technical skills (I can code python), they aren't that great and I'm looking to partner with someone technical.

I see a big opporunity for this so very likely to go the VC route rather than the Indie route.

If anyone is interested please shoot me an email email@example.com.

For more info about me, check out this talk about one of my ML projects [https://youtu.be/JyITLcJSM-Q](https://youtu.be/JyITLcJSM-Q) and I also ran a personal finance blog (shutdown the website) [https://medium.com/@TheDailyKobo](https://medium.com/@TheDailyKobo) twitter ([https://twitter.com/TheDailyKobo](https://twitter.com/TheDailyKobo))

</comment><comment><USER24> Software developer with engineering background from Germany here. I work for a startup but am keen to found my own. I'm looking for cofounders preferably from Germany.

<comment><USER25> you can ping me as well. Interested in trading, machine learning and new tech.

<comment><USER24> How can i contact you?

<comment><USER25> Hi, sry forgot to provide an email: firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER26> Building Instant group chat for nearby loosely affiliated people (does the world need yet another chat app?, surprisingly it does!)

What I am building unlocks value and solves problems of current options. Maintains privacy, keeps out randos.

No, isn't one of those been done million times, who is around you, just based on GPS, apps).

The magic happens in the backend, looking for someone who will focus on development of all server-side logic, You can make mobile apps that can handle lots of concurrent chats/chatrooms, thousands of users. It starts out simple but gets complex, lots of interesting problems to solve. More concerned about it works than how it looks, so basic frontend skills would be nice, but again back matters more

Basic MVP already built with React Native. You would not be building from scratch, but adding features (some very basic like social login and images) then followed by more complex things. Later we can do swift/kotlin apps for iOS/Android if needed.

You being based in the Bay Area would be nice but not a requirement. Built other chat apps before or something like that? Say hi. email in profile.

Looking forward to working with someone who likes to move fast and make something pretty cool. Its a big market we would be targeting.

<comment><USER26> Small favor from anyone reading this post. Even if this isnt for you, can you pass it on if you think of someone who might be interested? Thanks.

</comment></comment><comment><USER27> Front end focused dev who is always interested in building interesting things. I built a geocoder (API->NLP->NodeJS->Postgres/PostGIS) and sold it earlier this year. Been working mostly on React/GraphQL incl mapping for US dev shop this year. My timezone is 4 hrs after US west coast.

Details at [https://timburgess.github.io](https://timburgess.github.io)

<comment><USER19> Sounds like your skills would really come in handy with my project! I posted another comment in this thread with more info.

</comment></comment><comment><USER28> Hi, I'm in Eastern Time Zone USA and I'm looking for someone interested in helping me build a cross-platform mobile and web app for keeping track of car maintenance tasks. I have an above average set of development and team leading experience for someone only recently out of college ([https://github.com/baylessj](https://github.com/baylessj)), but I would greatly appreciate someone with more experience in developing profitable projects or simply another developer to collaborate with. I'm currently developing the app in Flutter, you can view my progress and some degree of planning in the project's github repo here: [https://github.com/autodo- app/autodo](https://github.com/autodo-app/autodo) I would prefer someone in a similar time zone to me, but that's not a hard requirement. You can reach me at: contact [at] autodo.app!

</comment><comment><USER29> Los Angeles, sysadmin, looking to collaborate on decentralized social media for the public good. you can PM me on reddit with the same username.

</comment><comment><USER30> I'm keen. Based in Manchester, UK.

Have co-founded 2 startups (1 successful, 1 that failed). I've learnt a lot from both.

My blog is here - www.simongilbert.net

(There are 2 news articles linked on my blog regarding my first startup, for some clarity on the product).

Feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn or Github.

 __* EDIT __*

It's worth noting that I have a spreadsheet of ideas for stuff I'd like to build, it's just finding the right people (even if they're remote).

<comment><USER31> Hi, I am a software engineer currently in London. Looking for new ideas to experiment new tools.

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> I've been working on an interesting problem at the intersection of B2B and ML. Built a strong pipeline of high growth companies in the bay area. Currently, at $20k ARR with an MVP I built myself.

I'm an engineer turned founder. Looking for another technical co-founder who's either into ML (or) into general app building.

I'm based out of SF and would love to chat! Email in my account.

<comment><USER13> Do you have a website or demo you can share?

