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App Store: "Air Sharing" (avg 4.5 star app) Free for First 2 Weeks, Then Pay to Download
(iphonealley.com)
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18y ago
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Move over T9, here comes Swype
(news.cnet.com)
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ttol
18y ago
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ttol
18y ago
Whoops -- wrote that at 3am and rambles a bit. Point of the whole article: Bootstrapping works! (Sorry, my first submission to HN -- just been lurking)
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Bootstrapping to the Extreme (or "Consulting Your Way to Millions")
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ttol
18y ago
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ttol
18y ago
drew, congrats on your round!
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ttol
18y ago
reminds me of the time when utorrent was released when all the other clients were memory hogs and slow....
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ttol
18y ago
Haha, thanks! Some other projects I did was i2hub (largest college p2p), Lancraft (warcraft hack), Nestea2 (large scale security issue), scenereview (ranked higher than craigslist before I sold it), irc admin at the oldest efnet server irc
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Yup, it was pretty wild. MyAdvantage was the first of its kind back then, before all the clones came out. It still did the best job, in my opinion. I remember a few times I had to duck out of some classes when I was a junior in high scho
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18y ago
That was me. When I wrote it, I didn't know millions of people would download it and would spawn the auto-surf genre of apps. It ended up making me ranked 15 on their pyramid with over 60,000 people underneath me. During the hey-day, I w
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19y ago
I noticed on a few commercial sites (I believe it was an Anheuser-Busch site) that asked for your name and city, state (and possibly email for unique identifier?). Then, it magically age verified you. It was pretty nifty. I believe they m