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by shazow 16y ago
I'm thinking I need to add big fat position numbers to each row and start tracking change in that. :P
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by shazow 16y ago
Check back in 11 months. :) I'm going to keep this showcase running and try to improve the interface to visualize long term change better.
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by shazow 16y ago
I guess it depends on how you define a successful company. In the capitalist sense, something like http://yclist.com/ is probably most poignant. I wouldn't say that YC has a huge impact in terms of social media; they definitely help with
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by shazow 16y ago
Any corrections/requests welcome. If I'm missing anyone, I'll be adding new accounts tomorrow, just toss them in this thread.
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57 YC startups' Twitter follower growth over time(socialgrapple.com)
96 points by shazow 16y ago|42 comments
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by shazow 16y ago
Quick suggestions for improvement, design-wise: * Put the rows into a fixed-height container so that the size of the page doesn't keep jumping as the images load. * After the second page or so, I found it too annoying to skim such a large l
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by shazow 16y ago
Not to mention the healthcare situation. I guess most people can afford cheap catastrophic coverage, but not everyone is so lucky to be able to draw that line. All the more reason to do it while you're young and healthy, I suppose.
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by shazow 16y ago
Yes and yes, since 1995. More specifically: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt Via: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3583103/scheme-relative-u...
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by shazow 16y ago
I'm always reluctant about going completely schemaless. Reminds me of the blog post by FriendFeed about how they use MySQL, highly recommended: http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql I feel like like there needs to be a b
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by shazow 16y ago
I imagine that the effort counts more than whether the task was completed in the retrospective absolute sense. You're training yourself to put consistent effort into things that are important to you but probably unpleasant compared to playi
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by shazow 16y ago
I lived very comfortably in downtown Toronto (Church/Adelaide, the Spire), in my own fancy highrise apartment ($1200/mo rent), for a measly $56k right out of school. On top of that, managed to save about $15k in my first year. Then I moved
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by shazow 16y ago
Luckily there's no shortage of other creative thefts in much of Europe. Here's a story how my girlfriend and travel partner got covered in sludge as part of an elaborate diversion to steal her backpack with over $2,000 worth of stuff. http
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by shazow 16y ago
Wish you were around when Jen and I were wrecking our brain coming up with imoveyou.com (from getupandmove.me). We kept asking ourselves "surely there are people who are good at naming things, WHERE ARE THEY?!"
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by shazow 16y ago
Last I checked, 23andMe shipped to Europe (with additional shipping fees).
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by shazow 16y ago
You'd probably want to avoid working with companies you don't know/like/respect to keep your filter in place. On the other hand, I've made referrals to companies I wouldn't want to work at but the fit was simply perfect for the person in qu
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by shazow 16y ago
I built a proof of concept that sort of does this: https://github.com/shazow/relay.js Someone hosts a hub which just acts as a dumb message-passing relay between browsers via websockets. When a server connects, it sets a code payload. The
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by shazow 16y ago
Email notifications aren't launched yet but I'm preparing to test start testing it with a small of users. Want in on it? I can't afford to give out many trials right now, but what I am going to do soon is give all the free plans access to a
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by shazow 16y ago
Indeed, I tried to make the experience as non-intrusive as possible. One of the biggest complaints from Tweepsect was that people didn't want to OAuth to try it out. Especially if I play the angle of "use SocialGrapple for corporate intelli
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by shazow 16y ago
Hrm this happens sometimes when the Twitter API fails in a weird way. Try again? One of the cool things of Tweepsect is it runs 99% in-browser JS (including all the API calls). There's only a small piece of the OAuth that had to be done ser
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by shazow 16y ago
The stack is Pylons (behind uwsgi+nginx), PostgreSQL, and my own task scheduler[1]. Right now it's hosted on Linode. Will be moving to DotCloud eventually. :) [1] http://github.com/shazow/turnip
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by shazow 16y ago
Ooof, you're right. Good catch! Keep em' coming, making a list.
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by shazow 16y ago
Sweet! Send me a note with what I need to do to get you as a customer. :) My email is in the footer when you're logged in.
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by shazow 16y ago
Yea, you're right. Check out the link to the blog post? That has a pretty good insight on what the premium meat looks like. I'm working on better non-user facing stuff as I write this. :) Takatakataka
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by shazow 16y ago
Data export via API is on the list. It'll be done as soon as someone actually needs it. :D
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by shazow 16y ago
I've been looking at Facebook and originally all my language was service-agnostic in the event that I toss Facebook in there, but now I'm kind of backing away from it. 1. Facebook doesn't give good access to the more granular stuff, mostly
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by shazow 16y ago
Clickable links – Blog post: http://shazow.posterous.com/socialgrapple-snapshot-limedarin... SocialGrapple: http://socialgrapple.com/ (Make sure you have a look at the blog post first) Screenshots: http://i.imgur.com/OzTIb.png http:/
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Show HN: Twitter graph monitoring over time, SocialGrapple
50 points by shazow 16y ago|22 comments
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by shazow 16y ago
I worry about the scenario of building something that people are unwilling to pay for. Also the service can get rather resource-intensive so I can't afford many free users.
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by shazow 16y ago
I agree, that's what I ended up doing yesterday.
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by shazow 16y ago
I hate the construct that you must be a business in order to make money. Not only that, but you must be a reasonably-successful business. Talk about a chicken and egg problem. I'm trying to bootstrap a product that charges between $10-40/mo

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