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My name is Paul. I run The Startup Foundry. If you have a kick ass startup tell us about it at: http://thestartupfoundry.com/tip-us/

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hackerbody.com 12y ago

Show HN: HackerBody – A Geek’s Guide to Getting in Shape

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www.asymco.com 14y ago

Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than all the Macs sold it in 28 years

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www.theverge.com 14y ago

Apple announces iBooks Author tools to help make textbooks

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thestartupfoundry.com 14y ago

How To Do B2B Email Sales

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thestartupfoundry.com 14y ago

Nasty Bug in iOS 5.0.1 OTA Update screws up Address Book on the iPhone 4S

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thestartupfoundry.com 14y ago

It’s Easier to Answer to Your Code Than Your Customers

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thestartupfoundry.com 14y ago

YC Alum creates TouchBase Calendar and shares App Store Marketing Tips

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thestartupfoundry.com 14y ago

Market Your Problems. Not Just Your Assets. – Detroit Launch City

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Learn Ruby by Reading Source Code

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thestartupfoundry.com 14y ago

7 Tips for Scoring Your First Article

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thestartupfoundry.com 14y ago

Moment of Clarity – Why Being in the Trough of Sorrows is a Good Thing.

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

A Look Forward from 1999: Turning Google into a $2 Trillion Company

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

Hopelessly perfect: Why it’s smart to work at a no-shot startup

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

Location with brains, LocalMind – How they got covered by Scoble at SXSW

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

Solution Zero – Don’t Over Think Your Startup

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

No Better Money Spent Than on a Domain Name – The Coupons.com Story

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

Leaving a Million Bucks on the Table: Why Flotype Pivoted in Y Combinator

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

GiftRocket (YC W11) is changing the way we think about gift cards

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

Your startup needs to sell experiences, not features

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

Rocking your Hustle and Customer Service LaunchRock style

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

Why it sucks to build a startup with the “Google Method”

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

Pitching your startup: Learn how to use a “Hook” to get press.

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

How a band got into Y Combinator: The Earbits story (YC W11)

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

Hacker News and drive by traffic: How to make the most of your startups launch

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

Why Carbonmade decided to bootstrap and go freemium

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

Why two engineers left Apple to build a Flash alternative: Hype's (YC W11) Story

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

There isn’t a speed limit: Line up customers before you ship

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

Embracing Chaos: Random Participation and the Web

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

Calculating your customers lifetime value (with code)

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thestartupfoundry.com 15y ago

How Jared Tame bootstrapped his startup by writing “Startups Open Sourced”

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The funniest outcome with this whole “Apple vs. Beeper” saga would be if Apple said, “Fine use the iMessage protocol. We won’t break interoperability and you can even have full feature parity…

BUT… Any messages sent this way will still show up as the dreaded “Green Bubble”.

(I hope Eric and the Beeper team can pull through!)

This is bad advice in general, but it's especially poor advice given the fact that the "crazy person" is running the company. OP needs to lawyer up immediately before (more) damage can be done.

Chrome Is Bad 6 years ago

I can assure you that it wasn't related just to rebooting as this has been something that's been bugging me for months. I had previously rebooted earlier in the day because of this exact same issue (a runaway WindowServer process), before I saw this article. I also did a fresh reboot before following these instructions too as a sort of "control".

The change only happened for me after removing Chrome as well as the launch agent for keystone.

Chrome Is Bad 6 years ago

I've had noticeable issues with "WindowServer" in the past (taking 80% CPU usage and causing the fans to ramp up even when the system seemed like it should be idling even after a reboot) so I decided to give this a shot.

This is anecdotal but there is a noticeable difference for me with responsiveness after following these steps. Currently the WindowServer process is hovering around 14%.

This is fantastic!

I was pleasantly surprised how fast I went from signup to actionable data/graphs (roughly 2 minutes). Based on your landing page I was expecting to have to spend considerable more time on it.

Perhaps you could include a demo to show how quick it is to get setup and have something useful?

The reason f.lux sideloaded app got pulled is because they didn't release their source code. Instead, f.lux relied on loading/patching a binary that bypassed some of iOS security features and could load unsigned binarys (read: it could then run pirated apps).

[dead] 11 years ago

You don't want to publicly name (while bashing) the company you're quitting for seemingly trivial matters (read: Not illegal, abusive, or underhanded). Why burn a bridge?

Also, reading a post like this would certainly make me think twice about hiring a candidate.

jgrahamc, thanks for that. I'll look at changing the tagline.

HackerBody videos are 100% free. The TOS have stuff regarding refunds incase I launch some premium features down the road. I could see how that would be confusing. I'll work on adjusting that.

I'm requiring people to create accounts for some additional features I'm rolling out. Great point on having a demo workout that doesn't require some to login. I'll make that happen.

Acconrad, I appreciate your thoughts on the tagline, "meat head free". My goal was to appeal to people who aren't already doing something active. HackerBody isn't the end-all in being active but it's a great place for people to get started.

The videos are just the tip of the iceberg. I wanted to get this launched and get feedback before I push out new features.

Thanks for taking time to give me your feedback!

Founders to be, take note: I worked with Jeff and David for a little over a month last year. The thing that stuck with me most wasn't their app (which is awesome by the way) but rather the way they treated me and every other team member. They were kind, gracious, wicked smart, and extraordinarily driven. They were always open to new ideas but never afraid to say "no".

If you're trying to figure out what type of founder to be, borrow generously from these guys.