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The Future is the Future (of the social web)(blog.joingrouper.com)
10 points by waxman 14y ago|0 comments
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by waxman 14y ago
Congrats! Keep crushing it guys.
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Social Hackers Wanted in NYC (YC W12)
1 points by waxman 14y ago
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by waxman 14y ago
I just unsubscribed you. Sorry for the hassle. If anyone else is having problems, we send all of our e-mails from addresses that you can respond to. The one-click unsubscribe links seem to be working fine, but if they're not, you can just r
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by waxman 14y ago
Frankly, the first time it happened we didn't believe it either. But you can't make this stuff up :-)
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Sex in the Bathroom and the Problem of Offline Data(blog.joingrouper.com)
112 points by waxman 14y ago|58 comments
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by waxman 15y ago
Fixed! Good call.
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by waxman 15y ago
Sorry, @weff. Right now we require Facebook, because we heavily rely on the graph to match groups while requiring minimal work from our members. For instance, we want to make sure the two groups don't already know each other, and we haven't
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by waxman 15y ago
Thanks! Really well put.
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by waxman 15y ago
Thanks, Abbas! We're actually soon going to roll out a big, new feature that will take this notion to the next level. We're really excited about it. Stay tuned...
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by waxman 15y ago
Ha thanks! We hand-rolled it with jQuery and a hook image from iStockPhoto (what can we say, we couldn't avoid the the easy fish pun), but if people are interested we could release it as a jQuery plug-in.
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by waxman 15y ago
It's extremely rare (see above), but when it does happen we do everything we can to make it up to the other group (free drinks, free Groupers, profuse apologies, etc.) and lay down the law on the other group (including removing them from th
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by waxman 15y ago
We call these "no-shows" and, fortunately our no-show rate is less than 0.2%. In other words, both groups show up more than 99.8% of the time. This will likely be the topic of a future blog post...
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by waxman 15y ago
Yep, it's definitely not their real a number. We built a simple Twilio app.
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by waxman 15y ago
Thanks :)
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Intro to Social Hacking: How we lowered our cancellation rate by 90%(blog.joingrouper.com)
277 points by waxman 15y ago|42 comments
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by waxman 15y ago
I certainly appreciate your hesitation, but we currently don't have any plans to offer other forms of authentication, simply because it would slow down the onboarding experience by at least an order of magnitude. We want to get people meeti
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by waxman 15y ago
Unsurprisingly, that's a relatively common feature request. Although that one isn't on the roadmap :)
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by waxman 15y ago
That will be a feature we'll add in the future, but for now 3 guys + 3 girls keeps things simple.
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Happy Anti-Valentine's Day from Grouper(joingrouper.com)
72 points by waxman 15y ago|16 comments
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Want to learn to code in 2012? Here's how to get started.(blog.waxman.me)
4 points by waxman 15y ago|0 comments
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by waxman 15y ago
It's essential that startup teams have great chemistry. If you don't appreciate their sense of humor (or vice versa), it's probably not a good fit. That's fine. It's better to establish these things sooner versus later in the interview proc
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Show HN: Hot or Not for Halloween Costumes (Halloweekend hack)(costumemash.com)
3 points by waxman 15y ago|0 comments
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by waxman 15y ago
Comments definitely can be the best part of a site or the worst. We're trying to figure out how to scale better comments.
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Show HN: YC Interview Demo - What do you want to know about YC interviews?(qomments.com)
50 points by waxman 15y ago|13 comments
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by waxman 15y ago
Thank you for taking full responsibility. Everyone makes mistakes, so what matters is how you deal with them. This was the right way to respond. Thanks.
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Review: News.me (iPad news app from Betaworks)(blog.waxman.me)
12 points by waxman 15y ago|0 comments
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Competition Doesn't Matter. Look at Dropbox.(blog.waxman.me)
93 points by waxman 16y ago|48 comments
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by waxman 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I really appreciate it. I do think space could be an issue. To mitigate against this risk I've decided to only keep ~8 pages of each feed in Redis, and compress the values (including removing attributes that won't b
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How to Build a Fast News Feed in Redis (and Rails)(blog.waxman.me)
78 points by waxman 16y ago|10 comments

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