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Starting Up, One Year Later: Chasing Dragons
- joepestro 17y agoI'm looking forward to this series. So, am I reading this right? TicketStumbler has become a maintenance project for a summer intern?
- tdavis 17y agoYou didn't read far enough ;) It wasn't my intention to make that seem literal; I am still very much committed to working on and improving the site. I was merely speaking to a sentiment that I feel many developers experience as time goes by.
- mlinsey 17y agoHope ticketstumbler works out in the long term; if it doesn't or if you have a successful exit, looks like you could consider the PG route of becoming a writer.
- tdavis 17y agoI think I'd have to know something to be a writer like PG, though I suppose I could just make it up ;) I very much appreciate the compliment, though!
- vaksel 17y agoAre there any legal obligations to YC etc, to continue working on the project?
- tdavis 17y agoI don't think so. It hasn't really come up, as neither of us have plans to stop.
- zackattack 17y agoA cool feature: where can I go tonight for $x?
- tdavis 17y agoThe problem with that is most tickets won't get to you that day unless you pick them up, and most sites stop selling them a ways before the event just to avoid issues where you don't receive them. Maybe "Where can I go this weekend for $X"?
- greyboy 17y agoExcuse my ignorance per this industry, but what about a Will Call or prepaid option for the scenario zackattack mentioned?
- fallentimes 17y agoNo problem and the they are getting better with this. Stubhub and some of the other providers offer etickets (they email you the tickets). Stubhub also has something called Last Minute Services where you can pick up the tickets up until game time. Unfortunately, they don't do this for most events.
- il 17y agoI would love to see more "one year later" type pieces from other YC startups, I'm sure theres a wealth of useful information in the direct experience of startup founders.
- tdavis 17y agoBuy lots of tickets through us; I will convince them it is in their best interest ;)
- ojbyrne 17y agoIt sounds like this is the part where the dream gets replaced by the job. With luck and a bunch of work it can switch back.
- noaharc 17y agoEveryone hears the "good" about startup life, but it isn't all good. But that doesn't mean you quit, either. +1
- jasonkester 17y agoWell said. The world is full of shiny new things to play with, as well as consulting clients who pay real money right now. It's tough to stay focused in the face of all that. But it's a game of inches. Every little bit of polish will get you a little closer to where you want to be. Every one of those annoying edge case bugs you squash gains you another inch. Sure, it doesn't seem like you're moving fast like you were a year ago (it certainly doesn't for me), but you're moving. You have to. Because if you stop you die.
- unbannable 17y agoThis is why documentation and unit-testing are important. It's not the exciting part, but if they're not done well, you have no hope of being able to hand the refinement/bug-chasing aspect of the project down to someone else.