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Our sister company, AngelList Venture, continues on as AngeList. With the spin out, we chose a name that embodied a spirit of discovery and finding what's next.

all of this is false

As a job marketplace, we were never "a list of angels". AngelList Venture, which in many ways still is, continues on with the name AngelList.

We couldn't be more dedicated to Wellfound. By spinning out from AngelList, we think we can hone in even more on our unique audience and elevate the product. There was a lot of friction from a shared brand and codebase from the investor side.

We think Wellfound better embodies the spirit of finding what's next. Our sister company AngelList Venture is continuing on as AngelList.

Hear you on the landing page scrolling

hi - CEO of AngelList Talent here. Sorry about that. Could you email me at amit@angel.co and I can get it sorted

https://www.readthegeneralist.com/briefing/angellist gives a good breakdown

https://angel.co/jobs

We have 7000+ fully remote jobs listed on AngelList Talent that you can apply to (angel.co/jobs). There's also some granular remote filters: https://cln.sh/Q4dmSd

We do! Here's a bit on how we work:

https://angel.co/blog/product-engineering-at-angellist-talen...

https://angel.co/blog/we-hire-folks-who-work-like-founders

Sorry to hear about your experience. We take abuse like this seriously. If possible, could you email me the names of the companies at amit@angel.co?

We built something like this a little while ago that does the same thing for Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: http://followbot.me/

Tags in status updates and photos were the first couple we thought of. A couple more were comments and likes on your status updates, photos, etc

Yep. This is our first iteration. We want to see if people actually care. We have a couple ideas on what to do to actually detect them.

Hi all, we made this to solve one of our own problems. We would love to get your feedback.

Thanks! Automatic sharing is opt-in instead of opt-out, which means you would have to manually add a site like redtube. On top of that, we've prevented our software from ever touching certain sites, including search engines, webmail accounts, banking or financial institution pages, and adult websites.

Check out our faq: http://lookmark.com/faq

Official word from nytimes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/technology/13social.html?h...

He sounds like a fanboy, just says webOS is better but never gives an explanation why.

I was in the same position a few years ago. My advice is to build as much as you can; open-source/your own projects, it doesn't matter. The main thing is that the stuff you build should be interesting to you. You will be more motivated if its stuff you enjoy and you will become a better programmer

Yeah it was in the iPhone 3.0 announcement: http://i.gizmodo.com/5172200/iphone-app-store-revamped-for-c...

We have a free distribution model. We give away the application and charge (our app is #22 in top free apps) We monetize through character unlocks and virtual goods using paid versions in the app store. These versions are being pirated quite a bit, but yes we are making good money despite of it so we dont mind.

It cannot be with 3.0. Subscriptions and one time charges are only supported for apps that initially cost money. You could get away with charging .99 cents for it initially and then charging a subscription.

I would agree with the don't worry about it comment. I make a MMORPG for the iPhone called Epic Pet Wars. Our paid versions are getting pirated at a rate of about 2:1, but I strongly believe that these users would not pay for the app anyway.

We are making enough money with the pirates and we have other ways to monetize these users like direct payments on our sit. Also, the pirates seem to be heavily active on the game.

James Hong's Reply to Valleywag's post of this story

Tim, Instead of just making assumptions about what I was thinking, you could have just asked. We don't keep anything we do at HOTorNOT a secret, in fact we're tragically transparent. Were the assumptions I made 3 months ago wrong? I'm not sure, they might be.. but even if they were wrong, I would have no problem admitting it. Sometimes we are right from the get go.. sometimes we are wrong and have to readjust.

The truth is that I still don't think an advertising model was the wrong thing to pursue. The fact that revenue was already 1/3 of what subscription revenues used to be was a promising sign, because that was all generated using Adsense... selling direct would likely have landed us making more than before. Of course, it would have required a lot of hardwork, but I think it would ultimately have worked out.

No, this decision was not based on business models, it was based on us realizing that worrying about your user experience is more important than how you monetize. If we lost all our users because of the spammers, it wouldn't really matter which business model we chose to apply, right?

As for other free sites being able to deal with the spammer problem while we were not, I really can't say why. Maybe they're smarter than us, or in most cases, still too small to attract the attention of spammers... or maybe they do have a problem but it's just not apparent because they don't talk about it?

I don't know. I don't have insight into their systems, and it is always a presumptuous and unintelligent thing to do to make conclusions about other people's businesses without having any data. So was I wrong 3 months ago? I don't know yet. For all I know, I might be wrong NOW, switching back. What I do know is that until we are confident that we can effectively fight the spammers off without having to charge, we have to keep charging.

But lets be honest.. I'm not going to feel too bad about that, either. Even when I was in the 9th grade flipping burgers at Burger King for $3 an hour, I wouldn't have complained about paying $6 a month for a service that connected me with lots of hotties.. and we got a lot of feedback from women that any guy too cheap to pay $6 was probably not the kind of guy they wanted to date anyway (our system only requires 1 of 2 people to be a paid member for them to communicate.. so even under a subscription model, our site remains effectively free for most women) james