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by jgilliam 16y ago
It's built from the ground up, Ruby on Rails mostly.
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Show HN: NationBuilder, my startup just launched(nationbuilder.com)
109 points by jgilliam 16y ago|93 comments
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by jgilliam 16y ago
My guess is that he just really loves the product, and now that Ev and Biz are AWOL, he can actually do what he wants with it. It's also a great PR response to the #dickbar.
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How one guy turned his C&C skills into millions with online poker(nytimes.com)
105 points by jgilliam 16y ago|53 comments
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by jgilliam 16y ago
Last I heard, Twitter has 200 million users. So that means the top 0.01% of users get 50% of all tweet impressions. Tweet wealth is 100x more concentrated than financial wealth in America.
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Napster boss set to buy Metallica’s record label(rocknewsdesk.com)
68 points by jgilliam 16y ago|19 comments
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by jgilliam 16y ago
It was clearly designed to be easy to hack, so they are not afraid of that. What they've really done is set a premium price on their content. Whether people pay it or not, everyone will now feel like the NYT is very high quality. That seems
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A Non-Sucky Twitter Business Model(3dna.us)
22 points by jgilliam 16y ago|8 comments
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by jgilliam 16y ago
Amazon is having problems, it's impacting Heroku and many others.
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by jgilliam 16y ago
This is the best promo/explanation video for a web app I've ever seen.
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by jgilliam 16y ago
new slogan: Only Communists use IE6
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by jgilliam 16y ago
The mom actually responded to this completely wrong as it's now become an internet meme. She should have flooded the web with other pictures of him to drown out the embarrassing ones.
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by jgilliam 16y ago
Web startups are now rock bands, and YC is the record label.
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by jgilliam 16y ago
This needs one more feature. If Starbucks uses your likeness, you should get a free drink.
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by jgilliam 16y ago
Wow, I'm an idiot and you might have just saved me a bunch of money, so thank you!
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by jgilliam 16y ago
Sendgrid is half as expensive once you get beyond sending a handful of emails. $.005 vs $.01 I am a sendgrid customer, and unless Amazon is cheaper and can solve the deliverability issues, there is no way I'm switching.
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by jgilliam 16y ago
Remember when people were paid to appear in a corporation's ads?
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by jgilliam 16y ago
We started in 2003 and just kind of stumbled onto this model because we had no other options. It wasn't planned out like I just described, although I 100% believe it is the business model of the future for independent artists. I had to hack
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by jgilliam 16y ago
This story makes me so sad, not because people are stealing her work, but because the author doesn't look at those 800 people a week as potential fans who would fund her next book. Forget about selling the book itself, use the book as a way
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by jgilliam 16y ago
The article says they are going to put physical stations in venues that people can "bump." I love that idea. Making it a physical act that other people can see is really smart. The activity isn't just happening on the phone, it's happening
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by jgilliam 16y ago
The tweet box doesn't have "What's happening" and the user's name doesn't link to their profile. The official app does the right thing, IMO, it just shows how silly some of the guidelines are. Particularly requiring "What's happening?" I
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by jgilliam 16y ago
Twitter's new official app for the Mac violates several of these display guidelines.
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Obama's campaign agency being acquired by WPP(blogs.news.sky.com)
2 points by jgilliam 16y ago|0 comments
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by jgilliam 16y ago
There is a Twitter petition to Yahoo getting a lot of action: http://act.ly/2ul
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by jgilliam 16y ago
I'm starting to feel conflicted about these YC deals for priority API access. Yodlee is notoriously expensive and not particularly developer friendly. It's great YC is lessening that burden for their companies, but it's starting to create
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by jgilliam 16y ago
It's totally normal for a CFO to get $20 million in stock, but shocking news when an engineer gets $3.5 million. How much longer will that last?
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by jgilliam 16y ago
The problem is that if they can't get the service working, then they will never turn into paying customers.
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by jgilliam 16y ago
They aren't asking for money, just that the site be up!
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by jgilliam 16y ago
People do pay for these "free" sites. Not with their money, but with their time . If people weren't putting time into the sites, the sites would be worthless. It's not unreasonable for people who are giving companies all this free labor
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Facebook's plan to topple Google(3dna.us)
2 points by jgilliam 16y ago|0 comments

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