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Spark, Lightbank And Yuri Milner Get In On OnSwipe’s $5M ‘Series Awesome’

37 points by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago

yarone 15y ago
Congrats Jason!
- jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
  thank you :)
- benlang 15y ago
  I second that!
aracena 15y ago
wow! Congratulations jason and andres! Publishing apps are dead, long live to Onswipe!
- teyc 15y ago
  Congrats, I certainly didn't think of OnSwipe as an ad network. This is a massive opportunity.
aaronbrethorst 15y ago
Awesome, congratulations!!
auston 15y ago
I haven't said it yet, but this deserves it: Congrats to the OnSwipe team!
- jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
  Thank you man, it means a lot. Sorry when I was an asshole that one time back in the day. MIA represent!
mcs 15y ago
Nice!
greatreorx 15y ago
I'm sure you have better things to do, but blog.onswipe.com is basically unusable on (my) iphone on safari. or atleast holding it horizontally, and vertically is not much better.
- jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
  Yikes, I know why. I was debugging something back in March and enabled iPhone as a user agent to show iPad stuff. So yeah, not going to work.
extension 15y ago
OnSwipe has made my iPad browsing experience significantly more infuriating since it forced itself on scores of unwitting Wordpress blogs. If your blog is hosted on wordpress.org, please test it on an iPad. If you can't do that, at least disable OnSwipe until you can. Of its many annoying quirks, the worst is that it makes scrolling really choppy. On a tablet, this is utter UX fail. It also strips your blog of any unique design. And the link to switch to the standard site rarely works. I am stunned that there is so much enthusiasm for a product that creates a problem while solving nothing apparent.
- jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
  The initial Wordpress version is an earlier version derived from the Padpressed plugin. What were launching on June 21 is a new from the groundup framework. I bet everything this is great. One of the biggest problems is momentum scrolling. Even Joe Hewitt has been trying to solve it. We've got a solution for it and working with WP users to make it awesome. The point is to do something new with tablet and the canvas it proxides. That's where the enthusiasm comes from.
  - extension 15y ago
    The point is to do something new with tablet and the canvas it proxides Do what?
    - jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
      Whatever designers want now that content is touch enabled, it's not predefined. At first, were building some of the early layouts to build out the touch interaction framework. Eventually what's built will be up to a community of developers. What would you build?
      - extension 15y ago
        The best way to make a web site "touch enabled" is to stick to simple, device-agnostic markup. The inventors of the web have advocated this since day one. The iPad and iPhone owe their very existence to the device-independent web and Apple has clearly put a lot of work into tuning them for it. If it wasn't for this quality of the web, we would all be using Windows PCs running the very native apps that you call "bullshit". OnSwipe didn't take much input from the developers and designers of the Wordpress blogs that they surprise deployed to. And I don't know what input they or I could give without predefining what you are trying to accomplish.
iamelgringo 15y ago
Congrats, Jason! Raising two rounds in less than 6 months, and getting into Business Week[1]. I hope this helps you get over the doldrums from getting turned down by YC this past fall. :) ref: [1] http://www.businessweek.com/technology/special_reports/20110517best_young_tech_entrepreneurs_2011.htm http://www.businessweek.com/technology/special_reports/20110...
vgurgov 15y ago
great job with fundrasing, congrats jason! good luck with your product i will be keeping eye on it!

yarone 15y ago

Congrats Jason!

jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
thank you :)
benlang 15y ago
I second that!

aracena 15y ago

wow! Congratulations jason and andres! Publishing apps are dead, long live to Onswipe!

teyc 15y ago
Congrats, I certainly didn't think of OnSwipe as an ad network. This is a massive opportunity.

aaronbrethorst 15y ago

Awesome, congratulations!!

auston 15y ago

I haven't said it yet, but this deserves it: Congrats to the OnSwipe team!

jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
Thank you man, it means a lot. Sorry when I was an asshole that one time back in the day. MIA represent!

mcs 15y ago

Nice!

greatreorx 15y ago

I'm sure you have better things to do, but blog.onswipe.com is basically unusable on (my) iphone on safari. or atleast holding it horizontally, and vertically is not much better.

jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
Yikes, I know why. I was debugging something back in March and enabled iPhone as a user agent to show iPad stuff. So yeah, not going to work.

extension 15y ago

OnSwipe has made my iPad browsing experience significantly more infuriating since it forced itself on scores of unwitting Wordpress blogs. If your blog is hosted on wordpress.org, please test it on an iPad. If you can't do that, at least disable OnSwipe until you can. Of its many annoying quirks, the worst is that it makes scrolling really choppy. On a tablet, this is utter UX fail. It also strips your blog of any unique design. And the link to switch to the standard site rarely works. I am stunned that there is so much enthusiasm for a product that creates a problem while solving nothing apparent.

jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
The initial Wordpress version is an earlier version derived from the Padpressed plugin. What were launching on June 21 is a new from the groundup framework. I bet everything this is great. One of the biggest problems is momentum scrolling. Even Joe Hewitt has been trying to solve it. We've got a solution for it and working with WP users to make it awesome. The point is to do something new with tablet and the canvas it proxides. That's where the enthusiasm comes from.
- extension 15y ago
  The point is to do something new with tablet and the canvas it proxides Do what?
  - jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
    Whatever designers want now that content is touch enabled, it's not predefined. At first, were building some of the early layouts to build out the touch interaction framework. Eventually what's built will be up to a community of developers. What would you build?
    - extension 15y ago
      The best way to make a web site "touch enabled" is to stick to simple, device-agnostic markup. The inventors of the web have advocated this since day one. The iPad and iPhone owe their very existence to the device-independent web and Apple has clearly put a lot of work into tuning them for it. If it wasn't for this quality of the web, we would all be using Windows PCs running the very native apps that you call "bullshit". OnSwipe didn't take much input from the developers and designers of the Wordpress blogs that they surprise deployed to. And I don't know what input they or I could give without predefining what you are trying to accomplish.

iamelgringo 15y ago

Congrats, Jason! Raising two rounds in less than 6 months, and getting into Business Week[1]. I hope this helps you get over the doldrums from getting turned down by YC this past fall. :) ref: [1] http://www.businessweek.com/technology/special_reports/20110517best_young_tech_entrepreneurs_2011.htm http://www.businessweek.com/technology/special_reports/20110...

vgurgov 15y ago

great job with fundrasing, congrats jason! good luck with your product i will be keeping eye on it!