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by railsjedi 14y ago
Haha, great little parody. Timing of it may have something to do with our little stunt yesterday: http://ncombinator.com
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“Open Source” Accelerator NCombinator Launches(pandodaily.com)
10 points by railsjedi 14y ago|1 comments
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by railsjedi 14y ago
We figured we'd err on the side of humor. Rather that than take ourselves too seriously. Startups are damn hard. A support network needs to be fun, not a drag.
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Good feedback. I'll tone down the rhetoric. I'm absolutely not opposed to business guys. Just teams entirely composed of business guys "looking for a technical cofounder". Right now it is a glorified meetup and support network. But it's als
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by railsjedi 14y ago
lol, sure. it goes from #1 to #110 in 1min? It's ok. Don't worry, be happy!
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by railsjedi 14y ago
We didnt post the second one. Someone else did because the first one got banned.
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by railsjedi 14y ago
But... they start with totally different letters :) Just kidding. The name is going to change, but the idea will remain intact.
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by railsjedi 14y ago
We got booted. Apparently YC is not amused with our idea.
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Yep, we'll change the name (our first batch of startups will get to pick the real one) . NCombinator is just a working title.
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by railsjedi 14y ago
I'd love to have tuesday dinner meetups in several cities simultaneously. Would you be interested in organizing one in the valley as well?
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by railsjedi 14y ago
oops, sorry. my comment was poorly worded. I just meant that our goal is to benefit the community and not just a few particular individuals. In other words Ncombinator is nonprofit.
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by railsjedi 14y ago
It's ok we won't be dicks about it :) it's just there to keep people motivated. Teams that are dysfunctional / aren't producing should know it and bow out voluntarily.
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Totally agree. Thats why every week the teams that don't ship will get filtered out. At the end only the best will remain. Low barrier to entry, but high barriers for completion is our theory. We'll see how it works in practice and adjust.
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Agreed on the name. What bubble are we riding? We're trying to bring something that works (a small but passionate community of startups) to a larger audience. It also takes no equity and benefits no one except the participants. Cheer up man
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by railsjedi 14y ago
The N stands for "Nice"
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by railsjedi 14y ago
We were going for the "so bad it's good" thing ;)
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Yep, we know :). It's a "working title" (tongue in cheek)
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NCombinator(ncombinator.com)
271 points by railsjedi 14y ago|91 comments
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Simple honest answer, its a beachhead. Techies are natural early adopters so it makes sense to start small with them. Trust me, our ambitions are far greater :)
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Yeah, good call. We figured we didnt want to confuse users on the "how" while we were trying to pitch them on the "what". We'll add a "how do we work" link that brings up this information directly on the landing page.
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Well, the one thing Silicon Valley does best is solve its own problems :)
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Agreed. That's one reason why we added the email forward (so you just have to forward the specific bills). But it's a bit manual (though you only ever have to forward once, we calculate the monthly date for all the other bills for each serv
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by railsjedi 14y ago
Yep, inbox mining (via gmail oauth) is our first dev priority. I agree it's gotta be automatic for it really to be useful. Thanks for the feedback!
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by railsjedi 14y ago
This looks like their YouTube license. I think they need to amend it specifically for Google Drive. I seriously doubt this is anything more than a stupid omission on their part. They'll fix it and won't be doing anything notorious with your
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by railsjedi 15y ago
Awesome, thanks for the heads up. I'll definitely be trying DotCloud very soon. Glad you guys were able to really focus on the small details as its easy to glance over when trying to launch a product.
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by railsjedi 15y ago
Most deployment allows for the site spin up independently before switching the load balance to it to provide a seamless experience. Even a very simple Rails sample app will often take over a minute to spin up on heroku. I don't think it's s
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by railsjedi 15y ago
Tried this, it's not really possible because Heroku deploys restart the server and make the site inaccessible for a few minutes (and often errors out requests). Hoping Heroku will fix what I consider a major bug. Until then, I've resigned t
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How Design is used at the U.S. Army(yakshaving.net)
1 points by railsjedi 15y ago|0 comments
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by railsjedi 15y ago
Any luck with Chrome Frame? I've pushed that fairly successfully at previous clients. FUD aside (from MS mainly), it's really a great solution I think for anyone forced to deal with legacy IE6 installs. http://code.google.com/chrome/chrome
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US Senate moves forward on the JOBS act(thenextweb.com)
2 points by railsjedi 15y ago|0 comments

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