volaski

46 ms·

391.
by volaski 14y ago
Traffic inflation via user manipulation => Lots of spam traffic => People hate it but because it's spammy it still gets traffic => Socialcam guys realizes nothing good will come out of the situation => A fool approaches =&#6
392.
by volaski 14y ago
Does this guy know what the hell he's talking about? Here are some of the highlights. Anything else? 1. "Bootstrap.js" 2. "Heroku is built on top of S3" 3. "Bootstrap depends on jQuery" 4. "You no longer have to mess with sessions, logout s
393.
by volaski 14y ago
If that CTO guy is actually as well connected as you say he is, they will not fail because of lack of technical person. They will be able to find one immediately. At least don't worry about this problem.
394.
by volaski 14y ago
I wonder what happened since then? Socialcam launch party was quite a long time ago, and the story is basically around that time. And the story doesn't sound like a startup failure postmortem, so I'm kinda confused. Hopefully some good news
395.
by volaski 14y ago
Etherpad got acquired by Google, Stypi got acquired by Salesforce.
396.
by volaski 15y ago
I've been covered on Techcrunch, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, TheNextWeb, GigaOm, Lifehacker, etc., multiple times, and I can say for sure that this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Sure it's not as effective as long time ago when there
397.
by volaski 15y ago
That's disappointing. I had guessed they might be, but was hoping they were not, because they commented below "(1) We reached out directly to a handful of people that we admired and a number of them were nice enough to take the time to sign
398.
by volaski 15y ago
It's really impressive how you guys got so many YC people on board before launching. I really hope you're not a YC company because that would make this post dishonest. (I know many YC alums help out each other but have never seen them do it
399.
by volaski 15y ago
I am not trying to figure out all the variables. Also I am not spending too much time trying to figure out "how to make it on HN". I can just go back to doing the same thing I used to before--post on HN, share the post with friends (probabl
400.
by volaski 15y ago
Yes. I really agree with this. The reason I asked the question was because I've been seeing several interesting projects posted as "Show HN" and go ignored because of bad timing or any other factors. I tend to check out most "Show HN" posts
401.
by volaski 15y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. Just to confirm, you just posted your post here and didn't tell your friends to come read it, right? Also, would be nice if you could share around how many upvotes there were, and how quickly it happened.
402.
by volaski 15y ago
I'm not implying that there's any conspiracy. Some facts I do know: 1. I know for a fact many people do this and it ends up being successful. 2. I have tried this in the past and it worked. 3. I have been observing /new and several really i
403.
by volaski 15y ago
Has anyone submitted their project on HN, and without any friends' help, reached front page? My hope is at least on HN, if your project is cool, it will get traction without asking friends to upvote your entry (which happens a lot most of t
404.
Ask HN: Anyone gained traction on HN *without* any of their friends upvoting?
27 points by volaski 15y ago|34 comments
405.
by volaski 15y ago
Move to San francisco as soon as possible and go to all kinds of networking events. Make new friends and find someone there. You should be able to find someone if you try, especially if you already have been accepted to an incubator. And fr
406.
by volaski 15y ago
Thanks. Agreed. Gallery sounds like a good analogy, but in this post I was trying to use the term "graveyard" as a good thing. Guess I couldn't overcome the terms' connotation. Modified the title to point out that it's a good thing :)
407.
Why Github is startup's graveyard (and why it's a good thing)(volaski.tumblr.com)
3 points by volaski 15y ago|2 comments
408.
by volaski 15y ago
This is as insightful a theory as saying Facebook launched 7 years ago and now it has 850 million users, so on its first year at Harvard it must have gained 121.4 million users.
409.
by volaski 15y ago
For me it didn't change my behavior, but that's not the point. I think the fact that Facebook may emphasize the search functionality more does mean something. As you know there's this thing called affordance.
410.
by volaski 15y ago
I really loved the new version of Firefox that I decided to ditch safari and chrome and go back to using Firefox. But it's too ugly so I removed all the clutter, and now I'm really happy. Thought I would share my experience :)
411.
How to minimalize your Firefox UI and turn it into your main browser(volaski.tumblr.com)
1 points by volaski 15y ago|1 comments