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Because 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

Because 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 ago
I'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 ago
  It 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 ago
    For example?
    - nostrademons 19y ago
      Reddit, LiveJournal, FaceBook?
      - pc 19y ago
        You can criticise many aspects of Facebook... but it does a lot of impressive things.
        irrelative 19y ago
        Actually? I sort of think that facebook's impressiveness is in its ability to scale the features so nicely. I don't think there are any features on facebook that couldn't be made by your average ycombinator news reader (they might be slow as all hell, but I bet most of us could create working demos of most features).
        pc 19y ago
        Facebook does a lot of almost invisible but extremely smart things. Two examples: when you specify the type of relationship when adding a friend, Facebook uses the info to decide how much information to present about the person in your news feed. Or when two people list themselves as being in a relationship, Facebook will show the most recent picture of the two together (if such a picture exists, and privacy permissions permit it in your case). Nothing fancy. Just extremely well thought out.
      - brett 19y ago
        Wow. I can't remember ever seeing a negative nostrademons comment. Obviously that's not earth shattering but it is feeling like downvoting is more generally on the rise around here.
axod 19y ago
easy to test because it doesn't do much...
- palish 19y ago
  Neither did the first iPod. Edit: Okay, okay, sheesh, I'm not insulting it. I meant that it had one feature, which was to play music. It did exactly what it needed to do and no more. That's all I'm saying.
  - thomasptacek 19y ago
    You mean besides fitting ten CD cases worth of music into something that fit in your pocket? What a silly argument.
    - palish 19y ago
      We're talking focus. The iPod wasn't especially innovative, but it was extremely focused on exactly one thing: playing music. And that focus was executed perfectly. Having an extremely narrow focus isn't a bad thing, so to use the statement "it doesn't do much" to suggest that Jottit a bad product seems weak.
      - rms 19y ago
        and the iPod was the first hard drive based MP3 player to use the new 1.8" hard drive.
      - thomasptacek 19y ago
        All due respect to aaronsw, but, the iPod's "one feature" was EXTREMELY FUCKING IMPRESSIVE. Help me understand what's impressive about this site, other than that it still has me talking about it hours after its launch?
        palish 19y ago
        I said exactly one thing: Suggesting "a product has a narrow focus" == "a product is bad" is lame. I didn't compare Jottit to the iPod, I compared the number of features. There's a subtle difference. Also, sorry for the 'hominem, but it's people like you that turned Reddit into Digg. Keep your fucking language clean, your caps lock off, and your rhetorical questions to yourself, or get out. This is not Slashdot. It's really sad that you act like a total troll since you're an excellent hacker, judging by http://www.matasano.com/log/thomas-ptacek http://www.matasano.com/log/thomas-ptacek I know you have more to contribute to News.YC than your ego and your snarky remarks. Try harder.

thomasptacek 19y ago

I'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 ago
It 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 ago
  For example?
  - nostrademons 19y ago
    Reddit, LiveJournal, FaceBook?
    - pc 19y ago
      You can criticise many aspects of Facebook... but it does a lot of impressive things.
      - irrelative 19y ago
        Actually? I sort of think that facebook's impressiveness is in its ability to scale the features so nicely. I don't think there are any features on facebook that couldn't be made by your average ycombinator news reader (they might be slow as all hell, but I bet most of us could create working demos of most features).
        pc 19y ago
        Facebook does a lot of almost invisible but extremely smart things. Two examples: when you specify the type of relationship when adding a friend, Facebook uses the info to decide how much information to present about the person in your news feed. Or when two people list themselves as being in a relationship, Facebook will show the most recent picture of the two together (if such a picture exists, and privacy permissions permit it in your case). Nothing fancy. Just extremely well thought out.
    - brett 19y ago
      Wow. I can't remember ever seeing a negative nostrademons comment. Obviously that's not earth shattering but it is feeling like downvoting is more generally on the rise around here.

axod 19y ago

easy to test because it doesn't do much...

palish 19y ago
Neither did the first iPod. Edit: Okay, okay, sheesh, I'm not insulting it. I meant that it had one feature, which was to play music. It did exactly what it needed to do and no more. That's all I'm saying.
- thomasptacek 19y ago
  You mean besides fitting ten CD cases worth of music into something that fit in your pocket? What a silly argument.
  - palish 19y ago
    We're talking focus. The iPod wasn't especially innovative, but it was extremely focused on exactly one thing: playing music. And that focus was executed perfectly. Having an extremely narrow focus isn't a bad thing, so to use the statement "it doesn't do much" to suggest that Jottit a bad product seems weak.
    - rms 19y ago
      and the iPod was the first hard drive based MP3 player to use the new 1.8" hard drive.
    - thomasptacek 19y ago
      All due respect to aaronsw, but, the iPod's "one feature" was EXTREMELY FUCKING IMPRESSIVE. Help me understand what's impressive about this site, other than that it still has me talking about it hours after its launch?
      - palish 19y ago
        I said exactly one thing: Suggesting "a product has a narrow focus" == "a product is bad" is lame. I didn't compare Jottit to the iPod, I compared the number of features. There's a subtle difference. Also, sorry for the 'hominem, but it's people like you that turned Reddit into Digg. Keep your fucking language clean, your caps lock off, and your rhetorical questions to yourself, or get out. This is not Slashdot. It's really sad that you act like a total troll since you're an excellent hacker, judging by http://www.matasano.com/log/thomas-ptacek http://www.matasano.com/log/thomas-ptacek I know you have more to contribute to News.YC than your ego and your snarky remarks. Try harder.