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shuleatt
16y ago
Well version 1 was really not meant to be about the quality of photos (i.e. food porn), but if we do move in this direction it's a great suggestion
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shuleatt
16y ago
End of the day, probably users and a self-sustaining business model. This was/is a side project among friends so we're not expecting anything too crazy
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shuleatt
16y ago
We're definitely aware that site is uuuber slow. Because we're 100% bootstrapped (and not generating revenue) we recently scaled down from Engine Yard to a small instance on Slicehost. We figured we'd cut our costs while deciding what to do
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shuleatt
16y ago
excellent point
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shuleatt
16y ago
It's possible. One thing we looked at was working with personal trainers, or programs like weight watchers. Another variation was to use mechanical turk to 'guesstimate' calorie counts and charge as a premium service
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shuleatt
16y ago
We didn't have an app initially due to resources and an early belief that we could be device agnostic by leveraging email
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shuleatt
16y ago
Awesome! That was great fun night. We've tried to hold true to our roots with quantified self/personal tracking. However, most feedback (here and from friends) suggests we pivot away from this
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16y ago
Agree with the iPhone app. We do have a basic Facebook integration that allows users to post to their feed. Also agree with deemphasizing the calorie/health aspects, though overtime, I still believe the stronger value prop for an app like t
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HN:Help Pivot Our Startup -- Eat.ly
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16y ago
I'm currently based in NYC, but thinking of moving to SF. I'm looking to join or start something though I could care less about the title I'm given. I don't code per se, but have an excellent sense of product, marketing and biz dev. I've ra
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Putting the “Invent” In Inventory
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16y ago
how does one get in touch with you?
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16y ago
It would be cool if you integrated with Open Graph to allow links posted to Facebook to be cross-posted to howl. Feel free to ping for clarification
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Minimum Viable Product vs. Minimum Desirable Product
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VC North Bridge Sponsoring a $75k Seed Competition
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The Real-Time Web: Context is King and the URL is Context
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Networking Arbitrage: The Comment
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17y ago
i believe that when mahalo launched it was meant to be a competitor (alternative to google). However, they have now revised their model and leverage google to drive traffic. So when cuban invested he may have seen it as a different play tha
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17y ago
yea it's going to be tough to compete with crunchbase and/or tracked.com
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Asking YC: How does USocial Work?
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Notes from Peter Thiel’s Singularity Summit Talk (2009)
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Facebook: The Most Searched for Term on the Web?
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Streams: Layers and Data
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The Consequences of Real-Time Information
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The Most Powerful Business Model
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LeveragingIdeas Has Two Free Tickets for the Web 2.0 Expo
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Tim Draper: Top Ten Reasons Startups Fail
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Do Business Plans Matter?
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Startup Marketing Plan: Building a Foundation for Buzz
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18y ago
For one thing it is not obvious how to contact you. Your blog has one ambiguous link for email but it doesn't even load. Maybe obvious, but you need to make it simple for someone to reach you. Nevertheless I am actually looking for RoR help
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