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Lessons Learned from our YC Interview (with Tips!)(blog.pretheory.com)
52 points by bhb 19y ago|20 comments
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by bhb 19y ago
Interesting. The site is designed for 1024x768, it should should not require horizontal scrolling. Is your browser window full-screen, or do you browse in a smaller window?
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by bhb 19y ago
No, a devil's advocate is definitely what we need. I hear good feedback, not harshness. I think you're right - the user account is going to our biggest barrier to entry. I think that using the info that already exists in a user's profile o
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by bhb 19y ago
Thanks for the heads up. We have been looking around for competitors (and have already shown the site to a large number of people) and you're the first to point out Unspun (so at least they are not really well-known yet). There are a numbe
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by bhb 19y ago
Hey, great feedback. I totally agree with you - the navigation on the results is pretty confusing and we should make it all consistent. Thanks a ton!
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by bhb 19y ago
No, you're not belittling it at all. Communicating the purpose and value of the site clearly and quickly has been a recurring problem (and we still haven't gotten it right yet). To answer your question: The value to you is to find new stuf
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by bhb 19y ago
Interesting. I can definitely see what you're saying and we don't want to give that impression to first-time users. Thanks!
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by bhb 19y ago
Interesting. What would you expect to happen when you click on that image? We weren't sure what to do with that link, so we just had it take you to the main page. This seems to be a pretty common pattern (Reddit, Digg, and Favebook all beha
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by bhb 19y ago
Great idea. It is pretty tedious to go through that many pages of results. Thanks!
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by bhb 19y ago
Do you mean the "Seekler" image in the top left links to itself?
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Our startup Seekler just launched (alpha release). Feedback is much appreciated
9 points by bhb 19y ago|28 comments
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Testing Tools I'd like to see(blog.pretheory.com)
3 points by bhb 19y ago|0 comments
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Running your Ruby tests quickly and precisely(blog.pretheory.com)
2 points by bhb 19y ago|0 comments
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by bhb 20y ago
Same here. Bummer. Congrats to the winners! And to those who weren't accepted (like me) - go kick butt anyway.
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by bhb 20y ago
I just wanted to follow up and let everyone know how we ended up answering this question. Hopefully this helps somebody out there. The more we thought about it, the more we realized that we had no idea what the company would really be worth
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by bhb 20y ago
I think I've stated our question poorly. It's not that we don't want to answer truthfully, it's that we're having a hard time converting what we want into a dollar figure. Here's what we want: We want to work on cool problems. We want to ma
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by bhb 20y ago
"The Long Tail" is definitely worth reading, although I sort of felt it was a topic that only deserved a long essay expanded into an entire book. Then again, I felt the same way about "The Tipping Point" - interesting idea and points, but i
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by bhb 20y ago
Some of these have been mentioned, but these stand out for me Programming: Getting Real The Pragmatic Programmer Hackers and Painters Business: Good to Great Start Your Own Business (I knew basically nothing about small business before
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by bhb 20y ago
We're working hard on finishing up our YC application, and we're having a lot of problems with this one: "If one wanted to buy you three months in (August 2007), what's the lowest offer you'd take?" First of all, what if we're not particula
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What's the lowest offer you'd take?
21 points by bhb 20y ago|52 comments
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by bhb 20y ago
Yeah, the social stuff and the girlfriend are not really top issues, but still things we thought about. In fairness, my co-founder told me flat out that the gf thing was not a huge issue for him, simply because, like you said, it's going to
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by bhb 20y ago
That's a good point. We don't have a strong network of angels, VCs, and other founders here in Denver. That's definitely a huge plus of the YC experience. I do wonder if we could build a network that would be good enough in the next few mon
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by bhb 20y ago
Whoops, my fault. Thanks for the heads up. I've fixed it.
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by bhb 20y ago
I hope I didn't come across as not willing to go "all in." I certainly didn't intend that. My intent was to outline the issues we considered, with the hope that others might find it useful and even suggest variables we hadn't considered. At
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Is Y Combinator right for your startup?(blog.pretheory.com)
19 points by bhb 20y ago|25 comments
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Capturing your start-to-be with a wiki(blog.pretheory.com)
12 points by bhb 20y ago|4 comments