I'm in the space where B2B and ML collide with the Industrial space. Always looking for a ML solution that fits the need and can offer to the large groups that are interested.

</comment></comment><comment><USER32> I'm based out of New York currently and involved in building a NLP-heavy product in the B2C side. I already have past experience of working in the area of NLP and Knowledge Graphs at a nascent startup which is doing great. I have learned a lot during that time and have cognizance of the market I am targeting.

Based on my market survey, there is a clear possibility of disruption since the big giants have completely ignored that huge chunk. Currently, I am involved in building the model side and I am looking for someone who has exposure to full-stack development, can build the android/ios apps. I can team-up with backend work. The target is to have an MVP by January 2020 (tentative). I am very open to the tech-stack as long as it can scale and breathe for a good time.

We can discuss more the intricacies of the idea. There needs to be a hustle, passion to build the product and faith in our team.

If this sounds interesting then hit me up here:- amogh dot mishra at columbia dot edu

</comment><comment><USER33> We're a data science R&D company founded in 2017 with 4 core team members: 2 co-founders, technical (CTO) and non-technical (CEO), a data scientist and software engineer, focused on large-scale NLP projects development with state- of-the-art models. We are located in Kyiv, Ukraine, with sales representatives in Canada (Toronto), United states (New York) and UAE (Dubai).

We also have proprietary product - bio-medical question-answering system, and received grant from the US for the further R&D.

Last year the income of the company reached $150k, and we're planning to make 5x in 2020.

We're looking for:

\- Technical or non-technical co-founder (equity sharing) who has connections and will be able to represent us to Fortune 1000 companies.

\- Technical or non-technical co-founder (equity sharing) or business-partners who has connections with investors in Palo Alto / San Francisco and will be able to represent us.

\- Business partners, who interested to sell our products or services

join [-at-] dex [-dot-] re

</comment><comment><USER34> Not looking for a co-founder, but open to collaborating with other like-minded people here in SF. I'm the maintainer of Aether, an open-source peer-to-peer network in Go that is inspired by Reddit, but also has elections, moderator transparency, and so on. ([https://getaether.net](https://getaether.net))

Also the founder of Aether Pro, an async, low-noise, high-focus discussion tool for product teams. ([https://getaether.net/pro](https://getaether.net/pro))

As to what I can help with, I'm the product designer/frontend/backend of the two products above: I can offer my wildly unqualified opinion from gradients to gradient descent, building peer-to-peer networks and how to break NATs with weirdly shaped TCP packets — as well as a few other things. (Email in profile)

</comment><comment><USER35> I am working on image search engine based on AI (demo: [http://demo.khumbu.im/](http://demo.khumbu.im/) ). Khumbu detected faces, objects, scenes, metadata on images etc and provides flexible search using this information (see [http://demo.khumbu.im/examples/](http://demo.khumbu.im/examples/)). UI is a little bit ugly(sorry, I am backend person), but everything else is up and running. Currently I work on REST api, k8s deployment and some AI-related things. I also got some small investments to rent servers.

I am looking for person who could work on UI related things, product improvement and has experience in startups. Europe is preferable.

my email: email@example.com

</comment><comment><USER36> I am bootstrapping UsePixie.com, which is a Basecamp for accountants. Just barely launched in fact. Feedback has been really good and a few firms are using it. Tiny team, distributed, but the company's UK based.

I'm looking for a full stack tech lead to take over from me, but I'd surely prefer a more experienced/senior long term partner/co-founder.

Tech stack is Rails running on AWS, with sprinkles of Vue in a few key parts of the app.

These are the principles that have guided us so far: [https://medium.com/pomarhq/pomars-guiding-principles- ca00356...](https://medium.com/pomarhq/pomars-guiding-principles-ca00356174ce)

If anyone's interested my email is firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER37> I need a business guy to run all of the legal/operations day to day stuff. I have a business in the home heating oil space that I only want to run as a CTO.

I am also open to programming all of your ideas as well in a separate biz.

Please email :) the alias is "dogchienwoof" at google's email service

</comment><comment><USER38> I am currently building a brain stimulation device. I believe that we are only beginning to tap the potential of brain stimulation, and that the technology will be able to help with a wide variety of health issues, as well as help achieve optimal performance in whatever matters to you.I have a working prototype (which helped me tremendously with chronic pain and depression), a vision I'd love to discuss further, and I'm ready to fund the company myself/have interested investors.

