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Take a look at your states health exchange and get the plan that you think is right for you. I got a silver plan thinking I would save some money but one trip to the emergency room meant that I could have easily bought the gold plan.

I've seen Enterprise projects become open sourced in the past and the biggest problem that they face is that no community builds around them. It is not trivial to get other folks to hack on your project and contribute code or use your code, it takes some marketing (hackernews, reddit, etc) and a lot of patience and answering questions. For most projects I would not bother open sourcing them, because trying to build a community around them can be just as much work as what was spent coding them in the first place, but there are a few gems that I would if I could.

First for a bit of background.

How much data will you be pushing across? Things are easier if you can send full objects instead of partial objects.

How much does latency matter? If this has to be as close to real time as possible (ie. stock prices etc), or can this be 1 second updates?

Using Protocol Buffers works well if you need to be very optimized, JSON is really nice for being extremely widely supported but special care needs to be taken for having API versions if you make drastic changes to the API

I think what would be nice would be to know a little bit more about your intended use case, I would say I typically like to build web apps more than native apps because then the server code and client code can be updated as a single unit, instead of having older native clients out in the wild and having to support then until the users decide to update, but some use cases it's better to have a native client.

At the last startup I worked at one thing we did was we manually input data for our customers. The application only really became useful after a time investment by the users to load up their data library, so we would offer to do it for them.

It might be subtle and is similar to what others have said, but if you find the founders running out of steam, losing passion, for the startup, that can be a sign.

I think this really shows 2 things.

1) the amount of debt accumulated by this group for their degrees is much larger than they're comfortable with 2) how much more important personal finance is as compared to government finance at this particular point in time

I really like this list and would add one more that I think if very important.

Enable Fast iterations

Weather it's a fast loop to test and make changes, or the batteries included mindset that means you can use someone else's code, fast iterations are a big win in the Python world.

It all depends on what the web developer is trying to accomplish. Without knowing that the best advice I could give is make sure you have a quite environment. Everything else aside, being able to focus for long stretches of time is more important than most things.

I'm earlier in my self employed consulting journey then you are and I'm seeing a similar pattern. When I'm busy I'm extremely busy working lots of hours, but then I'll have some time off and it usually means marketing/networking, haha, it's not easy, but I do like the freedom.

So I was excited to understand what this tool was all about, but I got lost in the text pretty quickly. At first it seemed like a personal organization tool, then it looked like a team management tool, then I wasn't really sure and bailed. If you were giving me an elevator pitch, what would it be?

Thanks! I'll definitely have a look at these.

That makes sense to me. Are you planning on doing any Google advertising or Facebook advertising? I ask because I'm hoping to launch my own SAAS in the next month, and am trying to figure out what works for connecting to the developer community.