Thanks to @getbootstrap, whipping up a decent UI has become child’s play.

Next step is to create a robot which does this - http://finance.yahoo.com/news/disturbing-image-chinese-worker-close-183146218.html

Critical thinking without hope is cynicism. Hope without critical thinking is naïveté. - http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/02/09/hope-cynicism/

A big advantage in this cloud era is that you can be open and still make money by charging for hosting, storage etc.

If you are on the look out for a NoSQL db, give @aerospikedb a shot, it has some cool features like auto sharding, hot upgrade etc.

Puts into perspective a lot of ideas around event processing - http://blog.confluent.io/2015/01/29/making-sense-of-stream-processing/