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by kevin 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9785533
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by kevin 11y ago
That $18K only covered our expenses up till Demo Day. The $100K we raised after that allowed us to get to launch and then profitability. Also, it's not like we could predict that it was all going to work out. From our perspective every
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by kevin 11y ago
When we applied to YC, the three of us only had enough money saved up for two of us to quit our jobs. So two of us quit and Chris kept working in a cubicle and split his paycheck 3 ways. Even that plan didn't give us enough money to wo
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by kevin 11y ago
Our outcome is much larger than you might think. Definitely more than what the average startup founder (who might have tried to raise more funding to chase growth over profits) under a similar exit, because the founders maintained a large p
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by kevin 11y ago
Just in case people are going to mentally summarize this as startups need to choose one or the other...the most important idea from Fred here comes at the end: Great companies can do both. Don't let investors (or anyone for that matter
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by kevin 11y ago
We'll do our best to help any startup.
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by kevin 11y ago
Office hours in YC context: http://www.ycombinator.com/atyc/#officehours
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by kevin 11y ago
I actually predicted your response to my name suggestion in regards to needing the name. :) To be clear, I don't think you should not collect it, just change how you do it. The new proposed approach sounds promising and it's good
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by kevin 11y ago
Well, that CloudApp link got taken down. It was a video of Safari asking for location permission over and over again. Here's the reason: "We've noticed that one of your CloudApp drops has been getting an unusual amount of att
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by kevin 11y ago
I started by working my way from the top, but the order shifted throughout the day. I'd only skip one if I realized there was nothing for me to really say. I tried not to talk just to talk. However, as you can see, sometimes the only t
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by kevin 11y ago
There you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9748308
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by kevin 11y ago
For those interested, here are the reviews I did last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9708886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9709005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=970
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by kevin 11y ago
Separate landing pages for different audiences is good, but you could definitely put more content on your site.
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by kevin 11y ago
Desktop. Safari. I think the problem might be that Typeform tries to auto move the cursor to the first field input so you can just start typing right away. We used to do this on Wufoo forms, but when people embedded them, we saw this proble
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by kevin 11y ago
Here the link to my comments stream: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kevin Direct links to comments since that will change over time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9746489 https://
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Aggregated Feedback from YC Partner on Today's Show HN
75 points by kevin 11y ago|7 comments
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by kevin 11y ago
Wow, the amount of effort and polish put into this is super great. I hope you sign up for that Captains Table thing earlier in Show HN and we get picked randomly together. After I read this: To advance to level 2 you need to checkout th
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by kevin 11y ago
What does self-crowdfunding mean? I think you might just want to say you're crowdfunding your Series A. I found it weird that I couldn't immediately see how much you were looking to raise, what the terms were and how much you&#x27
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by kevin 11y ago
I'm sorry, but this doesn't really have something for users to play with it. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html The only thing actionable is to contact you if people want to participate or volunteer. I like
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by kevin 11y ago
Start by talking to your potential users directly and manually going through it with them side by side. You'll learn from what it takes to do it in person and hopefully you'll incorporate that into the site through that process. M
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by kevin 11y ago
This is awesome! I think faceindex and facepad are my new favorite parameters. Is there a reason you decided to make faceindex not zero-based? Also, will there be other options for "fit"? Like waldoarea?
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by kevin 11y ago
More than anything, I wanted to see an example project powered by MinoHubs. If you do this right, most of your growth will come from other MinoHub powered projects. People wanting what they see elsewhere. http://cl.ly/image&
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by kevin 11y ago
Oh, and you should add PostgreSQL support. Maybe it's already supported, but I didn't see it explicitly listed.
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by kevin 11y ago
Is something like this always just a hack/shortcut or are there people who want this as their ideal workflow? I'm curious because I see stuff like this all the time being submitted to YC. For example, is this for IT / DBAs th
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by kevin 11y ago
There's so much to like about your execution here. I think my favorite is that the contact email for Fax Robot is human@faxrobot.com. I would highly recommend putting the information that you need to buy $2 worth up front. Finding that
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by kevin 11y ago
I felt like it took me too long to figure out what exactly this is and who is the ideal audience this is for. pg writes about matter of fact answers here really well: http://www.ycombinator.com/howtoapply/#matteroffact
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by kevin 11y ago
Oh man, you went right for my knees with this one. http://cl.ly/image/3a3t2O2M2H1W Not a sign up flow I haven’t seen improved by a giant dinosaur. :) Anyway, great first moment on that email. So many people waste that
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by kevin 11y ago
I don't know why, but I like that this was a Show HN. I was just thinking, "Hmmm...creating something that is both random and memorable seems hard. That venn diagram must not intersect often." Then I realized some of the most
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by kevin 11y ago
Why do you jump me to a signup form as soon as I go to the URL? Let me get a good look at you first. Tell me your story. Buy me a drink. Give me some good pillow talk. When I read the copy on your site, it feels like it’ll be cool and casua
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by kevin 11y ago
As I sat on the homepage, the first thing I asked my self was how does this work? And I am not curious about the actual tech behind it, but: - What do I have to do (install, sacrifice, compromise) to make this work? - What do other people h

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