I've always liked Steve Blank's definition:

"A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model."

I would say Dropbox has found a repeatable and scalable business model.

Very nice

Great job! I recently created a similar service:

http://cvlift.co.uk

Your application is much better though. I used prawn as opposed to wicked_pdf to generate the PDFs. Did you do any handling of content spilling over onto multiple pages?

I think a "make email visible" checkbox would clear up any confusion here.

http://karmurl.com - give feedback to receive feedback.

Thanks for the ideas. You can now edit the submission. I am considering the reply functionality, I just wouldn't want it to compromise the simplicity.

It was a midweek side project so there was never a business model in mind. I tried starting up http://kennelboard.com, but it never really took off (selling and developing is hard on your own), so I'm now looking for a job and hoping that this will help me swoon potential employers.

Hey, great job! A real test of an idea could often be it's potential to generate revenue.

I understand that it is a side-project and you may have different motivations.

But I guess it is even more reasonable for you to try implementing a business model. There is not much to lose (given you don't end up putting desperate adverts all over the app... Duh!) As an example, the 'karma-as-commodity' model might just work.

Point here being that I don't see something as valuable to a potential employer as a person who can write amazing apps and make some solid money out of it.

Love the design/UI for kennelboard... any ideas why it never really took off?

Karmurl is a free and simple way of getting instant feedback for your work. You give feedback to receive feedback.

The idea was inspired by a comment made by photon_off (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1683309).

I should mention that I have already submitted this once previously (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2999852), but at the time it had very few users and therefore offered less value than it does now.

Thanks.

That's a really good idea. I just put it together in a few hours and hadn't thought that far ahead :)

Thank you!

For the life of me I can't understand why Apple decided to remove hex values from their color picker with Lion. This is a great alternative, the copy shortcut is very handy.

The "DigitalColor Meter" program with the developer tools actually used to include hex values. I actually hadn't noticed the hex values are gone, so thanks lancashire for making me notice. I may need this app now.