I'm looking for somebody who has shipped consumer hardware before. Doesn't have to be brain-related, just looking for somebody who has successfully managed transforming a prototype into a manufactured product.

I'm based in LA, firstname.lastname@example.com (Sergey)

</comment><comment><USER39> Hey I'm living in Berlin in search of people who share these values :

* Cooperation

* Freedom

* Diversity

* Intellectual curiosity

I participated in yc startup school, applied to yc To create a social network for coworking spaces but got rejected.

I have other ideas in mind to follow up but am also open to anything.

* On-demand retail spaces. Make it easy as possible for entrepreneurs to open brick-and-mortar stores by becoming the AWS of retail spaces giving people all they need to bootstrap their ideas.

* A platform for developers of SMEs to simplify the creation of public APIs by letting them focus on the business logic. By abstracting user management, api keys, and deployment.

* A community-driven affiliation-free app to share step by step life changes.

* An app to match mentors and mentees.

Send a message to email@example.com

</comment><comment><USER40> We're trying to solve how people collect, organize and retrieve information once for all with a simple interface and intelligent platform. Making cross- team collaboration businesses amazing and powerful API for bot integration. We have already an alpha version, haven't launch yet end of Q4! we're looking for a Solid backend engineer as a third person to join our team (preferably someone comfortable with coding in Go and web socket). Reach out if you're interested to solve information management, firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER41> Hi everyone - I've been a product manager at Microsoft as well as a few startups (Zocdoc, TpT) and I've seen that skills for success in any role are becoming increasingly ambiguous.

I'm building Tome to help people identify their skill gaps and access a personalized library of learning content. I'm currently inviting people to request early access here: [https://www.tomelearning.com/](https://www.tomelearning.com/).

I have a background in CS but I'm looking for an experienced technical partner in the NYC area - feel free to ping me at aravindh.dorai @ gmail.com.

</comment><comment><USER42> I am a founder at Lamno.com and looking for a co-founder. If you are technical and like teaching and open-source please reach out to firstname.lastname@example.com. Lamno has raised a pre-seed round and is in an accelerator program in Sydney.

<comment><USER20> Out of the Antler program right? Saw some good stuff coming out of there (You may have met a colleague of mine Ben C.W)

<comment><USER42> Yes thats right. Small world.

<comment><USER20> Australia ,like a big country town.

Best of luck with your venture!

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER43> I am building a very simple status page app, that actually works. Think like zoom of status page. A very simple easily integrated via apis. Offering On- prem/Saas version of the software which integrates with all most of the services.

I had to start working on it, cuz I wasnt happy with any of the solutions out there (statuspage / statusio / hund ... etc)

I have worked in sysadmin/devops roles in the past and have fairly extensive knowledge on how SRE/OPs culture work. I have built SRE teams in the previous jobs.

you being in bay area would be helpful, but not an absolute requirement.

if you're interested mail me tapblah at protonmail dot com

</comment><comment><USER44> Based in Nigeria, my self and my brother founded the first ever cryptocurrency payment processor in Africa ([https://paychant.com](https://paychant.com)).

Paychant is a crypto payment processor that lets merchants accept payments in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency.

At the moment we are currently looking for a third co-founder that will be specialized in the business legal, access to investors, sales and marketing.

please kindly email us at email@example.com if you're interested. Thanks.

</comment><comment><USER45> I'm a full-stack hardware integrator. My consulting is mostly iOS + Bluetooth sensors, some node for edge IOT computing.

My side hustle is Electron/React + USB label printers: [https://label.live](https://label.live).

If there's someone out there that wants to work on a modern label printer app - send me an email at help @ label.live.

Or .. If someone had an idea for an electron app that interfaces with challenging hardware - I just might have an existing solution to leverage.

I've also had to solve per-machine Electron app licensing and built a nice solution using React, GraphQL and JWT.

</comment><comment><USER46> I'm trying to create synthetic microbial communities to prevent disease transmission through the environment. I'm a current PhD candidate studying microbiomes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, so I guess I'm a technical founder (though I don't have a product yet, just some candidate species to combat a livestock pathogen). I'd love to find a businessperson or another biologist to work with. Email me at: reilly [dot] owen [dot] cooper [at] gmail [dot] com :)

</comment><comment><USER47> I'm in Norfolk, VA. I am interested in someone to help me take the NASA technology for RFID torque & tension sensing bolts [0] and commercialize it in the maritime industry and/or bridge building. I'm leaning more towards maritime since I live in a ship building and ship repair area. My email is rwmurray on the vt.edu domain.

