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5,801 | null | comment | jadams | 1,174,602,126 | Good advice! The biggest mistake I've made in past businesses is to try to do it all alone. That's a recipe for having it fizzle out into an undead hobby project. | null | 5,610 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,803 | null | comment | jadams | 1,174,603,175 | Local subdomains, or groups, a-la craigslist. E.g. toronto.ycombinator.com, or somesuch.<p>I understand YCombinator's rationale for having founders move to Boston, or the Valley.<p>That said, it might be great for you guys to get local footholds, where people can meet, organize, find co-founders, etc., before deciding ... | null | 363 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,802 | null | story | aristus | 1,174,603,038 | null | null | null | null | [
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5,805 | null | comment | Sam_Odio | 1,174,603,368 | Nice job jamie :) Great interface. Have you thought about allowing users to upload their own puzzles & share them w/ friends?<p>Maybe you can create some sort of javascript widget that users load into their myspace profiles / websites?? | null | 5,527 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,809 | null | comment | jadams | 1,174,604,029 | Hehe. The snow in my back yard's almost completely melted. Looks like the raccoons and cats left me some "presents". Mmm. | null | 5,807 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,810 | null | comment | blackthorne | 1,174,604,118 | I will pull a Zuckerberg and turn down 2 billion | null | 5,700 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,808 | null | comment | jadams | 1,174,603,979 | So, who's in TO? Anyone want to chat, or meet (at a pub, say)?<p>Going to the original startup school, and watching the YC dinner on Justin.TV has re-inforced how important it is to have a local support network. Even if you're not working on the same stuff, there's an energy that's motivating and focusing.<p>Whether yo... | null | 5,806 | null | [
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5,812 | null | comment | rms | 1,174,604,465 | But right now there's no pretense of journalistic objectivity. Arrington plugs his investments whenever it is appropriate now.<p>I don't see Techcrunch becoming an irrelevant source of startup news just because they have more of their own investments to plug. The bottom line is that Arrington does not need to be object... | null | 5,764 | null | [
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5,806 | null | story | jadams | 1,174,603,474 | null | null | null | null | [
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5,811 | null | comment | domp | 1,174,604,398 | I don't agree that 'ugly' is what popular sites are trying to do. I just think that it's poor designers. I won't even bother with a site that looks like it was made in the 90s. With a better designed site I have a better chance of going back and using their service. <p>In my opinion you only have around 10 seconds to m... | null | 5,802 | null | [
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5,807 | null | comment | aristus | 1,174,603,701 | I live in Miami, but may move to Toronto. was just there last week. The volvo-sized chunks of ice falling from CN Tower really endeared me. :) | null | 5,806 | null | [
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5,814 | null | comment | jadams | 1,174,605,086 | You've just listed everything you want out of the future (financially), which is a different question. Remember, this is for a 3 month investment of time.<p>So, it's good that you know what you want, but if someone offered to take you halfway there, would you turn it down? What about one tenth of the way? <p>Remember, ... | null | 5,749 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,815 | null | comment | zach | 1,174,605,131 | I think their opportunity is to use their access to "deep" works to make a site that is really suited for that kind of video.<p>YouTube, even the modern web, is all about shallow content - something that grabs your attention for a few minutes. Popular sites are like tapas bars. It remains to be seen what a site with ... | null | 5,762 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,813 | null | comment | aristus | 1,174,604,728 | Popular sites are not trying to be ugly -- they are trying to be popular. Look at it this way: Myspace has $600 million dollars. If aesthetics were a competitive advantage with the /average/ (i.e. not a web professional) user, surely they'd spend some of that hiring Eric Meyers, don't you think? | null | 5,811 | null | [
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5,816 | null | comment | far33d | 1,174,605,457 | If a VC can choose to value a company at $15m, shouldn't a tech savvy acquirer be willing to pay that much instead of waiting another 2 years when the same technology might cost $75m?
