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Aaron Swartz's Jottit has been officially released
"Hi there. Sorry to bother you, but you asked me
to send you an email when Jottit was out for you
to take a look at. Well, after a lot of hard work
by my creators, Simon Carstensen and Aaron Swartz,
I'm happy to say that things are finally ready.
Take a look at
http://jottit.com/ http://jottit.com/
and let me know what you think. (Just reply to
this email!)
Thanks so much,
- Jottit.com"
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- forgotmylastone 19y agoNow maybe his co-founder will leave, and the founders of Digg will be so impressed that they invite him to be a co-founder--on equal terms.
- palish 19y agoOh, give it a rest. At least Aaron's still creating value even though he's already rich. He could just sit by the pool all day.
- bluishgreen 19y agoHe could have or he could waste his time. He chose the later and why is that impressive?
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- electric 19y agoThat really was the deal of a lifetime. No vesting needed -- here's a third of the equity upfront. w00t!
- pg 19y agoThat's how any merger works.
- thomasptacek 19y agoNo, it isn't.
- alaskamiller 19y agoyou called out pg. the universe is now collapsing.
- pg 19y agoIn a true merger, you can't have vesting for the people from just one of the incoming companies, as you might if you were hiring someone or doing an acquisition. The reddits would have had to make their own stock vest in order to make Aaron's.
- thomasptacek 19y agoCan I ask why they would have had to do that?
- electric 19y agoIt surprises me that the co-founders of reddit did not have a vesting arrangement in place in case one of them decided to drop out halfway for whatever reason well beyond their control. It's good that things worked out well for them. Did Aaron bring anything to the merger other than his future effort -- like some code that was ready to drop into reddit?
- moonman 19y agoWhat universal business maxim dictates that? As long as everyone agrees to the conditions of the contract before being signed.
- henning 19y agoAllows links, doesn't have nofollow or CAPTCHAs in place. Anyone wanna take bets on how long before it turns into a giant cesspool of spam?
- pg 19y agoI'm sure they'll make links nofollow. It's not hard.
- sverrejoh 19y agoIt's very easy, but doing so degrades the value of the site for honest users.
- mojuba 19y agoSince Jottit doesn't link to its users' pages, their rank in the beginning is 0, and so is their attractiveness for spammers. Once Jottit builds a catalogue of user pages, it's dead.
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- mojuba 19y agoIf they build a list of links to users' pages somewhere on the main site, which presumably has a solid PageRank (I'm sure it will after some time), that would automatically boost users' PRs as well, no matter what's on the pages. And so the spam flood will begin.
- mojuba 19y agoIf the site grows big enough, some significant part of spam would be easy to filter out statistically.
- nickb 19y agoEasy? Please enlighten me what's so easy about filtering spam these days...
- thomasptacek 19y agoWhy is this interesting?
- irrelative 19y agoBecause it is probably the easiest site to test out that I've encountered. I've never demoed a site and had it be so easy to get up and running. It should be a model in user interface. The reason it's interesting here is that it was partially made by a well known y-combinator person (who also worked on reddit).
- thomasptacek 19y agoI'm not being clear. What does this site actually do? All I saw it do was echo the text I entered back at me, and store it the equivalent of a tinyurl.
- andreyf 19y agoIt can password protect it, and you can link things from page to page. Some of the best sites don't do anything "impressive", really...
- thomasptacek 19y agoFor example?
- nostrademons 19y agoReddit, LiveJournal, FaceBook?
- pc 19y agoYou can criticise many aspects of Facebook... but it does a lot of impressive things.
- dfranke 19y agoDangit, Aaron beat me to the punch with the idea of creating a globally-modifiable page and then later creating an account to claim ownership. The demo I'm working on right now works the same way. I'm still one-uping him, though -- just a button on the front page, no text box.
