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by railsjedi 14y ago
UI is gorgeous, shows how much Apple has been dropping the ball lately in their mobile browser design. I really wish Apple would allow Nitro on UIWebViews. It's making an entire generation of apps that rely on UIWebView (like... Facebook) a
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by railsjedi 14y ago
friggin phreaking boxes ;)
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Great point! nReduce is not your customer. Your customers are your customers. nReduce is there to remind you and to motivate you to ship to your customers every week. Our goal is to motivate, plain and simple.
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by railsjedi 14y ago
The ease of implementation is actually specifically because of twitter usernames. We can do stuff like team permissions via just a comma delimited list of @handles. Pretty handy
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Actually, the main motivation for me to start nReduce was so it would exist, and I could be part of it. I really wanted something like YC for my startup lizibot.com, and since YC wouldn't have us, we figured we'd try to solve our own proble
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Updated the homepage copy a bit. Thanks for the feedback
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Hey, great feedback! Yeah, we've changed around the intro copy. Also updated the HN Follow button css. Thanks!
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Good point. I'm fully immersed in the current bay area bubble so I sometimes lose perspective.
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Just added Toronto to the RSVP list. We'll put up an RSVP page soon that shows what the counts are for each city.
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Yep, definitely
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Sure, as long as it's only a week, that's fine. Definitely gotta ship something the previous and next weeks though. Looking forward to having you!
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Fixed. Thanks for the tips!
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by railsjedi 14y ago
We've got some interesting ideas here. From the mentors we've talk to already, a lot of them love the fact that they can start by offering "micro-mentorship". Giving startups advice with just 1 hour a week time commitment (split into 15 min
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Yep. If you can ship every week, maintain a fulltime job, and not go completely bonkers in 12 weeks we'd love to have you! :)
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by railsjedi 14y ago
That's the "fun" version of functionality :) Fixed now
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Really? I've found companies usually prefer it over quitting. Financially it may not be an option though, that I can understand.
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Yep, we'll see how it goes. We're hoping to have more batches!
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Yep, just go to http://s12.nreduce.com/startup/edit . Let us know if you have any issues editing your team profile. Thanks!
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Yep, if you can ship every week we'll take you. Take a leave of absence at your job and see if you can build something amazing this summer.
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Ease of implementation mainly. Plus one less email/password to have to worry about. And what founder doesn't have a twitter account, it's sort of as essential as email at this point. We won't post tweets. We added write permission so we cou
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Oops, boneheaded mistake. Fixed now, thanks! :)
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Meet nReduce, the open-source Y Combinator(venturebeat.com)
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Well, I was in high school in 1999. Very sad to have missed the previous generation of nerf time fun.
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Cool, thanks a ton for your feedback! Maybe I live in a bubble (downtown SF), but it seems the best devs I've ever worked with on open source and consulting project tend to have a pretty weird (maybe immature) sense of humor. In most early
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Sure, email us anytime at contact@nreduce.com
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Key phrase is "alternative to". About attracting bozos... maybe we will. We think that instead of trying to weed out the bozos, let everyone in and see how well they perform. If a "bozo" can ship and gain traction with their product, then
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by railsjedi 14y ago
It's true. We messed up the capitalization η-reduce is the correct name. Ah well, N Reduce looks a bit nicer so we went with it :)
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by railsjedi 14y ago
100% likelihood of being accepted. We accept everyone who can ship products. I'm sort of with PG on this one though. I've tried to do startups alone in the past. It's such an insane amount of work, stress, and pressure that doing it alone i
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Can use the following link to sign up: http://nreduce.com/#signup Sorry about the super cute hipster homepage :) We're cleaning it up and making it a bit better organized. Thanks for the support!
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Doesn't really matter. Our goal was to get some early attention. Once we build the community up we can change the name and turn it into something real. Right now it's just an idea and the only platform we had to generate the sufficient ea

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