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Ninite (YC W08) Brings No-Hassle Bulk Installations to Linux(lifehacker.com)
1 points by swies 16y ago|0 comments
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by swies 16y ago
Sorry it's not much more than a version checker for OS X, we're still working on building Ninite for that. As a consolation prize there is an iOS easter egg.
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Remind HN: Adobe patched Flash, try the new Ninite (YC W08) site to update(updateflash.org)
3 points by swies 16y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Want to help us test Ninite.com (YC W08) for Linux?
16 points by swies 16y ago|0 comments
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by swies 16y ago
This is dead on. We do Ninite support over email in our personal inboxes. I'd say the one-on-one interaction, not necessarily the phone, is key. I spend about an hour each day answering it all and I've learned an incredible amount from em
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by swies 16y ago
Lately we're trying to promote Ninite more for single app downloads too. Even for a single app Ninite saves you from: - navigating confusing download sites (sourceforge stands out as an example) - waiting/forgetting about a download before
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Ninite.com (YC W08) releases new product and stats - 10 million apps installed(blog.ninite.com)
29 points by swies 16y ago|12 comments
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How Ninite.com (YC W08) was named by a program -- code included(blog.ninite.com)
81 points by swies 16y ago|30 comments
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by swies 16y ago
Glad to hear you like the idea. I've talked with Mel from https://www.sliceapp.com/ before and that sounds pretty close to what you're describing. Though I think it wants to SSH in and just run the commands instead of printing them out f
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by swies 16y ago
Thanks! No firm plans on Mac right now. The Windows app ecosystem is so much more screwed up (notably toolbars) and reinstallation is much more frequent. Not to say Macs have nailed this: http://daringfireball.net/2009/09/how_should_mac_ap
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Ninite (YC W08) shares UI tweak data, puts download.com and FileHippo on notice(blog.ninite.com)
20 points by swies 16y ago|9 comments
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Ninite (YC W08) is Microsoft's startup of the day(microsoftstartupzone.com)
10 points by swies 16y ago|2 comments
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by swies 17y ago
Could you add Ninite.com (YC W08). We make setting up Windows machines painless. Free for personal use, $20/month for business. Thanks!
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by swies 17y ago
We talk about our big pivot from Baseshield, how we chose the name, and some other stuff.
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Podnutz Interview With Founders of Ninite (YC W08)(podnutz.com)
3 points by swies 17y ago|1 comments
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Tax your meetings(runitback.tumblr.com)
1 points by swies 17y ago|0 comments
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by swies 17y ago
My co-founder and I make Ninite (YC W08) http://ninite.com It automatically installs apps for windows fast. It's free for home use, but we charge businesses. Many of our subscribers are PC shops like yours. It's fascinating to see the n
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by swies 17y ago
PC shops like this one are the market for our premium product and it is extremely interesting to see these numbers. It wasn't obvious to me before (I'm sort of slow with these things) but if you're selling a B2B product, checking out a cus
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Side Effects of Simple(runitback.tumblr.com)
2 points by swies 17y ago|0 comments
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by swies 17y ago
OpenSolaris does a lot of nifty things in this area. Closest to this is their Image Packaging System: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+pkg/WebHome Check out the links to Zones (sandboxes) and ZFS (filesystem with cloning/snapsh
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by swies 17y ago
That's true, but Lifehacker didn't cover us until after we launched publicly. We pitched them with a demo code towards the end of our beta and never heard anything back. Judging from the traffic they've sent recently we probably could hav
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by swies 17y ago
Here's one: http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/10/08/how-to-install-the-most... The general pattern was mention the private code as a teaser, describe/review the service, then give the details for signing up with the code.
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by swies 17y ago
We contacted about 30, resulting in around 7 hits. Some of our biggest hits were secondary though, larger blogs would see us on smaller ones and contact us for a demo code. Our pitch email subject line was a brief description of the produc
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Ninite: How we got 18,000 beta users in 4 weeks(runitback.tumblr.com)
140 points by swies 17y ago|23 comments
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by swies 17y ago
Launch in private beta and email bloggers access codes. We got 18,000 users in 4 weeks like this, not sure if it's generalizable. I wrote the details down here: http://runitback.tumblr.com/post/223371555/how-we-got-18-000...
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by swies 17y ago
Right now the best way to add an app is to email your setup program (or a link) to contact@baseshield.com. Then we'll get it packaged up and added to the store. We know this process is a little awkward now, but we've got some exciting new
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by swies 18y ago
The thread off this comment is a great, intelligent discussion of many of the issues we're dealing with at BaseShield (YCW08 - http://baseshield.com ). Specifically where the balance between ease of use and security sits for normal users a
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by swies 18y ago
We have a form linked from the front page of the App Store just below the featured apps. You can also just get in touch with me: pat (at) baseshield.com and we'll get you going quickly. Because of our secure virtualization layer apps can r
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by swies 18y ago
Hi everyone! We'd like to especially encourage any news.yc readers who write windows apps to distribute them via BaseShield. Just get in touch with me at my personal email: pat (at) baseshield.com -- if you want to list it for free we'll g
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by swies 19y ago
You can't get more instruction set info than vol. 2A/B here: http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/

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