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5,818 | null | comment | zach | 1,174,605,554 | Give it a rest, Casey Kasem. Just list them in numerical order. | null | 5,670 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,819 | null | comment | danielha | 1,174,607,320 | Yup, I can't imagine true startups having specified work hours at all. A company in its startup stage isn't run like a corporation and that's why it's able to be more productive. | null | 5,766 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,817 | null | comment | danielha | 1,174,605,468 | As a follow-up question, I think a nice addition for the application would be: "Aside from what you are currently making, what is driving you to be an entrepreneur?"<p>Paul, you mentioned that one of the key characteristics of a good team is persistence and the unwillingness to give up. When you have no fall-back and a... | null | 5,700 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,820 | null | story | pg | 1,174,607,709 | null | null | null | null | [
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5,822 | null | comment | mynameishere | 1,174,608,690 | "In the old days,"<p>No. In the old days, home equipment had one track, and studio equipment had one track. Sgt. Pepper was recorded on a 4-track--what distinquished them were the things that you just can't get in your garage: Studio-quality accoustics, a vast array of equipment, world-class instruments and studio musi... | null | 5,722 | null | [
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5,824 | null | story | ulfstein | 1,174,608,879 | null | null | null | null | [
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5,823 | null | comment | danielha | 1,174,608,865 | Similar to how in, say, supermarkets where the number of brands of a product on the shelves may show a negative relationship with the number of sales. <p>Offer customers too many choices and they will become overwhelmed and not choose anything. | null | 5,821 | null | [
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5,825 | null | comment | herdrick | 1,174,609,077 | How sure are you that the relevant quality of the successful ad shown in the link isn't downmarketness but that it's eyecatching? As the author says, the 'upmarket' one is harmonious - which is a really bad quality in an ad. The damn thing needs to grab you! If you can do that and maintain an upmarket, snooty feel, ... | null | 5,790 | null | [
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5,826 | null | comment | far33d | 1,174,609,104 | I'm so glad I'm going to be at startup school this weekend. | null | 5,758 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,828 | null | story | pg | 1,174,610,066 | null | null | null | null | [
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5,829 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,174,610,209 | When I write articles, I try to minimize the number of ads in them in order to have better control over where the user clicks. If, for instance, a user clicks on an ad selling "knifes", he or she is unlikely to revisit the website and click on another ad or link on the website. With each successive ad, the control over... | null | 5,821 | null | [
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5,831 | null | comment | danielha | 1,174,610,761 | Why the sharp jump in traffic in the middle of last week? | null | 5,828 | null | [
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5,833 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,174,611,068 | ^ Oh you can blame me for that. I should probably logout once in a while :D | null | 5,831 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,827 | null | comment | domp | 1,174,609,952 | Yeah I see your point. But having an ugly site isn't going to help you gain popularity. <p>I agree Myspace is probably not thinking of the design aspects. They're focusing on expanding their product and adding features. But when I look at Virb I think "Wow, this is what Myspace should look like". If Virb becomes a big ... | null | 5,813 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,832 | null | comment | danielha | 1,174,610,905 | If this were to be charted, I'd bet that it'd look something like the Laffer curve | null | 5,829 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,821 | null | story | danielha | 1,174,608,627 | null | null | null | null | [
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5,830 | null | comment | far33d | 1,174,610,569 | new data on this partnership from arrington's notes from the conference call: <p>"Zucker is now on. Talking about importance of significant IP protection as a primary goal."<p>Doomed.
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5,834 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,174,611,302 | I live about 15 mins away from Pearson Airport, Toronto. Just curious, what do you think about the startup environment in Toronto? Where is all the action at? | null | 5,808 | null | [
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5,800 | null | story | msgbeepa | 1,174,601,519 | null | true | null | null | [
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5,836 | null | comment | pg | 1,174,611,369 | I have no idea. Usually midweek will be highest for a site like this, but that was an unusually large spike. | null | 5,831 | null | [
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5,837 | null | story | gustaf | 1,174,611,434 | null | null | null | null | [
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5,835 | null | comment | cbueno | 1,174,611,360 | [aristus, lost my passwd :)]<p>"Eyecatching" means garish, cluttered, etc. This is not always desirable. Usually it's reserved for wide-spectrum ads for cheap items, hence "downmarket". Audience drives design. If your audience is a few thousand rich wives you'll take the elegant route. If your audience is a million wor... | null | 5,825 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,841 | null | comment | far33d | 1,174,611,933 | It took 11 Apollo missions to get to the moon! | null | 5,820 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,838 | null | comment | danielha | 1,174,611,610 | Broad appeal and psychological acceptance seems to have a direct relationship with poor design, doesn't it? It's one of those things that make you ponder. <p>It's undeniable that Virb is more beautiful than MySpace. But it seems to me that superior design has that subtle hint of self-importance that becomes a tougher ... | null | 5,802 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,840 | null | comment | domp | 1,174,611,804 | Thanks for this article, ulfstein. One thing I'm on the edge about is flattening the crowd so that no one person or group of people have more of an influence. Although every opinion should matter equally there is always those people that know more about a topic. Those people should have more of an influence in the over... | null | 5,824 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,839 | null | story | zaidf | 1,174,611,685 | null | null | null | null | [
