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by aschobel 16y ago
Congrats, super simple sign up and great VxD. When will you offer SSL on your account create / login forms? I'm hesitating connecting my Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar.
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by aschobel 16y ago
Depends on the app, but for us one mobile app is more than enough to keep one of our folks busy full time. It takes a heck of a lot of work and dedication to make a solid app. I really wish we had a few more folks hacking on Android! coug
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by aschobel 16y ago
shrug I haven't seen any online page to send betas and such. Meet a few of the dev advocates at IO, SXSW, and a bunch of the Android events around SF.
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by aschobel 16y ago
Seems to be back to normal, using Chrome 9.0.597.107
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by aschobel 16y ago
You need to contact them and they have a team decide if they will feature you. They look at how closely you follow the Android HIG, level of polish in the app, have you been recently featured, etc. We also send them beta version of our apps
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by aschobel 16y ago
Kinda, we are trying to make it easier to capture what matters (things, people, places) and be able to pivot on that data. Productivity is a nice onramp for that. Folks have been asking for ToDo functionality for a while now, I want to keep
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by aschobel 16y ago
Very slick app, but discovery on Android can be tough. Shoot me an email, aschobel (at) catch.com and I can put you in touch with our Google Developer advocates, you definitely want to get featured. What are you thinking of using for online
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by aschobel 16y ago
Thanks! MongoDB and Python coolness, mixed with some Google Closure. =)
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by aschobel 16y ago
Then the question is where can you make more of an impact? FB has two orders of magnitude more users than us, but also two orders of magnitude more engineers. I'd rather be engineer number 11 with us, than number 1001 at FB.
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by aschobel 16y ago
Good point, just updated my profile. We put an ad on CL (they charge in SF) for a JavaScript developer and didn't get any promising resumes. Everybody is looking for awesome JS folk. It probably doesn't help that we are using fairly advance
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by aschobel 16y ago
We can't compete with the likes of Facebook when it comes to compensation. There are some crazy stories out there of what they areoffering people. Isn't a more interesting pitch telling folks that they can reach millions of users with a tea
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by aschobel 16y ago
Good luck! You are trying to solve one of the biggest challenges we face right now. We have a good product, happy users, catchy domain name (har) but are having a hell of a time hiring because nobody knows of us.
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by aschobel 16y ago
Danke Sir. First post on way0t mentioning 3banana was on 2006-07-27, jeebus that is a long time ago.
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by aschobel 16y ago
I dislike the word rejection, YC didn't accept my application for funding. The odds were against me as a solo founder, but why not go for it? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=159549 It would have been incredible to learn and grow wit
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by aschobel 16y ago
We are rolling out a premium service in the next few weeks that will give you the ability to attach PDFs and Office docs. Working on that blog post now, lots of cool new stuff (non-premium) coming.
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by aschobel 16y ago
I'm really sorry, we could have handled the name change a lot better. Feel free to email me at aschobel [at] catch.com to share your thoughts.
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by aschobel 16y ago
Via a wine club via a car club. =) A good friend of mine from AudiWorld / Way0t introduced me to one his friends from one of his wine clubs. Funny how that works.
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by aschobel 16y ago
s/uninteresting/unexpected/ Mental slip. My friends and family were the ones who were most excited about that job, it seemed a bit boring and confining to be engineer #80. I love the uncertainty and possibilities that I face with Catch.com
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by aschobel 16y ago
Absolutely, keep moving forward. Go out there and do! I know it's a bit cliche, but I love Roosevelt's Man In The Arena: http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html
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by aschobel 16y ago
Danke! Sorry, I can't give the exact details but it wasn't that much. What was really cool is the seller of Catch.com could have sold it to a much bigger company and chose us instead. These acts of kindness are so touching, it is incredibly
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Tell HN: Catch.com raises 7m. Didn't get in as solo founder (S08), kept pushing
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by aschobel 16y ago
Catch.com (San Francisco) We are looking for hackers to join our team in SOMA. We have a bunch of ex-Metaweb and Googlers hacking on: * Android / iOS * JS (Google Closure) * Python (Pylons)and MongoDB. We have a crazy amount of u
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by aschobel 16y ago
Thanks! Please send in feedback or shoot me an email at aschobel [at] catch com
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by aschobel 16y ago
I'm a co-founder at Catch, EN is the Goliath we are battling who gets a heck of a lot of press. We are looking for hackers to join our team in SOMA. We have a bunch of ex-Metaweb and Googlers hacking on Android, iOS, JS (Google Closure), Py
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by aschobel 16y ago
Yeah, Pylons 1.1 will have some forward-compatibility stuff with Pyramid. From what we know it should not be hard to migrate since it provides a lot of the same fundamentals as Pylons.
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by aschobel 16y ago
We did a full re-write last summer. It was absolutely worth it and has since allowed us to iterate at a much higher speed. It was a bit terrifying to be at a feature standstill. Our re-write was from Java(struts2) + BDB to python(pylons) +
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by aschobel 16y ago
webapp vs native, do users really care about the technology as long as you can make them happy? The approach we took is native for mobile and webapp for everything else. Our users are asking for a "desktop app", so we are looking at wrappin
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by aschobel 16y ago
Thanks for the clarification, I guess folks (AWS) have gotten sloppy with semantics.
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by aschobel 16y ago
Can you expand on that? For example AWS uses HMACs for signatures, what kind of scheme would you propose?
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Autonomous quadrotor navigation with a Kinect (diydrones.com)
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