[0] [https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/MSC- TOPS-49](https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/MSC-TOPS-49)

</comment><comment><USER48> Great timing, I am!

I'm a software engineer with 15 years of startup experience including two IPOs. I have an idea for accessory subscriptions that fills a niche that seems to have no competitors.

I have need of the following, any help on any would be amazing:

\- full stack generalist engineer: I cant code all the time if I'm doing everything else \- business statistician: revenue models around subscriptions are fairly difficult \- marketing guru: I've coded my entire life, never been much for marketing campaigns

</comment><comment><USER49> I'm based out of Vancouver, Canada. 26 year old. Over 10 years of experience.

I'm a full-stack developer .. can do backend (Python, PHP, Ruby, etc.), web frontend (React, Vue, Tailwind, Bootstrap, UI and UX design) and mobile apps for Android and iOS (native - Java / ObjectiveC or with React Native).

Trying to figure a way out to convert all the technical skills to a startup. Would love to collab with someone..

</comment><comment><USER50> I'm be based in Paris and working on not the sexiest idea : a graphite/prometheus/influx Saas platform. The goal is to have a robust platform where companies and developers can throw their metrics and use a hosted or on-premise grafana to graph the data. I have other Ideas much more sexy but want to make this work first

Anyone interested ?

</comment><comment><USER51> I built this:

[https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder](https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder)

Right now I am monetizing it by providing premium real estate websites based on it. I have a ton of other features / ways of monetizing that I'd like to explore.

Leave me a message if you'd like to work with me on this.

</comment><comment><USER52> I am creating what I am calling a _" quiet social network"_. Paid by subscription, not ads. Which allows a model with no notifications, that you only add few friends/family, with a lot of control of who sees your posts.

It is a side-project, with moderate bootstrapping ambitions only.

If the idea and company style fits you, email me (on profile)

</comment><comment><USER53> I am! I am looking for third co-founder, ideally someone interested in the game industry, who could take the role of CTO. Not making a game,ha.

There's one other technical co-founder who has been working on our mobile software. Located in Chicago, but would like someone in the Bay Area. I will likely be flying there this November if you want to meet up.

Here's my email: email@example.com

Thanks!

</comment><comment><USER54> I'll be relocating to Singapore in a few months, and I'm looking to connect with someone local who might be interested in working on a mobile AI (natural language) platform. Ideally someone with some business, marketing or design chops.

Remote collaborations would be great, but probably not something I'll explore until after I relocate (early 2020).

</comment><comment><USER55> Me: Back End / Full Stack. Cloud to Data wiring to Android / Web but no design.

Looking For: A: Help as a primary co-founder building a back end, or the core infrastructure. B: I have an idea I've been working on for content creators, initially authors and editors. But it is very design / front end heavy. So am looking for a front end dev.

</comment><comment><USER56> Two projects:

1\. The web is completely broken. We need the equivalent of an immune system for it to filter through the rapidly-increasing pathogens and misinformation. Facebook sucks, but so does Google.

2\. A tech community centered around collaborative research, curation and content discovery. This turns out to be a good way to connect smart, capable people together.

Email in profile.

</comment><comment><USER57> I'm currently building something that has shown great product market fit at another company, although they aren't pursuing it, and is in a big industry. I am technical, and am looking for a technical cofounder. If you can build web and mobile software, send me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Preferred location is SF or LA.

</comment><comment><USER58> man me too - also 24 - always looking to help people with interesting projects. Lets make match.com for co-founders on HN

<comment><USER59> haha, very interesting idea, check out angel.co

</comment></comment><comment><USER60> I'm a full-stack developer building a visual code intelligence tool to help developers understand code faster.

Already built profitable SaaS successfully in the past.

Looking for someone with a network of decision makers (senior developers, team leaders, or above) to jump in the role of the CEO, or knowledge in PLT and/or graphics programming.

</comment><comment><USER61> Team of two looking for a technical co founder to build an Ed Tech product. Based in London / UK would be ideal. We have an MVP developed, pilot organisations ready to start this November and seed funding. Would be great to chat anyone interested in ed tech, social enterprise and software.

