graceyang

I was too young to experience the job market post the first dot-com bubble but I would argue that if you're in a job that is going to suffer from the collapse of this current bubble, you're most likely currently benefiting from the bubble already. If not, the collateral damage should be relatively low. Would a 37signals, patio11's BCC really be affected by a crash of this current investment bubble? Probably not.

I have a serious question: why do people get upset at bubbles? Is it jealousy that others are getting investment or flipping their companies where you perceive little value? I'm not asking to be a bitch - just curious cause i feel some of those emotions myself but I rationally know that they are counterproductive.

Shouldn't we be happy for our startup brethren? Does color's funding hurt you (or the industry?). I imagine all this froth is serving to make it easier for worthy people to get investment, raising developer salaries and other generally good things.

Would appreciate serious feedback.

Batman would be proud

I really think we should build the community first using one of the many tools out there before we start investing time into building something custom. Perhaps we can even use something like basecamp/campfire or talkerapp (I'm willing to pay for the initial costs personally).

The community is the important part but I think something as simple as a Google Group would be enough to prove that it's a community that will be worth being part of. Just my 2c.

This person's lack of cryptography knowledge is pretty pathetic - but if even committed terrorists still think security by obscurity is the way to go, what chance do we have with the general public?

As long as you worship no Androids above Apple, you should be OK.

Also seems childish of al3x to forget that out of amy hoy and thomas fuchs' work came scriptaculous which has probably inspired startup founders wowed by Ajax only less than Ruby on Rails itself. al3x probably leveraged that work early on at Twitter itself.

If lifestyle businesses like 37signals and freckle are producing the kind of tools like RoR and scriptaculous, more power to them!

seems like you're in an abusive relationship. unless you're in the middle of nowhere and can't move - life is too short for being snarky.

if you're any good, designers are very sought after. kick yourself in the pants and move on.

I find it hard to believe that someone could go from not knowing anything about coding to creating stuff quickly that works well enough to be used. Isn't that what we're all trying to do? Maybe this Alicia was just lean programming her way to the top?

Launchrock is a little too meta for me... it probably will never make any money but hey, it probably didn't really cost any money to make.

I guess that's one problem with people not working for big companies when they graduate college and instead just going to their startup, they don't know the kinds of problems real people are having. Now let me go back to working on my iPhone game.

Would love to hear more about your experience in this industry and where you think you fit with the bigger players out there (televox, smilereminder etc.)

Congrats to the main team. I started using beluga this weekend for a ski trip and was impressed with it's speed and ease of use!

I like this idea but would only do it if I could retain some rights to the company!

I mean, I've been nursing the dream for all these years... I can't just let go :)