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by jmcannon 12y ago
Yeah, definitely. Learning languages seems to be the largest use-case for spaced repetition apps, so building in lots of good content for language learning seemed like a smart way to differentiate and target ourselves at first. One of the b
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by jmcannon 12y ago
Hey HN - a little background, which might be interesting to some. I went through YC twice, the second time with a company called EveryArt. After working on that for two years as a solo founder, I decided to close it down. I moved from San F
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Show HN: CleverDeck – I built the spaced repetition app I always wanted(cleverdeck.com)
305 points by jmcannon 12y ago|135 comments
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by jmcannon 13y ago
This understanding is outdated. AKP has gutted the old secular military establishment and instituted reforms that no longer make this a realistic scenario.
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No Line at the Women's Room - JQuery Con '12(clarebayley.com)
6 points by jmcannon 14y ago|0 comments
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by jmcannon 14y ago
As an anecdote, I went through YC twice: once in 2009 with 30 companies and again in the last batch with 65 companies. I was skeptical at first as well, but if anything, the value my company got out of advising in the last batch was greater
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How I built a fashion brand with no experience(psfk.com)
3 points by jmcannon 14y ago|0 comments
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by jmcannon 14y ago
"because it's interesting and fun and challenging and sometimes disappointing and a fantastic learning experience and you might get rich or go broke while experiencing the full, unfiltered range of human emotions and potential" This is one
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by jmcannon 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Sounds like others feel the same. We'll slow it down a bit.
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by jmcannon 15y ago
Ahh, I saw that. I'm sorry - our artists' personalities are as diverse as their styles. We've done our best to screen for people that will work well with clients, but we will be watching closely to make sure they're all a good fit. I'm foll
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by jmcannon 15y ago
You've touched on a really interesting point here, and one that we've thought about really hard. In building the company, we had to decide what sort of portfolio we wanted to represent. We were gaining the most traction with work that's oft
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by jmcannon 15y ago
Thank you!
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by jmcannon 15y ago
Thank you! I think you're right on both points.
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by jmcannon 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback. It actually used to work that way, but users were telling us that they wanted to go directly to the image that the clicked on. We'll work on a happy solution.
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by jmcannon 15y ago
Yep. We considered that a proxy for demand.
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by jmcannon 15y ago
Absolutely. We were our own first customers and sometimes have to restrain ourselves from blowing all our YC money on commissioning our own artists. Most of the work so far has been for the wall, but some people have commissioned pieces tha
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by jmcannon 15y ago
Perfect! Let us know if we can be of any help along the way.
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With EveryArt (YC W12) you don't have to be afraid of commissioning art (techcrunch.com)
174 points by jmcannon 15y ago|54 comments
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by jmcannon 15y ago
Dividing by quality "Good, Great, and Excellent" is weird to me. What metric distinguishes the different options? If I only check "Good," will you edit my text while watching television instead of devoting your full attention to it? I would
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by jmcannon 15y ago
Use javascript to automatically extract this information from the URL that they enter.
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Why Boston fails young entrepreneurs(cortlandtjohnson.com)
7 points by jmcannon 16y ago|1 comments
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by jmcannon 16y ago
Yup - I paid my way through my first start-up tutoring. Again, it probably depends where you are, but on the east coast at least, some middle and high schools cost more than most college tuitions. The kids there often have several tutors to
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by jmcannon 17y ago
Fine, but even then he does a wonderful and passionate job articulating that 'universal' reality shock.
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by jmcannon 17y ago
Definitely - we understand and appreciate the spirit of HN. All the feedback here is gold.
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by jmcannon 17y ago
IE6 is still very prevalent in the American school system (don't know about elsewhere). We used to sell a web product to schools and you wouldn't believe the number of districts using IE6 for "compatibility" with their network software or b
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The Story of Johnny Cupcakes(johnnycupcakes.com)
4 points by jmcannon 17y ago|0 comments
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Invite Boston HN: Startup party on April 15
2 points by jmcannon 18y ago|0 comments
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by jmcannon 18y ago
I started working on my startup immediately after graduation 1500 miles from my parents' basement. I found a cheap room in a boarding house from which I work and tutoring rich private school kids just four hours a week keeps me going. For a
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Mozilla demos impressive Firefox 3.1 features(arstechnica.com)
6 points by jmcannon 18y ago|0 comments
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The Worst Case Scenario(nytimes.com)
1 points by jmcannon 18y ago|0 comments

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