throwaway425933

Hi Fellow HNers,

As the new year approaches us, I have made a resolution to dabble in non-engineering aspects of running a project. As such, one thing that always attracted me is marketing, SEO, finding customers and growing a project. I have read enough "growth hacking" books and blogs posts.

So, this new year, I am offering my time and energy for anyone interested. Let me know what your side project is either in comments below or using email in the profile. If you like my profile and I like your project, I will do SEO, post about your project in forums, answer customer support mails, make videos and grow it, all for free. I would like to experience the joy of growing a product.

* I am not asking for any money *

I am doing it just for fun.

As for me, I am a senior engineer in one of the silicon valley companies. Have worked at companies like Walmart Labe, Yahoo before. I can give lots of engineering advice w.r.t APIs, backend, compilers, chip design and general software engineering.

Currently I am using GraphViz. But I am not happy with the quality of output (It is writing a postscript file).

I want to be able to zoom in and zoom out. Graph has upto 100B nodes and is directed cyclic graph.

Did anyone here get into YC with just an idea? Why do you think YC accepted you with just an idea? Is it industry experience? Academic credentials? Or is it because of connections?

What is your story? I talked to various folks and it seemed like MVP is a must.

What is a good CSS resource for a backend engineer? I have done all the basic tutorials like W3Schools, Mozilla Docs, watched tons of youtube videos, but nothing clicked yet. I have tried to replicate websites but I get stuck halfway. Stack overflow is unhelpful as they want an "easily reproducible" code everytime. In practice it is not easy.

I think I need some "intermediate" level tutorials and explanations. I have seen tons of youtube videos, but the problem is that for finer things, it is mostly "draw rest of the owl".

Short of taking a full time job in frontend and learning on the job, are they any step by step resources to learn CSS at an intermediate level?