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5,842 | null | comment | danielha | 1,174,611,934 | So tell me, how awesome is it to be at a point where you're able to recruit developers to join your team? Exciting times, gustaf, exciting times. | null | 5,837 | null | [
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5,844 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,174,612,173 | awesome! Thank you so much Zaid. | null | 5,839 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,843 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,174,611,965 | Social networks, such as MySpace and Friendster, outsource graphic designing to the users by letting them alter the source code. A user who spends two hours customizing their profile is likely to become more loyal than he or she would've been two hours earlier.<p>Of course, the side effect is that the site turns out to... | null | 5,802 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,851 | null | comment | pg | 1,174,613,904 | If TechCrunch were funding startups as well as reporting on them, no competitor or potential competitor of any startup they'd funded would feel comfortable talking to them. And since no one would know exactly who they were funding or about to fund, no one would feel safe telling them anything except already public inf... | null | 5,812 | null | [
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5,848 | null | story | joshwa | 1,174,613,169 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.carsonified.com/dropsend-sale/web-app-marketing | 2 | Marketing web apps - some dubious advice from an SEO | null | 0 |
5,845 | null | comment | python_kiss | 1,174,612,571 | I would've expected the traffic to be low around the 16th:<p><a href="http://technorati.com/chart/Y+Combinator?chartdays=30&language=n&authority=n">http://technorati.com/chart/Y+Combinator?chartdays=30&language=n&authority=n</a> | null | 5,836 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,847 | null | comment | Alex3917 | 1,174,613,150 | Hmm... Create an arbitrary definition of superiority. Weed out everyone who doesn't meet said standard. Sounds a lot like high school. | null | 5,772 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,850 | null | comment | pg | 1,174,613,369 | These guys made the slideshow on <a href="http://ycombinator.com">http://ycombinator.com</a> btw. | null | 5,837 | null | [
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5,849 | null | comment | ulfstein | 1,174,613,322 | I agree. I've not yet had a closer look a the sites mentioned but am wondering whether any of them might employ such a system. | null | 5,824 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,853 | null | story | amichail | 1,174,614,562 | null | null | null | null | null | http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2003/04/22/java_the_evolutionary_deadend | 3 | Java, the evolutionary dead-end: "I've come to the conclusion that it's not really such a bad thing for Java to be." | null | 0 |
5,852 | null | comment | jadams | 1,174,614,445 | I think it depends on what you want to do. This is a great place for film / video. It's getting better for games, and of course there's financial services. There also seem to be a bunch of mobile companies here, too.<p>There's a very healthy ecology of small software companies, and a lot of web companies. There's a bit... | null | 5,834 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,846 | null | comment | gustaf | 1,174,612,755 | It's pretty awesome! :)<p>-------------------------------------------------------- <p>
heysan! is a Y-combinator (ycombinator.com) funded startup creating the next generation of mobile instant messaging services.<p>We're looking for a smart and talented software developer to join our team. You are like us if your lapt... | null | 5,842 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,855 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,616,326 | You have to wonder if Reed Hasting has read <a href="http://paulgraham.com/opensource.html">http://paulgraham.com/opensource.html</a><p>It'd be awesome if we could find out. | null | 5,750 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,856 | null | comment | rfrey | 1,174,616,841 | To me the interesting sites are those the author would call ugly by design (i.e, not the ones that are ugly because there was no money to hire a designer, or because the programmer thought he was a designer.)<p>But with those, I think bueno misses the point: these sites represent the edge of design. They are designers... | null | 5,802 | null | [
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5,858 | null | story | amichail | 1,174,617,547 | null | null | null | null | null | http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2003/05/06/weighing_into_the_static_vs_dynamic_typing_debate | 1 | Why static typing? "the more things I can make the IDE ... do for me, the more my mind is able to concentrate on more important things" | null | 0 |
