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by sim0n 15y ago
Apparently YC's second most common home country for accepted applicants is the UK (tied with Canada) so I don't think the UK really needs a YC outpost as long as people are still willing to make the trip to CA. As pg says, the silicon valle
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by sim0n 15y ago
Sad news, my sincere condolences to rtm and his family.
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by sim0n 15y ago
https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.mi... seems to be loading for me at the moment.
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by sim0n 15y ago
He's pretty busy with YC these days.
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by sim0n 15y ago
Sweet! Believe it or not I've been actually looking for something like this for Chrome over the past couple of days so this is great.
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by sim0n 15y ago
If you're using IE then the screenshot has an IE window frame.
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by sim0n 15y ago
Region: US Site Type: Project management Chrome: 68% Safari: 18% Firefox: 13%
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The Zombie Network: Beware 'Free Public WiFi' (npr.org)
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by sim0n 15y ago
Congrats guys! We switched over to you a couple of months back and the service has been great so far :)
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by sim0n 15y ago
Our startup is built on PHP and it's quite amazing how many people look at it and then say "I assume it's build on Rails?". I know a lot of people running new startups and a fair few of them are running on PHP versus something like Ruby. I
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by sim0n 15y ago
He could be talking about the Lobster font which has been very popular in UI design for a while now.
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by sim0n 15y ago
Same here. Fixed on my local environment, just need to alter my production server asap.
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by sim0n 15y ago
When services like Twitter limit your messages to 140 characters, you don't want to waste 50 characters on a long URL (e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2547123 ) when instead you could create a short(er) 10 character URL instead us
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by sim0n 15y ago
Same, I was somewhat hoping the title was a typo and meant to say "iPad".
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by sim0n 15y ago
It helps fight spam and makes impersonation more cumbersome for trolls.
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by sim0n 15y ago
Node.js was great for this because of the nowjs library which let us use practically the same codebase on both the client and the server side of things which really sped up development ;-)
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by sim0n 15y ago
My friend, Greg and I wanted to try out node.js to see how we liked the language (we're looking in to using it on http://interstateapp.com in the near future) and so we decided to do the normal thing and build a multi-channel web chat app
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Show HN: Prompt.im - A simple real-time chat app built in 1 day(prompt.im)
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by sim0n 15y ago
Thanks for letting me know about Calomel, it looks like a very handy plugin! I tracked down the issue (a missing CSS file 302 redirecting to a non-HTTPS page) and it should show the site as being secure now :)
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by sim0n 16y ago
Ah, my apologies. Was this related to http://bakedcode.com ? If so, we've just fixed an issue with our SSL cert on that domain when using Firefox (FF wasn't recognising our CA).
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by sim0n 16y ago
Strange, it looks to be working fine for me: http://cl.ly/460I3Z1V1R0F1y3W0J3d . Is there a specific page where it's broken for you?
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by sim0n 16y ago
Thanks so much! It's honestly amazing to hear you say that, we're super excited to see where we can take Interstate :)
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by sim0n 16y ago
We've already booked an apartment for 2 weeks in the Mission District of SF for the interview and to see some of our friends at companies based there. Looking forward to really getting to see SF - I've wanted to go for years!
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by sim0n 16y ago
If we can get a Visa then we'd like to, yes (doesn't have to be the Bay Area though). Most of our users are US based so being there ourselves would make things a lot easier.
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by sim0n 16y ago
Most definitely the advice of the alumni and the connections which YC would give us. We value the network we'd receive as a result of YC as much higher than the actual investment.
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by sim0n 16y ago
We've had about 1100 invitation requests so far (we've done no advertising yet) and our monthly growth rate (page views) is actually averaging 100% at the moment which is great. We've also got some great companies already using the app such
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by sim0n 16y ago
Ooh, that's just down the road from me (I'm on Temple Street). Looks interesting.
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by sim0n 16y ago
Oh cool! I was also based in Coventry myself for a year prior to working on Interstate :) Thanks, aha!
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by sim0n 16y ago
Applied for the first time this round (S11) with http://interstateapp.com and have been invited for an interview.
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by sim0n 16y ago
Just found out we've got a Y Combinator interview :)

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