I like your batback and your shared folder ideas. You shouldn't give up just because of the amount of work. Find someone to help you for a few hours on the scaling problem I bet that can be fixed with some indexing of tables and faster sql code.

In 2001/2002 I needed some help money wise, I had done some websites and developed relationships with the owners of the companies. I went to those people and they gave me extra work and extra money. It didn't last but it got me over a bump that I wouldn't have otherwise.

I've been accused of posting this as a shameless attempt to get attention from YC.

I'd like to deny this charge. In fact, it's a shameless attempt to tell the _readers_ of news.YC about all the cool stuff I've been doing. YC has nothing to do with it.

What can I say? You can either talk about what you're doing next, or you can go out there and do it. :)

> I've been accused of posting this as a shameless attempt to get attention from YC.

Weather it's to get attention or not, it's a good post and I enjoyed reading it. Plus, there is nothing wrong in marketing oneself. In fact, it's an important skill every entrepreneur needs to have. If I were evaluating I would give you an extra point for trying. It beats doing nothing at all.

>I've been accused of posting this as a shameless attempt to get attention from YC.

I would bet that they only look at the news.yc posts for the most promising applications anyways, and then only as a mostly incidental thing.

I think you missed my point.

Here we are on news.yc on the day before the big announcement.

Do you have any idea how many people are poking around the site, looking for what happens? It's like having 5 minutes with 50 of the coolest people you'd like to meet.

Kapiche?

I mean, the article was from the heart, true, and in line with the narrative on the board. But that doesn't mean there can't be a value-added situation going on here as well.

Ah, ok. Well, there's never any shame in posting something you wrote here. I appreciated what you wrote and submitted.

what part of the country are you in?

Southeast. A few hours south of D.C.

Is that around Norfolk, VA? While my brother was in the Navy he was stationed there and I traveled out there once or twice.

4 hours south along the mountain chain. About an hour from Blacksburg.

Let's put it this way, when I tell people I'm working on a web application, it's not uncommon that they think it has something to do with spiders. :)