5,857 | null | comment | JMiao | 1,174,617,251 | Wow, I like the new look. | null | 5,850 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,854 | null | comment | ottawastart | 1,174,615,222 | One of the best books I have read lately. | null | 5,063 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,879 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,628,615 | Wish I could vote it up 10 times. Best. Post. Evar. | null | 5,839 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,860 | null | comment | henryw | 1,174,618,302 | Definitely yeah. That'll provide 50k/yr of risk-free interest to live off of while you work on something you really want to buy the house, etc. You won't have to work a side job to support yourself and can focus full time. | null | 5,788 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,867 | null | comment | teki321 | 1,174,621,978 | And the sad thing is that there are really big stores with a lots of stuff but you have to visit at least two of them to get whatever you want :(.<p>Another really bad supermarket practice is when a product have got 3 different flavoring and one of them is going well, but nobody buy the other 2. The result is that they... | null | 5,823 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,861 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,618,863 | Thanks for the stats, I was curious how things were progressing. I wished for such a site (I thought it would be a subreddit) for a long time. Happy to see it's going well.<p> | null | 5,828 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,864 | null | comment | paahijen | 1,174,620,906 | Don't quote a number, quote a multiple instead. :-) eg. If XX invests 20k for 10% in your company. their 20k becoming 200k is a good deal which implies something like 2M for your company (not bad for three months work!) | null | 5,700 | null | [
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5,871 | null | comment | far33d | 1,174,625,168 | I realize... My point was that some of the buying companies have been willing to buy companies that traditionally would be raising their first rounds. A classmate of mine sold his company to Fox Interactive for $7m (reportedly) before they'd even LAUNCHED. | null | 5,865 | null | [
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5,859 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,617,921 | <i>"It sounds great, in theory, but would be hard to implement."</i><p>There's nothing difficult about implementing it. Clearly your employer just doesn't buy the concept at all. They probably only offer 3 weeks (slightly higher than average) as a recruiting incentive, which is pretty dishonest if they don't actually l... | null | 5,780 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,865 | null | comment | paahijen | 1,174,621,200 | Not quite, you should read Paul's essays (don't remember which exact one). VCs valuation depends more upon the amount of money (s)he's going to put and generally they won't invest smaller amounts for insignificant stake. Which implies you've to probably get more money than you really need and shell out a little more eq... | null | 5,816 | null | [
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5,870 | null | story | domp | 1,174,625,094 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.sumolabs.com/blog/5-business-entrepreneur-podcasts-you-should-be-listening | 1 | 5 Business & Entrepreneur podcasts | null | 0 |
5,866 | null | comment | paahijen | 1,174,621,710 | A follow up thought. This also puts XX (may be YC in this case) in valueing your company just right! (Ok YC are nice people so thats not a problem, but if you were asked this question in other context, you better be prepeared!) 'cos they cannot value your company too low. 'cos even if someone is willing to give 10x of ... | null | 5,864 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,863 | null | comment | paahijen | 1,174,620,677 | This is a bit smart, 'cos the clients fearing that fewer ads will be shown, will actually be willing to pay more $$s and thus the PPC rates will go up! Not sure about the long term impact though.. (eg. a frustrated client, inspite of bidding extremely high for a few keywords might not see his ad appearing at all, may s... | null | 5,821 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,880 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,628,830 | No one seems to care, there's such a dire need for his site and no clear alternative.<p>Read his disclosure at the bottom of <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/about-techcrunch/">http://www.techcrunch.com/about-techcrunch/</a><p>He's gotten involved with a lot of startups he has profiled and heavily leverages his posit... | null | 5,851 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,876 | null | comment | danielha | 1,174,627,495 | Actually, it was probably Jason crawling news.yc indexing everything... | null | 5,836 | null | [
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5,875 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,627,374 | <i>"...not the ones that are ugly because there was no money to hire a designer, or because the programmer thought he was a designer."</i><p>Like Google or Craigslist? Necessity is not only the mother of invention, it seems to have another child: great design. | null | 5,856 | null | [
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5,877 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,627,882 | Spammer please spam elsewhere. | null | 5,800 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,878 | null | comment | pg | 1,174,628,029 | that is a great mascot | null | 5,869 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,872 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,626,510 | I don't think you have to quantify anything, it's not a matter of science or math -- it's about how much that money means to <i>you</i>.<p>Just imagine some rich guy with a checkbook. Imagine what the minimum number he has to write in order to take your three month old baby. It's a realistic situation and the guy with ... | null | 5,777 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,874 | null | comment | daliso | 1,174,627,050 | I would tend to agree with this. On first site, virb doesn't seem like a site where the content is produced by ordinary people. If I had no experience with the web or design, I would be kind of shy to upload my content as it might look too scruffy for such a polished site.<p>On the other hand, the sheer scruffiness of ... | null | 5,787 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,868 | null | comment | richcollins | 1,174,622,646 | wow I am surprised this has gotten so many comments. Obviously it depends on the value of the company. If threw together a prototype that hadn't seen a single user and there was no apparent IP, then 100k would be a ton of money. If I were sitting on the next YouTube with millions of users added each month, then 1B+.... | null | 5,700 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,862 | null | story | amichail | 1,174,620,328 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail468.html | 1 | Independent Individuals and Wise Crowds (Talk by James Surowieki, author of the book "The Wisdom of Crowds") | null | 0 |