</comment><comment><USER62> I'm looking for someone with deep learning experience to work on music generation/synthesis ideas. This would be more like a side project at first, and (depending on the quality of the PoC we build) can lead to a startup. I have 5 years of DL research experience in several areas (vision, speech, NLP).

</comment><comment><USER63> I'm a former product manger, currently running a successful marketing agency. Agency mostly runs itself so looking for new opportunities. If anyone is looking for a non-code-writing-but-understands-tech co-founder that can handle business/operations/sales side of things I would love to chat.

<comment><USER64> Let's chat: email@example.com

I'm a technical founder with a functional product.

</comment></comment><comment><USER65> Solo / technical found here. Built rod.run, a responsive SaaS platform for teleconsultations. Just launched here in Bulgaria few weeks ago and already have some feedback that I am working on. Looking for business partner that could help spreading to other markets.

</comment><comment><USER66> Anyone with fun startup ideas in London give me a shout.

I like to build rapid prototypes to prove or disprove concepts.

<comment><USER30> Is that London, UK?

<comment><USER66> Yes

</comment></comment></comment><comment> Avi-D-coder Building an immutable/transnational database/runtime with the goal of bring the joys of FP (STM, immutability/persistence) to any language.

If you love FP and Rust, but are intricately familiar with the "joys" of lock freedom and C11 atomics give me shout.

</comment><comment><USER67> Me: Full stack game dev.

You: Business dev, ideally with connections in game industry.

Product: AR collaboration tools and games built on Unity.

\-- more about me: www.vannorman.ai

Based in Chicago currently, visit SF frequently, open to remote and relocating depending on opportunity. Culture fit is the most important ;-]

</comment><comment><USER68> I'm hoping to attend the YC Hackathon next month and I want to form a team to work on an idea. I know enough Swift to hack together MVP's with Firebase.

The project is related to gaming and Twitch streaming. Feel free to send me an email if interested.

Thanks!

</comment><comment><USER69> Looking for Technical Co-Founder. Im based in NYC.

Building an open bank for Africa focusing on SME's and moving to credit / debt markets down the road.

Am currently speaking with investors and looking to get an MVP to market.

firstname.lastname@example.com (Marcus)

<comment><USER50> I have a "similar" idea I've been thinking about for the last few years. I'm not a developer but I know a bit or two about coding. Sent you an email

</comment></comment><comment><USER70> I'd like to build something with someone. I work full time so it would have to start as a side project. I'm in Ireland so someone who likes remote or is in the same timezone would work best.

<comment><USER71> What are your interests and skills?

I'm also looking for someone to build a side project with.

I've got a few things I'm working on but they aren't necessarily huge money makers.

</comment></comment><comment><USER72> I am. I have a fully developed product, a multi-lingual evacuation alert platform, but I don't have anyone in my life with actual time to help me kick it into viable revenue.

</comment><comment><USER73> UX Designer at Google with some front end chops interested in working on a practical project that solves a real user problem. Reply here and let's chat! Based in the Bay Area.

<comment><USER10> Last month I did a week of user interviews in one of my customers office I noticed for the first time that their face light up as soon as they know I'm the guy that made the "new thing".

That made me realize I'm actually making journalists lives better with my software.

I left a comment with more details in this post. I'm a software engineer with plenty of professional experience and design is not my strong.

</comment></comment><comment><USER74> Currently a DevOps Engineer and Mobile app developer. I'd like to build something with someone. I work full time so it would have to start as a side project.

</comment><comment><USER75> I am a full stack programmer want to be "yet another CRM" system. If anybody interested, drop me an email.

</comment><comment><USER76> Building a mobile-first business directory and messenger for LatAm and rest of developing world. Looking for a co-founder with product and marketing chops.

</comment><comment><USER77> India ( NCR, Remote )

I am currently working on a product in the News field and looking for someone who is excited about disrupting how people consume news online.

Email in my profile.

</comment><comment><USER78> Building an algorithmic trading product. Looking for people to collaborate part-time. Http://invsto.com

</comment><comment><USER79> Currently CTO of Goodly. Busy a bit but always love to help people. Happy to chat if you are in SF.</comment>


Technology Upends Another Industry: Homebuilding - <AUTHOR> http://www.npr.org/2013/02/26/172870168/technology-upends-another-industry-homebuilding

<comment><AUTHOR> From the article:

 _These new efficiencies have led to what economists call "labor displacement," which is taking place around the country. One business in Rockville, Md., is doing the same amount of work with half its original staff._</comment>


Show HN: Develop a Luigi Pipeline Using Docker - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/spiside/docker-luigi <comment><AUTHOR> Hey everyone, author here! I wanted to share a project I've been working on that combines my experience using Luigi in two different projects. The repo provides a fast and easy way to develop Luigi tasks in a luigi docker cluster with a worker, scheduler, and a postgres instance recording task history. I have found working with docker and luigi together made it easy to write tasks and then deploy them with minimal setup time for other developers to hop on board.

