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by nickbaum 13y ago
Hi chasb, thanks for the feedback. The two links in the header are 'pricing' and 'privacy', because those are the two questions that come up most often. What I've found is that if people sign up (a) either their par
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If You Can't See Your Folks(ifyoucantseeyourfolks.com)
31 points by nickbaum 13y ago|15 comments
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by nickbaum 13y ago
Another thing you can do right now is to start asking your parents about their life. It's one of those things you never take the time to do, and then one day it's too late. If you live close to your parents, do it in person the ne
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by nickbaum 13y ago
I'm in the same situation, I live in San Francisco and my parents are in France. I see my parents a couple of times a year. You might be interested in trying my service http://www.StoryWorth.com . It helps people record thei
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by nickbaum 13y ago
So true. My wife's dad passed away when she was in college. No one knows how long their parents will be around. I'm very lucky, my dad is 83 years old and doing great. The past few times I've gone to visit my parents, I'
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by nickbaum 14y ago
Well I'm glad I finally posted this before the event :)
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Facebook doesn't need to build a phone(tumblr.nickbaum.com)
3 points by nickbaum 14y ago|1 comments
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by nickbaum 14y ago
Agreed. I made data-portability a key point from the start, but these scenarios are important to think through. Some details: * Anyone who has access to a user's stories can download a backup at any time. * If a user stops their subscriptio
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by nickbaum 14y ago
Hah, great catch!
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by nickbaum 14y ago
Hi Dan, good suggestion. You will be able to add more metadata to the stories down the line (dates, maps, etc). That will open up a lot of cool visualizations (timeline, map, etc). It could also be fun to pull in related data from that time
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by nickbaum 14y ago
Hey, StoryWorth founder here. Great point, and especially important for a service where the data has value for decades to come. Crawling by the Archive team isn't really an option, since the information is mostly personal and private. Howev
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StoryWorth (YC W11) Aims to Elicit and Record Family Stories(allthingsd.com)
48 points by nickbaum 14y ago|10 comments
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by nickbaum 14y ago
As a stand-alone product, Google Reader could easily have justified continued investment and headcount. The problem is that internally you're competing for resources against products with (a) tons of users (Gmail), (b) tons of revenue (AdWo
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by nickbaum 14y ago
Former Reader PM here, no longer at Google. Having fought many times to keep Reader alive, it's worth considering whether a large enough outcry would lead them to reconsider. White House Petition!
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Netflix no longer issuing new API keys(developer.netflix.com)
108 points by nickbaum 14y ago|53 comments
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A CEO's epitaph(tomtunguz.com)
3 points by nickbaum 14y ago|0 comments
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by nickbaum 14y ago
Or better yet, switch YouTube to the HTML5 player: http://www.youtube.com/html5 One less site that needs Flash.
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Most-recently-opened, an undervalued interface pattern(posterous.nickbaum.com)
6 points by nickbaum 14y ago|0 comments
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5 courses for a new curriculum(posterous.nickbaum.com)
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Show HN: match your Netflix queue with your friends' queues(flixwithme.com)
8 points by nickbaum 15y ago|1 comments
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by nickbaum 15y ago
Being able to interact with the app without signing app is something we've wanted to do. We chose to get it out the door first so we have a larger user base to learn from, but hopefully we'll get to it soon. Great suggestion!
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by nickbaum 15y ago
Hey mvkel, thanks for the great perspective. I totally agree that email is still easier for something like Fast Five. We see WhereBerry as most useful for less mainstream things (Inside Job, Cambodian restaurant, Lebowski play) where you wa
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by nickbaum 15y ago
Hey kongqiu, this was actually a bug on our side. Until today, we were in closed beta where we required users to have at least one friend on the service. We removed that requirement last night. Unfortunately we left in a piece of code that
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by nickbaum 15y ago
Mark, that's too funny. The idea for WhereBerry came from my own Google Spreadsheet, creatively titled "Concerts I want to go to". Turns out a lot of people have these...
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by nickbaum 15y ago
Hi, I'm the other cofounder of WhereBerry. Thanks for the feedback! dodo53 and useflyer's comments do a good job at explaining how WhereBerry is different from a calendar. WhereBerry is helpful for capturing ideas that aren't fully formed e