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by leahculver 15y ago
Not at all! I think it's totally valid to use some gut instinct here. My instinct is that there's a scale from Facebook -> Twitter -> GitHub in the services that our target audience uses (less nerdy -> more nerdy). Since GitHub
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Log in or sign up with GitHub (but not with Facebook)(blog.leahculver.com)
47 points by leahculver 15y ago|4 comments
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Convore (YCW11) is reborn as Grove.io, a chat service for businesses(gigaom.com)
116 points by leahculver 15y ago|56 comments
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by leahculver 15y ago
Nothing negative happened at all! I think the difficult part was realizing that I didn't need so much "stuff" and it took a while to adjust to not owning everything myself. However, I wish I had done this sooner.
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Living in the Cloud - My New Year's Resolution from 2011(blog.leahculver.com)
89 points by leahculver 15y ago|30 comments
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by leahculver 15y ago
I think it's actually an issue of perception. When I hear Jabber or XMPP, I think of one-to-one chat and when I hear IRC I definitely think of group chat. In general, IRC clients seem more tailored towards groups. That said, there's definit
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by leahculver 15y ago
You're correct - it's a totally new and custom IRC server (for good and bad). We built it as a minimum viable product are continually adding features - both standard IRC features and custom features for our customers. Thanks for reporting t
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by leahculver 15y ago
Thanks!! I'd love to add some file uploading and/or hosting capability. I think it would be easy enough on the website side of things but I'm not sure yet what it would mean for existing IRC clients.
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by leahculver 15y ago
I can actually think of a few good reasons why you might want to remove messages as a moderator. We'll add this soon.
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by leahculver 15y ago
Grove is primarily an IRC server for your business (the client is tangential), so please don't give up! Actually, feel free to send me an email - I'd love to help you get your web client working smoothly with the Grove server.
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by leahculver 15y ago
Agreed. We need to figure out a good way to do better bot integration! (suggestions welcome)
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by leahculver 15y ago
I think this is a super cool idea and it's something I've been thinking a lot about. Right now, existing IRC bots work fine with Grove but it would be cooler to have more integration.
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by leahculver 15y ago
No, it won't remain free forever. Soon we'll having pricing plans that are comparable to existing team chat products.
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by leahculver 15y ago
Sorry, our server is swamped right now. I'm working on it... Update: I've made a few tweaks and it should be better now. fingers crossed
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by leahculver 15y ago
Thanks! I either missed that or it was an update to the post. When walking around alone in SF, I'm actually irrationally afraid of getting hit by a car and nobody knowing what happened to me. So yeah, if this is what happened that would be
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by leahculver 15y ago
Has anyone checked the local hospitals already? Tracy could have left the bar like her co-workers assumed, only to have some sort of medical emergency (heart attack? Seizure? Hit by a car?).
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Do We Deserve -- or Even Want -- More Jobs?(launch.is)
10 points by leahculver 15y ago|1 comments
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by leahculver 15y ago
Hi all, Convore co-founder here. The company, Convore, is still very much alive and well. However, we're currently working on a new, but related, product ( https://grove.io/ ). We're still alpha testing it with a few users, but hope to have
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by leahculver 15y ago
1807 briney spears Probably just searching for a damn pickle.
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by leahculver 15y ago
Agreed. I'm a native English speaker, read constantly, and get the dictionary.com word of the day via their iPhone app. I also scored below average on this test... so I'm calling "bs" on the data. I think it would be cool to try out somethi
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by leahculver 15y ago
I use Rent the Runway for renting designer (formal) dresses. They're great! http://www.renttherunway.com/
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by leahculver 15y ago
Foursquare also just opened a San Francisco office in order to be able to hire more technical talent. So, meh. http://thenextweb.com/location/2010/11/22/foursquare-to-open...
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by leahculver 15y ago
As part of YC winter 2011 I've already had office hours with both Sam and Garry. The nice part of having so many advisors is that each advisor tends to specialize in different areas (Garry is great with design and UX and Sam has good advice
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by leahculver 16y ago
It's true that there aren't a lot of clients out there for Convore yet. There are quite a few Convore projects started on GitHub ( https://github.com/search?q=convore&type=Repositories ) and more clients are welcome!
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by leahculver 16y ago
If you fold down the zipper pull, it locks. Your fly won't come undone.
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by leahculver 16y ago
We (Convore Inc) were an early beta user of TellFi. In about 5 minutes we were able to get a phone number and have that phone number go straight to voicemail and email us the voicemail. Perfect!
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by leahculver 16y ago
Since I already use Rapportive, I tried the Lanyrd integration and I love it. It's really nice to be able to see conferences that the sender is speaking at. I can also view slides and videos of the person. It's a great way to get to know w
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by leahculver 16y ago
Yes, Leafy Chat was a totally separate project built by myself, Alex Gaynor, and Chris Wanstrath for the Django Dash a couple years ago. Leafy Chat was a pure web IRC client. Convore is inspired by IRC but not based on the protocol and func
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by leahculver 16y ago
To take advantage of the admin issue prior this security release, a user would need to 1) have access to the admin 2) have limited admin privileges 3) be smart enough to manipulate the querystring in the URL. I got a good chuckle out of thi
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'The Force' is with you, Katie(cnn.com)
4 points by leahculver 16y ago|0 comments

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