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by thorax 18y ago
No chance we were going to abandon ship after not getting accepted-- thankfully, we've got a good bit of traction for our sites to build on. We were invited down for an YC interview last November, and it was wicked fun talking with them. Bu
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by thorax 18y ago
True, but it is entirely opt-out with a single click. So it doesn't have to be there-- but for your clickers they can decide for themselves what they prefer.
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by thorax 18y ago
We didn't make the problem. We're just having fun with silly URL hacks and giving people something fun to show their friends. While we're at it, we're trying to do it the best way we know how.
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by thorax 18y ago
Well, for our site, tinyarro.ws, all URLs are all automatically previewed so you have a chance to decide. So if you can get over clicking silly unicode URLs, you should feel more comfortable. http://➔.ws/this I'm a big fan of informed con
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by thorax 18y ago
Anecdotally, I feel like we made a mistake choosing to be the first interview on Day 1 last season. You only get 10 minutes and they (as you'd expect) weren't quite yet "in the zone" regarding the daily schedule and interview rhythm, so our
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by thorax 18y ago
Chatterous has become essential for us really. Feels almost like a "utility" at this point. Keep up the great work, guys. We've been playing with the API-- at the moment we're using it to send SVN commit notices and production code releases
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by thorax 18y ago
Thanks for commenting. Featurelist won't appeal to everyone visually, though, neither does Reddit or HN. A lot of our users have liked the simplicity of the site, but it might not be for you. We're not focusing on the visual aspects (not to
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by thorax 18y ago
I don't have any strong feelings about Get Satisfaction (or any of the other sites like this), but we made http://featurelist.org available for free to anyone who wants a lighter approach to that sort of thing. It focuses a bit more on th
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by thorax 18y ago
Then call it archive or something? I find it strange that anyone would argue in favor of this deletion-means-paused behavior. It's counter-intuitive to many people (me included).
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by thorax 18y ago
Yeah, I was a big fan of the idea. Clearly Google saw the potential, too. I almost wish it wasn't a part of Google. I'd like to have two offerings that are totally different-- one that's 100% pagerank and one that trends towards user-ranked
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by thorax 18y ago
The company that doesn't let you delete things.
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by thorax 18y ago
Even better discussion if you read the entire topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=508132
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by thorax 18y ago
I think he should see how hard it is to get setup selling on Steam. It's not crack-proof either, but I get the impression that single-player games are still selling pretty well there. I also saw this recent announcement from Valve that soun
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by thorax 18y ago
This is great-- I had recently started my own Python mercurial repo for minor changes we had to make for embedding it into the Source engine. This will make it easier for us to keep in sync with base.
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by thorax 18y ago
Would be kind of nice if the "flag" link went to "approved" after a moderator deemed it worthy. That way we wouldn't keep flagging it after we know the mods had already reviewed it for worthiness.
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by thorax 18y ago
This is a pretty old idea-- it's a more practical spin on what http://www.20q.net/ was about.
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by thorax 18y ago
...and some people were giving us grief because TinyArro.ws is configured by default to show previews for all URLs that it shrinks/redirects. It seems scary to me that people could be rickrolled with an FBI URL via a tiny url service. If yo
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by thorax 18y ago
You can post it here as a self post, or on reddit as a self post. Or maybe you'd like something more like kuro5hin.org.
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by thorax 18y ago
> I only finally purchased a house in an attempt to get away from a series of noisy apartment neighbors. Why not rent a house actually?
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by thorax 18y ago
Depends on your product some. You might also look into MySpace advertising-- it's wicked easy to try out in their beta ad manager, but I find that the CPC is pretty high for toying around with at first. StumbleUpon seems to be a good one fo
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by thorax 18y ago
Kindle makes me more excited for the next generation of ebook readers than it does for itself. When I use it, I think how amazing the next-gen readers are going to be. And the great part is that all the tech it needs to Get It Right exists
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Your decisions can be affected by fleeting images and what you currently see(lesswrong.com)
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by thorax 18y ago
Play Left 4 Dead. Great "feel" of being stuck in with the zombies. 28 Days Later is better in feel. I Am Legend isn't terrible.
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by thorax 18y ago
Here's an outline of some of Dan Ariely's studies which I keep in Instapaper for when I need some extra fascinating topics to discuss with friends: http://bookoutlines.pbwiki.com/Predictably-Irrational
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by thorax 18y ago
And they made an open enough service that whizbang features are coming out of the woodwork from third parties. Like 10 new Twitter apps a week or something, I bet.
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by thorax 18y ago
We got interviewed last time. Our application was pretty durned long. I don't know how they read it. They must skim them for the most part, focusing on the things most important to them and looking for raised red flags. I do know very much
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by thorax 18y ago
It's really hard to tell what is compelling about this and how to use it. It looks like someone's personal blog at first glance, and the formatting doesn't make much sense to me. It's hard to tell if those other features add value as descri
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by thorax 18y ago
Well, people said that before we launched tinyarro.ws and I think that was different enough to catch people's attention. There are probably a few ideas out there left to try.
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by thorax 18y ago
I don't think that's a very warming idea. Feels kind of shady to me. Another step further and I'm expecting the service to remove other people's affiliate IDs and adding their own. On other fronts, we offer one approach on tinyurl "differen
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by thorax 18y ago
Well, I view it as a little different than feeling like a bad programmer. Basically-- you get to a point when you realize "The most important trick to being an amazing developer is always sincerely doubting, checking, and double-checking

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