Let me know if you have any questions!</comment>


Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) aquires The Pirate Bay for $7,8 Million.  - <AUTHOR> http://www.globalgamingfactory.com/ Global Gaming Factory claims to buy thepiratebay.org and peerialism.com. Press briefing at 11.00 GMT +1 (Stockholm time). <comment><AUTHOR> Spokesperson Peter Sunde confirms this to Swedish IDG.

[http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.237985/the-pirate-bay- bekraftar-a...](http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.237985/the-pirate-bay-bekraftar- affaren)

<comment><USER2> Translation: [http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.idg...](http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.idg.se%2F2.1085%2F1.237985%2Fthe- pirate-bay-bekraftar-affaren)</comment></comment>


Ask HN: The Best Books to Keep the Entrepreneurial Mindset? - <AUTHOR>

I am currently an intern at Qualcomm and went to the HQ for a speech by the founder (Irwin Jacobs). I went in feeling optimistic and excited to learn the growth of a large company like QC from a startup to a Fortune 500 company. The speech wasn't all that enlightening,  mainly about how they stuck to CDMA in the face of a growing GSM market and their main goal has always been to try and push innovation (FLOtv?), but afterward I slowly but surely harbored a feeling of foreboding that I do not have the drive or capacity to sail the entrepreneur ship. In other words, I collectively lost my shit.
That being said:
What are some books that can reiterate the tangibility of becoming a successful entrepreneur?
Biographies, essays, novels, whatevz. Something to put some fire in the belly. <comment><USER3> Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Podcast

It is not a book but is free on iTunes. I've lost count on how many times I've recommended it. Almost every speech leaves a "fire in the belly." There were two speeches about negotiations (not the Steve Young one) that were probably the most helpful to me but they all are good. Start at the beginning and work your way up.

</comment><comment><USER4> Listen video interviews of some founders at <http://mixergy.com/>

Founder At Work is really really useful. It is startup biable. If you read it then surely you will get inspired <http://www.foundersatwork.com/>

</comment><comment><USER5> Books: Crush It Founders At Work Sway Fascinate Everything here: <http://steveblank.com/books-for-startups/>

Podcasts: Mixergy This Week in Startups Startups for the rest of us

</comment><comment><USER6> Build something and try to sell it.

Better yet, do the above in reverse! Then write a book on what you did.

The best book I read on entrepreneurship was by Yvon Chouinard who started Patagonia. Don't remember the title, but I'm fairly sure it wasn't _Let My People go Surfing_ since I read it over 10 years ago.

</comment><comment><USER7> Books are great, but in all seriousness Mixergy.com is where you should look to park yourself at least twice a week.

There's no better starter of fire in the bellies than that place.

</comment><comment><USER8> I am not sure how to say this, but books aren't exactly what you need. You can read a few, and sure they might help, but you won't get what you want.

If you're the type of person who goes to a lecture to see how a big company became a big company and survived the problems, then you sort-of already have what it takes.

I've read a ton of books until I got the most important message from all of them. Stop reading books and go create, experiment and see how it goes.

<comment><AUTHOR> Well that's the issue is that I am constantly experimenting (tasterator.com fmstalker.com), but feel like I am lacking direction.

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> Lately I have been reading the biography of Grace Hopper which is essentially about the genesis of programming/programming languages/compilers etc. Super motivating to read about the passion and belief that was required to create out of the ether an entirely new world. [http://www.amazon.com/Invention- Information-Lemelson-Studies...](http://www.amazon.com/Invention-Information- Lemelson-Studies-Innovation/dp/026201310X)

</comment><comment><USER10> "The Map of Innovation" by Kevin O'Connor is hands-down the best startup book I've ever read.

<http://amzn.to/9yN58l>

It's very comprehensive; he provides key insights on how to spot the right trends, execute, and the right qualities to look for when recruiting. His track record at DoubleClick speaks for itself.

