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I gave it a go at founding a startup. Short story - sales cycle was too long and I've run out of cash even with customers coming in. I need to find work to pay the bills now. I'm a developer at heart - I can code the MEAN stack all day long. But looking at jobs out there I see more need for React, GO etc. I'm going to do a project in another language to hone my skills, I've got java, c#, c++, javascript, python experience. What stack should I pick up to have the best shot at getting a dev gig now? ( I was in IT Management/PM for a while so I only kept up my MEAN stack skills on the side while I was developing my startup application so this is why I am asking about it now. I would prefer to get back into development.

I am 39 years old first time (tech) founder. I'm looking for employee #3, VP of Customer Development - to help crack into a very tight networked group of customers in the construction industry. How do I do this? I am bootstrapping but the business has a 44M ARR potential in 5 years. How do I inspire the right person to join on commission and stake in the company?

My company is looking to transform it's employee support desk. I'd love to mimic what Apple does from all aspects; Knowledge Base and Community Support how they are almost one in the same, Genius Bars, Chat. Basically the whole end to end experience. Does anyone have any articles or insight into what they use and how they do it?

Because I don't trust the results of google and how old they are I am going to ask the HN Community. I want to get a proof of concept out for an app. I am more of a UI developer and have dabbled in django/tastypie however it will take me a good couple days to get that setup in AWS. I have a data model that I could easily implement in a database (pretty good with SQL) but not tied to relational DB. My Question: What is the absolute easiest and fastest way to setup a restful web service based on a datamodel. (And I'd like to use json for the format) GO!

Ok so I had a similiar app in the nook market that was released last christmas. It still recieved 100s of downloads a day and is played by at least 80 people a day. I didn't put any ads in it and its basically just cross selling our other children games.<p>This year I was able to submit a version to iOS (last years got declined as it was just another...) Its free and has an ad model. (A version just submitted adds a unlock the full game with a couple modes and difficulties). It has Game Center and Facebook integration. And its FREE! So what gives. I did a whole facebook campaign and it still is dying off with single digit downloads. I expected at least similar numbers to the Nook. So my show is this: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/holiday-blitz-hd/id588226751 and My Question is: What are the ingredients needed to get a successful free app with some type of conversion? What marketing is worth the money?

Just out of curiosity... Can anyone explain what happened here: Hacker News was down for me and it had some interesting information.

Connection timed out

the initial connection between CloudFlare's network and the origin web server timed out. As a result, the web page can not be displayed.

(Then some other information such as IP and CloudFlare Location: Newark)

Did it go down for everyone? What is cloudflare doing? What is the benefit of having a "middle man" as it seems?