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Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki(enterprisewiki.co)
56 points by akrymski 14y ago|63 comments
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by akrymski 14y ago
So it's an OS that requires apps to be written in JavaScript (an interpreted language that was designed by Netscape for web scripting and nonprofessional programmers) and HTML (a markup language designed to display static documents in the b
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by akrymski 14y ago
It's not about SaaS vs one-time payments or anything like that. It's about how much value you provide. Mail.app is free, Outlook is free. How much better is Sparrow? Is the improvement worth $60 a year? Cause if it's not worth even $5 a
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by akrymski 14y ago
This kid would definitely make a great marketing person. There's absolutely nothing new in what he's done but he's presenting it really well, thumbs up to his parents who have probably done quite a bit of the work ;) When I was 18 (10 year
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by akrymski 14y ago
I don't know if you're wrong or right, but I'll give a contrarian view cause it may actually help you (instead of just nodding in agreement). Here goes: Make sure you've decided not to go the YC route because you're afraid of responsibilit
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Money as Debt(youtube.com)
2 points by akrymski 14y ago|0 comments
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by akrymski 14y ago
Spot on, this is what we do on www.post.fm (sorry for the plug) - organize your email around people & organizations, and then offer distinct user experiences based on various use cases (going through notifications, participating in thre
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by akrymski 14y ago
A friend of mine has been working on anti-scraping for a while. The question is: is there a market for an anti-scraping service? Would you pay so such a service and how much? Some examples out there: http://blog.cloudflare.com/introduci
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by akrymski 14y ago
Sites like this seem to indicate there are tonnes of fake accounts on Pinterest: www.buyrealpinterestfollowers.com My guess is that the majority of accounts are fake, and most posts are uploaded by spammers. However, this may be not mu
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by akrymski 14y ago
Interestingly enough, even though I don't value Facebook much, it's the only one that would be hard to replace: Google could be replaced with Bing or DuckDuckGo, iPhone with Android, but where will I keep track of all my Facebook friends?
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IPhone, Google, Facebook: Which Would You Give Up?(bloomberg.com)
3 points by akrymski 14y ago|9 comments
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by akrymski 14y ago
Saying Facebook advertising doesn't work is like saying display ads don't work. Sure, the closer you are to the transaction the more value you provide: - Facebook: CPM - bill boards : consumer in the position to buy, but not given it much
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by akrymski 14y ago
Just strange that you don't support offline for web apps, only iOS & Android, even though web apps can use websql. That's probably cause you're used to writing native iOS apps, but we're attempting a web app that works via phonegap acro
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by akrymski 14y ago
Another interesting approach is: - CouchDB - PouchDB: https://github.com/daleharvey/pouchdb - Backbone PouchDB Adapter: https://github.com/jo/backbone-pouchdb But the Map-Reduce paradigm didn't seem to fit well onto our data model.
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by akrymski 14y ago
Guys congrats on the launch! I was wondering what was taking you so long ;) Very exciting stuff! I'm amazed that we're on the same wavelength - we've had to build very similar infrastructure for ourselves for Unipost (www.post.fm). Can't
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by akrymski 14y ago
From giving Spire and Freebase a quick glance, none of these services seem to be designed to work in offline mode. What I'd love to see is a different kind of architecture: a server-less app with its local database (websql or indexedDB) wh
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by akrymski 15y ago
Aren't there two completely separate use cases? 1. Syncing files across different computers: think git for docs. 2. Backing up files: no versioning necessary Price points for these should be different imo. I'd live with a backup that offer
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by akrymski 15y ago
Wouldn't be surprised if 90% of their amazing growth is actually spammers creating accounts by the million daily. The interesting thing is that Pinterest founders have an incentive to look away, while promoting their growth to the VCs, rais
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by akrymski 15y ago
yep I couldn't solve that in the first 5 mins and gave up :) strange how our pattern recognition gets worse with age ... I wonder if prior knowledge actually messes with the pattern recognition functions in the brain somehow ...
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by akrymski 15y ago
Who cares about pens and pencils, use an ipad :) Overthinking leads to over-enginnering, because humans aren't great at knowing what to do with all the free time we'd have if we did our job in 10% of the time :) Perhaps overthinking is req
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Can One Size Fit All [Icons]?(blog.thenounproject.com)
4 points by akrymski 15y ago|0 comments
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by akrymski 15y ago
The problem as we see it isn't so much email's fault. The problem is that the number of contacts we have is growing exponentially due to the introduction of "white pages" (linkedin, facebook and the internet fall under this) - you no longe
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by akrymski 15y ago
We do in a way automate classification of mail in certain instances, which allows the user to correct the system in case we get it wrong, but it's important the the UI is intuitive and doesn't seem like a magical black-box full of pretentio
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by akrymski 15y ago
Personally, I don't see what Wave has to do with email, it's a completely new protocol that wasn't integrated with email in any way and that's why it failed. They should have done this from the start: http://code.google.com/p/wave-email/w
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by akrymski 15y ago
Task management apps like Asana probably let you do stuff like this. Email is just for messaging. Nothing is stopping people attaching a to-do item as a file that gets opened in some to-do app, just like attaching vcards or calendar items
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by akrymski 15y ago
Unfortunately there's isn't much I can say until we launch, but here goes: we've created a social network where email is the mode of communication, and everything is organized around people and organizations. There isn't a single inbox as s
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by akrymski 15y ago
We're not creating a new protocol. Sure SMTP and MIME are quite awful, but the network effects if these standards are so vast that even Google couldn't make a dent with Wave. IMO a new protocol is something that can come later, we've explor
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by akrymski 15y ago
We're a YC company (www.post.fm) working on one of those ideas - email. We've encountered lots of headwinds as PG mentions, and we've managed to stay strong to our beliefs by keeping the team small and focused, and using our product oursel
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by akrymski 15y ago
Yep, and it always reminds me of how far Apple came with Objective-C. Microsoft and Google continually push new languages on us, and yet Apple developers used Objective-C for over 16 years just fine, and continue to push technology barrier
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by akrymski 15y ago
And by that definition, creating a great product (which I believe is what he's tried to do) isn't the goal. Sad but true? And by business model I guess Steve means selling something at a profit. And scalable means having enough stuff to s

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