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by shafqat 18y ago
The most interesting thing about this link is the fact that some random dude had the kosmo.com URL all along. Why didnt Kozmo (the company) buy it up?
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by shafqat 18y ago
Our policy is quite clear - we respect the copyrights of our content providers and do everything in our power to drive traffic to them. We currently take whatever is in the feeds. Some feeds (less than 5%) have the full content in the feed.
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by shafqat 18y ago
Good point. Will do a post on our blog about in the next few days.
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by shafqat 18y ago
Thanks a lot... That's my favorite part of the site, and the feature that eventually became NewsCred.
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by shafqat 18y ago
We just launched recently, so maybe that's why. I've bounced around a ton of ideas and got a lot of help from the HN community over the past year so you might have come across related posts before. Anyway, do let us know what you think - al
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by shafqat 18y ago
Thanks... unexpected feedback is always welcome. And positive feedback makes us want to just work harder to continue to delight you guys!
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by shafqat 18y ago
I heard NewsCred.com is full of awesomeness. In all seriousness, we have thousands of visitors a day loving it, so something must be good about it. Personally, my day consists of Hacker News, NewsCred, some Google News, and a sprinkling of
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by shafqat 18y ago
Thanks! MailChimp looks awesome. First one that Ive seen that it's the YC mold... fun, modern, easy. The rest of the services are all dinosaurs from the Web 1.0 stone ages. I wonder what MailChimp's delivery records are like. Do you know if
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by shafqat 18y ago
You can add users in bulk to Gmail Groups in your contact via a csv file. But you can only send 500 e-mails a day from each e-mail address. So its not really a sustainable solution.
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by shafqat 18y ago
Thats what I'm starting to figure out. I was just confused because I saw a lot of startups say they use Google to manage their mailings to users. Back to iContact or Constant Contact or one of those I guess...
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Ask YC: Trying to use Google Apps to e-mail users but confused. Please help!?
1 points by shafqat 18y ago|10 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
Dude, I know its sounds eager but I've been burned many times before over tiny things like this. Some people take it very seriously, and I'd rather tread safely than piss people off.
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by shafqat 18y ago
Thanks for the tips. I like where you're going with this. We might give that a try!
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by shafqat 18y ago
Hey no apology needed - I count all the regulars on HN as friends, so everything taken with a grain of salt!
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by shafqat 18y ago
I wish you the best. I took this step about 3 months ago (and also announced to the HN community). I've never looked back since. Working on my startup (NewsCred) fulltime has been some of the happiest days of my life. Best of luck!
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by shafqat 18y ago
Wow, I didn't know that. So if we use it, we'll give a double nod - one to HN for our inspiration, and one to SlashDot for being the original. Is that cool?
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Ask YC/PG: Can we call our points system 'karma'?
1 points by shafqat 18y ago|13 comments
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Ask YC: What is the best 3rd party e-mail tool? Anyone try iContact?
1 points by shafqat 18y ago|0 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
Thanks tptacek ;-) (no offense taken).
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by shafqat 18y ago
Very good point. If you look at my slide (NewsCred), my favorite person to twitter is a female: Padmasree - she's the CTO of Cisco. So that proves that there are women twittering, and more importantly, women in high-profile C-level jobs. Bu
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by shafqat 18y ago
Great post! Incredibly useful for those of us that have never used MT. Love the human element. lways be good to others and treat them with respect...
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by shafqat 18y ago
I worked on NewsCred for 6 months while keeping my day job. I'm glad I did that - we weren't obsessed with time to market. If you are or have a product that is dependent on getting out there immediately because of 100s of competitors, then
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BusinessWeek: CEOs on Twitter (but they spelled my name wrong)(images.businessweek.com)
9 points by shafqat 18y ago|8 comments
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ASK YC: Anyone in the TC50 demopit last year? What about DEMO?
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by shafqat 18y ago
Thats some impressive PR!
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by shafqat 18y ago
Classy response after some pretty rough comments! Keep iterating and releasing. Good luck.
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by shafqat 18y ago
OK, I completely disagree with this. Sure, private alpha or private testing is necessary, but there is a time for a launch PR. We just had a fairly big launch when we went public, and we spent a lot of time and effort (not money) on it. I w
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by shafqat 18y ago
We paid 50 bucks for this and it was an awesome investment. DO IT.
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by shafqat 18y ago
Holy cow - didnt realize so many people pay for Flickr! Thats seriously surprising to me. I pay for Yahoo NFL Gamepass (all NFL games streamed live via internet!). I pay 200 bucks a year for that. Would pay >1000 if they wanted to reall
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Bolt's freaky fast 100M run broke statistical models of human speed(blog.wired.com)
2 points by shafqat 18y ago|0 comments

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