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by skadamat 15y ago
Inspirational story, thanks for that Forbes. I wish I had started programming from an earlier age (I only started 4-5 years ago, I'm a junior at UT Austin) but Drew is still an idol for me for both his crazy development skills and entrepren
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Drew Houston's Original YC Application(dl.dropbox.com)
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by skadamat 15y ago
Hmm I'm not sure if VC's are interested in building relationships with entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs want money from VC's, it's purely business. I think what would be neat is a startup community. Reddit.com/r/startups and Hacker News are gre
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by skadamat 15y ago
Yeah that's what I thought too
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by skadamat 15y ago
I'm digging the site / idea, great work :) Turn this into a chrome extension, or a Mac / Windows Live Wallpaper, and it would really fly!
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by skadamat 15y ago
haha this looks like the one on Foursquare, neat work regardless though :)
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by skadamat 15y ago
Is this all built in Rails?
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by skadamat 15y ago
also, making a simple iPhone / Android app is key. Very few people browse using their computers for an app. Making an app with iAds is the best way to go about making any $
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by skadamat 15y ago
Have some kinda cool HTML5 transition when you hit the next button. The site itself is just a cool site, so people expect nice looking animations. Instead of generating a random integer and passing it in as an 'id' in your php script, you s
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by skadamat 15y ago
I'm in a very similar position myself. I'm about to enter my 3rd year at UT Austin, with a double major in Business (MIS) and Computer Science. I have gotten offers to co-found 1 or 2 startup ideas with adult founders that have had very suc