jmintz

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Bump is looking for smart people, iPhone/Android a plus (YC S09, Sequoia)
28 points by jmintz 17y ago
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by jmintz 17y ago
Are you talking about the "phone" link on http://bu.mp to the Android App? If so, that link only works on Android phones (it is a link to the Market Place application). If not, what isn't working? So we can go fix it... :)
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by jmintz 17y ago
Bump Technologies: We are looking for smart people that fit our culture. Mac/Obj-C/iPhone/Cocoa/Android experience a plus, but not required if you are interested in learning iPhone or Android. The Bump App is one of the most popular iPhone
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by jmintz 17y ago
Dan's apology: http://www.danielbru.com/2010/02/the-line-was-crossed/ I haven't ever met the guy, but much worse things are done by 17-year-olds all the time. The punishment he is receiving seems adequate to me. Hopefully he learns from
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by jmintz 17y ago
I can deal with hardware fragmentation, but I am still concerned with software fragmentation. For instance, we (Bump) have different contacts code for Android 1.x, Android 2.x (yes they were supposed to be compatible), and HTC. Bump is no
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Ask HN: What iPhone or App Store data/analysis would be interesting?
15 points by jmintz 17y ago|2 comments
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by jmintz 17y ago
Location can come from cell tower triangulation, scanned wifi or GPS. There are several ways we match people without location, but the vast majority are currently matched with.
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by jmintz 17y ago
The api will be free for most people. If you use it for revenue generating transactions or it is core to your app (wouldn't be useful without it) we ask for a revenue share (but no up front fee). Otherwise, as long as you don't hit our gen
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by jmintz 17y ago
Two main reasons: 1) BT does not work quickly or reliably for ad-hoc connections. Have you tried using GameKit? It takes >45 seconds to ad-hoc pair (if BT is cold) and does not always work and 2) BT is very unreliable across platforms.
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by jmintz 17y ago
Shameless plug: if you think this is cool come work with us! http://bu.mp/jobs.html There are even more exciting things on the horizon (well we think so at least).
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by jmintz 17y ago
Shameless plug: if you think this is cool come work with us! http://bu.mp/jobs.html There are even more exciting things on the horizon (well we think so at least).
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by jmintz 17y ago
The API identifies the phone you bumped with, and then gives the app a channel to send messages between them. You can do pretty much anything with that. :)
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by jmintz 17y ago
yes, and we are network agnostic so a user on wifi will match a user on the cellular network.
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Bump Technologies (YC S09) Launches API(blog.bu.mp)
35 points by jmintz 17y ago|18 comments
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by jmintz 17y ago
Dave and I (along with a classmate Dom) won the Chicago Booth (MBA) business plan competition for Bump before entering YC. It was good because we were in school and got credit for spending time thinking about and working on Bump (rather th
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by jmintz 17y ago
also Erlang is now on Github (official repo) : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=961462
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by jmintz 17y ago
Glad to hear that! We are super excited too (and curious to see whether or not anyone uses this feature). Hopefully by time shifting this event (looking up common friends when you meet someone instead of after) and using many people's best
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by jmintz 17y ago
Part of the reason we did not enable bumping in the background is we have received lots of feedback that people like the security aspect of having to open the app for an exchange to occur (picture girls at bars having guys hitting their pho
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Bump is hiring: now with salaries! (YCS09/Sequoia)(bumptechnologies.com)
81 points by jmintz 17y ago
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by jmintz 17y ago
we have been amazed how much people love the bump interaction. lots of people bump just to see it work and then don't transfer anything. most mobile wlan chipsets (including the iphone's) don't support adhoc (so would need router) and bluet
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by jmintz 17y ago
we have decided to not highlight the complexity of our technology. most users think it is bluetooth or magic (seriously). for most people understanding doesn't add value. for those it does, we made the faq. :)
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by jmintz 17y ago
FWIW: My Kindle2 stopped working a few weeks after I bought it (something weird with the screen). Not sure why it broke, if it was defective or if I dropped it (it was in my backpack with a ton of textbooks so it pretty easily could have su
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by jmintz 17y ago
None of the founders of Bump had a Hacker News account before applying. When YC started, I didn't get the feeling that people knew each other from HN. The last class had >50 founders, only a few of which I see post on HN.
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by jmintz 17y ago
When we filmed our video, Dave and I were in Chicago but Andy was in California. We got Andy on video chat (Google Talk) and then subtitled what he said (since the microphone didn't pick it up well). Not sure if anyone else did this... :)
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by jmintz 17y ago
Good idea. Not sure I can stay under the free limit or want to pay for a second account, but if I can that will do it.
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by jmintz 17y ago
I would love to be able to leave some folders in the cloud on some machines. My laptop has a small hdd... Overall I love Dropbox, but I am confident it can and will improve.
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by jmintz 17y ago
Bump Technologies is looking for Java or Mobile developers: http://bumptechnologies.com/jobs.phtml If you don't know Bump, our technology let's two phones connect by bumping them together. Currently we let users exchange contacts and pho
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by jmintz 17y ago
Won't most companies accept PDF these days? Their systems should be able to search those as well... Congrats Andrew and Dane on the launch.
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by jmintz 17y ago
Correct, both our website and our matching infrastructure is hosted at Linode.
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by jmintz 17y ago
Apple let's you know you are being considered (you need to sign releases and stuff) but we didn't know we had been selected until the commercial aired and our server went nuts... No need to jinx it by talking about it early! -jake (Bump)

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