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by ced 20y ago
Good for them, but I agree with Eisner. Justin.TV is content, and content is still king, whether or not it includes audience participation. The web is a revolution in distribution, and in lowering the barrier to entry for content creation.
932.
by ced 20y ago
Look at the screenshots. They are trying to build an OS and a whole office suite at the same time. Why don't they leverage existing web 2.0 apps? Has anyone tried to implement X11 on the web?
933.
by ced 20y ago
Does it worry you when working on Arc? Do you think you could have done better when you were 25?
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by ced 20y ago
I don't think that the failures will report here... We should start a "Paul Graham convinced me to drop Java / C++" poll to cheer him up.
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by ced 20y ago
I think that it's unrealistic to build a startup around an unsolved fundamentally hard problem. Can anyone think of a counter-example that succeeded? Typically, the problem is solved first, and then the startup is built to implement the sol
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by ced 20y ago
"AI problems at Google" is just an example. I find hard technical problems interesting. A problem is hard if I don't know in advance whether or not I will be able to solve it. AI is hard. Making a good OS is hard. Startups avoid hard proble
937.
by ced 20y ago
Hypothesis: "I'd rather work on hard AI problems at Google than create a startup and bitch about how Safari is not rendering my site properly." What do you think? I haven't tried either, but working on cool problems ought to be worth someth
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by ced 20y ago
I'd like to hear from those who "consciously chose not to apply at all". So far it seems that if you're going to build a typical web startup, then being funded by pg is always a net positive... I'm more interested in learning about the othe
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by ced 20y ago
70K net, if the alternative is a 20% chance of getting rich after a couple of years. 70K is below YC's average initial valuation, as I understand it. I wonder how much it would bother them... 70K is enough to live like a student for 10 year
940.
by ced 20y ago
PG writes in the Viaweb FAQ that they (and Yahoo) did not use any database, just files. It makes sense... Is there something fundamentally different about your app, so that a DB is obviously a better choice?
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by ced 20y ago
"they aren't going to turn down a team because they didn't participate in news.yc"; that goes against the quote above. I'm sure that they won't turn down a great application from a great team with a great idea. But they might use the posts
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by ced 20y ago
It makes me a bit uncomfortable, too. YCNews is a month-long web interview. On one hand, it encourages thoughtful discussion, but on the other, it's a bit exhausting. I end up spending a lot of time crafting very short posts.
943.
by ced 20y ago
Adding features is one thing, changing the app metaphor is another. I'd say that the latter has to be right at launch.
944.
by ced 20y ago
This sounds like a marketing hit. Do revolutions need marketing?
945.
by ced 20y ago
Applying to YC is a bet that this statement is not true in general. Or that they invest in great teams with ideas that they do not fully appreciate.
946.
by ced 20y ago
Maybe I'm out of touch, but I don't perceive bloggers to be "rivals". Links show what the author is reading. If I can relate to him, then I will likely read the post to see what it adds to the discussion.
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by ced 20y ago
About half the points raised here revolve around moral/intellectual support. Has anyone tried, as a single founder, to work in tandem with another single founder? (i.e.: two startups, one roof)
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by ced 20y ago
This is a nice idea, but I feel that they will face the same problems as reddit, except that the users will be extra angry because their money is involved. Good luck to them. Maybe it would help to have a Real Name tag like Amazon.
949.
by ced 20y ago
Maybe it's better to take a loan from them with clearly defined terms. That way, if all fails, you can get a job and pay it back. No emotional damage.
950.
by ced 20y ago
Was any promotion done for the event outside of word-of-mouth? That seems like a lot of would-be entrepreneurs in the area. I wonder why so many people want to go. Most of the material is already on the web (+ the podcast), and one is unlik
951.
by ced 20y ago
... especially after calling most of his readers morons for believing that a job is the safest way to support themselves. And then there is the: "If you find this site helpful, please leave a donation for Steve so you can enjoy the spirit o
952.
by ced 20y ago
Almost all startups with two founders also fail. What I find interesting, is that a comparatively large number of companies on that page had only one founder, even though the odds seem stacked against them. Maybe there are substantial advan
953.
by ced 20y ago
He claims that algorithms are not so important, but they are what propelled Google above Yahoo and co. Reddit today is very much in the vulnerable position that Yahoo was in. Someone with a recommendation engine that works well could pull t
954.
by ced 20y ago
Maybe we don't need a famous guy... Let's say that all interested European hacker teams on this site agree to move to the same city, for next summer. Then, we organize weekly get-together ourselves, and we get potential investors to attend
955.
by ced 20y ago
"Allen Morgan said that people have started forgetting that building a company takes at least 5 years." That seems awfully long. If the goal is to sell the startup before it becomes "a company", won't the average time be
956.
by ced 20y ago
Since community-building is part of the goal of this site, could you include an optional "location" field in the profile? I'm interested in getting in touch personally with other people in my area.
957.
by ced 20y ago
I often wonder if there are good opportunities for (non-web) startups in physics/science. The state of programming in there is abysmal, in my experience. There must be thousands of Fortran implementations of finite element codes out there,
958.
by ced 20y ago
A PhD in physics today opens up some opportunities in the one very specific field that you studied. Getting post-doctoral positions is hard; there isn't that much money floating around. I know that I'm dropping out soon.