akrymski

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   by akrymski 13y ago

   Finally someone who gets it. "Tech startup" has become a term that gets thrown around way too much. Let's face the facts - every business utilizes technology in this day and age. Is ToysRUs (toys) a tech company? Or Airbnb (real estate)
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   by akrymski 14y ago

   Thanks for the downvotes ;) Its a classical greek tragedy - hubris in action. When you think your launch will be as big as Instagram and Zuckerberg will take you out to lunch next week you're destined to loose faith and self-esteem post la
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   by akrymski 14y ago

   I'm sure quite EveryMe was in beta for a while. PG and most others tell you to launch "too early" for a reason. Waiting around until you feel "100% sure" is like Steve Jobs giving out the iPhone to everyone he meets before launch :)
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   by akrymski 14y ago

   The post is about the launch of EveryMe, not the social network for families. EveryMe is a general purpose group messaging platform, and like WhatsApp/Kik/etc probably needs network effects I'd have thought.
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   by akrymski 14y ago

   Oliver, to me the post reads as "we've launched with lots of PR but failed to get the traction we were hoping for, so don't bother with PR". It borders on blaming the press for lack of market fit. I'm not saying the world doesn't need a so
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   by akrymski 14y ago

   You can't ever be 100% sure you have a valid product before launch. Especially with something that needs network effects to work. Just launch it and see if it sticks. I don't think the vision was clouded by the big launch, only the dream
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   by akrymski 14y ago

   A press mention always leads to a spike in traffic / sign-ups. This shouldn't be surprising. I was one of those people who tried EveryMe when it came out. I simply didn't see what problem it was solving. It was overhyped and not very us
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   by akrymski 14y ago

   I'm afraid bitcoin will always be too volatile to be used as a currency because it's not backed by anything, and can't be inflated/deflated. The government actually serves a useful function by controlling money in circulation, even though
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   by akrymski 14y ago

   Congrats on launching! We've had to build a lot of this ourselves internally, and all the time were thinking if there's value in it for others. This is a very interesting space indeed and I do believe that it's the future. The real quest
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    so bots can sign up easily: while (true) { hoodie.account.signUp(_.uniqueId() + '@gmail.com', _.uniqueId()) } great effort though, but I still don't think you've got client/server separation right. we've built something very similar over
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    I've always thought that a spreadsheet/db hybrid would be an interesting idea for a startup, but surprisingly none of them ever took off: DabbleDB had a great UI http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/Dabble-DB-Bridges-Database... http://www.
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    Thank you Heather! I could never be bothered to remember the commands for the swiss knife that is sed to do something as simple as this. Why I love this: - js syntax for regular expressions is what I'm most familiar with - defaultignore i
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    Thats great! What features in particular excite you? As a personal user my guess is you don't care much about collaboration, but more about security & mobile access?
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    you could have just asked :) see the post below - it outlines the libs used, the rest probably aren't the best choices anyhow, took 2 days to put this together so it's hardly an example to follow :)
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    It's a hosted service, we have no plans for a downloadable version for now.
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    sure, that's coming in the future
17. 467.▲
    by akrymski 14y ago

    It's an mvp at this stage, if we introduce paid plans we'll stick around :) For now we're using it ourselves if that's any consolation
18. 468.▲
    by akrymski 14y ago

    meanwhile you can use /wiki/password-page-name
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    share.js (and its dependencies - redis, socket.io), prettify, showdown, etc. it's really simple, not much to write-up I'm afraid :)
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    sorry, fixed
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    Thanks! How many dollars per month would you pay for something like this?)
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    great idea, will do today
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    Thanks, we've built it for ourselves and wanted to see if anyone else would be interested first. Would happily add accounts and charge a small subscription fee for it. How many dollars per month would it be worth to you?)
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    Sorry for the URL - admittedly we didn't spend long on it :)
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    Thanks for your feedback. We've built it for ourselves initially, didn't give the name much thought. Will have to see where it goes.
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    ha, thanks for spotting that bug, yeah its the gesture library causing issues ... fixed now.
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    thanks! node.js
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    We may open source it later if we have time to clean up the code :)
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    the URL is random so it's harder to crack than a password, but you're right - we'll be adding proper 'accounts' later, and some more features if necessary - it's an MVP at this stage.
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    by akrymski 14y ago

    thanks for the comment! You don't need to go anywhere - it creates a random URL for you so you can just edit the wiki and bookmark it. At this point its an MVP - if people like it we'll add more features :)