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In old-economy-speak what you just said basically translates as "you entered a crowded market". When you're standing on an unknown, rainy street corner far awa
by vegabook 11y ago
In old-economy-speak what you just said basically translates as "you entered a crowded market".
When you're standing on an unknown, rainy street corner far away from home, a taxi's services are urgently required, and not abundant. When you're lounging on your sofa and start contemplating how it would be nice for someone else to bin the pizza boxes, it's the opposite on both counts.
Moreover, I don't see the money men being impressed by a founder who can put out a piece so toe-curlingly embarrassing as "Dear Future HomeJoy Engineer".
- atom-morgan 11y agoI've been lurking on this thread waiting for someone to mention that post. I'm really surprised it took this long.
- vegabook 11y agoMe too dude. I actually <ctrl>-F'd it and was surprised I was the first. Then again it's 4pm in NY, let alone SF. The night is young...(if the HN algo doesn't tank the story, that is).
- mturmon 11y agoThe link back to the HN post, and the subsequent resurface of the post in HN comments on a related NYT article, are already in TFA.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- vegabook 11y agooooh! "TFA". I had to google that. TIL. You must be a master of UD scrabble.
- atom-morgan 11y agoThe downside of comments first on HN.
- FireBeyond 11y agoWell, it was mentioned quite a bit in the linked article.
- Albright 11y agoFor those unaware, it looks like this is "Dear Future HomeJoy Engineer:" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8794956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8794956 Commentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8795197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8795197
- shostack 11y agoI visibly cringed reading that. Does Y-Combinator review those posts at all before they go out and provide any guidance? If not they might want to consider it...