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hackernews | 2,007 | IPO fever returns? | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Why are you reluctant to accept one person companies? One person is often sufficient for a workable prototype. Others can join later. In fact, Y Combinator can act as a match maker of sorts, encouraging mergers among similar proposals/prototypes. | 52 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Yes everyone I know has bailed from reddit. Too many alarmist political , Bush bashing, boring articles. Not enough interesting tech links. | 29 |
hackernews | 2,007 | My little startup: a discussion group for every city in the world | 13 |
hackernews | 2,007 | RSS feed | 2 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Definitely search. I use reddit's search feature all the time to find old articles. | 18 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Maybe you should make it so you don't have to log in to read comments? Some people might not realize how easy it is to create an account... | 31 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Wow...I was pulling for XUL to replace the Ajax mess we have today, but this Flex thing looks like a serious contender. What a concept: sane, debuggable webapps that look slick, too! | 43 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Designing web forms: efficient label placement | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Top 7 indicators of consumer internet success (Startup Review) | 12 |
hackernews | 2,007 | http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
1. Single Founder | 19 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Such a thing would be far more useful than the other online docs in my opinion. I can't remember if I've attended a power point presentation that didn't have technical problems of some sort. | 40 |
hackernews | 2,007 | ad "7. Story that lends itself to mainstream PR":
Dabble Db used Smalltalk as initial marketing vehicle, so maybe "Story that lends itself to fringe (with fanatical users) PR" could also be a valid strategy... | 57 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Brad is definitely my biggest technical role model by far. A completely open source stack: Linux, Perl (Apache mod_perl), MySQL. Besides creating LiveJournal he created Memcached, Perlbal, MogileFS, and OpenID which power some of the biggest sites (even competitors which he is happy about). He probably holds the record... | 162 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Hackers - Heroes of the Computer Revolution (book) | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Criteria for Web 2.0 Investment | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | It seems like a lot of this information is pulled directly from Cal's book "Building Scalable Web Sites" (Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Building-Scalable-Web-Sites-Applications/dp/0596102356/). If you are interested in gaining some of the spoken context behind the slides, this is a great read. It was reviewed... | 170 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I'd like to see a list (RSS feed?) of my comments that have been replied to so that discussion can continue. | 25 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Hey Andres, Major Life Decisions aside, I gotta say that Octopart sounds like a pretty smart idea! Perhaps the first so-called vertical search engine that's really piqued my interest. Don't know anything about the market or competition, but on the surface it seems like a solid niche -- not a market that Google's goin... | 143 |
hackernews | 2,007 | A new bookmarking site needs a 'Hello World' link. Can I claim I meant for this to become the 'suggestions' thread? | 30 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Agreed. I distinctly remember -- and am sad to admit -- having to get around annoying font disparities by screen capturing parts of my slides and pasting them as images. Go figure. | 39 |
hackernews | 2,007 | startup review of HOTorNOT | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Damn it Paul, you beat me to it. I slapped together a reddit clone last summer in reaction to its diluting startup content, but I went on to travel for a month and have been procrastinating from finishing it up ever since. Nevertheless, I really appreciate that you are opening this to public. | 63 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Bare bones API-like stuff could go a long way. Add a url parameter to the submit page that prefills the url field and anyone can create a bookmarklet for submitting. Add a status page that takes a url and returns whether or not it is in the system, its current rating and the id to pass in for modding and someone's on t... | 80 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Google Apps Premier | 3 |
hackernews | 2,007 | so at a first glance, the list of features seems to mostly be about better support and gmail features. | 21 |
hackernews | 2,007 | >I up-voted a comment by mistake and there doesn't seem to be a way to remove my vote
It'd also be nice to have ajax for voting, so we don't have to re-scroll to find where we left off. | 51 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Though restricting the site to invitation only isn't a good idea.
Letting people invite friends that they know would be interested
from inside the site would be convenient. | 33 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Paul there seems to be a bug. I've been just entering some stuff in the application and it seems it forgets the answers that I entered for the last few questions. It also seems to be truncating answers. I entered 1 month and it truncated that to 1 mon. Is there a restriction to the length of the entire application? | 70 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Sounds like a good plan - putting together a wiki of unsuccessful startups and their lessons. Anyone read Boohoo? the story of Boo.com? | 29 |
hackernews | 2,007 | This is more a content issue but to really build the community is have more fully fledged profiles - with location, bio - make it one or two lines max and a website or blog link. If we are what we think/read then it would be a great starting point in finding cofounders or people who are on the same wavelength.
