I recognize this as well. After a few side projects running out of interests from my side, while still liked but my early users, I also started to question why.

I found the biggest motivator is user feedback. Especially positive ones.. It makes me stay up late to get another thing implemented or fixed etc.

If I would run out of encouragement from users or people around me for a while, I think that is when I lose interest.

This. The best user feedback is someone actually giving you money for your creation. I feel that I owe each person who buys my iPhone app the best type of that app possible.

Hey, i tried the music aggregator - nice I want something like that. Feedback: It would be great if the the the next song would start playing automatically after the current song. Much like www.hypem.com. also, maybe there is a way to make the song info not pop up in its own box, but somthing more inline, in the page?

good luck

Thanks!! an inline in the page is great idea, like growl, that's my new goal.

A live feed of who gives funding to campaigns or any politician would be great. Thanks.

What if ALL contributions were reported on a public twitter feed-ish service? (and a timeline)

Oh, and an api for that data would be sweet too.

Cisco worries me in general.. Are they gonna be the real gate keepers or what? Like a sneakier low level Google.. Whats their market share for "delivering data packets"?

Who needs country borders when you control all the routers ey!

Congrats guys, and sorry for calling you XnobiXnob all these years!

Funny, I was starting to think along these lines as well during last year. Maybe it's something in the air. I sure hope so. caugh consumption fatigue caugh

My new mantra: From now on I will have FEWER, SMALLER, and BETTER things.

This usually applies to gadgets, such as my laptop but also subscriptions etc: I aim to have as few recurring payments as possible. This includes avoiding to own a car (Hello Zipcar) and mortgage (not that I can afford it at this point, but still). I can recommend everyone to do a cleanup in that area every now and then.

I live in NYC and managed to get a little office within walking distance so I can be "subway independent". Sure I save a few dollars on walking to work, but the biggest gain is to miss out on the frequent delays and floodings! Yay!

How about removing some clicking steps, why not offer the reply links (optionally) straight in the email? Like:

=== Click here if you are attending http://inviteup.com/i/abc123/YES

Click here if you are NOT attending http://inviteup.com/i/abc123/HELLNO

Click here if you MIGHT attend http://inviteup.com/i/abc123/PERHAPS ===

Also, I agree that you are on the right side of complexity. Start clean and add what is lacking.

take out the "might" option.

Really cool idea. Thanks.

Hi YEurope! I am part of the Ycombinator batch that started this January. I dont understand the voices that are negative about other startup incubators like yours etc. The more initiatives that enable ideas to become companies, the better I say. So I say go for it!

hey I wasnt sure if your website was serious at first, or trying to make fun of Ycomb since you have pics of those guys sitting in the street with fake graphs...

yeah, and how about YNotEurope, or ECombinator for name? :)

Java kills the creative process. Thats one of the reasons we went with PHP for things closer to the front end. We do use Java for things that are in the background that wont change from day to day. Image processing etc..

Dont underestimate the time from idea to a rapid prototype. For a programmer, at least me, its very rewarding when that is kept short.