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by kevin 12y ago
Rate limit is up to Firebase. We'll see if we can get them to answer.
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by kevin 12y ago
We'll probably start with logged out home to a percentage of traffic and work our way to updating the rest of the site and handling the full traffic over a few weeks. If people need help converting their apps, I believe the Firebase gu
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Hacker News API(blog.ycombinator.com)
1714 points by kevin 12y ago|298 comments
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Strong Opinions, Weakly Held(blog.codinghorror.com)
2 points by kevin 12y ago|0 comments
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Prototyping for Better Products, Stronger Teams and Happier Clients(smashingmagazine.com)
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Harness the Power of Your Footsteps(voxcreative.com)
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It's Been Tried Before(robgo.org)
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by kevin 12y ago
Yes, you can update your app all the way to the deadline.
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by kevin 12y ago
"You shouldn’t start a company just because it’s on this list."
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by kevin 12y ago
If you're willing to work hard and are talented, we'd love for you to apply. If you have those two qualities, I could care less about that number. Only you can answer whether you're willing to do what it takes to make a start
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by kevin 12y ago
Last time was July 2014.
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by kevin 12y ago
Many were slightly tweaked. But these are the new categories: Pharmaceuticals Government Human Augmentation VR and AR Programming Tools Hollywood 2.0 Diversity Developing Countries Enterprise Software Financial Services Telecommunication
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by kevin 12y ago
When you add founders, each founder gets a link to a separate form to fill out. The question is there. You each get to answer it instead of one.
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by kevin 12y ago
Bios and applications can still be updated even after submitting if it's before the Oct 14 deadline.
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by kevin 12y ago
Yes.
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by kevin 12y ago
Weird. Can you send some more details to me at kevin at ycombinator? Like browser, etc.
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by kevin 12y ago
Is there a reason you're looking for an alternative? There were 183 founders in the last YC batch. 74 were not born in the United States. That's 40%. They didn't all just come from Canada and UK, they came from 27 different c
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by kevin 12y ago
We wrote it ourselves.
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by kevin 12y ago
You're a solo founder then. FYI: If the catalyst is getting into an incubator/accelerator, please note that bandwagon cofounders brought on after being accepted into YC almost never work out. Making it into YC isn't impossibl
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by kevin 12y ago
Yes, still true. You can still edit/update the application all the way to the deadline even after you submit it. I'll make that more clear in the app and instructions.
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by kevin 12y ago
http://www.ycombinator.com/nonprofits/ "They did all the same things as the other startups, including present at Demo Day (which is after all a room with lots of rich people in it)." We do have some foundatio
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by kevin 12y ago
The tech powering the application form is completely new this year and was rewritten from the ground up by the YC Software Team. A lot of the credit goes to Brett Gibson for implementing an ungodly amount of features needed to handle not ju
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Applications for YC W2015 now open(ycombinator.com)
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Weave (YC S14) Adds Groups and Events to Its ‘Tinder For Networking’ App(techcrunch.com)
39 points by kevin 12y ago|9 comments
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Decluttering the company(economist.com)
30 points by kevin 12y ago|14 comments
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by kevin 12y ago
Related: http://blog.ycombinator.com/make-things-and-show-them My Favorite Part: "There have been about 24,000 Show HNs so far. The first used the title "Show and Tell HN", and was GitHub-related. The second
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by kevin 12y ago
I wrote a bit about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7960105 Here's the appropriate excerpt: "When the new team took over development on HN, we decided that before we implement any new frontend featur
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by kevin 12y ago
I use http://middlemanapp.com to generate the static site.
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by kevin 12y ago
Oh, you're referring to Posthaven's styles.
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by kevin 12y ago
The alignment I should fix. Thanks for catching that.

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