I can vouch for people still there. I’m a Brit who married an Iranian who still has a large family in Iran. With the exception of one religious aunt who is married to a military man, all the Iranian family and friends we know have been hoping for intervention. We've had emotional messages from my wife’s cousin (a new mum) describing looking out of her apartment every night for the past month praying for planes overhead. Take that anecdata for what it’s worth.

Thank you for chiming in with your almost-first-hand experience.

It’s crazy that some people nowadays vouch for dictatorships.

Venezuela first, Iran now… absolutely crazy.

I’m a Brit, married to an Iranian who still has a large family in Iran. I’ve got to witness first hand quite the opposite to what you describe, at least with the British mainstream media. With the exception of one religious aunt who is married to a military man, OP’s comment reflects the feeling of all the Iranian family and friends we know. And FWIW, I can point to Iran on a map, and I am not Mossad.

Nice to meet you! Funny enough, I am married in an Iranian woman, and that is how I learned about Iranian history and the beautiful people of Iran.

Hacker News is unfortunately very out of touch with actual Iranian people who are largely cheering this on.

How can this end with anything other than anarchy, civil war, or strengthening of power for the current regime?

I don't claim to have the answers, and don't necessarily disagree with you. But that's how the Iranians I know insider Iran feel. That there was pain ahead of them with or without intervention.

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 :)