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by brackin 13y ago
You shouldn't think of YC as an alternative to work. It's an accelerator, it should just accelerate what you're already doing. It's not the endpoint for a startup or non-profit. If you've already started a non-profi
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by brackin 13y ago
No one lives in a 1 bed. I share a 6 bed in castro and it's way more affordable per person.
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by brackin 13y ago
Stripe, Balanced and WePay are all moving in the same direction. Also WePay and Crowdtilt were doing similar things at the start but WePay seems to be focused on their API.
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by brackin 13y ago
Uber is 15% cheaper than cabs in the market's their in. So you get your phone charged, a bottle of water, a nicer car, a lower price, no cards/cash or tips and you only wait a couple of minutes. Regardless of your location. It als
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by brackin 13y ago
I use OS X on my Macbook Pro retina but also duelboot Windows 7 & Ubuntu.
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by brackin 13y ago
Interesting. Looks similar to this project. http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/20/48-pandaboards-chained-to...
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by brackin 13y ago
Reward based crowdfunding will become a payments/distribution mechanism for an already engaged audience rather than a free source of money for people with an idea and no way to execute on it.
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by brackin 13y ago
Funny to unexpectedly see my front room on Hacker News
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by brackin 13y ago
I just moved to the valley and I love that they offer $10/m unlimited international calls and texts. They also offer free tethering up to 2.5GB's and unlimited data (w/o tethering). They claim not to slow you down at a certain point with un
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by brackin 13y ago
Stripe is also starting to grow internationally which is one reason why I'd choose stripe.
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by brackin 13y ago
I agree on the branding (doesn't sound like its about London startups) but having seen this site for a couple of weeks now there is a nice little community there. It makes sense to create a subreddit or site for London startups as there's a
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by brackin 13y ago
The website.
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by brackin 13y ago
Don't like the interface (makes it seem 100x more complicated than it is) but love the idea. I often hit my data cap, am in an area with slow or no data coverage or don't want to load up an app and would be happy to shoot a text off to get
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by brackin 13y ago
I'm not sure how you can compete with the competition, which is focusing on tablets & mobile at this point. I don't use any social news 'apps' (I won't consider HN or Reddit an app but a destination) on the web, I either go directly to
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by brackin 13y ago
You always have a boss. Before David Karp was responsible to his investors, now he's responsible to Mayer and the Yahoo shareholders. It's not that different other than the fact that Yahoo (at least for now) has enough money to let them liv
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by brackin 13y ago
In the UK crowdfunding startups is becoming common using Seedrs or Crowdcube and a few startups I know have raised a few hundred thousand from their users (and wealthy individuals using these sites).
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by brackin 13y ago
You have to click the invite email and attach your account rather than just going to the panel.
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by brackin 13y ago
Your assumptions are based on a PandoDaily post where they cover just a few of the fellows that have decided to publicise their companies. There's a wider (but far from full) list here. https://www.quora.com/Thiel-Fellows/What-were-the-res
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The 2013 Thiel Fellows(fastcoexist.com)
64 points by brackin 13y ago|39 comments
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by brackin 13y ago
Quite the opposite, America was founded on the latter. Only recently has the American dream been referred to as joining the stable middle class.
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by brackin 13y ago
I've had this feature for at least a month now on Chrome Canary for Mac. It's definitely useful but its still buggy.
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by brackin 13y ago
Hey guys! Just wanted to show you version one of a product I'm building. It allows anyone to instantly generate a funding page and if you hit your target, the money is moved to your account via Stripe. Because of Stripe we only support UK,
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Show HN: Bunchy - Social Funding(bunchy.com)
3 points by brackin 13y ago|1 comments
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by brackin 14y ago
I think Summly was really started by SRI or at least co-founded by them and then the exec team was brought on to run it. They created the tech, put Nick as the CEO/face of the company as he had previously built/outsourced Trimit & tried
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by brackin 14y ago
Did it take them three years to launch? I know there is tech behind this but if it doesn't take off then they're fairly stuck.
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by brackin 14y ago
Maybe he bought it from someone else or paid for multiple years.
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by brackin 14y ago
I came to a similar conclusion with something that I'm building so I realised to focus on the people with inbuilt audiences on social media & their web presence (creators, charities, product makers, etc). Rather than building another ma
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by brackin 14y ago
Why not buy the .com too? Plaidio.com isn't taken, if a startup takes off 'io' doesn't work well anymore. I understand the io trend but I don't think that 'money.io' is ever going to be able to afford money.com.
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by brackin 14y ago
What is it with the "io" domain names? Seems overkill now.
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by brackin 14y ago
I think it'd be smarter to just add 10 - 20 new names for specific categories rather than an extension for every brand you can imagine ".apple, .amazon, etc". This could lower the resell price of the .com slightly and raise revenue. Like .c

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