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by jeff18 17y ago
I must sound like a complete dumbass, but could you give me more info? TechCrunch parties <- how do I get in on that? YC/Startup parties <- ditto Entrepreneurs Helping Entrepreneurs event <- this sounds great, but how did
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by jeff18 17y ago
To clarify, I think YC makes a lot of sense for a lot of startups. However, I am not sure if my startup would be a good fit for YC. It is slightly older, already profitable, etc. YC seems to invest really, really early on, which is why 5
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by jeff18 17y ago
The only ones I know of are Startup at Berkeley and various video game developer meetups. WWDC and GDC are the only two conferences I currently go to. I'd be grateful for any specific recommendations! :)
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by jeff18 17y ago
If I could multiply my startup by 100x, I could retire in a couple of months. ;)
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by jeff18 17y ago
Not exactly. In hindsight, maybe my post was offensive, but I did not intend it to come off that way. I am not looking for the full YC package (I'm not sure if my startup is even eligible to apply). What I meant was specifically - I woul
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by jeff18 17y ago
I am really envious of the "Y Combinator Experience". Is there any way to get introductions to the various connections, go to the mentioned startup meetups (we are located in San Francisco), and get some friendly advice, without giving up
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What Does a Strong US Dollar Mean - Purchasing Power of US Dollar(mint.com)
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by jeff18 17y ago
I'd consider the lack of that info a bug, unless you are expecting people to deduce that. ;)
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by jeff18 17y ago
"Once my CS friends realized I wasn't a "true geek", I wasn't invited to most of their hangouts - D&D nights, sci-fi screenings, or gaming nights. Eventually, I just wasn't invited to anything at all. I was sad, but busied myself wit
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by jeff18 17y ago
I couldn't get it to work in Mac OS X Snow Leopard with Chrome. I could see myself, but the other box was always either non existent or white.
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by jeff18 17y ago
To be honest, I don't know what you're saying. All I wanted to say was that those three sites could be technically created using HTML5. You then seemed to say that HTML5 doesn't actually let you create the effects exhibited in those website
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by jeff18 17y ago
If that was your point, you could have just said "Microsoft doesn't support HTML5, end of story." I wasn't trying to argue that HTML5 has the same adoption as Flash, simply that HTML5 is technically capable of creating those "state-of-the-a
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by jeff18 17y ago
2-5 clicks per day? That would take over a year before you even generated a single CPM!
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by jeff18 17y ago
"On February 5th, Jason Calacanis posted some thoughts on the Techcrunch "extortion" story. I found his article insightful and well written. Wanting to reach out to someone about the issues I've been struggling with, I emailed him and con
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by jeff18 17y ago
jQuery and PNGs are actually not HTML5. I'd recommend checking out the CSS animation / transitions modules at the W3C to get familiarized. Safari's implementation is actually hardware accelerated. Also, check out the SVG animation module
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by jeff18 17y ago
As an aside, I submitted this post a little bit earlier and did not get a single upvote on mine. I think that is kind of an interesting case study on the snowball effect, where in two parallel worlds the exact same article / title could ge
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by jeff18 17y ago
There is virtually no content in this post. It basically reads "hey guys, we had 1k visitors in month X and then grew to 35k visitors in month Y by trying to reduce friction and reaching out to a ton of small bloggers." What does it mean t
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Internet Explorer: Global Variables, and Stack Overflows(cappuccino.org)
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Silver Needle in the Skype(secdev.org)
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by jeff18 17y ago
I meant that there is nothing in those examples that couldn't be achieved using HTML5. Basically, the effects could be achieved using HTML5 video for the background, canvas for the particle effects, and either your choice of canvas or CSS
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by jeff18 17y ago
Just for the record, all of that could be done better with HTML5.
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by jeff18 17y ago
Or more likely, they will roll out HTML5 video support and use Flash as a seamless fallback, like YouTube, DailyMotion, and Vimeo are publicly beta testing.
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by jeff18 17y ago
I believe that the article is overestimating how hard it will be to reverse engineer the save game code and is fallaciously assuming that crackers will need to maintain a public facing internet server for people to use. a) You don't need to
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The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work(jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
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by jeff18 17y ago
Right, and I am thankful for that. However, my point is that in the entire history of my HN career (which spans many, many hours), maybe 100 people have clicked on that link. Maybe 2 of those 100 people turned around and bought the game (
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by jeff18 17y ago
"Facebook is going to set indie gaming back 5 years, developers must follow the money, and nobody can deny that there is sick cash to be had playing the viral lottery on Facebook" I can cite many examples of people who have abandoned PC g
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by jeff18 17y ago
That sounds like pretty decent advice. I have one nitpick though, which is the advice to leave blog comments everywhere and to relentlessly tell all of your friends about your startup. That surely cannot hurt, but the return on investment
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by jeff18 17y ago
I agree with the general sentiment (don't deface your hobbyist site with ads until you want to seriously monetize it) but I disagree with his solution. He basically advocates "just suck it up -- $100 / month is not that much." To many peop
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In case you had any doubts about where Google's revenue comes from(businessinsider.com)
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by jeff18 17y ago
That's not exactly my point. Yelp has many easy opportunities to be a shady company and raise its profit margins in ways that are 100% invisible. For example, they could claim that an ad impression got twice as many views as it actually

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