I wo... | 137 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Archive at Trizoko - some pretty interesting startup articles | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | "Allen Morgan said that people have started forgetting that building a company takes at least 5 years."
That seems awfully long. If the goal is to sell the startup before it becomes "a company", won't the average time be quite shorter? | 58 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Paul, in that instance as a way to identify smart people it makes a lot of sense for it not to be invite only. But it has triggered my thinking about how to create dense communities around diverse knowledge areas. So it would be cool to do this with scientific papers and get people to register with university email add... | 134 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Perhaps you have heard of www.craigslist.org | 10 |
hackernews | 2,007 | http://www.miketaber.net/articles/TheSingleFounderMyth.aspx | 15 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Cool, I'll be interested in people's opinions here. I've been unable to determine how much of Apollo will required/be based on Flash, or if it's entirely HTML/Javascript. I just can't seem to get into Flash-based UIs, as nice as they can be. Something about them seems very constricting to me, as if I'm not really us... | 83 |
hackernews | 2,007 | It's too bad. Javascript-in-the-browser and Ajax are both nasty hacks that force programmers to do all sorts of shameful things. And the result is--wanky html tricks. Java, for its faults, is fairly clean when run in the applet environment. It has every superiority over JITBAJAX, except for install issues and a chunky ... | 119 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Do you really have to think about the Web in discreet chunks to talk about the future? Besides if you really want to define "web 2.0" (which always maybes me shudder) its more about the average person contributing content; it's not about the technology that enabled it. | 64 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Even Billboards Are Dynamic...Why Is Your Website Set In Stone? | 14 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Good article and informative comments. They underline my own current concerns - working on a startup while working full-time to support a family... I know chances for success are slim because most would say I'm not "committed". But I have faith in my idea, and I keep working toward my goals. I get discouraged w... | 93 |
hackernews | 2,007 | i think the hirers forgot that they are also being interviewed. not one of them seemed to feel that they needed to do anything other than allow the anointed one through the front door.
that being said, it seems as though each person selects people based on a wide range of criteria - i think the portfolio idea is pr... | 106 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Amichail, I know exactly what you mean. Some people work better on their own. But even if you're looking for a founder, there are some places where you're out of luck. I go to the University of Virginia, and to tell you the truth, it's nearly impossible to find good hackers to work on startups with (even though 50% of ... | 254 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Paul Graham has backpedaled from one of the initial goals of Y Combinator, funding companies with no lower-bound for the age of founders.
With the publication of this essay, http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html, he has backpedaled from that stance because of his personal moral culpability for encouraging people to bec... | 109 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Notes from Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Easiest and Most Intuitive Feed Reader, Feednut.com | 13 |
hackernews | 2,007 | hey omarish - i'm in on this. Shoot me an email. Sumon [at] zintilla [dot] com | 28 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Does anyone have a link to a video of this presentation? | 12 |
hackernews | 2,007 | There are plenty of girls if you're willing to make the drive to Berkelely | 18 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Actually, why not do it here? I bet that sort of functionality could be integrated somehow into this site, and from Paul's first post to the group on the reasons for the site I think it would fit in well.
Then again you won't be able to use Ruby... | 57 |
hackernews | 2,007 | yeah if we fill out the profiles - and add a location and status field. It'll work pretty well at first - as you can browse people's profiles to see if they are also looking for a co-founder etc. Things can then be taken up on email | 52 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Very good idea. We can assume most people here are in the startup community.
So perhaps there should be a search by location field on a page here so that people can find each other. | 39 |
hackernews | 2,007 | We'd like to see a geographic search so that founders can meet other founders based on where they live.
http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=445 | 33 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Bandwagon Launches--Use Amazon S3 service to back up ITunes libraries | 16 |
hackernews | 2,007 | This is a cool service--I'm using it now to back up my 8GB music collection. Runs in the background on my Mac.
