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by jiggity 14y ago
You have it the other way around. Resumes, programming skill, college degrees mean nothing. NOTHING. You should be complaining about your ability to think up interesting problems and interesting solutions to solve them. . Think of pro
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by jiggity 14y ago
Before Bridge, your two options were: 1. Pay per message at Pusher/UrbanAirship to use their internal systems optimized for messaging. 2. Do it for free writing your own messaging stack using some combination of Node.js / Socket.io / Rabbit
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by jiggity 14y ago
You sir have improved my life by a definite measurable amount. Instantly a fan. Very clever programming! Some points: - Great usage flow by having both keyboard shortcuts displayed. I would label each in a smaller font (i.e. "Take Scre
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by jiggity 14y ago
If this design makes you uneasy and go "But that's not Microsoft!", slap your gut and tell it to listen because that's just the branding talking. Take a step back and recognize that EVERY emotion you feel about Microsoft is arbitrary. Bran
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by jiggity 15y ago
You should insert snapshots of the linked pages into each of the posts. Pinterest's magic comes from the visual interest of the varying images.
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by jiggity 15y ago
NOTE: This comes from an earlier response, but I thought it would be relevant. I've found the most fun I've had was when I was working on side projects while taking relevant courses. I ended up staying at MIT for all four years + an extra
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by jiggity 15y ago
At first glance, I thought it was just another email collection page. If the call to action was instead "Try it now," I would get the impression I could satisfy my curiosity immediately.
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by jiggity 15y ago
I use kicksend. It's like email, but just for files. It has an inbox that you use to look at read / unread / sent messages.
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by jiggity 15y ago
The biggest painpoint for me was the fact that Paypal requires you to route your customers to their domain. Stripe lets you keep them on your site.
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by jiggity 15y ago
I would focus on just one aspect that you do uniquely well. Take Rapportive's landing page: http://rapportive.com . They provide much, much more than just Twitter / Facebook widgets but they purposely restrict what they show. As a potenti
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by jiggity 15y ago
Hi Mbrzuzy, Here's my story that I used to answer a similar question a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3414135 Hope this helps.
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by jiggity 15y ago
Hi Benregn, Sorry I didn't see your response earlier. I ended up doing YC with the Summer 2010 class. Continuing to work on the startup day-to-day. :)
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by jiggity 15y ago
Looking sharp. We're lucky to have a charismatic figure from our demographic who can articulate the issues that matter to us. - From the outside-in perspective, you carry the impression of being a young, successful, and likable Silicon Val
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by jiggity 15y ago
Hi Geek_silk, You have the rare gift of having deep empathetic sensibilities. Having the capacity to think about what someone else is thinking and to get a read on what he/she is feeling is an invaluable skillset. You usually read about th
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by jiggity 15y ago
Cioc, it depends on what type of "launch" you are talking about. . If you mean the first time showing your product to users, you don't need an official "launch". You should be constantly posting about your startup in circles where your use
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by jiggity 15y ago
Hi Naf, I love thinking through new ideas and I would be glad to help. You can see some parts of the framework I use to evaluate ideas in my past comments. Shoot me an email if you think I can help. cheers, jiggity
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by jiggity 15y ago
I've found the most fun I've had was when I was working on side projects while taking relevant courses. I ended up staying at MIT for all four years + an extra year for their 1 year EECS Masters program. All during that time, I was working
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by jiggity 15y ago
You know what would be cool? If you built an automated scraper that would pick up "stealth" sites (i.e. LaunchRock pages) from various tech publications, Twitter, Facebook when the founders send out links to their friends and family. Your s
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by jiggity 15y ago
It's too easy to get caught up in the fad where you see blog posts bragging about launching in 3 hours with a crappy website and bagging their first customer. . (Note: This is all based on my meandering experience. Take it with a grain of
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by jiggity 15y ago
It's poetic. It's like walking into a room filled with mirrors.
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by jiggity 15y ago
Ahh you're right. The "Sweet Jesus" face would be more appropriate for that incredible bliss. It is important to understand the subtleties. One part that I had forgotten to talk about within the post was the fact that each face can't be l
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by jiggity 15y ago
A clean site that I used to make the sample comics is at: http://ragemaker.net It has a listing of the standard emotive faces that you can drag and drop to portray your story.
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Startup Rage Comics: Using rage to evaluate startup ideas(startuprage.com)
33 points by jiggity 15y ago|11 comments
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by jiggity 15y ago
Hi everyone, I apologize for this mess. I made a video telling my story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiRzBnlbpUs
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by jiggity 16y ago
I think you could be the Padmapper ( http://padmapper.com ) for events. It wins out because of its intuitive interface and nifty features integrated into the map.
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by jiggity 16y ago
thanks for the catch! we'll be fixing that up
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Teevox (YC S10) Turns Your iPhone Into A Computer TV Remote Control(techcrunch.com)
88 points by jiggity 16y ago|27 comments
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by jiggity 16y ago
Yup! We figure we'll target fans of these shows who'll identify most with the characters.
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by jiggity 16y ago
We've got a few ideas on how to make browsing fresh and interesting for each new visit. For the minimum viable product, we determined randomized browsing was enough to get a taste of the experience.
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by jiggity 16y ago
We tried out Kohana, a php framework based off of CodeIgniter. Worked like a charm, really fast dev time.

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