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From the link: "Attention HN users of the "Co-founder wish list" document. I have manually transferred/formatted entries in the document as of Jan 16, 2010, 1

by ehsanul 17y ago

From the link: "Attention HN users of the "Co-founder wish list" document. I have manually transferred/formatted entries in the document as of Jan 16, 2010, 11:12am EST. You can find your entry by searching for a keyword in your entry, such as your email. Feel free to rename your page to something more personal, and further refine your entry. More about the transfer here." I suppose the intention is to use the wiki instead of a Google Doc.

adrianwaj 17y ago
Is "I" Jay Liew, though? no: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1058850 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1058850 Does it matter? mmmm, I can't say the wiki is better, at least for time being. A social network would work, not a wiki.
- ehsanul 17y ago
  Perhaps a YC account on LinkedIn, which you could then befriend, allowing you to find others all friends with YC on LinkedIn? Just an idea. Seems like the simplest thing that could work well, without building a separate social networking site just for startups.
  - matt1 17y ago
    I think for this endeavour, a wiki works well. Not everything needs a social network :)
- ADRIANFR 17y ago
  Yes, I took the data, and refined it just a bit. I had to do it for about 170 of entries. A semantic wiki is better than a plain Google Doc, by having the ability to run complex queries, such as: Search for a startup located in "Florida", in the "mobile" space, who needs someone with "ruby" skills. This is all "out of the box" thanks to the Semantic Mediawiki extension Of course this is less fancy than your regular recruiting/social networking site, but the simplicity of it must be a plus. (you don't need an account to add/edit). The success of the Google Doc idea is also due to it's simplicity.
  - adrianwaj 17y ago
    You can't delete pages, and people can still mess with your page: it should be locked to targeted underlying user. Also, there's no spreadsheet view, which makes it almost unusable to me: do you expect users to open 100+ tabs? The wiki is about startups, but you sourced it from data about people. I am not a startup, I am a person.
    - ADRIANFR 17y ago
      Yes, you can delete and move/rename pages, but you need to create an account for that. This is supposed to prevent vandalism. Not sure why would you need a spreadsheet view. You can always use plain search. And than there is semantic search, which I plan to add soon. Having all that data in a structured database (every field/property in a page is query-able in a semantic mediawiki app). About people vs. startups, you are right, they are no the same. I'm not sure what to call that entity that is something between an idea and a startup. If you create an account you can list your skills in the "Person form". There will be a search for that.
      - pebkac 17y ago
        I just created this account (and one on startuplinkup) b/c while I didn't mind having my email on the Google Doc, I don't want it sitting on the wiki. According to the User group rights only Admins can delete. Care to help (Startup 155)?
        ADRIANFR 17y ago
        Yes, I deleted startup155. A solution to this problem may be to enable the deletion of past revisions, I think there is an extension that allows that.
        pebkac 17y ago
        thanks
- jayliew 17y ago
  Hey guys, no .. it's not me "Jay Liew", although I'm not sure why that would matter. I've watched the flurry of activity and up until this moment people are still editing .. hanging out on the Google Docs. I'm sure it's been a real learning experience for everyone who participated, especially those who have been watching closely. I wonder if I should write up a "lessons learned" blog post. If you step back you'll see that it's amazing how the HN community got together to collaborate and provide feedback, and now people attempting to improve on the initial idea of all the co-founder data in a flat table on Google Docs spreadsheet. Ultimately we'll see if the market decides if they want something other than a flat tabular data or not. That's why we're all here, right? We want to "make something people want". p.s. shoutout to Paul from UCSD who's graduating and is helping out 280 North (I met him for coffee after we found each other, thanks to the Google Docs).
  - paulbaumgart 17y ago
    thanks :-) I told you I spend too much time here :-P

by ehsanul 17y ago

adrianwaj 17y ago

Is "I" Jay Liew, though? no: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1058850 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1058850 Does it matter? mmmm, I can't say the wiki is better, at least for time being. A social network would work, not a wiki.

ehsanul 17y ago
Perhaps a YC account on LinkedIn, which you could then befriend, allowing you to find others all friends with YC on LinkedIn? Just an idea. Seems like the simplest thing that could work well, without building a separate social networking site just for startups.
- matt1 17y ago
  I think for this endeavour, a wiki works well. Not everything needs a social network :)
ADRIANFR 17y ago
Yes, I took the data, and refined it just a bit. I had to do it for about 170 of entries. A semantic wiki is better than a plain Google Doc, by having the ability to run complex queries, such as: Search for a startup located in "Florida", in the "mobile" space, who needs someone with "ruby" skills. This is all "out of the box" thanks to the Semantic Mediawiki extension Of course this is less fancy than your regular recruiting/social networking site, but the simplicity of it must be a plus. (you don't need an account to add/edit). The success of the Google Doc idea is also due to it's simplicity.
- adrianwaj 17y ago
  You can't delete pages, and people can still mess with your page: it should be locked to targeted underlying user. Also, there's no spreadsheet view, which makes it almost unusable to me: do you expect users to open 100+ tabs? The wiki is about startups, but you sourced it from data about people. I am not a startup, I am a person.
  - ADRIANFR 17y ago
    Yes, you can delete and move/rename pages, but you need to create an account for that. This is supposed to prevent vandalism. Not sure why would you need a spreadsheet view. You can always use plain search. And than there is semantic search, which I plan to add soon. Having all that data in a structured database (every field/property in a page is query-able in a semantic mediawiki app). About people vs. startups, you are right, they are no the same. I'm not sure what to call that entity that is something between an idea and a startup. If you create an account you can list your skills in the "Person form". There will be a search for that.
    - pebkac 17y ago
      I just created this account (and one on startuplinkup) b/c while I didn't mind having my email on the Google Doc, I don't want it sitting on the wiki. According to the User group rights only Admins can delete. Care to help (Startup 155)?
      - ADRIANFR 17y ago
        Yes, I deleted startup155. A solution to this problem may be to enable the deletion of past revisions, I think there is an extension that allows that.
        pebkac 17y ago
        thanks
jayliew 17y ago
Hey guys, no .. it's not me "Jay Liew", although I'm not sure why that would matter. I've watched the flurry of activity and up until this moment people are still editing .. hanging out on the Google Docs. I'm sure it's been a real learning experience for everyone who participated, especially those who have been watching closely. I wonder if I should write up a "lessons learned" blog post. If you step back you'll see that it's amazing how the HN community got together to collaborate and provide feedback, and now people attempting to improve on the initial idea of all the co-founder data in a flat table on Google Docs spreadsheet. Ultimately we'll see if the market decides if they want something other than a flat tabular data or not. That's why we're all here, right? We want to "make something people want". p.s. shoutout to Paul from UCSD who's graduating and is helping out 280 North (I met him for coffee after we found each other, thanks to the Google Docs).
- paulbaumgart 17y ago
  thanks :-) I told you I spend too much time here :-P