NewMonarch

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by NewMonarch 1y ago
You’re a few steps ahead of the person who asked that question. Just landed on this page from googling for this very thing. Context Engineering > Prompt Engineering
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by NewMonarch 13y ago
Oh hai. Jon Crawford here (Storenvy founder). Glad to see this post getting some love again. Thanks for the kind words, everyone!
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by NewMonarch 14y ago
Neither gives you a store. Every band, designer, boutique I've ever talked to wants their own store at their own URL that looks like their own brand. Storenvy let's you edit all the HTML and CSS to make your store look however you want. Exa
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by NewMonarch 14y ago
Hey Hacker News! Thanks for the thoughts. Actually, here's how we're thinking about it: Storenvy is a custom store platform first and a marketplace second. Every merchant gets her own fully customizable storefront. We make it easier than an
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by NewMonarch 14y ago
Hi, Jon here! Actually, I'm the technical founder. I'm a Ruby on Rails developer originally (have commits in Rails itself). The other founders were graphic design and sales. For about 6 months (post YC incident), I was doing design, enginee
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by NewMonarch 15y ago
I much prefer Flow by Metalab ( http://getflow.com ). It's virtually the same product only much more fleshed out including a Mac app, an iOS app and more. I tried Asana several months ago but Flow is just miles ahead of where Asansa is toda
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by NewMonarch 16y ago
San Francisco - Frontend Engineer or Ruby Hacker Storenvy, an awesome online storefront builder and social shopping marketplace is hiring Ruby hackers and a front-end engineer. Think of us as "Tumblr for online stores". We're building all k
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by NewMonarch 16y ago
http://www.storenvy.com/help/articles/can-i-use-any-payment-...
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by NewMonarch 16y ago
That's a battle I just don't care about winning. Times were crazy, and missteps and miscommunications may or may not have happened. But I've got nothing but love for these people. Going forward, I'm way more interested in being "a guy with
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by NewMonarch 16y ago
Couldn't agree more. This is about the future! We could sit around and dissect events from the past all day long, but I'm way more interested in building a team and destroying the e-commerce space together. If you're a UI designer or Ruby h
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by NewMonarch 16y ago
Incidentally, the other 2 guys are running a successful t-shirt printing company. You should totally order your swag from them. http://threadbird.com/
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by NewMonarch 16y ago
Yeah it wasn't really like that. The guys were willing to move if they had to. They were willing to make the move and I had no idea they were going to be out until they were. But after getting swept up in everything for a few days preparing
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by NewMonarch 16y ago
A big life decision like that takes at least a few days to process and decide. We had 7. Things got pretty crazy in that week, understandably.
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by NewMonarch 16y ago
FYI, we were all full-time, the business was already profitable and we were all living off of the income it was generating. The startup clearly had legs then and still does.
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by NewMonarch 16y ago
This is covered. We'll be releasing loads of new stuff involving $$ in the coming year. But it's still free!
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by NewMonarch 16y ago
She's amazing.
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by NewMonarch 16y ago
The smiley face/close parenthesis move is completely valid. (Otherwise you get double lips. :))
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by NewMonarch 16y ago
Yeah, but my wife's cute. ;)
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by NewMonarch 16y ago
It was more an issue of timing. The conversations started with my cofounders about 72 hours before the first YC dinner. I was already scheduled to move out of my apartment and had airfare booked. It wasn't until I was literally heading to t
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by NewMonarch 16y ago
I came to SF the first time by myself because I was the hustler in the group. I talked to my team members every day. They knew I was in SF talking to investors and they knew I was interviewing for YC. They just hadn't heard of it until I wa
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by NewMonarch 16y ago
It's hard to say. To be fair, YC never met the rest of my cofounders. I was the only one they'd ever spoken with. - Jon (The guy who wrote this story. :)
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by NewMonarch 16y ago
I look at a YC investment (and most investments made by good angels) as less about the money and more about improving your chances of not dying. When you've got an early company, even if you're as far along as ColourLovers was, the biggest