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by aschobel 19y ago
Yep, their recognition software looks neat. There are a ton of Notepad apps out there, but they are all clunky to use. My goal is to make 3banana as easy to use as a Google search. I'm writing plugins so you can post notes from QuickSilver,
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by aschobel 19y ago
I would guess the 4x more likely for co-founders figure holds. Right, my guess is also the same. My question was so pg could chime in with data since YC has gotten much more popular.
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by aschobel 19y ago
My prodding was more along the lines that since there was an order of magnitude more applicants this round and they only had a week to look over the applicants, was it nearly impossible to get in being a solo founder? I'm a bit annoyed with
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by aschobel 19y ago
So why don't we tell people why we didn't invite them to interview? Because, paradoxical as it sounds, there often is no reason. Maybe I'm trying to read tea leaves, but did the "You are the only founder" boolean play a bigger part this t
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by aschobel 19y ago
I haven't had a chance to do much networking with other startup folk in the area, tho I did bump into one of the core PostgreSQL guys last week. Where do these startupshingdigs happen, should I be reading Valleywag more? Right now I'm boots
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by aschobel 19y ago
Congrats! Good luck with the interview.
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by aschobel 19y ago
It would have been incredible to get into the YC program and be able to bounce ideas off of all those brilliant people, but on the positive side I don't have to worry about moving to Boston. I really dig SF =). So the plan still is make som
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by aschobel 19y ago
In hindsight I probably should have focused a bit more on that aspect in my application. =)
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by aschobel 19y ago
Kinda, but this is a very different animal. There are two itches I'm scratching with 3banana. The first is that I want to keep track of small bits of information and make it easy to retrieve them from any device. Right now I email myself no
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by aschobel 19y ago
poof
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by aschobel 19y ago
Just got the "rejection" letter, I'm a bit disappointed I couldn't get the team reviewing the proposals as passionate about the project as I am. I think being a solo founder hurt me, but I've been working on the project full-time for four m
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by aschobel 19y ago
Is there a way for me to move it?
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Ask YC: To my fellow YC Summer Applicants who slipped through the cracks, what is your next move?
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by aschobel 19y ago
scratches head Couldn't you have done this before using AuthSub and a registered application? The only thing that seems different is that Google returns an email address to you with App Engine, so you can skip that step in the registartio
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by aschobel 19y ago
I couldn't create the identifier from their web page, it looks like it needs to be at least 8 characters long.
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by aschobel 19y ago
Has anybody been able to put their app online? I keep getting Application Identifier: App already exists. Even when I pick random App names. Odd.
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by aschobel 19y ago
Google, the deadline for the Android Challenge is just 7 days, 1 hour, and 56 minutes away. Couldn't you have waited a bit over a week to release this? :P
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by aschobel 19y ago
Yes, but what if your launch doesn't wow folks? Are people going to come back and give you a second try after you added those killer features? It's already been four months, two more weeks can't hurt.
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by aschobel 19y ago
The secret key isn't stored in the client (I looked :P), only the AWSAccessKeyId, policy, and signature are. The policy dictates what can be stored in the bucket, and the signature validates the policy so folks don't tamper with it.
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by aschobel 19y ago
There is some validation logic on the server side using an S3 policy. Base64 decode the policy input field on the postForm and you get: { "expiration": "2009-01-01T12:00:00.000Z", "conditions": [ {"bucket": "vtabroadbandwiki" },
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by aschobel 19y ago
6) Leave your job and move to San Francisco to work on your startup full time. Like he said, don't treat it like a hobby. I've found that moving has really focused my mind and put my efforts in another orbit.
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by aschobel 19y ago
I'm a bit disappointed that he didn't include IPoAC (IP over Avian Carriers) in his comparisons. Sure it is high latency, but the bandwidth is killer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
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by aschobel 19y ago
I mirrored the files to my server and Safari reloads the images on restart. http://3banana.com/pics/cache_test/jpgtest.html YSlow gives the page a score of 98, so I know the headers are being set properly. Okay, that is bloody weird.
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by aschobel 19y ago
curl -I http://www.smugmug.com/test/safari/300k.jpg HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:16:43 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:17:28 GMT ETag: "4c00f-f9632e00" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length
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by aschobel 19y ago
vim and firebug How do you write your js? I write a few lines and then test the functionality, reduces the scope of where I have to hunt down bugs.
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by aschobel 19y ago
I find walks work well for me, gives me a chance to clear my head and the increased blood flow can't hurt.
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by aschobel 19y ago
Agreed, it is also more cost effective to work from home. And at home you have a fully stocked fridge, comfy chair, and nobody will kick you out when you are hacking away at 2am.
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by aschobel 19y ago
Wanted to throw YourKit out there. It's a great profiler, if you can afford it. http://www.yourkit.com/ Even integrates nicely with IntelliJ.
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by aschobel 19y ago
Grow willpower? It's not a sprint, the harder thing is sustaining willpower. The trick is balance. Force yourself to take breaks and give yourself rewards. I finished a big piece of code on Tuesday and went for a bike ride to the Persidio.
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by aschobel 19y ago
What size team? If you are only one person then have a local svn repository and backup to S3.

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