- mynameishere 19y agoReally? I'm doing the same thing, except it's just a button. When you click the button, a page comes up and says, "You have clicked the button. To click the button again, click the button" When you click the button again, it says, "You have clicked the button again. To click the button again, click the button again." I'm trying to get it down to the absolute minimum of annoying configuration and deployment options. I don't think I'll ever match the masters though: http://www.zombo.com/ http://www.zombo.com/
- dfranke 19y agoYou have way too much text on your front page. It should just say, "Button clicked. Click again to click again." Better yet, why not just click it for them automatically? If they intended to do something else they'd have already gone to another page.
- tocomment 19y agoIt just keeps saying "welcome to zombo.com"
- Tichy 19y agoAlso try this: www.holdthebutton.com
- mojuba 19y agoI'm missing the comment functionality here though. Jottit may become a perfect semi-blogging platform once they add commenting. "Semi" is because articles won't be linked to the date of publishing - something that always annoyed me on all other blogging platforms.
- garbowza 19y agoI too am struggling with the value of this site. However, I think the minimalist design is very compelling.
- crxnamja 19y agoanother pointless project. yawn.
- tx 19y agoAwesome. A Web 2.0 version of 'echo'! My old joke about Web 2.0 version of "hello world" is not funny anymore.
- dhbradshaw 19y agoWhat tx says is funny. The site is absolutely simple. I love it though. I just started learning html and javascript last week and now this thing provides an instant compiler. I change the border size on a table and, BOOM! Right when I finish typing the border shows up with the correct size. I see what it looks like instantly and can change what I want when I want. There isn't any clicking, switching windows, sftp-ing, downloading software, or anything. It's simple and I love it. Since it handles Javascript I now have an instant way to deploy simple functions and tables. I can figure some useful relation, put it up using html and Javascript, and suddenly anyone anywhere has easy access to my results. This thing also provides an instant way to write and test content for Google Gadgets, something even more useful than the editor Google provides. And I think the design is clean, nice, and simple.
- palish 19y agoWoah, you're right. http://jottit.com/s2r9f/ http://jottit.com/s2r9f/ Fun!
- axod 19y agoIf all you want is a preview functionality, how about <textarea name=foo onkeyup="document.getElementById('preview').innerHTML=this.value;"></textarea> <div id=preview></div> Hardly rocketscience is it...
- imp 19y agoI like the user interface a lot. The color scheme picker is sweet, and it's fun to see changes in real time. Since it's so easy to use, I'm sure there will be people who find it useful.
- gustaf 19y agoSo nice and so simple. I'm amazed
- cstejerean 19y agoWow, I'm quite surprised that so few of the people that have commented see the value in this. I just took a look at the site and I have to say it looks awesome and I can definitely see exactly what it was trying to address. It's not a blogging tool and it's not anything like Wikipedia. IMO it's simply a place to take notes, have them be available from anywhere else and I'm guessing to share them with others. As the name implies you simply jot something down. I love the fact that you can do that right on the home page, no annoying clicks. It reminds me of OneNote which I used to use on Windows or Google Notebook.
- dallasrpi 19y agoI'm reminded of the story "The Emperor's New Clothes". Jottit is the emperors invisible clothes.
- kcl 19y agoHey, Google has this same layout but when I click the button it gives me back something useful
- Kaizyn 19y agoThis site is neat in that it works simply. However, since this site is largely geared to hackers AND startup founders, what is its target market and how can they make money off of it? Or is the object here to be purchased by Google or one of the other sites that have bad HTML editors as their default?
- rob 19y agoI don't think Aaron started it with the idea of how to make money from it.
- tiswaldo 19y agoAnyone know what they've written it with?
- ptn 19y agoWhat's the point of Jottit? I don't get it...
- create_account 19y agoAt least you guys got to see it. Right now, this is what http://jottit.com/ http://jottit.com/ says: 500 - Internal Server Error What, no customized error page?
- jamongkad 19y agoI checked it it's up again. Tried using it but I can't seem to find the value in it....
- electric 19y agoI actually like the simplicity and usefulness of this website. Congratulations Aaron -- well done!!
- brlewis 19y agoIt's a good site in its own subtle way, but where's the purple cow?