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by shafqat 18y ago
What were the mainstream publications that mentioned HN?
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We're pretty distributed. 2 people in Geneva (Switzerland), 1 in NYC, and 4 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. My cofounder just moved their from Sweden to start up our office there and take advantage of cost efficiencies.
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Tried posting a comment on Simon's blog but it wasn't working. So here you go Simon: This is an amazing product - not just because of the technology, but the implications for the future of news. In fact, I think this is much bigger than the
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The Guardian Launches a News API: Why It's much bigger news than the NYT API(blog.newscred.com)
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I quit my job to work on NewsCred in July 08 (8 months ago). Hope to be Ramen profitable with 6 people in the next six months (we have a B2B side that is not apparent from our consumer website). Will definately post with details when that h
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Major Newspapers That Will Either Fold or Go Digital Next(news.yahoo.com)
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TrueKnowledge has been doing this for a while now... And they do it well. Did it change the world? No. I call BS on this article.
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Yes, but there is no way to get the summary from Freebase directly. They dont include the summary in the TSV textfile downloads they offer. On their site, it says the only way to get the summaries is via WEX. Are there other good ways to ge
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Ask HN: Has anyone used the Freebase Wikipedia Extraction?
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this is indeed a good overview of the issues involved. But one thing is painfully clear: no one has a clue! There is so much ambiguity and gray area in this debate, it makes is difficult for both sides to navigate these waters. It would be
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by shafqat 18y ago
I agree with this comment. When we raised our seed round last year, we had a number of first time angel investors back out at the last minute (or we had to kick them out) because the transaction costs were too high. For example, one newbie
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by shafqat 18y ago
Can someone shed some extra light about the point re: reducing the number of requests to the DB for a dynamic page. When left unoptimized, Rails (and a lot of other frameworks) often result in 100 DB queries for a page. One obvious way arou
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by shafqat 18y ago
We're always looking for good interns at NewsCred, although summer is a long ways away for us. Drop me a line and we'll keep in touch (shafqat at newscred dot com). We're launching a lot of new products in the next few months, so should be
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by shafqat 18y ago
+1 for newspapers having good APIs and using some of the great APIs available out there. BTW, would love to get in touch to ask some hackerish questions about your paper. Do you do technology stuff there? If you don't mind, drop me one line
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If you can demonstrate a well-considered revenue model (i.e. cash, not eyeballs), there is still plenty of money going around. We raised a seed round in October, and it was actually much easier than all the doom and gloom you read about ang
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by shafqat 18y ago
This is old news. Since then, the NYT Co has gotten itself a financial lifeline by taking out a 250M loan from Carlos Slim, a Mexican billionaire. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display...
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We see the same for NewsCred... our traffic is an order of magnitude larger than what Compete reports. We're thinking about getting Quantified for that reason, but I'm not so sure about sharing every little detail of traffic information wit
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Awesome news... especially since since NewsCred is about to migrate to 100% Django! So far it's been a great experience for all our developers.
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How do you make money? I love the site btw. And love the fact that you can get full text "articles" because you go to research/universities for content.
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I guess it's a good method of second-level quality control. The fact that its on HN is usually a good primary check, so supplement that with good comments and the resulting link is usually a great read.
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I think the future of news is intelligent, curated, aggregation. People aren't going to a single trusted source anymore. News organizations that can become to go-to news hub that aggregates the latest/best stories from around the web, and s
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If you're in the area, you should drive down to Geneva and meet us (NewsCred). We're always looking for smart/interesting folks...
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Ask YC: Do any of you find yourself reading comments before the actual link?
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Shoot me an e-mail (shafqat at newscred dot com)... We might have an open position, but can also point you to some others.
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In that we also aggregate news and are focused on quality (hence the name "cred-ibility"). But that is just our consumer facing side and not our revenue generating biz model.
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Sounds like there is some overlap with my startup, NewsCred. Have you taken a look? Get in touch if you want some tips.. will be happy to help.
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If the website was getting 100,000, how was it abandoned? Just not being developed further? Why were people coming to the site? And why would the owner sell for 500$. These are genuine questions - I've very interested in this approach. Cong
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Hmm, interesting. Why was it a waste of time? We're have a bunch of different roles we could fulfill - techie, but also more general community manager/sales/"help everyone on the team with everything" type role. Looking back at my college d
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Ask YC: NewsCred looking for interns. Any tips where to find em?
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by shafqat 18y ago
Startups should not be using PR firms anyway. Talk to them normally, build a relationship, see them in conferences, act human. That works, really. We haven't spent a cent on PR, and have done just fine and got all the coverage we could have

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