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Founders at Work: AppJet Takes Off

• johnrob 19y ago
  Wow! Judging by those credentials, maybe VCs are the easier route to funding for hackers! Very impressive team and product.
• sanj 19y ago
  A minor nit. The 6.270 content is only partly a programming contest: the contest has students design, build and program LEGO based robots. Way cooler than just programming. As a bonus it is organized and run entirely by students. I took the class in '93 and helped teach it a couple of years after that; it was a fantastic experience from both sides.
  • dskhatri 19y ago
    Maybe she meant 6.370 (http://battlecode.mit.edu/2008/ http://battlecode.mit.edu/2008/)?
    • sanj 19y ago
      You're totally right. A little Googling would have filled me in. I was just excited to see 6.270 up in lights!
  • jl 19y ago
    Yes, my typo. It was the 6.370 contest.
• whacked_new 19y ago
  I'm extremely envious (in a good way) that Aaron and David were friends since grades school and were at the same time brilliant people at similar calibers, and went to the same college and studied programming together! Having a friend like that is better than winning the lottery.
• food79 19y ago
  Ladies and gentlemen, the submarine in action. How many media hits are we going to have for AppJet? AppJet does seem pretty cool though. I wonder what happens if your app really takes off though? AppJet will own you.
  • pg 19y ago
    Appjet doesn't have a PR firm, and neither does YC.
    • mrevelle 19y ago
      In a way, YC is a PR firm and Hacker News is its primary outlet.
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• dima 19y ago
  With SimpleDB (combined with EC2), building and scaling a service like AppJet just got a whole lot easier.
• initself 19y ago
  Is that PG in the background of that picture?
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  • hhm 19y ago
    So it seems...