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by indiekid 15y ago
This is correct. (I'm one of the founders of 1% of Nothing)
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by indiekid 15y ago
It's very simple: Instagram had a responsibility to its employees to keep the lights on. Deals don't always go through. If FB would have walked away for any reason, they'd have to start up again on raising. It's also likely that TG was a
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by indiekid 15y ago
Or it could just piggyback the existing connections that are taking place. It could run metrics against every attempted outgoing or incoming transfer. This would include mail checks, notifications, or any in-app data use. Sure, it wouldn
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by indiekid 15y ago
No problem. I'm surprised that not many have brought this up before, which is why I did the post.
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Why "More Bars in More Places" means shit for nothing now(mgalligan.com)
30 points by indiekid 15y ago|18 comments
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by indiekid 15y ago
To be fair, that's not true at all. It was an acquisition in every sense of the word at the time. SimpleGeo, customers, tech and team were acquired (apart from us founders).
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by indiekid 15y ago
Can't say I agree with you about us "abandoning" our users. SimpleGeo was acquired by Urban Airship and the decision was made to discontinue the service. Disappointing, sure.
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by indiekid 15y ago
I'd love to take credit for that "brilliant move", but it was totally accidental. Michael Birch came up with the name back in April! As an aside, there's nothing missing in the funding rounds. In the current iteration, this is a pledge give
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by indiekid 15y ago
This is an idea, not a startup. It's about giving, which is universal. We would have launched it the day of the economic meltdown a few years ago and the message would have remained the same.
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by indiekid 15y ago
Thanks for the comment, and I appreciate your honesty. When we say "1% of Nothing", it means (and generally has been assumed by most) that it refers to when the company starts. Clearly once the company has traction, it's not worth "nothing"
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by indiekid 15y ago
We were careful to make sure the emphasis was on the non-restrictive license on uses of the data. This isn't claiming to be a "open places database" but maybe that can exist with this data as the backbone. We are interested in doing a dump
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by indiekid 15y ago
Correct, for now. We're currently evaluating a dump method as well, but haven't been able to put much time on it as we've been busy working on our API :)
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How SimpleGeo Built a Scalable Geospatial Database with Apache Cassandra(youtube.com)
3 points by indiekid 16y ago|1 comments
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by indiekid 16y ago
Sparrow does labels, clean views and has Gmail keyboard shortcuts (if you enable them) and is super fast. Been a beta user for months now...
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Sparrow, new Mac mail client out of beta and #1 on Mac App Store(techcrunch.com)
116 points by indiekid 16y ago|81 comments
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by indiekid 16y ago
And we love that about you :)
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by indiekid 16y ago
It's not you missing something, it's RWW. We were actually trying to build "Alternate Reality" games, not "Augmented Reality". The clear distinction is that our plan was to build "game worlds on top of the real world" but didn't worry abo
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by indiekid 16y ago
A company called SoftFacade does our icon work. http://wow.softfacade.com/
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by indiekid 18y ago
Personally, having been in TechStars (founder of SocialThing), I think the programs are very different. Both have their merits, one is not necessarily better than the other, just different. Why the TS vs. YC animosity? We're (startup foun