Ask YC: Who is Nickb and what is his start-up?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348772

by demandred • 18 years ago

19 16 18 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99923

Just curious, really. Not really a part of the YC crowd so I haven't the slightest clue.

unalone2• 18 years ago

I believe NickB is one of the FriendFeed guys, though I could be wrong. I remember a FriendFeed staff member going by FirstnameL, anyway.

nostrademons• 18 years ago

Don't think he's FriendFeed, the whole FriendFeed team is listed on their website and there's no Nick:

http://friendfeed.com/about/team

NickB also said his startup uses a lot of Ruby on Rails, and Friendfeed's a mostly-Python shop.

unalone2• 18 years ago

PaulB, then? Hmm.

gtani• 18 years ago

his life story

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99923

fallentimes• 18 years ago

Nickb - when is your startup launching?

nickb2• 18 years ago

Well, we're working on a video demo and technical information and this stage. The backend of what we're working on proved to be very challenging indeed and was a lot of work. It also ended up being a lot more complicated than we thought due to the volume of data that we'll have to support.

So we're very close indeed!

ashleyw• 18 years ago

Maybe hes just the MrBabyMan of HN — just like everyone else here, except he really likes submitting ALL the cool stuff he finds on a daily basis?

Though I am interested what his startup is. :-)

albertcardona2• 18 years ago

Wasn't it stated somewhere that pg == nickb ?

huhtenberg• 18 years ago

pg denied it

antiismist• 18 years ago

That was an April Fool's joke

nickbtard• 18 years ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152428

albertcardona2• 18 years ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152559

20 points by pg 211 days ago | link

Damn. Forgot that. Yes, sorry, it's not an April Fools' joke. I am actually nickb.

mariorz• 18 years ago

see here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152500

nickb2• 18 years ago

Hi, thanks for asking!

I'll start blogging fairly soon and all your questions will be answered. I need to start blogging because I promised a bunch of posts on Arc (including many modifications that I've made to it), Lisp, business of startups etc. To tell you the truth, I just didn't want to start a blog because blogging eats up a lot of time and time is something that I don't have in abundance right now. If the curiosity is eating you, you can always email me and I'll provide you with more info.

tesseract• 18 years ago

viaweb?

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Ask YC: Who is Nickb and what is his start-up?

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