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by blader 19y ago
This is one I think YC is going to regret passing on. Good job guys.
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by blader 19y ago
We haven't taken Merb into production. Yet. We did have a production Camping app for a time though.
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by blader 19y ago
The two ain't exclusive.
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by blader 19y ago
I love this kid - he knows what he wants and is able to get them without whining to his parents. I think the parents have done a pretty good job.
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by blader 19y ago
Great advice. Being reactive instead of innovative is death in a startup.
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by blader 19y ago
Yes.
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by blader 19y ago
Learned this neat trick from the EngineYard guys. If you plan to scale, I would recommend having seperate Xen slices for your web, app, and database components. It was a life saver to be able to just move your database and app servers to se
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by blader 19y ago
It isn't. Neither is "things I like" and "things I dislike".
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by blader 19y ago
Really? Who was it? I was in the same group.
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by blader 19y ago
Neither. It's a single application running SocialMedia/Appsaholic ads. It's an app called My Aquarium, developed and maintained by one guy.
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by blader 19y ago
Frankly, I grin every time I hear someone say that Facebook apps don't make money, because that's just more left for me. Consider these stats from a not spectacularly successful app: http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/smincomebig.png Ho
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by blader 19y ago
The #1 lesson we learned from our interviews is to be prepared. Pitch everybody you know on your idea, and have the smartest people you know poke as many holes as possible, and address them. Then do it over again.
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by blader 19y ago
I love it. Just more evidence that Facebook really gets "people", while the only thing Google seems to understand is "data", to their detriment. When Facebook announced their platform, they talked about social graphs, distribution, and vir
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by blader 19y ago
Also, the temporal relationships is definitely there. I'm not sure how much of it exposed in Labs right now.
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by blader 19y ago
Thanks anaphoric. The stuff you were looking at it still very, very early so expect to see great improvements in then near future.
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by blader 19y ago
The #1 reason why developers are on Facebook is because of growth and distribution. It's the most viral platform in the history of man. OpenSocial has limited-to-none support for viral channels. It's not that interesting, yet.
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by blader 19y ago
Hey Michael - I just sent an activation email your way. Have fun.
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by blader 19y ago
Yesterday I was pitched this idea: "it's like simplified pandora + evite + yelp for people who can't decide where to eat." Today: "it's like twitter/pownce/dogster ... but for newborns." What's next?
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by blader 19y ago
During a gold rush, sell shovels.
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by blader 19y ago
Wow, the world just got a lot more interesting.
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by blader 19y ago
Hm the profile box should be there .... we'll take a look. Minifeed stories are coming, couldn't fit that in to our schedule on time.
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by blader 19y ago
Thanks, we tried to make it as fun as possible (and as quick to develop as possible!) Although news.yc is really upsetting the gender ratio right now =)
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by blader 19y ago
Yeah that's coming. Took longer expected to deploy so we couldn't get everything in in time.
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by blader 19y ago
This isn't what we applied with, if it makes you feel any better.
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by blader 19y ago
Yeah the steal this pet link is a limitation of the Facebook profile FBML unfortunately.
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by blader 19y ago
Yeah I totally understand. This app is pretty tangential to what we're doing, but I think it's too early to talk about that. Our goal was to see if we can design, develop, and launch a Facebook application in a week.
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by blader 19y ago
So our team wanted to start on a new app after we got the interview notice, and we decided to launch it today. We'd love to get your feedback on it before PG grills us.
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by blader 19y ago
We're interviewees.
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by blader 19y ago
I would too. It was just quick a dirty to do it that way. We'll definitely be changing that very soon.
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Our YC Interview Demo - we just launched it(facebook.com)
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