MatthewB

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by MatthewB 15y ago
These are great points and a good portion of piraters do so for these exact reasons. There are always going to be people who steal content/apps instead of paying for them but I am sure more than a few people pirate purely because it is a be
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by MatthewB 15y ago
Dang..you've been working on this for a while. Why did you give up?
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by MatthewB 15y ago
Thinking in the most simplistic form possible - how about engineers just doing what makes them the most happy? Forget about whether we could provide more value at an established company. Maybe building our own products is our passion. That
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by MatthewB 15y ago
I'm having authentication problems.
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by MatthewB 15y ago
I had this exact same idea about 8 months ago - connecting singles around events. I was a little more focused on bringing local businesses into the mix to promote the events though. I thought through it quite and bit and my conclusion was t
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Becoming a Tech Cofounder(mberman.tumblr.com)
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by MatthewB 15y ago
I've been writing with Ruby on Rails for about a year now. When I first started I had not coded much for a while so I was very rusty at coding in general. In my opinion, rails had an extremely high learning curve. It took me a long time jus
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by MatthewB 15y ago
I believe this is a smart move by paypal. For the most part, they are a trusted brand on the Internet. The few aspects I don't like are the domain name x.com and the actual website occupying that domain. x.com to me is too close to xxx.com
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by MatthewB 15y ago
I really like it. As a github newbie I think the new nav bar layout is much cleaner, especially the commits/branches section. Well done.
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by MatthewB 15y ago
I use Dreamhost for my little sites that I don't pay much attention to and AWS for anything bigger. I recently deployed some rails apps on Heroku and have been loving it so I will probably be using that for a while.
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by MatthewB 15y ago
This is what Google did too. So, basically, Google and Amazon both linked to Apple.com from their respective homepages. I'm sure Apple's servers are beefy but they must have been getting slammed.
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by MatthewB 15y ago
I still can't believe Steve Jobs is gone. I don't think I've ever felt this sad about someone I've never met. I always thought I would meet Steve eventually, especially since I finally moved to Silicon Valley recently. He will always be my
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by MatthewB 15y ago
They didn't have many other options with Spotify being free and ad-supported. Good move by Rdio, this model works for the majority of users. I'm not sure if the music industry is being dragged into this model kicking and screaming or they f
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by MatthewB 15y ago
I (along with countless other people) lost a hero today. Steve Jobs was the person who inspired me to join the tech industry. I first really knew who Steve Jobs was after watching the (not so bad) made-for-tv movie "Pirates of Silicon Valle
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by MatthewB 15y ago
Josh - the part that resonated with me the most is your developer keeping you waiting and pushing back deadlines with poor excuses. Like you said, these are big red flags. You mentioned getting sidetracked by learning rails instead of meeti
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by MatthewB 15y ago
This type of stuff happens all the time. It is the result of completely depending on a technical cofounder. Never, ever do that. This happened to me with one of my products. I am a hacker but the level of expertise the product needed was be
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by MatthewB 15y ago
>>If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough.<< This is a crucial piece of advice. A few months ago I remember Jeff Bezos caught some flack because Amazon wasn't failing enough, which
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by MatthewB 15y ago
If you look at the most recent YC batch, you will notice that a lot of the startup ideas could have just been features of other products. The point is a lot of these initial startup ideas aren't going to be game changers but with the right
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by MatthewB 15y ago
I expected the majority of people to say they lack a co-founder, not an idea. Ideas are pretty easy to come by from my experience. Finding someone who compliments your skill set, is ready to go "all in" with you, and you actually click with
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by MatthewB 15y ago
Nothing surprising here. The money is in the data and the more data Facebook generates about its users, the better targeting options advertisers have.
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by MatthewB 15y ago
I created an app just to test the process with Heroku as I'm sure countless others did.
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by MatthewB 15y ago
I keep hearing about how blue light in the morning helps you wake up and have more energy throughout the day. Does anyone have experience with this product: http://www.amazon.com/Philips-goLITE-BLU-Therapy-Device/dp/B...
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by MatthewB 15y ago
Cool site, needs some visual work but the idea is there. I have the same question as other people - how are you pulling this data? One thing you definitely need on the front page is gender selection. Gender instantly changes the price of in
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by MatthewB 15y ago
I can imagine how nervous you must have been in front of PG and especially in front of an audience. I applaud you for even getting up there to take criticism so publicly.
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by MatthewB 15y ago
MatthewPhillips - To answer your question I purchased an Apple TV (the original one) a while ago so I could rent movies from iTunes and play them on my TV. I also liked streaming my music to my surround sound system on my TV. I never used t
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by MatthewB 15y ago
I'm in the same boat as you. I cut the cord about 5 months ago and haven't looked back. I have Netflix and Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Apple TV. I know I am missing out on a lot of great content and it pisses me off...until I get my bill, which
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by MatthewB 15y ago
Checked out double recall, seems interesting but at the same time it seems like a combination of in-line text ads and interstitials. I am sure it will catch people's attention having to type in a product name or words related to a product b
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by MatthewB 15y ago
For "fix advertising," Munch on Me and Groupon were listed. I'm trying to figure out how these two companies have fixed advertising and I just can't. I don't even know why they are mentioned with regards to advertising. There's still so muc
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by MatthewB 15y ago
I had the same problem except compounded by the fact that I have a dog! Basically, hammer the emails and phone calls and eventually you will find something (craigslist). I moved here from LA so I was looking for a place without actually bei
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by MatthewB 15y ago
Yes, very pretty site. This is a great idea for a startup, congrats.

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