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by rantfoil 18y ago
We got lots coming in the pipe. Thanks for the feedback -- had a great discussion here a few weeks ago with unalone about the social aspect of reblogging. I think that will move the needle.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Hm, so I guess the answer is mostly no. =/ The biggest site on there is wego.com. Great site, and I think they open sourced much of their Rails CouchDB integration. But only 30k unique visits per month.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Does anyone know of large production websites that use CouchDB extensively?
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by rantfoil 18y ago
How does this compare to CouchDB (restful http-based json doc-oriented, etc.)?
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Popularity matters, self-promotion matters, etc. It matters a ton. That's how distribution happens. As a startup, that's the most important thing out there. We get stuck in 'if you build it they will come' mode when we build our startups, b
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I switched from Vista to OS X this year. I made the stupid mistake of trying to develop Rails on a Windows machine. And it was not worth the trouble at all. If you're going to devote your life and livelihood to building software on Rails, d
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Twitter isn't going to die. The argument that Twitter is like high school is valid. What's not valid is saying that high school doesn't matter or isn't how the world works. Twitter is like high school because the real world is like high sch
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Evhead: What Blogger Should Do(evhead.com)
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The Mouse and the Rectangle(dustincurtis.com)
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Yelle - Pop Up, Santogold, Stereolab
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Exactly right. Email is private and will never go away. But twitter is useful. They're just different. So different, that we created posterous to bridge the gap. =)
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I actually enjoy hearing about feature releases from other YC startups. I accept your feedback but respectfully disagree. If you don't like it, please don't upvote it.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Oh, we do use Sphinx. It's excellent. It would be insane to write your own full text searching or rely on MySQL's built in indexing.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Google Online Sales/Operations (OSO) is notorious for hiring smart, super ambitious 20-somethings from top schools and giving them temp jobs in customer service with the carrot of the possibility of a full time position maybe . Not sure ho
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by rantfoil 18y ago
The concept of bubbling up conversation to the top level of one's own published blog is fascinating. I didn't quite understand reblogging before reading your explanation, and I think that's the main downside to the scheme, but there is cert
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by rantfoil 18y ago
We used to do prefix and infix search, but the amount of value provided was not huge. It also really blows out your indexes / indexing time. I'd like to add this back at some point, but we're not there yet. As for supporting equimatch using
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Was using sphinx + ultrasphinx, but was talking to Evan Weaver the other day and he mentioned thinking_sphinx is the one to use now since Pat Allan is really intensely working on it, so we switched over to that in this release. Note: For la
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Ruby on Rails + special sauce
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Many thanks thorax -- this is the feedback we need to hear.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Dan, awesome ideas man. For the homepage, one thing we obsess about is keeping the choices dead simple obvious. (see tyranny of choice problem) We want people to try posterous, and I'd be worried a search box would be pretty distracting. Bu
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Want to be on the private beta for themes? =) (EDIT: we don't do private betas. But trust me, its coming. ;-) ) These are all concerns we're working super hard to address. One tough thing to balance about product design is that we want the
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by rantfoil 18y ago
100% anonymous comments are an option that can be turned on by the blog owner. When anonymous comments are enabled, we run those comments through akismet and some other spam detection logic, but for many people, they just don't want the has
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Themes are something we have to get right -- we've got about half a dozen themes already designed and we're starting to work on the feature in the coming weeks. Though I venture to guess early facebook users may have asked for themes for pa
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Posterous (YC Summer 08) launches search for every Posterous blog(blog.posterous.com)
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by rantfoil 18y ago
The rabid responses to Tom's post both shocked and surprised me as well. They just seemed a little bit more spirited than I would expect. It was a little schadenfreude-infused, to say the least.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I met Jeff from Twilio at a conference recently -- his pitch was instantly very compelling. It's one of those a-ha ideas that I think is going to go a really long way.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
PG's advice is right. Take down all the fences -- you have less than 20 seconds to impress the user into staying on your site. It's an attention economy -- asking for signup/login before providing real value = squandering that attention.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I don't think that's true at all. It depends on how much use you really can drive. With an online app, with no app install, and purely organic growth and a whole ton of community evangelism, I could see it be a really successful web app. Ar
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Thanks for the support, guys. This is a great idea and definitely something we want to get to.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
On the PC, It's a latency problem. Acrobat is such a disaster that you do have to WAIT before anything ever shows up. Scribd at least is far more instant.

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