meredydd

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by meredydd 18y ago
To that, I can only reply: Startup Y Combinator startup Lisp Paul Graham startup startup hacker startup.
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by meredydd 18y ago
So, who's going from here?
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by meredydd 18y ago
You know, given the context, I'm going to throw out a spurious analogy: Maybe writing a blog bears some small resemblance to doing a startup. It takes more time than is reasonable, in the average case nobody else really notices, and once in
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by meredydd 18y ago
Sorry, I lost track - were you talking about a PhD there, or about doing a startup? <grin>
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by meredydd 18y ago
Out of interest, is there any persistent archive of these smaller items on paulgraham.com? There's this, and there's the one about the cool construction charity, and I'm guessing there are more I've missed from before I was a regular News.Y
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by meredydd 18y ago
I think what drinko is asking is what sort of web app you're working up. The type/function/target market will help people gauge what's appropriate. It's probably worth the risk to your confidentiality...
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by meredydd 18y ago
My suggestion is to use what you have - play your home for its comparative advantage. What have you got? You might not have a strong local VC community, but you do have something the Valley doesn't - a very low relative cost of living. Wi
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by meredydd 18y ago
Aiee! How many times has this been submitted and voted up now? I count three, now: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=176381 , http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=176381 , http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=176055 and This is gett
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by meredydd 18y ago
So...Skype dropped the ball (didn't develop a mobile client), got their asses handed to them (by iSkoot, which did, and got a Hutchison partnership out of it) - and then decided to catch up cheap by making their own, rather than buying the
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by meredydd 18y ago
I have to say, I'm fairly sanguine. I mean, the worst it can do is not make much money, right? And whether it succeeds or fails, it will provide a real-world test of those assertions that ideas really are worthless, rather than just highly
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by meredydd 19y ago
Granted - but the important point edw519 is getting at, I'd say, is that getting close to clients is a way of reducing the problem from thinking of an idea de novo to filtering out the good ones. I'd count that as a major win. Unfortunate
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by meredydd 19y ago
The overall impression I'm getting from this post is that this product you've created works, but you don't believe in the business case for it. You seem to have at least one other project about which you're passionate, and which you would b
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by meredydd 19y ago
Actually, that was a custom app built on the tcl httpd (whose procs-as-paths structure was a revelation to me at the time). I also did some fun things like a Java-style try/catch/finally system, which was useful when playing with xmlrpc. (P
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by meredydd 19y ago
The rumour mill is a good thing - if possible, it's nice to get a feel for what they're doing, and specifically what they're doing differently . Not, I note, for check-box copying, but to see how your products are going to stack up, and se
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by meredydd 19y ago
Okay, okay, I'll bite. Hear me, before the rotten tomatoes hit: I. like. TCL. In fact, I'm going to go out on a dangerous limb and say that complaining about the [expr] syntax - which seems to be his only concrete complaint in the whole art
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by meredydd 19y ago
> Surely spoken by someone without back problems caused by sitting in bad, cheap, chairs. Allow me to recommend the humble Pilates/gym ball. Comfortable, fun to bounce around on while thinking, and does wonders for your back. Plus, at £
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by meredydd 19y ago
The idea itself looks cool, but the main page lacks focus. Might I suggest a prominent path to a quick demo - free registration will put off any casual user, whereas if there were an easy "conveyor belt" taking you through the steps of buil