kn0thing

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   Internet 2012 Bus Tour(washingtonpost.com)

   5 points by kn0thing 14y ago|0 comments
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   Time for a Phone Call Armistice(makesomethingpeoplelove.com)

   3 points by kn0thing 14y ago|0 comments
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   by kn0thing 14y ago

   My thoughts on why reddit won: http://alexisohanian.com/how-reddit-became-reddit-the-smalle... At the time, my open letter got me lambasted by the TechCrunch posse (badge of honor?), but I do hope all founders can learn from the digg stor
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   by kn0thing 14y ago

   Here's the blog post TechCrunch flamed me about (called me a liar and whatnot). I wrote it after I tried the alpha of diggv4, but before it was released to the public; I have no idea what happened internally, but the resulting product was i
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   by kn0thing 14y ago

   Surprise! Thanks so much.
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   by kn0thing 14y ago

   What a great series of comments. I couldn't agree more with all of this.
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   by kn0thing 14y ago

   Wow. I'm so sorry. This sounds all too familiar. I wish you and your family all the best. For what it's worth, I'm happy my story could connect with you, but I know we all have our own unique burdens, may it ease yours even just a bit. Also
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   by kn0thing 14y ago

   Relevant: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/drew_curtis_how_i_beat_a_pa...
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   by kn0thing 14y ago

   contact@alexisohanian but I'm pretty heads down atm trying to get my real book done - http://withoutyourpermission.com
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    Looks like we had 5.
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    Whoa! Congrats. And thank you! You'll be 7year any day now (sneakpeek in my trophy case) http://www.reddit.com/user/kn0thing I'm a big fan of HN, though I do wish /r/startups would grow into a similar community.
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    Rad. This is a bit dated, but the to-do/-eat/-drink list was all sourced from /r/grandrapids redditors: http://www.hipmunk.com/guides/usa/michigan/grand_rapids Researching it made me want to go!
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    It was the Verdana wasn't it? My fault.
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    reddit raised $82,000 -- that's investment. You can google around for the sale price, the Internet has the range pretty much figured out, but reddit is indeed profitable today (and not at the expense of users!) thanks primarily to self-serv
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    reddit has never had 'explosive' growth, always steady month-over-month. The monday before digg v4 we had about 700K uniques and the monday after we had about 900K. In the grand scheme of things, digg v4 helped, since our chief competitor s
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    Anecdotally, I've always asked subreddit owners/mods I've met about this. Turns out many of them obsess over stats just like Steve and I used to (and shortly thereafter, Chris, who built our first real-time stat engine that was both blessin
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    Thanks. I'm still responding to questions.... slowly but surely I'll do them all!
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    Haha. I guess there'll be three. I'll tell you by end of day.
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    FWIW, reddit raised $82,000. Total. So I think 'depended on an acquisition' is a bit extreme. Hopefully lessons from breadpig and hipmunk are also useful! Though it's still too early to tell. Ultimately, all advice is only going to be so us
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    Oh really? Email me! alexis AT hipmunk.com And thanks for the testimonial.
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    Why thank you! I'll do my best.
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    Not much at all. There wasn't a lot to it, just grunt work. Steve and I submitted under different usernames (no comments back then) but it was entirely manual. Most of the submissions were from "kn0thing" and "spez" but from time to time we
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    Well, when Steve and I got about a month into the site, neither one of us had to vote or submit links one day and we knew, "holy shit, this might work." But it wasn't until much later, maybe a year or so into user-create subreddits, that we
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    Nice try, Alexis Ohanian....
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    I hear you! One of the things I loved about the hyperink proposition (FD: they're a YC company) is that it's a 100% moneyback guarantee. Or if you'd rather not, email me and I'll send you a copy of the PDF and you can buy it later if you li
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    Make Something People Love: Lessons From a Startup Guy(hyperink.com)

    109 points by kn0thing 14y ago|51 comments
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    Do you know that we didn't have comments back then? Based on similar comments it appears most HN commenters assume we astroturfed discussions when in fact we had no commenting system; the only user generated content on reddit was only a use
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    We did not have a commenting system back then.
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    >Would the site really have been worse off if the same posts had been submitted under the founders' real names? I can only speculate, but a site ostensibly where "all readers are editors" full of posts from only "kn0thing" and "spez" do
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    by kn0thing 14y ago

    Aye, more in my GA class, Making Something People Love: http://generalassemb.ly/start/fundamentals-of-entrepreneursh...