sawyer

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by sawyer 14y ago
How is Mailchimp $200 / 10,000 emails? With their monthly plans you send unlimited (to a limited number of people in your list).
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by sawyer 14y ago
Take a look at http://www.retailmenot.com/ for coupons. There's no browser plugin that I'm aware of, but I've used a number of their coupons successfully.
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by sawyer 14y ago
This article suggests that the problem of worker dissatisfaction is a whole lot of hand holding and head patting from managers; which begs the question, why have managers at all? The growing popularity of entrepreneurship in the US is evide
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by sawyer 14y ago
Notice that some things haven't changed at all: "We're solving tough problems!"
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by sawyer 14y ago
I can see the cube with 3D buildings, but cannot interact with it in any way. Mac Chrome 18.0.1025.165
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by sawyer 14y ago
Very enjoyable! I especially liked that your guests had slightly opposing viewpoints in the Dropbox / Google Drive discussion and were willing and able to defend their positions.
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by sawyer 15y ago
Haha same here regarding the rock throwers - they should definitely stagger when heavy hit or something. Technically the port was flawless for me, performance was good on 2.2GHz i7 Macbook Pro / Chrome 18.0. edit: The unlock full version bu
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by sawyer 15y ago
Blow gave a talk once that I remember vivdly where he described the greatest challenge facing indie developers (applies to all products, not just games): going too slow. The average programmer can write maybe 10k lines of production ready
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by sawyer 15y ago
Assuming you know how to build and deploy servers; what advantages would Firebase bring over say: a Socket.IO client -> NodeJS server setup where data was being stored and fetched from memory (Redis or some other data-store)?
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by sawyer 15y ago
Sounds like it's time for someone to build pg's search engine for the top 10,000 hackers. Google's entering the uncanny valley; it's ai will be alright, but it won't be faster or better than my ability to parse a page of relevant links fro
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by sawyer 15y ago
Should really be titled 'Building an HTML5 game using Impact'. I didn't see any multiplayer, Node, or Socket.io specific discussion in the videos.
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by sawyer 15y ago
If Microsoft : Google :: Google : Facebook, I'm not sure that the frightening startup idea here is to replace Google. Don't get me wrong, I've also started to see some cracks in the G edifice; and Facebook has definitely begun to set their
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by sawyer 15y ago
This was my first impression as well - the custom work on the 'A' in art is a good start, but Lobster's way too common to be the backbone of a unique and memorable logo.
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by sawyer 15y ago
For those who may not know, and because it's not mentioned in the blog post, Mika Mobile develops their games in Unity. It's a testament to the challenge of developing games to work on all Android devices that even with Unity's support they
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by sawyer 15y ago
I would imagine there's a lot of long term value created by folding sama and team into the YC ecosystem. I'd be willing to bet that Loopt isn't the last venture Sam's going to be involved in, and when the time comes to start something new
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by sawyer 15y ago
One of the most interesting things about the TF2 story is that they opened up custom item creation to the community, and allowed players to actually profit from designing and uploading objects to the store. I remember reading a quote from
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by sawyer 15y ago
I had the same thought, further, this quote from the article stood out to me as challenging the author's premise, rather than supporting it: "and the company still hasn't developed a mobile platform that supports advertisements." Surely th
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by sawyer 15y ago
Pinterest's design wasn't original either, see the jQuery Masonry plugin circia 2009 ( http://masonry.desandro.com/ ). However, a verbatim copy of their layout will definitely be noticed - think about your use case seriously and tailor the
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by sawyer 15y ago
I don't have a lot of advice for choosing a font from scratch; but if you find one you like and can't figure out what it is there's a great application called WhatTheFont that will help identify it. http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ ht
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by sawyer 15y ago
Filling out the YC application thoroughly and thoughtfully will do more to make you think about your business than writing a business plan. You don't have to submit it, but answering the questions as if pg were going to be evaluating it is
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by sawyer 15y ago
Good luck! As a founder I would want to know which particular markets you're strong in (either have experience or personal relationships). It will be hard to stand out talking about track record alone, so try and appeal to specific founde
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by sawyer 15y ago
Minecraft's success had very little to do with the model of "pre-ordering PC games", and very much to do with being an amazing product (even in it's pre-release state). Delivery novelty may account for a fraction of the overall effect - it'
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by sawyer 15y ago
I also think you guys should re-think the categorization (I'm finding it incredibly distracting). If you remove the category name and give the link title more width (so that it's not truncated in many cases) - the title can speak for itsel
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by sawyer 15y ago
I love how enthusiastic the Kickstarter team looks in those photos - it's awesome for them to be able to share in the success of the projects on their platform. I'm looking forward to seeing how it grows and what other projects crop up now
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by sawyer 15y ago
I'm highly skeptical that this tool will be able to deal with anything other than the most basic of pages. What happens if your site already has a mobile version? I assume this Cinch tool would have to proxy your site to deliver their mobi
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by sawyer 15y ago
There was a 500 startups group (I believe from their last demo day) called PayByGroup that is also doing group payments such as this. It seemed to me that the most promising application of such a feature is as a button on existing sites, n
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by sawyer 15y ago
Creating toys from Zynga's titles will be more difficult than it was for Angry Birds - they don't have any "protagonists" per se.
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by sawyer 15y ago
I don't think the terms of Google's coupon are that 'you can only use this credit if you intend to spend more than $100 long term advertising on our platform'. If it were a matter of 1 user creating multiple accounts then they'd have a legi
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by sawyer 15y ago
I found the UI to be extremely complex and non-intuitive. You need to engage me with something fun before you ask me to build a spell with runes I don't understand - using a UI that's completely foreign.
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by sawyer 15y ago
Yeah, it sounds to me like this person isn't the right fit for you. My initial reaction to the fact that you've already gotten the project rolling is that you'll want more than a 50% share in the resulting company, but you should find some

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