</comment><comment><USER11> "The Art of the Start" by Guy Kawasaki is a good read.

+1 to mixergy.com. There are a lot of very good interviews there.

</comment><comment><USER12> Ayn Raynd - Atlas Shrugged Founders at Work The Innovators Dilemma Lucky or Smart (quick read) Unleashing the Idea Virus

</comment><comment><USER13> I think the solution to this problem is:

\- Listen to motivational audio daily/religiously.

Earl Nightingale Zig Ziglar Brian Tracy

This site has a pretty good selection for reference: <http://www.nightingale.com/>

</comment><comment><USER14> Creators & Casualties of the Age of the Internet by Kieran Levis - <USER2> chapters on Steve Jobs alone will put some fire in your belly.

Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh - reading this now...inspirational.

</comment><comment><USER15> Books: Crush It, Art of the Start, What I wish I knew when I was 20, Founders at Work, Reality Check, 4-Hour Work Week.

</comment><comment><USER16> Any book big enough to use for a pillow.

</comment><comment><USER17> I've been loving Grumby recently.</comment>


The Most Important Design Guideline - <AUTHOR> https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=5tg1ONG18H8 <comment><USER2> This is an informative talk that mostly highlights errors of user interfaces, specifically in regards to software and software development. He shows you the errors that seem so obvious and clear of their inconsistencies after pointed out, though the UIs are getting better, he hopes that future interface designs aren't so easily picked apart in 20 years from now. User Experience and UI Designers could learn something here and apply it to their designs.</comment>


Making WebGL Dance: How, Where, and What to Draw (2013) - <AUTHOR> http://acko.net/files/fullfrontal/fullfrontal/webglmath/online.html <comment><USER2> IT's worth linking directly to the talk: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNO_CYUjMK8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNO_CYUjMK8)

(Also, after the first few slides in the animation, there are some pretty cool animations).

</comment><comment><USER3> Everything I've ever encountered on acko.net has been amazing.

My favorite: [http://acko.net/blog/animate-your-way-to- glory/](http://acko.net/blog/animate-your-way-to-glory/)

<comment><USER4> Great read with amazing presentation. Thanks for the link!

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> Beautiful!

I don't have much more to add unfortunately. Love the approach.

</comment><comment><USER6> Really good slides. I should watch the talk.

It's a pet peeve of mine for people to suggest blurring as a "fix" to aliasing problems. Hacks are fine for one-offs, but I love how this clearly shows it's a sampling problem and what tools can do to address it.

</comment><comment><USER7> I'm looking for some resources for signed distance functions and something beyond min,max etc. I'm aware of iq's website and all the things that have "made rounds" around internet.

<comment><USER8> Hard to know what to suggest as you make it sound a bit like you've seen everything! If you've read everything on iq's site and followed all the links then you've covered a lot of the the available material.

This is a gold mine: [http://mercury.sexy/hg_sdf/](http://mercury.sexy/hg_sdf/)

Beyond that - just going through everything you can find on Shadertoy line by line.

<comment><USER7> I've done that but I feel like I'm still lacking some theoretical foundation. It might just be practice. Im aware of that project, it's dope but I guess my question is how do I go from boxes to the insane shit lol.

E.g I'm not super comfortable creating my own sdfs that aren't just a combination of the geometries from hg.

<comment><USER8> > E.g I'm not super comfortable creating my own sdfs that aren't just a > combination of the geometries from hg.

Leaving aside complex fractals - isn't it all about combining simple primitives? It's a bit like saying "I understand the basic chords but how do I write a song?"

The basic ingredients are shapes and domain transforms of various kinds. The rest is artistry.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> I guess by "Dance," he's means the slow dance, because visiting the site pegs my CPU 100% and none of the controls work.

<comment><USER10> Do you have an old computer? I ask because this works absolutely fine on my phone - so I'd expect any recent computer to be able to handle WebGL

<comment><USER9> 4 year old MacBook Pro running recent Safari. Not a particularly old or exotic configuration.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> Anybody knows where can I learn about the math(probably linear algebra) that is used to convert 3d models from object space to 2d screen space?</comment>


Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and an old TV make for perfect learning platform - <AUTHOR> http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/raspberry-pi-arduino-and-an-old-tv-make-for-perfect-learning-platform-2012068/ <comment><USER2> Pretty funny using a $35 "workstation" to develop for a $79 microcontroller platform :)</comment>