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Ask PG: what happened with SkySheet?
They were part of the Winter 2009 group and were working on a web-based spreadsheet service. The website (http://www.skysheet.com/) suggests they haven't launched yet, and there's very little information available regarding current progress.
- ig1 13y agoGiven the founders now work at different companies I'd assume it's dead.
- tptacek 13y agoWhat makes you think that? Daniel Gackle posts here all the time, and last time I talked to him he was still working on it. Some projects take a lot longer than others, and his was particularly ambitious; it wasn't Google Docs.
- ig1 13y agoVlad (the other cofounder) now appears to work for ZestFinance according to Linkedin. Daniel's profile is private on linkedin but doesn't show Skysheet in his headline (which I believe it used to). Startups can survive once the founders have moved on to working on something else full time, but in practice the survival rate of such startups is tiny.
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- gruseom 13y agoDaniel just can't be bothered to deal with LinkedIn. If there's a headline, it ought to say "Programmer at Skysheet".
- gruseom 13y agoNo, it's just that Daniel can't be bothered to deal with LinkedIn. I did just go and change the headline, though. Or tried to—they don't make it easy! Vladimir worked with me on an early incarnation of the program but left before we incorporated the company or applied to YC. He's very good.
- gruseom 13y agoGood grief, I'm on HN this much and miss it when someone posts about my own startup? Skysheet is alive. It's taking so long because it's hard, yet mysteriously doable, so (assuming sufficient stubbornness) there is reason to keep going. There's little information because we don't want to let the 'talk' part get ahead of the 'show' part--not out of stealth, really, it just feels like the right way to be. But if anyone has questions, I'm happy to answer.