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Joshua's story in "Founders at Work" is one of my top three most inspirational tales from the book. The combination of creating something while working a day jo

Joshua's story in "Founders at Work" is one of my top three most inspirational tales from the book. The combination of creating something while working a day job (breaking the work down into 15-minute problems he could solve at night) along with the idea of narrow, vertical services that do one thing well--great lessons. While I don't buy into the whole maxklein nerdfight aspect of all this, I do look forward to seeing whether Joshua establishes a new pattern (parlaying the one-hit wonder into a series of relationships and investments that take him to a higher level) or whether he repeats the success (more like Andreesen). Good luck with whatever comes next...

joshu 16y ago
delicious was the most successful thing in a long series of projects. there were other successes (but none as big) and many, many failures. there will be more failures. hopefully a few successes, too.
- lkozma 16y ago
  Would you tell about some other projects that you did before delicious? Not necessarily their names, just roughly what they were about. Basically I'm curious whether there was a logical succession or were you just trying out random ideas.
  - shadowsun7 16y ago
    This is taken from Founders At Work, which you should buy (it's great!): Bookbook - Schacter never came up with a name for this, but it's basically an XML file on your website where you would provide a feed and other people would do this and create a central crossing engine that would say, "You have this book and he wants that book, and you are not that far from each other." Loaf - a fully distributed social network (no central server whatsoever ... yes, that does sounds like Diaspora). Uses email as a carrier, a bloom filter, and it basically tells people you talked to about other people you corresponded with 'in an encrypted and compressed way'. Memepool - which was a blog of links (before people knew what blogs were, this was in 1998). So basically an editor with reader submissions - a link at the bottom saying "Send us an email. Give us good links." Muxway - 2001, 'which was a lot like del.icio.us'. Only it was single player - Schacter could save links, and those links were public, and that was that. GeoURL - http://geourl.org/ http://geourl.org/ Reversible - a failed version of del.icio.us. It was 'different in a few key ways that made it fail.'
    - joshu 16y ago
      good list.
- bl4k 16y ago
  bring back memepool plz
wyclif 16y ago
That story is also one of my faves. del.icio.us was a "lean startup" before that phrase became a social media mantra: http://www.petefreitag.com/images/blog/delicious_office.jpg http://www.petefreitag.com/images/blog/delicious_office.jpg

joshu 16y ago

delicious was the most successful thing in a long series of projects. there were other successes (but none as big) and many, many failures. there will be more failures. hopefully a few successes, too.

lkozma 16y ago
Would you tell about some other projects that you did before delicious? Not necessarily their names, just roughly what they were about. Basically I'm curious whether there was a logical succession or were you just trying out random ideas.
- shadowsun7 16y ago
  This is taken from Founders At Work, which you should buy (it's great!): Bookbook - Schacter never came up with a name for this, but it's basically an XML file on your website where you would provide a feed and other people would do this and create a central crossing engine that would say, "You have this book and he wants that book, and you are not that far from each other." Loaf - a fully distributed social network (no central server whatsoever ... yes, that does sounds like Diaspora). Uses email as a carrier, a bloom filter, and it basically tells people you talked to about other people you corresponded with 'in an encrypted and compressed way'. Memepool - which was a blog of links (before people knew what blogs were, this was in 1998). So basically an editor with reader submissions - a link at the bottom saying "Send us an email. Give us good links." Muxway - 2001, 'which was a lot like del.icio.us'. Only it was single player - Schacter could save links, and those links were public, and that was that. GeoURL - http://geourl.org/ http://geourl.org/ Reversible - a failed version of del.icio.us. It was 'different in a few key ways that made it fail.'
  - joshu 16y ago
    good list.
bl4k 16y ago
bring back memepool plz

wyclif 16y ago

That story is also one of my faves. del.icio.us was a "lean startup" before that phrase became a social media mantra: http://www.petefreitag.com/images/blog/delicious_office.jpg http://www.petefreitag.com/images/blog/delicious_office.jpg