5,873 | null | story | python_kiss | 1,174,627,004 | null | null | null | null | null | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_cpa_microsoft_yahoo_response.php | 1 | Google's CPA Move: Will Microsoft & Yahoo Have To Buy Their Way Into CPA Game? | null | 0 |
5,881 | null | story | oltsm | 1,174,629,788 | null | null | null | null | [
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5,869 | null | story | zach | 1,174,625,002 | null | null | null | null | [
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5,882 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,629,809 | Not as good as Yahoo just before a massive jump in stock price :-) | null | 5,773 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,883 | null | comment | oltsm | 1,174,629,987 | We were having an interesting discussion some time back. Whether one should be using nick that involves his/her product name while posting on nyc? <p>Initially it occured that - using nicks is a good way to associate identity, but later on realized that it might actually be counter productive. Because to anyone it smel... | null | 5,881 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,886 | null | comment | bootload | 1,174,630,401 | <i>'... if there are no ads on your site, you will not make money off of it ...'</i><p>Where is the investment opportunity with ads? Is it the Aggregation of attention?, eyeballs? It's not about the advertising. The real value in the intelligence of users, not eyeballs? ... that's where the money is. [0]<p>The way I l... | null | 5,829 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,884 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,630,211 | Very interesting. Thanks.<p>What about charging a subscription? Viaweb was low-cost for the day, but would you even offer subscriptions at all if you were doing again today?
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5,887 | null | comment | pg | 1,174,630,764 | Hmm, that would be in the right ballpark. | null | 5,876 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,889 | null | story | reitzensteinm | 1,174,631,887 | null | null | null | null | [
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] | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/22/web-apps-101-your-three-point-success-plan/ | 8 | Web Apps 101: Your Three Point Success Plan | null | 1 |
5,890 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,632,335 | I think the way a lot of other people would do this is by making it a hosted re-brandable application with a subscription fee. JotSpot is a good example.<p>This removes some of the biggest obstacles to adoption because the customer doesn't have to worry about installing, upgrading, security, maintenance, etc.<p>For the... | null | 5,774 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,895 | null | comment | staunch | 1,174,635,042 | He did follow up on this post:<p><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/25/a-year-later-the-companies-i-wanted-to-profile-but-didnt-exist/">http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/25/a-year-later-the-companies-i-wanted-to-profile-but-didnt-exist/</a> | null | 5,893 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,892 | null | story | brett | 1,174,633,489 | null | null | null | null | [
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5,896 | null | story | sudhirc | 1,174,636,610 | null | true | null | null | null | http://news.ycombinator.com/news | 1 | Y Combinator Startup News | null | -1 |
5,893 | null | comment | brett | 1,174,633,620 | Some are still interesting ideas. | null | 5,892 | null | [
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5,891 | null | comment | JoeEntrepreneur | 1,174,633,293 | Thank you very much. You are right. There might be lot of changes after launch and thats when we will find out what users want us to deliver. | null | 5,335 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,888 | null | comment | pg | 1,174,631,121 | We might make it free for the lowest tier of users. The one problem with that, though, is that the users of this application are merchants. If you make it free without some other form of authentication, you make it easy for crooks to set up fake stores in order to defraud people. | null | 5,884 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,894 | null | comment | myoung8 | 1,174,634,719 | But surely you can throw some logic in there too to increase your odds...there are some very legitimate reasons for thinking some ventures will fail.<p>I liked Paul's post, but it comes off as encouraging people to fly by the seat of their pants so to speak.<p>Entrepreneurship is about taking risks, certainly. But not ... | null | 5,776 | null | [
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5,897 | null | comment | socmoth | 1,174,637,759 | nice pics! | null | 5,850 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,899 | null | story | pashle | 1,174,638,319 | null | null | null | null | [
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] | http://www.freshview.com/thoughts/2007/03/are_people_still_prepared_to_p.html | 13 | Are people still prepared to pay for software? | null | 5 |
5,898 | null | comment | reitzensteinm | 1,174,637,842 | Taxes. | null | 5,749 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
5,900 | null | comment | wensing | 1,174,639,333 | Exactly my point. The hacker clique was born in college, and it will take something to break into it once it has been established and relocates to SF.<p>My point is this--I suspect that relocating yourself to San Francisco with an idea but without hacker friends that already live there (or ones that plan to) isn't goi... | null | 5,729 | null | [
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5,902 | null | comment | JMiao | 1,174,641,871 | I'm guessing NewRoo? | null | 5,871 | null | [
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