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by ryanmickle 12y ago
I think the most sensational aspect of your Show HN is your story, so I'll focus my comments there (seems like you're getting a lot of critical feedback on the product, mine is just that I don't know how to use it). I've
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by ryanmickle 12y ago
Might you have said the same thing about YouTube?
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Square to acquire Caviar (YC S11) for $90M this week(recode.net)
6 points by ryanmickle 12y ago|0 comments
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by ryanmickle 12y ago
Turned out gorgeous, really well done, Anand.
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by ryanmickle 12y ago
The other problem is that it's founders who invest time to support portfolio companies, not shareholders/employees of the company, so the incentive seems appropriate and aligned IMHO. I can personally speak to the fact that the be
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New Venture Capital Fund Gives Entrepreneurs a Cut of the Profit(mobile.nytimes.com)
93 points by ryanmickle 12y ago|32 comments
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Zenefits (YC W13) Raises $66.5M From A16Z and IVP At $500M Valuation(techcrunch.com)
23 points by ryanmickle 12y ago|0 comments
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FOBO (YC S11) Hiring Biz Dev Director, local electronics marketplace (SF)
1 points by ryanmickle 13y ago
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by ryanmickle 13y ago
Hi, Ryan from FOBO here. There's actually an advantage inherent to local selling in that you're able to inspect the item before the seller is paid (when you confirm that you've received the item in the app, transferring payme
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by ryanmickle 13y ago
You bet, it's still got a passionate community of 250k users across America. We started fresh because we saw an opportunity to build something really different which we thought had potential to realize the original vision that got us s
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Why Dale Carnegie wouldn't use Craigslist today(medium.com)
11 points by ryanmickle 13y ago|1 comments
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by ryanmickle 13y ago
I used to think press/hype was equal to success... now I know better. We know we have great lengths still to go; this is just the start. And by that, I mean this is our second product (our first is Yardsale, which was funded by YC in t
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by ryanmickle 13y ago
Hey Ryan, Ryan from FOBO here. Totally agree with the hot commodity that is a MB Air (they are followed by 700 users already in SF). This said, you may be surprised by the results. We had a MacBook Pro Retina sell for 170% of what we guaran
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The Rise of the Drone Market(judegomila.com)
6 points by ryanmickle 13y ago|0 comments
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Yardsale - Mobile Marketplace, Seeking iOS/Rails Engineers (YC S11)
1 points by ryanmickle 14y ago
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by ryanmickle 14y ago
Um, Craigslist is a .org, not a .com.
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Yardsale (YC S11) On Not Launching, Then Hitting 100k Installs In 2 Weeks(businessinsider.com)
31 points by ryanmickle 14y ago|0 comments
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Join us in building a disruptively local marketplace - Yardsale (S11, iOS/rails)
1 points by ryanmickle 14y ago
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by ryanmickle 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback, we actually never set out to compete with Craigslist. We built Yardsale as a way to list and sell for all the items that don't get posted on Craigslist or eBay, because it's too painful. So really, at least in my ow
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by ryanmickle 14y ago
Really sorry about this. We're on it now! Edit: to answer your question on fees, we're still considering how we roll them out. Appreciate the feedback. We felt strongly that we wanted to build a service worth paying for. We also didn't want
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Local Marketplace App Yardsale (YC S11) Launches Nationwide(techcrunch.com)
84 points by ryanmickle 14y ago|34 comments
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Monads and Curry - We're hiring Haskell hackers (YC S11)
1 points by ryanmickle 15y ago
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Monads and Curry - We're hiring Haskell hackers (YC S11)
1 points by ryanmickle 15y ago
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Write beautiful software
1 points by ryanmickle 15y ago
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Do you dream of creating a new programming language?
1 points by ryanmickle 15y ago
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Why I Run(jasonshen.com)
7 points by ryanmickle 15y ago|0 comments
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by ryanmickle 15y ago
timjahn, you're right (I've seen it in action). Users will be scanning their own cards for purchases made on third party apps. It's really slick.
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by ryanmickle 15y ago
Or lots of little things over time. The user only needs to scan the card the first time.
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Did We Just Become The United States of Idiocracy?(businessinsider.com)
7 points by ryanmickle 15y ago|0 comments
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by ryanmickle 16y ago
Love the ambition, but I'm curious why her portfolio work isn't nearly as good as this site.

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