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by blader 14y ago
Because it's Hacker News. Nothing gets reported here without half of this community being obnoxiously negative about it, as if we've all could have built something like LivingSocial if we wanted to.
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by blader 14y ago
Please cc me (siqi@herelabs.com) as well. Thanks!
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by blader 14y ago
Hey, are you open to feeding a startup with 10 people next week (Tue and Thurs)? Email bryn@herelabs.com and tell her I sent you.
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by blader 14y ago
My only point is that what's right for you isn't necessarily what's right for everyone.
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by blader 14y ago
Yeah, who needs TextMate when you have vim, right? Or Ruby when you've got Perl?
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by blader 14y ago
With such a long response, one would expect there would be something said about the damning part of his post: "For the record, why would you post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4807691 titled "Show HN: I'm 16, and I made a thing" if
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by blader 14y ago
Because they don't get paid if you don't make a hire. If you can find a good recruiter to work with, then they could end up working for you for months or even years, with a chance of never getting paid.
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by blader 14y ago
Just - thank you.
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by blader 14y ago
Why does it matter who he is? Why not consider the merits of the ideas in their own right rather than relying on the authority of the author? One would think folks on HN would be inclined to treat ideas in a more meritocratically way.
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by blader 14y ago
Let's talk! Email me at siqi@herelabs.com - happy tp show you what we're doing too.
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by blader 14y ago
Well this is painful, but fair. Recruiting while trying to stay stealth is like voluntarily punching yourself in the face. We're always happy to give demos to anyone who's interested in talking to us - we're just not ready to have it all do
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by blader 14y ago
San Francisco: product designers and mobile engineers. [So far, every member of our team (who we didn't already know) joined us via Hacker News] Subscription based social hyperlocal mobile gamified dating discovery engine with loyalty coupo
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by blader 14y ago
Fair question. We post simply because posting on this thread works. It's worked great for us in the past (and made a hire) and we've been getting great candidates who are excited this time too. :)
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by blader 14y ago
I will echo that this thread works. We work with a lot of recruiters and by far the most qualified candidates come from HN. We've hired 25% (i.e. 1 person) of our team so far from HN and I'd expect that number to increase to 50% over time.
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by blader 14y ago
That's fair, and we deserve the criticism since we're still kinda stealth, in the sense that we're not publicly talking about what we're doing. In person we've always been happy to give a full demo and share everything we know about our com
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by blader 14y ago
Hi Andy, all of us are contributing code and product generalists need to be able to build what they design.
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by blader 14y ago
Thank you! We're trying our best and having a lot of fun. We will see. :)
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by blader 14y ago
San Francisco: product generalists and systems generalists. What we do: subscription based social hyperlocal mobile gamified dating discovery engine with loyalty coupons. For the enterprise. Just kidding. We're a stealthy team of technical
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by blader 14y ago
Maybe entrepreneurial success is driven by luck in the same way that home runs in baseball are: Barry Bonds can swing 100 times and not hit a home run, but he's still a way better home run hitter than I am, in that he can hit home runs at a
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by blader 14y ago
I don't understand. The man created the web browser, built multiple billion dollar companies, angel invested and sits on the board of Facebook, and is now one of the most well known VCs in the world - and this is saying what - that he's not
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by blader 15y ago
I've worn my Vibrams exclusively (even to 2 weddings) for the past 4 years, and it's been great for my social life. It's probably the best ice breaker ever invented. Strangers regularly approach and start conversations.
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by blader 15y ago
Wow. Thanks for sharing that. This paints a really clear picture of why so much enterprise software are pieces of crap.
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by blader 15y ago
I agree with this. I'm now based in Beijing and the local Twitter clones (the largest with hundreds of millions of users on Weibo.com) have a 140 character limit, but in Chinese. Each Chinese character has roughly the same expressiveness as
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by blader 15y ago
This is great advice that I've found to be useful when applied to management too. It can be valuable to look at mistakes in a team as not something that is created by individuals, but as something that is the by product by a larger system w
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Mark Zuckerberg: Inside Facebook (hour long BBC documentary)(youtube.com)
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by blader 15y ago
Those who can, do. Those who can't, blog about it.
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by blader 15y ago
"Making money" is not a one-dimensional state - there's a time element to it. Officers in a business do not have a fiduciary duty to "make money" at any given point in time, they have a duty to increase the value of the property they are re
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by blader 15y ago
You give me 10 billion page views like Tumblr's a month, I'll feed your 13 month old myself, out of pocket.
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by blader 15y ago
Yeah, I actually used Icecast as the backend. What I built was a downloadable client that scanned your music library and gave you a nice iTunes like-web frontend to broadcast and listen remotely.
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by blader 15y ago
Wow, can't wait for this. 4-5 years ago, for my first startup idea, I actually spent a few months and built a client that will scan your complete MP3 library, extract and normalize ID3 tags, and sync with a web frontend. The frontend lets y

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