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by ericflo 14y ago
We took good care of all our investors
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by ericflo 14y ago
It's been fascinating to follow this over the last few days. I almost think that in some ways, it's more exciting to see it happen via Twitter than it would be to watch it on video. I wonder why that is.
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by ericflo 14y ago
I disagree. Having someone to go out and make deals OR report back that the market isn't there, to pitch to investors, or to form partnerships with other companies is invaluable. Many of the great companies I respect the most here in SF a
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ChoicePass Team Joins Salesforce.com(blog.choicepass.com)
6 points by ericflo 14y ago|0 comments
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by ericflo 14y ago
What browser forces you to opt-in to cookies?
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by ericflo 14y ago
I'm not suggesting letting them commit, or accepting their patch, etc. I'm suggesting not being an asshole to them, so that once they are better, they consider contributing.
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by ericflo 14y ago
People are not split into two buckets of talented and untalented. People learn, grow, get better (and worse) over time, and have emotions. That github pull request with crap code that "pestered" you could come from someone who turns out t
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by ericflo 14y ago
No, he referred specifically to his own mother.
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by ericflo 14y ago
I can confirm this. When my co-founder and I told PG we were working on a mobile social network around movie trailers, he hated the idea, and told us we would have a hard time and that we should build more important technology. We wouldn't
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by ericflo 14y ago
So is every advertising network. This really isn't new, but it's certainly over-sensationalized.
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by ericflo 14y ago
This is such a cynical and negative comment. The only purpose it serves is to belittle the founder's motivations, as well as belittling YC's tireless efforts. Ugh, just thinking about such a negative comment has put me in a bad mood :(
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by ericflo 14y ago
Somewhat related: a friend and I built a game a lot like this as a Facebook app back in 2009 called Pictionnected. It had a few really passionate users. Didn't really iterate on it, got busy with work, and didn't maintain it when Facebook
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by ericflo 14y ago
Stay tuned :)
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by ericflo 14y ago
Thanks for that feedback. After our initial Clutch.io launch, we got tons of feedback about our pricing. We've since made every plan more affordable for everyone, and we'll continue to listen to feedback about our pricing, making changes
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by ericflo 14y ago
This hits very close to home. Thank you so much for writing it.
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by ericflo 14y ago
1. Apps will function properly. It's been a design tenant from the beginning to never have an outage (or shut downage) by us negatively impact our customer's users. 2. We haven't 100% decided yet, but we're heavily leaning towards packaging
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by ericflo 14y ago
Yes, there's a form on the web dashboard that lets you choose a certain version for your development device.
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by ericflo 14y ago
We launched Clutch.io about a month ago, and one thing that really surprised us was how many of our customers asked us to support A/B testing. So that's what we've been building! You don't have to use our Clutch Framework in order to use
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Show HN: A/B testing for iOS and Android(clutch.io)
119 points by ericflo 14y ago|16 comments
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by ericflo 14y ago
A good chunk of the companies in YC have "pivoted" to the point of working on completely new ideas. Some of those pivots are very successful. So, it didn't really matter which idea they applied with, did it?
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by ericflo 14y ago
The distinction, as I understand it, is the "voice" the app uses. Chill said something like "Hey I just joined Chill and it's pretty cool, you should check it out!" First person. Socialcam says "John Doe has watched Rick Roll Video." Thir
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by ericflo 14y ago
I found this article to be very well-written. It's not the most intellectual topic, but I do feel like I've gotten a pretty good window into the lives of the founders.
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by ericflo 14y ago
When Will This Low-Quality Article Era End?
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by ericflo 14y ago
That is not normal, and a very bad sign.
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by ericflo 14y ago
The Cassandra project was in really bad shape when FB open sourced it, and it languished like that for several months before Jonathan Ellis picked it up and ran with it. Now it's a thriving Apache project, with contributors from many compa
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by ericflo 14y ago
> An asset isn't worth one billion dollars just because someone you know has a billion dollars to spend. Actually that's nearly the definition of what something is worth: how much someone is willing to pay for it.
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by ericflo 14y ago
> But did Instagram have revenue? This is a tired argument. Everything is a tradeoff. In this case it's a tradeoff between adoption and revenue. Hipstamatic chose the revenue-first approach (they apparently made plenty of money) and I
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by ericflo 14y ago
I am definitely a Riak-lover :) And I also agree that there is a large set of nice features that make Mongo nice to use before sharding.
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by ericflo 14y ago
Mongo was not designed with horizontal scaling in mind. Riak, Cassandra, HBase, Project Voldemort...these are the projects that were designed with horizontal scaling in mind (as evidenced by their architectures.) But not Mongo.
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by ericflo 15y ago
Fair enough. The thing is though, he posted it on the BodyHack blog. We may all be entrepreneurs here, but are all of their readers? I'd be cautious in judging him too much.

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