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Need a partner to apply to YC with? Fill out your half of the app and find like minded people

34 points by bokonist 19y ago

rokhayakebe 19y ago
ou should connect with hacktracker and see what you guys can do together as far as mashing up your services
dottertrotter 19y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Bokonist feel free to email me and we might be able to set something up. bradleyt (dot) marsh (at) gmail. I'm the one who built hackrtrackr by the way.
dpapathanasiou 19y ago
It's a good idea, and fills a real need (I say that as a doomed, not-a-genius single founder myself), but I think you'd get more people willing to post if you asked for less information on the form. The form should have just two questions, really: "What are some ideas you are interested in working on?" and an email address. Potential partners can discuss all the other details between themselves.
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- tocomment 19y ago
  I like it the way it is.
  - dpapathanasiou 19y ago
    For a guy who has no information about himself on his site's "About" page, you're awfully comfortable with other people publicly posting lots of data about themselves. ;) Seriously, though, I know that form is based on the YC application, but YC doesn't make applications public. Asking that much is going to make people who would otherwise fill out that form hesitate (it's one reason I haven't posted there myself, for example).
    - Tichy 19y ago
      Can't you just leave the questions blank, if you don't like them?
      - dpapathanasiou 19y ago
        Possibly; I didn't try it, though.
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whacked_new 19y ago
small mistake: submission form asks winter commitment but front page shows summer commitment
curi 19y ago
Why would we want to use your messaging system instead of just posting our email address?
cellis 19y ago
I thought it was good. I posted my info.
Alex3917 19y ago
@dcurtis http://www.oceansalive.org/eat.cfm?subnav=fishpage&fish=154 http://www.oceansalive.org/eat.cfm?subnav=fishpage&fish=... Not only is bluefin tuna overfished and in danger of extinction, but it's extremely high in mercury and PCBs as well.
- dcurtis 19y ago
  That's pretty disturbing. But it tastes soooo good. And actually, I think the blue fin tuna used in sushi is actually not from the "blue fin tuna" that you linked to. But I'm not entirely sure.
  - Alex3917 19y ago
    Well I'm not going to tell you not to order it because it's overfished, but you should seriously watch out because of the mercury. I know about a lot of really rich people who ate sushi a couple times a week when it first came to the US. Then they started having their hands shake and having all these weird neurological problem. Turned out to be the mercury, so now they aren't allowed to eat fish at all and they have to have all this crazy medical treatment.

34 points by bokonist 19y ago

ou should connect with hacktracker and see what you guys can do together as far as mashing up your services

I was thinking the same thing. Bokonist feel free to email me and we might be able to set something up. bradleyt (dot) marsh (at) gmail. I'm the one who built hackrtrackr by the way.

dpapathanasiou 19y ago

It's a good idea, and fills a real need (I say that as a doomed, not-a-genius single founder myself), but I think you'd get more people willing to post if you asked for less information on the form. The form should have just two questions, really: "What are some ideas you are interested in working on?" and an email address. Potential partners can discuss all the other details between themselves.

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tocomment 19y ago
I like it the way it is.
- dpapathanasiou 19y ago
  For a guy who has no information about himself on his site's "About" page, you're awfully comfortable with other people publicly posting lots of data about themselves. ;) Seriously, though, I know that form is based on the YC application, but YC doesn't make applications public. Asking that much is going to make people who would otherwise fill out that form hesitate (it's one reason I haven't posted there myself, for example).
  - Tichy 19y ago
    Can't you just leave the questions blank, if you don't like them?
    - dpapathanasiou 19y ago
      Possibly; I didn't try it, though.

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whacked_new 19y ago

small mistake: submission form asks winter commitment but front page shows summer commitment

curi 19y ago

Why would we want to use your messaging system instead of just posting our email address?

cellis 19y ago

I thought it was good. I posted my info.

Alex3917 19y ago

@dcurtis http://www.oceansalive.org/eat.cfm?subnav=fishpage&fish=154 http://www.oceansalive.org/eat.cfm?subnav=fishpage&fish=... Not only is bluefin tuna overfished and in danger of extinction, but it's extremely high in mercury and PCBs as well.

dcurtis 19y ago
That's pretty disturbing. But it tastes soooo good. And actually, I think the blue fin tuna used in sushi is actually not from the "blue fin tuna" that you linked to. But I'm not entirely sure.
- Alex3917 19y ago
  Well I'm not going to tell you not to order it because it's overfished, but you should seriously watch out because of the mercury. I know about a lot of really rich people who ate sushi a couple times a week when it first came to the US. Then they started having their hands shake and having all these weird neurological problem. Turned out to be the mercury, so now they aren't allowed to eat fish at all and they have to have all this crazy medical treatment.