Now this is how you pitch your product to an open source company

http://blog.reddit.com/2010/04/now-this-is-how-you-pitch-your-product.html

by arthurgibson • 16 years ago

146 19 16 years ago

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jedberg6• 16 years ago

Congrats to the embed.ly team for doing it right and making our job easier.

screeley• 16 years ago

You're welcome. A lot of credit has to go to Chris and the Reddit guys. They were awesome. One phone call, some code, a few emails and it was done.

jedberg6• 16 years ago

(I'm one of the reddit guys) ;)

cookiecaper2• 16 years ago

As a guy who runs a reddit install, I am pleased to hear that we'll be getting updates soon. : )

Is github going to be kept in sync with reddit's copy now? Is that the idea there?

jedberg6• 16 years ago

We are trying to be a lot better about keeping everything in sync.

Our goal right now is to publish weekly, but we'll see how that actually works out.

CUViper2• 16 years ago

The best way to keep in sync is to remove the need: just publish everything live and unfettered to a public repository.

Mongoose• 16 years ago

Love the TLDR summary at the bottom. That should become more of a trend.

apsurd• 16 years ago

I never got why its standard practice to put it after the "too long" part? Shouldn't it be before?

I guess semantically using "didn't" is past tense, implying some type of initial attempt to read it and then because it's too long, you didn't. But nevertheless it would more helpful at the top?

lief79• 16 years ago

Since you asked, my guess is psychology. If it was at the top, then most people wouldn't bother reading the comment, as they already know the conclusion.

TLDR is useful for and needed by those who are skimming.

howsta• 16 years ago

nice

stingraycharles• 16 years ago

Just curious, but what's the business model behind embed.ly? How does one generate revenue from such a service?

codexon• 16 years ago

I'd like to know that too.

The only product I see here is an open standard which would be forked the moment they try to slap ads on it.

Sthorpe• 16 years ago

Love the idea. I did find a down page btw.

http://api.embed.ly/about

Now this is how you pitch your product to an open source company

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