subdane

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   by subdane 12y ago

   I still have trouble when writing - is it email, eMail, or Email?
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   by subdane 12y ago

   Another neat fact - announced in a Youtube video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4C1DGzHiis&list=PLaLRbjVhH6...
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   by subdane 12y ago

   I prefer G+, but the onboarding - actually getting disparate folks easily invited and notified has been inscrutably hard. Part of the prob is that I have multiple gmail accts and address books as do the folks I'm inviting, but another
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   by subdane 12y ago

   I'm pretty sure this use case is covered by Twitter, which ironically in this context folks are starting to beat up for not having private messaging.
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   by subdane 12y ago

   Note to self, put playground on app store.
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   by subdane 12y ago

   If iOS is Betamax to Android's VHS, then we should expect a competitor to come with a less elegant, more open experience at half the cost and corner the market. Never would've expected Amazon, but maybe the sponsored data model wi
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   by subdane 12y ago

   They solved a problem for a highly engaged network, making it simple to post and share an image in formats necessary for forums and not tied to identity. The first time I used Imgur, it was so simple, so delightful and so not monetized I wo
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   by subdane 12y ago

   Great point
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   by subdane 12y ago

   Man I love food. I love the engagement with the senses, the stories about its origin ingredients, the way those ingredients get put together into a meal that can be enjoyed with more than one person. Soylent strikes me as something I would&
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    by subdane 12y ago

    Ben's perspective is strongly influenced by his experiences at Netscape and Loudcloud and looking for and funding rocket ships. Are these cultural artifacts - working w/ jerks, hiring young, working 72 hours in a row - the inevita
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    by subdane 12y ago

    My point was simply that carriers were their competitors, not social networks. How does facebook help them fight?
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    by subdane 12y ago

    Find a way to make the deal work for him so he wins instead of loses. Don't take his employees. Don't charge him. Give him generous advisor shares. Make him want to help you raise money and build the idea.
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    by subdane 12y ago

    They didn't have to sell to FB they chose to. They had a history of flipping to paid versions of the app to cover costs and reduce growth. Their actual competitors were carriers who charge exorbitant SMS fees internationally. At ~500M
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    by subdane 12y ago

    Google+ could still win by exploiting a simple heuristic: Don't be Facebook. Allow for privacy, allow for handles, integrate seamlessly with platforms that have traction already (including Facebook). Remember how Instagram let you take
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    by subdane 12y ago

    I agree, but I also think investors have bought a narrative of a young organization that breaks things and learns. Part of that narrative is great and it keeps tech fresh and young. I just wish there were a way to have a better dialog or wo
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    by subdane 12y ago

    New York Times is getting better about this, I've been surprised to regularly see links to Youtube videos in their articles!
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    by subdane 12y ago

    Hmm. I wonder if one of Facebook's competitors would be interested in funding the professor that invented this tech to start a competing company? Or is it that the implemented tech, team and market awareness are the thing that's v
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    by subdane 12y ago

    You're assuming there was no ask. We don't know. I'm also wondering if advisor shares would've been possible.
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    by subdane 12y ago

    Agreed. I wonder how they'll handle Pocket, which I love, but is also designed to get rid of both ads and pagination for free.
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    by subdane 12y ago

    If art makes someone feel an idea then it's really cooking with gas.
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    by subdane 12y ago

    Agreed. I'd pay a couple bucks more a month for twice the selection. I'm a film nut and love a lot of old titles that aren't available. My Disc queue is way more interesting than my streaming queue
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    by subdane 12y ago

    With such a huge middle class in the 20th century in the U.S. and the collapse of the Soviet empire, I think a lot of politicians, economists and media pundits felt that class was no longer an issue. I suspect it will become more widely dis
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    by subdane 12y ago

    Learn to code?
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    by subdane 12y ago

    Thanks for that!
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    by subdane 12y ago

    Maybe try Lean methodology? Make sure you're clear on the problem you're solving and who you're solving it for. Then come up with a hypothesis and ask specific questions validate or invalidate the hypothesis. https:/&#x
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    by subdane 12y ago

    I had the good fortune to study the films (made and unmade) of Stanley Kubrick for a semester in college. If ever a filmmaker embodied the hacker spirit it was Kubrick - he taught himself still photography, dropped out of high school to suc
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    by subdane 12y ago

    Actually, Chesky said exactly this recently, from the article, "One starting point: a cleaning service that will offer fresh sheets and towels to Airbnb proprietors." http://www.fastcompany.com/3027107/punk-me
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    by subdane 12y ago

    If you write a blog post about the state of photo storage and post it back here it could spark the right dialog?
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    by subdane 12y ago

    I wonder if it's possible to do an AMA or something here? There's clearly a market need and a lot of folks have felt burned. I bet HN would be interested to know that you taught yourself to code and have been one of the main devs
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    by subdane 12y ago

    Box made the Writely founder VP Eng for precisely this reason.