16:[[2346574,{"by":"dell9000","descendants":1,"id":2346574,"kids":[2346685],"score":4,"text":"","time":1300637722,"title":"PayPal, Causes, LivingSocial & Starbucks Support Japan. Who'm I missing?","type":"story","url":"http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2011/03/20/japan-donations-paypal-starbucks-causes-livingsocial/"}],[2346350,{"by":"flipacoin","descendants":53,"id":2346350,"kids":[2346368,2346460,2346655,2346510,2347252,2346564,2346487,2346469,2346595,2346485,2346489,2346553,2347403,2346451,2346699,2346784,2347370,2346573,2346501,2346647,2346612,2346518,2346877,2347883,2346793,2346880,2346646,2346702,2347409,2346754,2350525,2347236,2346649],"score":49,"text":"I'm due to quit my job this week to work full-time on my startup. I've done much of the back end work over the past year in my free time but I'll need help with the front end.

It's a pretty standard web app focused on a narrow vertical in the cargo industry. I've contacted several designers I found on dribbble /sortfolio and received quotes between $50 and $120 per hour with estimates of between 20 and 40 hours per page. That would make the cheapest page $1000. Let's say I need 10 pages for the web app (which I could then use as templates for other pages). I'm looking at a minimum of $10000 and probably much more.

I've read many many posts about how boot-strapped businesses got off the ground and to my knowledge I've never heard of any startup paying such a high amount for design, so how did they do it? Are there places besides sortfolio and dribbble that I can find designers?","time":1300631910,"title":"Ask HN: you want HOW much for the design?","type":"story"}],[2346361,{"by":"VB6_Foreverr","descendants":2,"id":2346361,"kids":[2346466,2346583],"score":2,"text":"I'm not really in touch with this market but the impression I had was that iphone and android had taken over the smartphone market. However just lately I've been hearing that the phone all the teens round here want is a blackberry. Anybody else noticing this?","time":1300632055,"title":"Is Blackberry storming back?","type":"story","url":""}],[2346457,{"by":"farout","descendants":2,"id":2346457,"kids":[2346578,2346482],"score":1,"text":"Reddit has something similar but I thought it would be nice to orient this to startups:

I'll start:

Learn some Photoshop. Really get a book and learn just the basics. \nIt makes a huge difference when you have the ability to change a wording or color on the fly versus waiting for the graphics person.","time":1300635247,"title":"HK share: what do you do at your business that can help a startup save money? ","type":"story","url":""}],[2346066,{"by":"emmanuelory","descendants":13,"id":2346066,"kids":[2346512,2346196,2346679,2346708,2346567,2347454,2346301,2346917],"score":37,"text":"","time":1300622104,"title":"Venture capitalists are not record labels","type":"story","url":"http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/venture+capitalists+are+not+record+labels"}],[2337271,{"by":"foobar502","descendants":20,"id":2337271,"kids":[2337789,2337438,2341622,2342045,2339200,2337697,2342564,2337277],"score":7,"text":"As many times before, I'm currently in a depression period. While I can find reasons for my depression, as years go by I'm starting to think that it's just periodic and \"that's life\" for me. I'm in therapy, although not taking any medications.

Many times when I am in such a period I find myself either procrastinating or, when I finally gather the willpower to work on what's important (v.s. some other non-important mind diversion), I'm unable to stay fully focused.

My question is how do you stay focused on tough periods/while depressed? It seems sad when a long investment of time (i.e. starting a business, dating someone, studying) goes down the toilet because of a downturn that I don't seem to have full control on...","time":1300385705,"title":"How do you focus while depressed?","type":"story","url":""}],[2340550,{"by":"gdberrio","descendants":12,"id":2340550,"kids":[2341003,2385321,2344385,2340746,2340591,2347452,2341601,2344237,2347288,2344299,2344487],"score":16,"text":"Maybe it's just me, but anyone else has troubles dealing with lack of Focus and concentration, ending in not getting things done and getting stuck in a \"disfuncional perfectionism\" with lots of ideas but zero execution? [It's doesn't help having fear of failure]

How did you deal with it?

PS: I know it may sound a) dumb question, b) lack of discipline. \n\"I Have Met the Enemy, and It's Me\" comes to mind.","time":1300459751,"title":"Ask HN: Focus and concentration","type":"story"}]]

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