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Oh, I can outdo you! Many years ago I did an upstart that was a combination of delicious and facebook, using bayesian filtering to locate links and people you
by mixmax 14y ago
Oh, I can outdo you!
Many years ago I did an upstart that was a combination of delicious and facebook, using bayesian filtering to locate links and people you might be interested in from what you posted yourself. Incredibly clever product. Before Google had even thought of pagerank. We got funding, we had great engineers, and I was the CEO.
But you know what? We never launched. We ran out of money before we got that far.
You launched - I didn't.
Congratulations! You've made it further than most.
- philjackson 14y agoCan we hear more?
- mixmax 14y agoIf you're ever in Copenhagen and buy me a beer I'll talk all night :-)
- maxk42 14y agoYou still got the source?
- shelf 14y agoMixMax, as in the cakes? You wonderful human being. Those cakes rock my world.
- mixmax 14y agoI had no idea it was a cake - it's just a silly name I thought up 2024 days ago when making an account for some strange newfangled startup site I'd found through reddit. :-)
- najamkhn 14y agoMy wife made a baby too, but we never launched either. Congrats bud! atleast you did.
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- jf22 14y agoIn running we say it doesn't matter how fast you went or how far you ran. You still lapped everybody on the couch.
- ChrisNorstrom 14y agoPffffft. Oh Please... You got funding. That means you at least convinced someone to trust you with money. I sold 250 calendars (147 on Fab.com, 103 on http://DayOnePP.com http://DayOnePP.com) and didn't make a single penny of profit. In fact I LOST $300+ dollars somehow. That's how bad I am at sales (and account management apparently). Ya'll got further than I did. I think I belong in Product Design & Development and away from money. Chaddeshon your landing page doesn't have a call to action above the fold. You're missing out on a lot of signups like that. (I can design but I couldn't sell ice water to people in hell)