Asking a broad question welcomes suspect advice. It's unwise to apply generic "data" to a specific application. Narrow the focus - who is the typical user? Under age 30? Over the age of 45? Is the application typically used in the office during work hours or mostly out in the field? Is wifi/cell...
Typically open-source projects that end up generating a profit have an active product that's already being used. So step 1. Is to open source it and see if anyone uses it - then you can make money in a bunch of ways. Checkout Wordpress, MySQL, Linux for examples - but typically it's providing p...
Chartmogul is the best one I've found. There are many great ones though. You can even use open source analytics software to build your own.
Your Main Problem: Lack of credibility in the US market. Nobody knows you. They doubt you'll stick around. They're afraid they'll send you money and you'll disappear. This is *after* they manage to notice you exist! So you have a double challenge: first to reach your target market, then to ass...
If you can find what you're looking for by using a Google API service, then the answer is yes. If you must scrape Google search results, Google is smarter than you or any developer, so will eventually figure out you're scrapping their data + completely block your IP. https://commoncrawl.org - p...
In my experience a technical co-founder's primary responsibilities are to be a visionary first, a hacker second and a manager third. first you recruit a tech co-founder to help visioneer what your product can, will and should do. then you have them support the one key part of the development pr...
It depends on your needs. Have you explored SalesForce or Infusionsoft?
That is an interesting situation and I am sure many others share a similar concern. I would recommend trying out Podio (free), it lets you create all sorts of templates to capture and work with information (text fields, categories, dates, etc). You can set it to receive e-mail for you and it w...
You've received good advice. I'd just add one thing. We recently interviewed dozens of developers. After narrowing it down to a handful of individuals that had personalities and resumes we liked, we paid a developer friend of ours a few hundred bucks to interview the developers and thoroughly vet...
You can either dissect the inner workings of ajax calls (if the website has any) or write a regular full-page scraper which traverses the product catalog. Popular choices for scraping are casperjs, beautiful soup, mechanize, etc. Each having its strengths and drawbacks - casper for instance can e...