oldgregg

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Ask HN: iPhone released: discouraged as I am?
44 points by oldgregg 18y ago|67 comments
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by oldgregg 18y ago
With UI design in particular it's a killer. it actually requite good technical knowledge, good visual sense, good psychology background, understanding of business objectives... It takes that special person who can think in an interdisciplin
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by oldgregg 18y ago
Build and sell a web startup... use the profits to open a cookie store?
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by oldgregg 18y ago
Back during private beta I think someone told me that mint is using yodlee for account aggregation (yodlee's moneycenter has awesome functionality, crap UI). How does yodlee do it? No idea. Oh, this is interesting: http://www.bizorigin.com
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by oldgregg 18y ago
Non-profits to me are a lot like businesses, you have to find the point of leverage that you can exploit. I've worked with a couple non-profits to develop for-profit web apps that plays to their strengths and dovetails with their mission st
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by oldgregg 18y ago
Not to be too critical, but if you are asking this question this is a possibility you are feeling pressured to get an office because "that's what professional people do" and not because it actually provides much tangible value. Get an offic
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by oldgregg 18y ago
It totally depends on your situation, but this is what I did: 1) Slashed expenses. I traded the '03 bimmer for a '96 Minivan, pawned off the bachelor pad, moved in with some friends. Upside: total freedom. Downside: Asking a girl out when y
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by oldgregg 18y ago
Why shenzhen? I spent some time in India and it was awe inspiring on one level but it was also depressing having to deal with such overwhelming incompetency.
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by oldgregg 18y ago
I run into people all the time who smirk "sorry, its a NDA thing" -- whatever dude. In all likelihood your idea isn't that good. Secretly you don't want to tell anybody because they might shut you down. So nobody will find out about it and
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by oldgregg 18y ago
pretty brilliant
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by oldgregg 18y ago
AGREED... with video you have two options: 1) stare straight into the camera and emote-- but this makes for awful video content that nobody will endure. 2) take advantage of the visual medium-- you'll make compelling video but it will take
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by oldgregg 18y ago
We're working on a new concept idea too (isn't everyone? i'm sure "myspace for left-handed-black-blind-jewish-lesbians" is completely original) --- but a couple observations: 1) Like you said, we constantly work to make our app as intuitive
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by oldgregg 19y ago
Neat concept... although, 1) earthclassmail came across as 45-yr-old snore-me-to-sleep self-absorbed douchebags. 2) They made a total mockery of themselves by switching from open source to microsoft because open source "won't scale." So cut
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by oldgregg 19y ago
Disruptive? Really?
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by oldgregg 19y ago
...and how many people have found it and not said anything? we've all used poorly secured admins here and there, but /admin seems particularly egregious.
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by oldgregg 19y ago
yeah he said he told them. I would have more sympathy if it was an obscure hole, but something this big is just disrespectful to their users.
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Tumblr security hole (the gaping kind)
80 points by oldgregg 19y ago|78 comments
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by oldgregg 19y ago
Getting to critical mass is the issue with social sites, so you probably should have thought about it before you built your field of dreams. Three basic ways: The honest way: Find a way to deliver value to the user that doesn't require
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by oldgregg 19y ago
it might make it... to /dev/null