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Watching Songkick Demo At Y Combinator
- blored 19y agokeep 'em coming, it looks like they are in pg's basement, nice.
- portLAN 19y agoOh my gosh, now that you mention it, it does look like when Cartman has secret meetings in the basement.
- rms 19y agowith more expensive folding chairs
- mynameishere 19y agoLooks like they're in Hitler's basement. Whoops, just killed the thread.
- mynameishere 19y agoAlways bothers me when a joke (even a not-especially-funny one) gets downmodded. Humor deprivation is a disease. What's the problem? It does look like Hitler's basement (ie bunker). It looks like they're in a wartime bunker, probably with bombs going off overhead, all the while blissfully demoing web applications. It seems absurd to me.
- pg 19y agoI have to admit here that our nickname for the building among the YC partners is "the bunker," because it is a low concrete block building in a neighborhood of wooden houses.
- ivankirigin 19y agoIt's to sheild your friends from the next dot-domb! zing!
- pg 19y agoThat is weird. From that angle, with the skylights covered, the place does look like a basement. It looks better in the image that used to be on our front page: http://ycombinator.com/images/ycoffice2776-400.jpg http://ycombinator.com/images/ycoffice2776-400.jpg
- champion 19y agoThat's the north cambridge office. The photo makes it look more drab that it is. It has this funky 2nd floor kitchette thing -- looks like Fred took the photo from teh stairs going up to it.
- parker 19y agoJust a quick thought: does YC provide any presentation coaching before DD? I can't think of one topic that sends people into fits faster than public speaking! IMO, it's a skill that should be practiced as much as possible, but real opportunities are rare...
- rms 19y agoMy best tip for public speaking: speak loudly. Don't scream, but it makes you stand out and seem incredibly confident if you're just speaking louder (more loudly?) than everyone else. This, of course, takes a certain amount of confidence to do.
- Goladus 19y agoPersonally I'd recommend "deeper" (if possible) and "more relaxed" before "louder." At least, that is what you want for an English-speaking audience. If you're loud but your voice is nasal or shrill then you may have the opposite effect. A deep, relaxed, resonant voice conveys the assurance and confidence you're looking for. People associate it with maturity, wisdom, and masculinity (Think Morgan Freeman or James Earl Jones). People associate a shallow, shrill, nasal voice with a whining child. Most people can also recognize tension unconsciously. The key to speaking with resonance is slow, relaxed, deep breathing (sort of like Yoga breathing). This has the nice side effect of helping you stay relaxed.
- parker 19y agoThis is very true -- I always have an amazing tendency to talk faster than normal when presenting, and I find that taking the time to calm yourself before talking is effective. But you can always seem to catch people's eccentricities too; I always seem to end up scratching my right ear while talking, and have no idea I was doing it until people ask why my ear was so itchy. I'll try deeper tones in the future. Darth Vader gets respect, period.
- rms 19y agoThat is definitely good advice, the loud thing doesn't work if you're uncomfortably tense.
- palish 19y agoWhat's Songkick all about? The title sounds cool.