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I realize you're being sarcastic and this doesn't apply to you directly, but this has been bugging me for a while: Everyone needs to stop saying these guys are

I realize you're being sarcastic and this doesn't apply to you directly, but this has been bugging me for a while: Everyone needs to stop saying these guys are "well funded." $200k is nothing especially for a team of 4 people. It's certainly not enough for them to hire anyone else full time to join them. Yes, they didn't have to do much to get this money and I realize it's infuriating if you're really struggling to get your business off the ground when 4 nobodies get a chunk of money out of nowhere, but please recognize that the amount is so small that it doesn't warrant outrage. Furthermore, they didn't even ask for that much. It got a big network effect in light of the recent facebook privacy issues, but it's a one time thing and most likely the last money they'll ever see for this project. I don't think their situation is repeatable in any sort of predictable way, so it probably doesn't warrant studying (please correct me if someone's figured out a way to do this, cause I think most of us would like to figure out how to get free funding). We should wish them the best of luck and only care when they make something people want to use. I can already see the headlines of outrage when they don't produce something that destroys facebook overnight, or maybe don't release on time, or their code is really bad. Anyone who contributed to them only expected to give facebook a little jab. There are reasons to question their abilities, but jealousy over their gimmicky funding really needs to stop.

iamdave 16y ago
I don't think it's jealously over gimmicky funding, I think it's more along the lines of all this hype was raised, all this money was raised and we're still sitting here, sucking our thumbs to see what's supposed to happen. The launch date is in September, and so far the last update since the NY Times article was a redesign. The only technical information is that it's using Ruby, "a little bit of rails" and some "other" frameworks. This feels to me like giving a kid $0.25 for a glass of lemonade, and him telling me he'll bring it to my house after he's built his lemonade stand, bought the ingredients and actually produced a beverage.
- Wolf_Larsen 16y ago
  This feels to me like giving a kid $0.25 for a glass of lemonade, and him telling me he'll bring it to my house after he's built his lemonade stand, bought the ingredients and actually produced a beverage. This is exactly the state of the project unless there is a whole lot that the Diaspora team has not publicly documented. But, as far as I know, they have never stated that this was not the case. Their video made it pretty apparent they had yet to build the lemonade stand and buy the ingredients.

iamdave 16y ago

I don't think it's jealously over gimmicky funding, I think it's more along the lines of all this hype was raised, all this money was raised and we're still sitting here, sucking our thumbs to see what's supposed to happen. The launch date is in September, and so far the last update since the NY Times article was a redesign. The only technical information is that it's using Ruby, "a little bit of rails" and some "other" frameworks. This feels to me like giving a kid $0.25 for a glass of lemonade, and him telling me he'll bring it to my house after he's built his lemonade stand, bought the ingredients and actually produced a beverage.

Wolf_Larsen 16y ago
This feels to me like giving a kid $0.25 for a glass of lemonade, and him telling me he'll bring it to my house after he's built his lemonade stand, bought the ingredients and actually produced a beverage. This is exactly the state of the project unless there is a whole lot that the Diaspora team has not publicly documented. But, as far as I know, they have never stated that this was not the case. Their video made it pretty apparent they had yet to build the lemonade stand and buy the ingredients.