Absolutely. My thoughts exactly. It's like I can skip reading all the lore of today (and past 10 years or so) and just read this as all that I need to build a profitable software product.

Whats App uses your phone # as authentication and identity. There is no username and password. So connecting to your phone is only way to verify you are who you are.

But surely once verified it should be possible to use the app without your phone? It works that way with Telegram.

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We're ex-PMs and SDEs who previously worked for Amazon.com, Yahoo!, nVidia, and Microsoft.

We love taking products from idea to launch, but can also augment existing development teams with more development and product management expertise.

Stuff we're good at: iOS and Android native or hybrid apps, Hadoop, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Sinatra, D3.js.

We also have expertise in healthcare apps. You can see some of our work at http://www.pixineers.com/custom-solutions, http://www.pixineers.com/portfolio/, and http://www.snapdx.co.

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Great job. This is great to see as I'm working on something related. I actually built a tool that's used in clinics where your blood pressure readings, risk factors, etc.. are entered and the the diagnosis and treatment plan is generated according to guidelines. It follows the Canadian guidelines and has been vetted by hypertension specialists. Check it out at http://app.snapdx.co

It's used mainly by medical folks but usable by savvy patients as well.

Thank you, and thanks for sharing. Shoot me an email at mike@bettir.com, we can explore whether or not there is anything useful we could work on together.

Sure, done! :)

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We're ex-PMs and SDEs who previously worked for Amazon.com, Yahoo!, nVidia, and Microsoft.

We love taking products from idea to launch, but can also augment existing development teams with more development and product management expertise.

Stuff we're good at: iOS and Android native or hybrid apps, Hadoop, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Sinatra, D3.js.

We also have expertise in healthcare apps. You can see some of our work at http://www.pixineers.com/custom-solutions, http://www.pixineers.com/portfolio/, and http://www.snapdx.co.

Email info 'at' pixineers 'dot' com.

Hi everyone - I built this tool with a couple of doctors and an infectious disease expert. We realized CDC protocols for handling Ebola were complex and wanted to put some simplicity to it, without losing on the medical rigour. Now anyone in the world can triage ebola almost like an expert.

Would be curious to hear if you like this format of answering medical questions. We're considering expanding it and doing it for more common conditions (flu, pregnancy, etc..).

I enjoyed how simple this was to use!

Thanks, that was the goal :). The official guidelines can be found here (http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/case-definition.html). And while they're great, they're not really usable. It's a ton to read through.

We wanted to go with a "Don't make me think" approach.

Cool. What made you choose Angular over D3.js for this btw?

It's using Angular with D3.

Enable offline notebooks and your problem is solved.

That doesn't work with non-premium accounts. You can't guarantee that any given note will be there next time you fire up your offline client.

I use evernote everyday. I put everything in there -- status reports I update every week, my own git cheatsheet, business ideas, documents I use repeatedly (e.g. instructions to ramp up new developers on my project), etc..

But what really got me using evernote is the combination of Fuji Scansnap + Evernote. Now any important mail or receipts I need archived I just scan them and they're in evernote forever.

And their iPhone app is a life saver, anything I need on the go, I retrieve from evernote. Forgot my health card? No worries it's scanned and available on my phone via evernote.

I love the product, but yeah it still boggles me why they need so much money and how you can build a big company from such an inexpensive product.

Anyone know when XCode 4.5 will be out?

The GM SDK and accompanying XCode came out the same day as they announced the new device but it was only available through the developer program afaik (i.e. not through App Store).

I checked this morning. It's on the developer website, but still in preview mode.

It's showing up in the Mac App Store now for me.

It already is.