benjaminlotan

We just launched this as a Kickstarter. It's a simple silicone keyboard cover plus Apple keyboard layout installer. Thanks for any feedback or help getting the word out there. It's a wacky video, but we have been using the prototypes for a while, and for emoji lovers, it's a useful tool!

I have used FOBO as a customer and a seller, pretty amazing on both ends. I really think that adding in payment support as an option in Yardsale would have helped boost that platform a ton. Perhaps if FOBO succeeds the team will circle back and give yardsale another serious go with everything they're learning from this project.

thanks so much! appreciate the comment :-) come say hello if you are in SF.

yo steve! good to hear from you. drop by our new space!

thanks, hah, already got a call from a shark! ;-)

just really hard to turn down opportunities which don't even seem that difficult to achieve, and customers asking so much for so many things i want to give them to make THEM happy :-) plus the goal of wanting to actually have some more impact in the space. As an entrepreneur the success of the company quickly blurs so much with having an impact in the world, whether thats true or not... i feel it. Plus, i owe it to my company to keep us growing. We all want to share in on this success. I have actually not even taken a real salary yet, and was never really in this for the money.

wow, you totally called it! already got on the phone with someone wanting to take things over and do crazy things. shady people ;-) Thanks, i'll be careful. appreciate the advice. I've kept close control thus far and have not wanted to raise money. Hope the right person might come into the picture. Already happy to get a couple genuine emails. cheers!

sound advice, thanks a bunch. i just threw the executive titles out there since i think that's where they would ideally lead to, and i don't exactly know how to speak to the people we are looking for to help us. I will read the medium post you linked now! if you are ever in the bay area, hit me up, id love to meet for coffee.

yeah, i mean, i know what i;m doing by following instinct... but really at this scale... all decisions seem wrong. we truly have no one in the company who has been here before, and that is a problem.

it's all over the place since we have been building and rebuilding things, but currently it's mostly rails and node.js. Hosted on Heroku.

My company, SocialPrintStudio.com is looking for a lead designer. we are a small bootstrapped (profitable!) startup in the heart of SF, looking for someone who can work directly with me (the founder) to guide all design efforts across many awesome projects. This will be a hands on and all around awesome opportunity to join a small company while growing. The right candidate will grow our design team and bring a strong aesthetic and voice into our mix and push us all to the next level. Your starting pay will be between 4-6k monthly DOE, and we can offer health plus other benefits and up to 3% equity stake in a company doing over 2 million revenue a year and growing. I'll say it again, JOIN US, or at least get in touch and see what we're about and what we are up to.

ok, thats it for now. check our site and email me directly: ben@socialprintstudio.com

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Hi. i am interested in speaking with you. My company has been looking for interesting projects in the physical space to take on... and we are currently amassing books for a library... Can you give me your email address or email me at Ben @ socialprintstudio.com Looking forward to speaking!

Ben

Berkeley, CA. Social Print Studio seeks full time web and mobile engineers. We are bootstrapped and profitable working on a range of projects. Hit us on twitter if u can get down with us.

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after reading a nice post. i want some nice simple way to tell you i enjoyed reading and appreciate it... i'm down with kudos.

"We hate ads, and our last goal is to spam Instagram and destroy the fun and authenticity of the network for everyone. We want to push bold new ideas and develop inspiring and tasteful ways for companies to interact with their audience. "

I would certainly hope to find the "right" co-founder, and ideally i wanted to test the waters with this post and see who i might make connections with -- whether or not we decide to apply together.

But really I do want a co-founder on this project, because i've worked on enough projects alone, and though i could hold my own for a while, it seems more productive and fun to be working with a partner.

ps. not just looking for hardware people. anyone interested in the space would be great to connect with. Mobile developers would be esp. great to partner with at this stage, because as i mentioned, i really do see a lot of mobile prototyping to kick things off.

i like it by the way. thanks for sharing it here. i can kind of see what you are thinking.

I think it should be evaluated in terms of where it could be 10 or 20 years from now. Somehow when i think of it that way, and then i compare that to thoughts of facebook in 10 or 20 years... i have faith in google.

Thanks for posting, as a newer HN user (8 months), i now have a deeper respect for the system and will try harder to keep quality here and only submit quality content.

generally, i follow HN on twitter, that provides me a nice flow of the good stuff. and i always know i can go comment and participate when something strikes me.

php, mysql, jquery. the good guys.

bad call.

Wow, i was in the middle of making one of these. Ha. should i stop? i was almost done.

oh and here is the link to the article i references. pretty poorly written and topical, but i like the title and some aspects + discussion of ego. http://on.mash.to/hl2ddT

shoot i should have also made it clear that i am not talking about literally stealing. Obviously we would not do that.

i cannot imagine chrome being untested by facebook.

i think little companies doing their own thing is a pretty strong strategy, Microsoft did a bunch of other things wrong as well.

i guess i was thinking about what they could do if they did not stifle their apps to fit some kind of unified design specification. 'killing' is supposed to reflect where i think they could be without following their own guidelines. Though apple sticks to design strategies and guidelines, there is much more flexibility, ie. when i use iphoto i dont feel like i am using itunes. whereas with google gmail feels like google.com, which feels like the rss reader, which feels like analytics.. and in my experience, i never really know where i am in google world. I know i am there, but i make mistakes because its all just generic space.

300% increase in visits on the day of this. generally nice for spreading some awareness. A few more orders than normal, but nothing insane. very cool for a comment to receive attention though. Makes me want to comment on more articles wherever i find them.

I suppose what I was suggesting was to let each app develop along its own path. Let designers and engineers focus solely on building the best app possible. then throw the google logo in there and integrate with other google services as best fits the app over time.

actually i didnt post this to HN... i just commented on techcrunch and i had no idea that this response would happen. If you read my comment it's pretty relevant. Just saying.