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by jwecker 20y ago
I agree, but it seems you need to be trying to cross that chasm. I was just reading http://www.height1percent.com/articles/2006/08/18/actual-lessons-from-kiko (near the bottom of the main entry- "You must have a plan for escaping the Tec
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by jwecker 20y ago
There's no phone book in it. You simply type the name of the person and instead of the call button there is an "I'm feeling lucky" button. Sorry. It's 4am.
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by jwecker 20y ago
ctrl-scrollwheel
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by jwecker 20y ago
make something people want
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by jwecker 20y ago
same with "registering" in the first place, even if it is free. Just knowing that you have to make a decision whether or not you can use your real email address, the nagging question of what they're doing with the information, etc...
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by jwecker 20y ago
Fun exercise- think of a large company- one whose products you know. What new product / package would terrify them? Not just show up as a competitor, but really make them sit down and say "well, we're going to have to reinvent ourselves,
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Javascript Closures(jibbering.com)
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by jwecker 20y ago
The one VC firm I've ever actually worked with was all about "go big or stay home." However, they had the pre-launch checklist that included things like making sure the product was complete and a perfect fit for a specific vertical. If you
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by jwecker 20y ago
You want a great example of this, look to the man who more or less invented the principle- as I've used news.YC over the past couple of weeks it seems every few days, as simple as the site is, very nice features keep popping up. Nothing di
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by jwecker 20y ago
While it sure is generous and I'm sure the founders appreciate it, a couple of months worth of rent and ramen noodle money isn't really funding a company. What you describe is already what YC is- it's just making sure that you are availabl
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by jwecker 20y ago
It's kind of funny- I think about web apps constantly. After reading this, though, I decided to make a list of the web applications that I have actually paid for. I could only think of one- it was one of the ediet ones that lets you pick
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by jwecker 20y ago
a little bit ironic that you're advertising your site to us...
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by jwecker 20y ago
looks like between the three of them they've already got it under control :)
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by jwecker 20y ago
nice post. In my experience also the lowest paying accounts are the most difficult to maintain- out of proportion certainly to the revenue they bring in. However, one thing it didn't mention here is to remember not to discount market shar
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by jwecker 20y ago
There are a few links like this that get submitted about every 4 or 5 days. At first I was annoyed, but now I kind of think it's a good thing- with the usership growing on this site it's probably important to hit some of these great pieces
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by jwecker 20y ago
Another way to really keep the fire and remember what you're doing is to maintain momentum. Like the 37signals guys say- have accomplishments every week that you can celebrate. That trumps having to dig up old memories about how excited y
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by jwecker 20y ago
"There is a prestigious school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, devoted to science and engineering, and while I'm sure that there are some students there who are majoring in 'computer science,' the science that's taught isn't rel
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by jwecker 20y ago
yah, very cool. Thanks Harj.
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by jwecker 20y ago
well, the users would be able to invite. it wouldn't eliminate the garbage, just slow it down. news.yc people would spread the word pretty effectively, I think, or some well placed invitations on facebook, etc.
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by jwecker 20y ago
I agree. In addition, some interesting notes about HCI. First- if you haven't studied HCI or know what the acronym stands for, you may make it as a programmer for some company, but you're not going to reach your full potential creating ne
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by jwecker 20y ago
Great name for the site. A couple of suggestions: technical strengths and weaknesses are important, but not necessarily more important than general strengths and weaknesses- at least not for a founder. If it was an employee search that w
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by jwecker 20y ago
Do you mind if I ask how many users there are? Have memberships mirrored the page requests more or less?
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by jwecker 20y ago
What sets this site apart for pg is that he can use it to guage peoples comments for when they apply for something. One thing that sets this site apart for me, though, is that I think most people here intend to meet one another in person a
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by jwecker 20y ago
luckily though my karma is actually a formula- [danielha - rand(10,50)]
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by jwecker 20y ago
I tried it and it reset my karma.
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by jwecker 20y ago
btw immad- i was making fun of myself and the current state of my business, not your submission, which was definitely relevant. cheers :)
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by jwecker 20y ago
Here's what gets me- in the first couple of days there were some pretty good posts that got _tons_ of marks. There are some users in the top 20 rankings that haven't had any activity since the first couple of days- like http://news.ycombin
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by jwecker 20y ago
Now that I think of it, this is a place where we're much more likely to have involved discussions rather than quick "where you been" type comments. That implies to me that you'd kind of want the same threading / nesting as the general boar
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by jwecker 20y ago
a photo upload per user so you can pick out someone you know here in a crowd, and a simple message queue (per user) would probably do it, imo.
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by jwecker 20y ago
The idea is fundamentally disgusting. Giving someone a government enforced monopoly on a thought. It's not even interesting to speculate about- it's completely untenable- impossible to organize and define, impossible (and immoral) to enfo

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