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by cwilson 12y ago
It's a social network based on two promises: 1. It's beautiful, which they had to add because they knew just saying "we won't sell your data" would not go far enough. They needed that extra edge. In my humble opinio
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by cwilson 12y ago
I've had the opposite experience. The only reason anyone I know has signed up for Ello outside of the tech world is because they saw someone else sign up and don't want to miss out on something potentially cool. That's it.
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by cwilson 12y ago
I haven't used Photoshop (and will never subscribe to any Adobe software) in over a year because there are plenty of alternatives that meet my needs, and web/graphics design is my lively-hood. Between Sketch, Pixelmator, and just
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by cwilson 12y ago
We implemented Trello + Github sync with Waffle.io and it was as close to perfect we could get without spending a bunch of time writing our own code to do it. It still wasn't perfect however and I spent a lot of time making sure things
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by cwilson 12y ago
100% agreed. He is one of the first to inspire me at a young age to become an entrepreneur myself, and it's stuff like this that continues to inspire me: "That architecture is all the stuff I spent ten years ranting on this blog a
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by cwilson 12y ago
I'm slightly surprised by the name of this product. Do you not realize this will come across as very insulting to journalists? I have a tech journalist sitting next to me and her immediate reaction was not a good one.
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by cwilson 12y ago
So for this product to succeed we're also arguing that tablets can replace laptops? I own both for totally different reasons, and I don't think that will ever change. Or this is just a "nice to have" accessory for tablet
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by cwilson 12y ago
What problem does this solve exactly? I want to think this is really cool, but I'm having trouble convincing myself why people would buy this.
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by cwilson 12y ago
My guess is yes. Uber makes it so easy to quickly and painlessly get a ride that I find myself using the service much more often than I would a normal Taxi in the past. From casual observation I find this to be true for the majority of my f
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by cwilson 12y ago
Agreed, both great pieces on the problems in SF at the moment, and I definitely didn't mean to discount those details as part of our reasoning for leaving. I love San Francisco and really all of Northern California, but we're gett
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by cwilson 12y ago
My girlfriend and I (both in tech) have also left San Francisco as of last month, but for slightly different (but related) reasons. The 75,000 mentioned people who have moved to the bay area for tech have caused rent to rise by such a large
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by cwilson 12y ago
Something I completely forgot to mention was stress (I realize this is now 24 hours and no one will probably read this). I have a great aunt who lived to be 104, and her secret to long life was the lack of stress. She drank, smoked, and ate
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by cwilson 12y ago
It always surprises me when people focus on one small part of a diet that they hope is some kind of super-cure (or in this case, they want an excuse to drink red wine more often). Of course red wine on it's own isn't going to do a
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Mellow, the robotic sous-chef(cookmellow.com)
144 points by cwilson 12y ago|157 comments
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by cwilson 12y ago
Hah, I'd just do it myself, but I was going to suggest he build his own MVP to scale his own service!
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by cwilson 12y ago
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to build a marketplace that connects folks who need a quick MVP built with freelance developers. You could go a step further and break it down by back-end, front-end, design only, or all of the ab
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by cwilson 12y ago
I believe the Canon 70D does this too (which is not a full frame like the 6D, but a APS-C cropped frame), as well as some of the Panasonic m4/3 (micro-four-thirds) cameras like the GH3/GH4 and GX7.
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by cwilson 13y ago
Not only this, but there is delay/wait-list of over a year to get your 501c3 status approved at the moment.
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by cwilson 13y ago
Yeah, this is a deal-breaker for me as well. Why can't I selectively push my photos up? There are a ton of photos I would never want synced automatically (multiple shots of one thing where I'm going to pick the best, normal shot v
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Why I left VentureBeat to found a startup(medium.com)
3 points by cwilson 13y ago|0 comments
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Alice(couple.me)
18 points by cwilson 13y ago|4 comments
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by cwilson 13y ago
If this were the case for the majority of investors post demo day, how are so many YC companies raising money even if the start fund / YC fund partners are not investing a second time? My impression is most investors view the Start Fun
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by cwilson 13y ago
Not only is this amazing news, but this is a PR master-stroke on the part of Occulus/Facebook.
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by cwilson 13y ago
I actually disagree with this. It was never a problem in the past because everyone gets said initial investment, regardless of startup performance. It's in no way a signaling issue (at least in my class if wasn't) if one of those
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How to pitch the tech press(medium.com)
2 points by cwilson 13y ago|0 comments
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by cwilson 13y ago
The first slide is to blame, not the overall design. I scrolled from the get-go, but that's because I didn't engage with the "play" button on the first slide which seems like the only thing they want you to do. If there
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by cwilson 13y ago
Not everyone presents on demo day, some opt-out meaning they might not be listed here.
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by cwilson 13y ago
Hell, I remember this being common when I was in high school between 1999 - 2003. It started with the computer savvy kids figuring it out, but eventually the word spread and before you know it football players were using proxies to play stu
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by cwilson 13y ago
Maybe trust YC with who they make partners? They seem to be doing just fine so far...
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by cwilson 13y ago
Incredibly arrogant? Really? Sorry, but you're definitely mis-reading that one and you've clearly never met Sam.

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