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by rantfoil 18y ago
Congrats guys -- superb job, very well done.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
This is going to be a ton of fun. It'll be a great way to network and really just hang out. Can't wait to meet all of you. -Garry, cofounder, posterous.com
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Are there any Internet companies at all that have done an IPO in the past 24 months? Or are planning to in the next 24? The answer is very few. "In the past quarter, for the first time in 30 years, not a single tech company went public." (
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I think blanket statements about YCombinator companies are a little unfair to the diversity of YC startups. As fallentimes points out, Wufoo has been profitable from the start and continues to build on a vision they believe in. Hardly built
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Looks good. Design point: I'd try to stick with a grid. The "beta" text seems to have a random position off to the right, and while the table of example searches are functional, they could use some consistent cell padding. On the search pag
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Ah, but they're a dumb pipe. We actually a) also give you your own blog with blog address, and b) host all your images, video, music and files. =)
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by rantfoil 18y ago
In an ideal world, we agree. However, in practice, it's just a part of the fragmented web world we live in right now. Communities of people spring up all over the place, and a problem we have today is sometimes you do just want to get somet
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by rantfoil 18y ago
True that. There is much for us to work on, and tagging is something we do think will be valuable down the road.
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Posterous.com (YC Summer 08) launches Autopost to all major blog platforms(blog.posterous.com)
56 points by rantfoil 18y ago|29 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
The racism is pretty disconcerting, and it sounds like the friends are the problem. We absorb the attitudes of the people we spend time with, and our peer group is who we respect. If our peer group is great, we rise to meet them, but if the
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by rantfoil 18y ago
For posterous.com, we use slicehost VPS, ruby on rails and mysql. Pretty standard setup overall. Separate DB, App and Web server slices, and a separate job server for longer-running postprocesses. S3 for storage and backup.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Death comes quick enough, so why help it? Terrible things tend to result in death too. But that's why life is such a gift. As the movie Trainspotting said, choose life. Thwarted goals are a challenge. We'd probably get bored without them.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I would echo these sentiments. Sachin and I worked on Posterous.com remotely (I was in Mountain View and he was in NYC) for the months before we applied and were accepted to YC Summer 2008. We could work independently for long stretches and
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by rantfoil 18y ago
I have to say, RescueTime is so awesome that I find myself looking at it more than I should. I probably should spend more time working and less time checking my RescueTime stats. =)
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Favorite quote from this movie: "That's so 3rd quarter 99. You want bleeding edge cross platform robust scalable architectures? Well duh. That's what everyone wants."
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by rantfoil 18y ago
LOL. Yes. Typo attributable to lack of sleep. =)
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Aside from a few unintentionally funny lines, there's not much to this movie. It's really just the vaguely boring implosion of an egotistical startup CEO's life.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Nobody reigns forever. Rome falls. The advantages of being small and agile can't be understated.
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Posterous: great example of capitalizing on existing user behaviors(cindyalvarez.com)
4 points by rantfoil 18y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Agree. Macroeconomic effects are things that are often ignored by the public as a whole, but are so essential to understanding what's happening, both historically / politically and on our scale, where we're trying to build a startup that ma
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Word of warning: many in the Rails community believe Ferret/ActsAsFerret is totally unable to handle a production environment, even WITH distributed ruby. You're probably better off with Acts_as_solr + Solr or Ultrasphinx + Sphinx. I person
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by rantfoil 18y ago
In our tests, what we've found is that instead people see "sign up now" and think "oh crap, another boring form I have to fill out. Yet another password to remember. BACK, BACK, BACK. This takes the idea of no-signup try-it-out to the next
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by rantfoil 18y ago
The audio player is definitely something we're working on. Expect good things soon.
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Not everyone uses webmail. Also, it's a lot easier from a mobile device. Also, we hate using web forms because they're such a pain. I hate seeing a Browse button! Now I can drag and drop right into Thunderbird. Also: if you can use email, y
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by rantfoil 18y ago
While we're sharing, here's mine. Add me, add me! =) http://garry.posterous.com
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Oh the bookmarklet is coming. Oh yes, the bookmarklet is coming. ;-)
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Thanks for the support from EVERYONE, YC, Hacker News, and all our friends. We're hoping to get better every day, and you guys are such an instrumental part of that. As for the fake posts, we're patching those bugs up as we speak!
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by rantfoil 18y ago
Slicehost. Great tutorials on their website (you should use these even if you don't use slicehost), great service, fast response times, great UI on the admin panels, and run by hackers. The UI is great. I can't say enough great things about
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Good Internet Revolution vs Bad Internet Revolution(informationarchitects.jp)
5 points by rantfoil 18y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 18y ago
raganwald -- Great observation. It's absolutely possible for your biz dev team to force you to take your eyes off the ball. Great cautionary tale.

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