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by sawyer 15y ago
Completely agree. I am in the same boat as a Canadian not wanting to move to the states. While it may be true that many investors will rule you out based on location; my firm belief is that first time entrepreneurs should spend their time a
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by sawyer 15y ago
It's anecdotes like these that reinforce my belief that for a bootstrapping pre-success founder it's easier to focus on revenue rather than investment. The growth curve might be slower, but the friction you face as a first time entrepreneur
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by sawyer 15y ago
This is what happens when people and businesses choose to lock themselves in a walled garden they do not control. All the businesses out there actively marketing their Facebook page should take heed. Set up and market a proper website; util
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by sawyer 15y ago
When I saw the headline I assumed they'd be giving them away for free in exchange for ad space over the lifetime ownership of the device.
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by sawyer 15y ago
Great, I can see that working; thanks for the reply!
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by sawyer 15y ago
Hiring top people from EA is precisely the wrong way to increase game quality.
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by sawyer 15y ago
Lovely site, the UI is very easy on the eyes and I love the filter style. My only complaint is with content really; it seems like a large percentage of the activities are already just business listings (mostly restaurants). How do you inte
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by sawyer 15y ago
Sounds like Launch wants FB to end the party at 11.
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by sawyer 16y ago
I wonder if someone could learn Node simply by browsing HN in this format for a few weeks.
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by sawyer 16y ago
Wow, can you share any more information about the successful versus unsuccessful ads? Creating 300 ads seems like an awfully large time investment.
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Fukushima Disaster Upgraded to Level 5(dailymail.co.uk)
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by sawyer 16y ago
Wow, the stabilizer has a huge effect, congratulations to Green Parrot on some awesome tech!
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by sawyer 16y ago
Love it; I'll definitely switch to strict equality comparisons from now on!
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by sawyer 16y ago
One suggestion, I find it very difficult to follow when other people are zooming the notes in and out; maybe the note zoom level should be client specific, not shared.
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by sawyer 16y ago
Amazing promo video, can you guys go into a little more detail about the process you used to create it? Did you handle all the coordination between the artist, sound team, and animators?
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by sawyer 16y ago
I wish he'd spoken a little more about the bootstrapping process other than that he's glad his wife's a deep sleeper.
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by sawyer 16y ago
Love it! You've actually managed to make HN harder to navigate away from!
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by sawyer 16y ago
Interesting article; a search engines' strength is in linking keywords to text based content, but they do a very poor job directing customers to modern web applications. Easy example: search for the term "social network", and try to locate
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by sawyer 16y ago
Windsoc does look like a good idea, implementing individual APIs is a pain. I'm no YC alum, and I'm not sure if there are any competitors providing the same service; but it sounds like a promising service.
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by sawyer 16y ago
Psychonauts is a great game, but it wouldn't be categorized in the adventure genre - at least not in the vein this article is referring to (old school point and click puzzle solving).
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by sawyer 16y ago
Hahaha, beautiful article. I'd love to see someone attempt to secure cat hair to their face with maple syrup. Having to jump through hoops like forging a mustache onto someone's passport before applying a fake mustache yourself in order to
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by sawyer 16y ago
As important as reading and learning tools is; my experience is that you'll absorb much more by starting hobby projects and hacking your way through them. After you've set up a development environment (on your home machine / laptop will do)
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by sawyer 16y ago
Ugh, you know you're too immersed in startup culture when your first reaction to this title is "Ron Conway's Game of Life?!" Very cool app though!
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by sawyer 16y ago
The user logs in on Facebook's server, there is no opportunity to change a uid. Facebook might return the logged in user's id, however that's not useful, the only way to interact with their API will be with the access token (which only gran
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by sawyer 16y ago
OAuth 2.0 login providers use an access token that is user specific for all subsequent interaction. For example, with Facebook, once a user has logged in and given Application X permission to access their details, FB will send the user's id
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by sawyer 16y ago
I don't think it's a bad idea, take a look at the history of Massive ( http://www.massiveincorporated.com/ ) before you start out. From what I understand they attempted to put big brand ads into the maps of AAA games and haven't been very
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by sawyer 16y ago
Getting feedback from technically savvy (or at least interested) people can be very valuable, and you're right, ideas are a dime a dozen.
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by sawyer 16y ago
I totally agree; I would love a way to "read" blogs while driving: Go to a TC article on iPhone, click bookmarklet, sit back and listen.