justin

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   by justin 16y ago

   Agreed. We don't consider Android and iOS programmers interchangable (except in so far as we consider all programmers at JTV to largely be generalists who can work on whatever they put their minds to). Android and iPhone are different platf
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   Work at Socialcam and help the world share mobile video [SF](socialcam.com)

   32 points by justin 16y ago
3. 393.▲
   by justin 16y ago

   Wow, that is a fat round. Nice job!
4. 394.▲
   by justin 16y ago

   "Not debt, but it's still money owed." False, and inanity.
5. 395.▲
   by justin 16y ago

   Sorry, that was an oversight. Won't happen again.
6. 396.▲
   by justin 16y ago

   Dustin Curtis made it!
7. 397.▲
   by justin 16y ago

   Ah, we pushed the wrong version of the site; this will be fixed shortly!
8. 398.▲
   by justin 16y ago

   Thanks for writing this -- it made me write my thoughts down on some things I've also been meaning to write. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2309723
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   by justin 16y ago

   Great question; obviously we've thought a lot about it: 1) First, it shows you videos of your friends. When we looked at how we used videos we realized we didn't go to Youtube to find videos our real life friends had taken. 2) Second, we le
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    by justin 16y ago

    You are right; the timeline we were up against was extremely tight because of external deadlines. Crunching to this degree runs an extremely high risk of burn out and is not normal, and I don't believe it is something that should be done un
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    by justin 16y ago

    FWIW: With Socialcam, Eric implemented unit tests for the API (which powers the client apps), and initially for the website but later we decided against them for the site. Having them on the API definitely has been worth the initial cost as
12. 402.▲
    by justin 16y ago

    Videos are public but there are no central directories or search. The only way to get a link to a video is from a share (Facebook, Twitter, email, sms) or by viewing a friend or friend of friend. We might add some form of strict privacy in
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    by justin 16y ago

    Please email us at sc@socialcam.com; thanks!
14. 404.▲
    by justin 16y ago

    Yeah, it's not ideal. I think that was the default behavior in the player; will be worked on later.
15. 405.▲
    by justin 16y ago

    Also, your videos will upload in the background as you record them, making upload time much shorter (but only be published when you click "Finish" at the end of the creation).
16. 406.▲
    by justin 16y ago

    We will add independent login in the future. We started with Facebook because it is easy to bootstrap the network, it is where most people want to share their videos anyways, and it allows us to keep the content clean much easier as most pe
17. 407.▲
    by justin 16y ago

    Doubtful. We didn't even have the idea of the platform when we came up with Justin.tv. Our pitch was more along the lines of "Here's something we're passionate about that is cool" -- PG believes in funding people and believed in funding us.
18. 408.▲
    by justin 16y ago

    If you don't find the product interesting I'll refund all your money!
19. 409.▲
    by justin 16y ago

    Ah, sorry, reading comprehension fail. Why didn't the platform exist pre-Justin.tv? 1) Bandwidth prices were much higher in 2007, and have plummeted in the past few years, making the economics more attractive. 2) There were no good, stable
20. 410.▲
    by justin 16y ago

    Thanks, I fixed them. We've been working late :)
21. 411.▲
    by justin 16y ago

    Justin.tv (neither an online streaming live show of some guy's life, nor a streaming platform for live video) didn't exist before we were funded, fyibtw.
22. 412.▲
    by justin 16y ago

    Beluga is an amazing app. I hope it's functionality gets left intact or someone clones it immediately :)
23. 413.▲
    by justin 16y ago

    "That's plain screwed up. If you developed no communication, writing, or quantitative reasoning skills in college, then your college education was a waste of time. But it's because you made an (apparently) crappy decision to go to that coll
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    by justin 16y ago

    Why do you care? It is unlikely he will ever succeed if you are executing well and he just copies you. Also, you have the .com (i.e. the domain people will actually type in and go to by default). He has the .org (i.e. the domain that no one
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    The Year(s) of the Growing Startup(blog.uservoice.com)

    47 points by justin 16y ago|4 comments
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    by justin 16y ago

    Looking back, of course it isn't a lot of money, especially when you consider how well justin.tv is doing and that we have raised millions in VC since then. However, consider that we were thinking we would get nothing initially and would ha
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    by justin 16y ago

    I asked them how they valued the auction. Response: - 50k for the domain name - 175k (or so) for two man-years of engineer time and the code - 25k for user base This is all a bit fuzzy and from memory, so I could be somewhat off.
28. 418.▲
    by justin 16y ago

    I don't really know. They never asked for a refund :)
29. 419.▲
    by justin 16y ago

    I think it was around $3500 all told.
30. 420.▲
    by justin 16y ago

    We actually sold all the assets (which was specified in the auction), not the actual company itself. The assets included the domain, code license and database.