The cooler thing is that it uses S3, which is something I've been looking at for my own startup. $0.15/gb/month for storage. | 64 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Google Apps Premier vs Standard Feature List | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Passionate Users Jumpstart Creativity | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Let The Best Idea Win | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Be Chaotic Neutral | 4 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Craigslist is Worth More than eBay | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The inverse relationship between efficiency of your tool and your understanding of what it does | 15 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Google Battles Microsoft Head On | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | So the basic premise of your writeup is you are trying to judge how smart people are based on what they submit to this site and the content of their comments. I am not so sure I agree with that. It seems to me that starting a company requires dedication, technical smarts and technical vision. All that a good comment or... | 167 |
hackernews | 2,007 | How to Advertise Effectively on Facebook | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Guess this mystery paranoid entrepreneur | 5 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Amazon's S3, pay by the byte storage. | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Municipal Wireless on Democratic Agenda | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Alan Turing: Codebreaker and AI Pioneer | 8 |
hackernews | 2,007 | MIT undergrad's reactions to working at a startup | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Yes! That's something I don't like about reddit - I spend my time giving them free content, and I don't even get a link back to my own web site:-/ | 38 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Excellent point; YC might find that combining individuals and 2,3 member teams into new companies is where they get the most out of their portfolio.
I'll probably apply for the next round as a 1-person entity myself, though unless YC announces they're changing that policy, I doubt they'll pick me. | 65 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The trust factor is the difference: you can't fake cool, and you can't fake integrity.
Whereas eBay (these days, anyway) lets scammers "blow-up" auctions in its pursuit of listing fees (http://www.nickchandler.com/blog/ebay/nigerians-provide-free-shill-bidding-on-ebay.html), Craigslist cares about people abu... | 117 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Badger: Badge Any RSS Feed | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Lecture videos from my favorite undergrad CS class | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Interesting Craig's List design breakdown | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Please, may we have a mashable feed of some sort? RSS probably wouldn't work, but a JSON object would.... | 26 |
hackernews | 2,007 | How a linker works [video, admittedly in RM format] | 12 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Free conference calls you can setup over the web | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | We've had to be on a bunch of conference calls even as a startup. Especially as a startup it's hard to even have the partners always in the same place to talk to lawyers, clients, etc. when you don't have an office. So this thing has perfect quality and is totally free. I can't believe if even exists.
Skype con... | 80 |
hackernews | 2,007 | CNN: Next net 25 startups to watch | 9 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Can you let me know precisely how to reproduce it? Has anyone else experienced anything like this? | 20 |
hackernews | 2,007 | UI design: When tags work (librarything.com) and when they don't (amazon.com) | 20 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I hope we can tell the difference between people who are smart and those who are merely articulate.(We all have a lot of experience dealing with hackers, after all.) | 33 |
hackernews | 2,007 | What a strange mix. About half seem obvious, and the other half totally random. | 18 |
hackernews | 2,007 | On Cloning YC in Europe | 7 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Startup Stories - Read about the experiences of startups including reddit | 11 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Mobile Advertising Marketplace AdMob Serves One Billion Ads in Six Months | 13 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Where to Find a Cofounder - by Chris Campbell of Wufoo | 14 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Your desktop where you are. | 6 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The server's written in Arc too. I wanted to learn how to write one. | 18 |
hackernews | 2,007 | We won't clutter it up. Look how minimal the YC site itself is. | 17 |
hackernews | 2,007 | in that case, I _am_ excited about Arc's progress ;) | 14 |
hackernews | 2,007 | It seems the best option is to find some one you've worked with already, mainly fellow students, coworkers and open source contributers. If none of the above work for you try going to conferences and other events. Personnaly I have found barcamp to be a great event. Anyone attending will be motivated and passionate. Yo... | 148 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Amazon: ~1.3 million tags.
LibraryThing: >13 million tags! | 20 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Several of the startups we've funded use S3, and they seem to like it. | 18 |
hackernews | 2,007 | When you submit a duplicate URL it sends you to the original submissions page instead | 15 |
hackernews | 2,007 | I've heard many people give this wonderful piece of advice:"Ignore your user's requests. They'll ask for every feature under the sun apart from the one that they really need. You'll spend all your time adding new features rather than making your site genuinely usefull"Unfortunatly I cant find any citations. If ... | 78 |
hackernews | 2,007 | Cal Henderson also has a Carson Workshops 'survival kit' available. Its called 'Building Enterprise Web Apps on a Budget' and its available from http://www.carsonworkshops.com/shop/PHP_Henderson.html. I havent purchased it myself but Carson Workshops normaly produce some top notch kits. | 65 |
hackernews | 2,007 | craig is amazing at replying emails - whenever i've emailed something about the site i've always had a reply on the same day. im usually lucky if i get an automated reply in the same week from ebay. | 44 |
hackernews | 2,007 | The simplest repro case is 1. enter text for the Q. Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered.....2. Now hit update3. Click the "edit funding application"
I expect to see the text in the last box. Instead it says nil.
When I reported the bug it used to be empty. I see the sam... | 100 |
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