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Because email can't make YC millions of dollars if it gets popular and makes a big exit.
by jackowayed 17y ago
Because email can't make YC millions of dollars if it gets popular and makes a big exit.
- pg 17y agoActually I wouldn't have integrated Notifo into HN if I didn't think it deserved it on its own merits. HN is a labor of love for me; I wouldn't integrate random stuff into it just because founders asked me to. Out of 172 companies we've funded, I've only integrated 2 functionally into HN: Clickpass and Notifo, both because I thought they were useful to users.
- MaysonL 17y agoAren't you forgetting Scribd for PDFs?
- pg 17y agoOh yes; ok, 3.
- jacquesm 17y agoAnd webmynd.
- cdr 17y agoAnd co2stats.
- jackowayed 17y agoAnd mixpanel.
- ivankirigin 17y agoNone of these 3 is a functional difference
- pg 17y agoNo; that's why I was careful to write "integrated functionally." I didn't have to change the source of news.arc just to display a badge.