mion

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by mion 14y ago
Are you sure your number one issue is discipline? I'm in a similar position to you and I had also realized that I lacked discipline, but nowadays I think it's actually a matter of doing what you're into. And recently I came across one of Pa
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by mion 14y ago
How can bug fixes and enhancements not impact their work?
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by mion 14y ago
I know it can be a pain in the ass when people ask you the same (stupid) thing over and over again, but still, IMHO a "leader" of any kind should never bash his "followers". Or he'll end up losing them. with the expectation you'll improve
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by mion 14y ago
He's not talking about lowering the bar to entry, he's just saying you don't need to humiliate others when they are just trying to help you. You could at least dismiss them in a friendly/neutral way. "Sorry, can't accept this: check out pro
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by mion 14y ago
I second this, cool :)
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by mion 14y ago
This may be a stupid question but what do you mean by "Style Influence"? Googled it and still I couldn't figure it out :(
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by mion 14y ago
If you don't write code I'm sorry to disappoint you, but in real life one cannot "rotate" and "zoom in" certain parts of an algorithm.
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by mion 14y ago
I think that's pretty hard to answer shortly, but suppose you found out that from all your users, 70% of them created albums and played with it when you released that feature. Obviously this is something they want. When that percentage is l
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by mion 14y ago
Sounds cool! :) And definitely not something easy to build. But why are you building this, why would someone want a web desktop? What problem are you trying to solve? <friendly and curious questions>
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by mion 14y ago
"but I filled mine out in under a half hour" See this: http://lloyd.tc/how-we-hacked-the-y-combinator-application-p... It took them one month to fill out theirs.
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by mion 14y ago
if it's not, at least they got three schmucks talking about it
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by mion 14y ago
Are they all getting 500 emails/day?
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by mion 14y ago
Nice work on the UI. But I think what he meant with "to-do list" is that he has no control of what people can put on his inbox, and that he has to waste time reading emails before he knows what that person wants. To solve something like thi
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by mion 14y ago
I don't think so. At least for me the plane ticket is way over $600 (and I'm willing to spend a lot more just to be interviewed by these people)
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by mion 14y ago
There's not enough "hummm"
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by mion 14y ago
Well, do you like math? I think the first thing you need to do is actually learn to like math. If you really enjoy doing math stuff, if you can see the beauty in it, then you can learn it from the shittiest of sources. I used to suck at mat
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by mion 14y ago
It looks cool and I'd totally use something like that, but the demo page has too many stuff on it which kinda scared me away.
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by mion 14y ago
"Ouch, Ruby! You need some aloe for that burn?" It seems like every language/framework should be able to handle 1.5 billion queries per day without problems. Otherwise it sucks, right?
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by mion 14y ago
Not sure if it can handle big repos very well, I just threw in Twitter vs Facebook for fun and I got stuck with the "secret of life" message. But it's pretty neat! :)
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by mion 14y ago
You're certainly right about users being turned off by a small user base, but as an entrepreneur you should "break the rules" now and then! Or be a little "naughty" as pg says. I've had the same problem as you once so I created some fake us
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by mion 14y ago
There's a channel on YouTube called "Ask Jay" that has some interesting videos where Jay Adelson answers questions about investors, VC, etc. Could be useful! Good luck on your second round.
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by mion 14y ago
I think when it comes to sites like this you should really make some sort of late registration available, that is, let us see what your thing does without having to sign up. You don't need an account to use craigslist, why do I need one to
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by mion 14y ago
I think that people actually like that "noise". It definitely doesn't look good on Google+, I agree with you. But I've seen a lot of people post stuff in Facebook and use hashtags even though they know it makes no sense. #usersareretarded
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by mion 14y ago
A friend of mine once wrote a little script that benchmarked a free Heroku app and to our surprise it handled a shitload amount of requests per second (at 1000 requests it was still going but the server thought it was a DDoS attack and cut
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by mion 14y ago
Yea, finding a co-founder can be really hard! The team itself is a very important part of the startup (if not the most important). For instance, there are questions in the YC application form about that and they give it a lot of attention.
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by mion 14y ago
You're welcome! :) Ah I see, then you're in much better shape than I thought. But still, one can never be that sure about a startup, you have to be really careful with that. Put some fake screenshots together and tell your potential custome
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by mion 14y ago
That's an awesome hack! Have you considered using other platforms to do it? like WordPress or something
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by mion 14y ago
I second that, if you're new to Rails you should definitely check out deployment with Heroku, they made an awesome job making it really smooth and they have great documentation on how to do it. Michael Hartl covers this exceptionally well o
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by mion 14y ago
You should definitely take a look at Twitter Bootstrap: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ It helps you get a decent (actually way more than decent) looking UI in no time.
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by mion 14y ago
Have you considered learning how to code? How hard is your idea to implement? I know people who were not coders at first but learned how to do it just so they could build prototypes and simple versions of the product. Check out codeacademy.

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