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by gleb 14y ago
Thanks. "things useful in a startup" does seem like misleading advice. Because people applying don't yet know what's useful. So it's obvious to me that having won an Olympic medal is super useful, but it's probably not obvious to the appl
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How to get to YC interview - Insider's Guide to YC W13 Application(acunote.com)
121 points by gleb 14y ago|31 comments
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by gleb 14y ago
Colin, are automatic renewal payments coming?
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by gleb 14y ago
That's a good point. You want the signed url to be one-use only. last_changed_password_at is a good solution, and a useful field to keep anyway.
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by gleb 14y ago
Don't store reset tokens in database, PITA and not scalable. Instead HMAC sign reset URL, using Rails' MessageVerifier class for example. The reset URL should also expire in about a day, so include and sign timestamp as well. And the way w
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by gleb 14y ago
Note that he is talking about NCSA Mosaic, not Netscape
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by gleb 14y ago
During OracleWorld keynote, after Oracle bought Siebel, Larry said something like: "there are only 2 useful features in a CRM system - forecasting and analytics - and everything else exists simply to collect data for these features." See i
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by gleb 14y ago
Acunote is a customer of tarsnap and so am I personally. The professionalism and transparency that you can see in this RFO are a big reason why I use it and recommend it. The quality of the product/solution is the bigger reason. What's not
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by gleb 14y ago
If anybody says they can predict the future, they are lying. So I can only that we've never charged small teams and right now we have no plans to start. We accept VISA/MC/AMEX (and standard enterprise billing terms for large customers).
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by gleb 14y ago
I think Asana is a solid product. Their long-term vision seems similar to ours - new category of business software covering all employees who do project/task-oriented work (developers, operations, marketing, product management, legal, etc.
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by gleb 14y ago
Yes!
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by gleb 14y ago
I haven't done a serious competitive evaluation of Liquid Planner so I would hesitate to offer an opinion about them. Much like with a new source control system it take 1-2 solid day to get a feel for a system like this, and your understan
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Why We Did YC - Acunote (acunote.com)
10 points by gleb 14y ago|0 comments
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by gleb 14y ago
Right, project management software has a ton of niches, and it is also much harder than it seems. It hasn't happened yet, but much expectation is that somebody will be able to consolidate a big chunk of this space. We count on that being
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by gleb 14y ago
Acunote is free for <= 5 users
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by gleb 14y ago
We should chat about that. We take it super seriously. Would love your feedback.
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by gleb 14y ago
Thanks!
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by gleb 14y ago
Thanks! It would be awesome to see the videos, we've had customers ask for this actually.
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Acunote (YC W11) Takes On Project Management With A Gmail-Like Interface(techcrunch.com)
68 points by gleb 14y ago|35 comments
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Watchmaker That Raised Money Through Kickstarter - Pebble (YC W11)(online.wsj.com)
14 points by gleb 14y ago|7 comments
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by gleb 14y ago
BTW, India requires that only jute bags produced by a protected local industry be used for storage. No plastic or foreign jute. Not surprisingly there are not enough bags. This is contributing to the problem: http://online.wsj.com/article/
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by gleb 14y ago
I don't think you are bound by their TOS simply by indexing their site. Whether it makes business sense to test this legal theory is a wholly different question.
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by gleb 14y ago
What I am saying is that new Google design is not a pathology of a large company, but a result of a single executive decision. Before red primary buttons would have failed testing. Now this testing is simply not done. New way is faster. An
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by gleb 14y ago
I think the reason is simpler - Larry Page is in charge now. His approach is to trust the designers not users. And that approach results in products designers like and users don't. See http://vimeo.com/29965463 for discussion on how thin
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Tarsnap key rotation with tarsnap-recrypt and tarsnap-keyregen(acunote.com)
7 points by gleb 15y ago|0 comments
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by gleb 15y ago
It's like that in the former USSR as well. Curiously, there is strong reverse correlation between political correctness and number of women in high-tech.
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by gleb 15y ago
The claim is based on personal experience. With Mixpanel I'd expect even better results since their data is append-only by nature. I.e. think about deduplication when backing up a large append-only log file on a daily basis. Tarsnap has we
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by gleb 15y ago
Tarsnap pricing is for deduplicated data. You need to divide it by orders of magnitude for a proper comparison. Apples and oranges - what you are doing is on site backup, Tarsnap is offsite. Both are needed.
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by gleb 15y ago
A company that I worked for, Pivia (HTTP acceleration software/appliance), was sold to Swan Labs that continued to service existing customers rather than to an alternative that would have paid more, but was more interested in IP and enginee
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by gleb 15y ago
It turns out that in enterprise software company acquisitions, VCs will often prioritize customer satisfaction over millions of dollars of cash money. That's because there are a lot of startups that, say, Sequoia backs, but there is only on

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