Congrats to ZenPayroll. We've been using them at Swiftype since early this year and they really do provide an excellent service. We love the fact that it's easy to use and inexpensive, but more than anything else, they've saved us countless hours by automating so many of the tedious details required to process our payroll. As a young company that is already time constrained, that has been huge for us.
Luke was also kind enough to send us some feedback on our API documentation that was right on. Keep an eye out for a big update and some new features coming shortly. Thanks, Luke!
I was referring to the price he stated in his original post (he said he didn't want to pay more than $500/wk). I'm living in the mission now and paying much less than $500/wk (but I have 4 roommates).
The Mission has a pretty high concentration of young people, and a lot of the startup people I know live around there. Rent in the area may be more reasonable than elsewhere but not by much, given its popularity. If you aren't here permanently you might try the Sublets/Temporary Housing section of Craigslist - I had good luck there, and you should be able to find something for less than $500/wk.
I suspect there was a decent amount of overlap between techcrunch readers and news.yc readers prior to the article. I wonder what the spike numbers are for the yc startups that have articles written about them when they first release.
For me, this concept seems sort of at odds with the way I cook and grocery shop. I don't often find myself with a wide array of ingredients that I don't know what to do with, but I do find myself spending too much at the grocery store because I can't easily plan a week's worth of meals using some base set of ingredients. I would love a site that gave me 5 meals based around approximately the same ingredients, told me how much of each to buy, and provided information about how to store leftover ingredients and how long they will last. Of course, I know very little about cooking, so maybe I'm the one who's backwards... just my 2 cents.
I can see this idea applied to drink recipes, though. I often have 3 or 4 half-empty bottles of different types of liquor- it would be great to get a list of 10 different drinks I could make with friends. On second thought, $10 says there's already a Facebook App that does exactly that...
I'll second this recommendation - I bought the printed copy, and I'm constantly going to it for reference. The fact that it's available for free is just an added bonus.