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by gridspy 17y ago
For every person using Google Docs, there are another 10 or 100 who haven't heard of it, don't understand it or think it is too hard. Don't give up in the face of competition. It just validates the marketplace. For instance - Dropbox went u
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by gridspy 17y ago
Did you do it in a weekend? ;)
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by gridspy 17y ago
I read this as - "If you want real freedom, you don't just want to run a company, you want to run a PROFITABLE company" The point being that running Twitter isn't freedom until Twitter doesn't need to constantly ask others to pay the bills.
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by gridspy 17y ago
I think this is a great warning for those who think that VC funding immediately equals success. Eating your ramen noodles for a while gives you time to get good foundations in place before things start moving too fast. It made me feel much
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by gridspy 17y ago
Some stories are written in newspaper style like you describe. This is written in a storytelling style - much more informative for most of the audience who know very little of friendship.
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by gridspy 17y ago
Er... Not exactly. My point was more that you will find a lot more fresh ground if you look farther afield. Of course, there are a lot of great apps like Twilio that are concieved to make developer's lives a great deal easier - so I dunno.
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by gridspy 17y ago
I think I am closest to the Hacker - I have embraced and used so many different technologies over the years that diving into new code isn't a great effort. Also, I prefer to establish a beachhead of code and evolve it towards the finished p
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by gridspy 17y ago
My immediate thought : HN readers are mostly highly informed hackers. If there is an obvious product need to satisfy us, we would have already created it. I'd turn my attention to those who don't frequent online discussion forums such as th
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by gridspy 17y ago
Downloadable, searchable daily chat logs. It also allows you to upload attachments and lists those next to the daily chat logs. Navigating the raw text logs isn't that great, but it keeps them forever. I find the search really useful to pul
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by gridspy 17y ago
* Have you tried ( http://recurly.com/ ) or ( https://cheddargetter.com/features ) ? * Have you tried Campfire? What more do you want from your chats?
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by gridspy 17y ago
Note that the poster "MikeCapone" has been a HN user for over 750 days - the counterexample to your thesis.
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by gridspy 17y ago
On my second interview at a past role I was asked to create a solution to a simple problem. I thought that what was wanted was something easily extensible. You can imagine my frustration at the third inverview when I discovered that I was e
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by gridspy 17y ago
There is only one reason I would log into chat roulette - and that would be to 'chat' with Ben Folds.
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by gridspy 17y ago
I agree. See relevant blog entry - http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/2010/02/part-time-entrepreneur.htm...
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by gridspy 17y ago
Count Gridspy in. Might be some time until we get around to it though :)
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by gridspy 17y ago
I imagine the intent is to provide a service to "super talented people" who would like to become entrepreneurs.
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by gridspy 17y ago
I think that challenges that encourage the entrants to leverage the power of the internet in a new way are particularly cool. Data mining or wide ranging web scraping for example. Stuff that could become the core of an interesting startup.
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by gridspy 17y ago
I think that some non-cash prizes could be provided by those HN readers running a startup (should they wish to do so). 6-months of a premier SaaS offering, or license keys, or free publicity / advertising. Very valuable to the recipient, re
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by gridspy 17y ago
Payment could be in the form of services provided by startups at HN. Subscriptions to our SaaS systems, free products, discounts, etc.
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by gridspy 17y ago
Thanks for sharing that. I feel for PG that he has to moderate all the normal spam on HN and now he has motivated, libellous spammers too. Also, I'd prefer tough love from PG at YC over a quiet slide into obscurity any day.
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by gridspy 17y ago
Sounds like you guys need to install ghostery (a Firefox anti-tracking plugin) http://news.ghostery.com/ Though it blocked 6 of the 7 different tracking scripts on that page, it didn't seem to kill the Javascript one. (I have whitelisted
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by gridspy 17y ago
See simplechord (Also by this company) for mac : http://wonderwarp.com/simplechord/ Get it free here: http://etudeapp.com/tweet/
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by gridspy 17y ago
I too would prefer totally smooth continuous scrolling (like ddr when the notes are played as they hit the line).
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by gridspy 17y ago
Congratulations Dan. Looks like you have created a useful, highly polished little app. I'd buy it if I had an iPhone. Have you considered making the keys on the keyboard start off a lighter shade of blue and fade down to dark blue as they a
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by gridspy 17y ago
A nice clear sales piece. We should all aspire to such a well explained benefits page.
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by gridspy 17y ago
Exactly. It is much better to just write things that you are proud of and then sign them with your real name.
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by gridspy 17y ago
The difference between those different entrants is a huge amount of time. The winning unis made correct entries earlier, and had less incorrect entries. Compare it to a marathon where there are 9 finish lines. The more you cross, the better
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by gridspy 17y ago
That didn't stop me from competing when I was a student. I got into the finals. The training I did still helps me to identify and solve algorithmic challenges to this day.
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by gridspy 17y ago
NB: Not the OP Personally I track time using Excel. I have a table of start time, end time and a category and desc. I set up a macro to create a new row, another to create a new task after the previous. It takes me about 5 seconds to "star
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by gridspy 17y ago
To be separated from their friends, family and networks?

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