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Sub $3 adopters represent wut-wut. Srsly though, thanks maciej and team, love pinboard and use it e'erday. It's pretty much second nature to highlight, right-c

by shii 15y ago

Sub $3 adopters represent wut-wut. Srsly though, thanks maciej and team, love pinboard and use it e'erday. It's pretty much second nature to highlight, right-click, 'Post Page to Pinboard', fill some pithy tags, and feel instant dopamine flood of peace for some reason. Great when I have that one site on the tip of my cerebellum that I can just grep through pinboard for. Way to go on the 2 years and coming years of success.

idlewords 15y ago
Thank you!
- kn0thing 15y ago
  Congrats on the success! A simple, elegant app that just gets shit done -- and with a revenue model. Bit of a blast from the past here, but I want to thank you for some unintentional inspiration you gave me 6 years ago when Steve & I launched reddit. You see, I've always kept a "wall of negative reinforcement" (basically negative commentary that I print out and stick on the wall) that I find quite inspiring. You deleted the post, but "Y Combinator’s 2005 Summer Founders Program: A Complete Dud" was one of the things that always gave me a boost during some of reddit's darker days. http://web.archive.org/web/20050813233842/http://tech.rufy.com/entry/80 http://web.archive.org/web/20050813233842/http://tech.rufy.c... It may sound ridiculous, but I really do appreciate it. I've been fortunate to have had immensely supportive people in my life - namely my parents - yet I've always relished criticism & negative feedback (maybe it's from growing up with a girl's name?) as motivation to push myself harder to better both my work and myself. Thank you.
  - staunch 15y ago
    I won't be as kind since he doesn't seem to have learned not to be a jerk about other people's startups: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1214068 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1214068 One would expect just a little humility: http://www.google.com/trends?q=reddit%2C+pinboard http://www.google.com/trends?q=reddit%2C+pinboard
  - gruseom 15y ago
    Those aren't the same people. The post is an interesting specimen, though. Presumably the first harangue ever written about YC (avant la lettre!), and covers many of the bases, including you-call-that-a-startup-I-could-have-written-that-over-the-weekend and you'll-never-make-a-business-out-of-it.
  - idlewords 15y ago
    I think you may have me confused with someone else. I rolled my eyes at Reddit back when you launched (thinking it was yet another Delicious clone :-) ) but fortunately never put those sentiments in writing, so I didn't have anything to recant when I changed my mind a couple of years later. The post you cite seems to be by some guy named Lucas?
    - kn0thing 15y ago
      Sorry! I fell down the rabbit hole of Internet surfing and totally botched the link - I'd found this entry from your delicious bookmark: http://www.delicious.com/search?p=summer+flounders&chk=&context=userposts|maciej|&fr=del_icio_us&lc= http://www.delicious.com/search?p=summer+flounders&chk=&... Back then I was actively monitoring the delicious bookmark for reddit.com and your note had made me chuckle.

by shii 15y ago

idlewords 15y ago

Thank you!

kn0thing 15y ago
Congrats on the success! A simple, elegant app that just gets shit done -- and with a revenue model. Bit of a blast from the past here, but I want to thank you for some unintentional inspiration you gave me 6 years ago when Steve & I launched reddit. You see, I've always kept a "wall of negative reinforcement" (basically negative commentary that I print out and stick on the wall) that I find quite inspiring. You deleted the post, but "Y Combinator’s 2005 Summer Founders Program: A Complete Dud" was one of the things that always gave me a boost during some of reddit's darker days. http://web.archive.org/web/20050813233842/http://tech.rufy.com/entry/80 http://web.archive.org/web/20050813233842/http://tech.rufy.c... It may sound ridiculous, but I really do appreciate it. I've been fortunate to have had immensely supportive people in my life - namely my parents - yet I've always relished criticism & negative feedback (maybe it's from growing up with a girl's name?) as motivation to push myself harder to better both my work and myself. Thank you.
- staunch 15y ago
  I won't be as kind since he doesn't seem to have learned not to be a jerk about other people's startups: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1214068 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1214068 One would expect just a little humility: http://www.google.com/trends?q=reddit%2C+pinboard http://www.google.com/trends?q=reddit%2C+pinboard
- gruseom 15y ago
  Those aren't the same people. The post is an interesting specimen, though. Presumably the first harangue ever written about YC (avant la lettre!), and covers many of the bases, including you-call-that-a-startup-I-could-have-written-that-over-the-weekend and you'll-never-make-a-business-out-of-it.
- idlewords 15y ago
  I think you may have me confused with someone else. I rolled my eyes at Reddit back when you launched (thinking it was yet another Delicious clone :-) ) but fortunately never put those sentiments in writing, so I didn't have anything to recant when I changed my mind a couple of years later. The post you cite seems to be by some guy named Lucas?
  - kn0thing 15y ago
    Sorry! I fell down the rabbit hole of Internet surfing and totally botched the link - I'd found this entry from your delicious bookmark: http://www.delicious.com/search?p=summer+flounders&chk=&context=userposts|maciej|&fr=del_icio_us&lc= http://www.delicious.com/search?p=summer+flounders&chk=&... Back then I was actively monitoring the delicious bookmark for reddit.com and your note had made me chuckle.