honeyman

Thanks a lot for summarizing it for those who could not read the article due to the Wired adblock-preventing nag screen!

The worst thing in Git (comparing to Mercurial/other DVCSes) is that it is "more mainstream", thanks to GitHub. Everyone is assumed to have an account on GitHub (and such an account is even requested in the YC application form!), even if one is a Python programmer fond of Mercurial, or a Haskellista using darcs for everything around.

One more vote from me to Moniker — their control panel might be a little bit more awkward and buggy than it should be, but the services are stable and non-disturbing.

And in general, it is usual a good idea to have separate service providers for domain name registering and for hosting.

Tired of waiting, wrote them directly, got a reply promptly... and joining the "Waiting for another lucky chance" team :) They told me that my email was issued out on Wednesday; so probably it was some mail fault why it haven't arrived before.

Oops. Seems like we were about twice more talkative and twice less attentive than needed.

Don't know if I could congratulate you or sympathize... but you definitely are much less strained now, then other remaining poor souls suffering from uncertainty.

Good luck. Maybe we'll meet one day, in Sequioa Capital or somewhere, and share a laugh on good old YC application times ...

Yep, still waiting. I am slightly worried that something is wrongs with us in general, cause seems that everybody here received a question or two from PG :). We haven't.

Either we were incredibly clear (having sent out the form long before the deadline and tweaked it numerously since then), or they just tired of reading our form, which slightly (but intentionally) breaks the "200 word" request almost everywhere.

Hard to fit into 200 words, when you have almost everything in mind preplanned and thought, from the scalability-related technical questions and repayment strategy, up to the image-creating plans...

Or is that a challenge of self-sufficiency in an ICFPC style? "Claiming you are a hacker but crying you haven't received a response? Come to our server and get your response yourself!"

It is the 30-th already, and neither from our team got any response yet (anyone else haven't got a response till now too? Or is that we so unlucky?). Checked in the trash folder, under the subfolders, and in the outbox (just to be sure). My ISP will kill me for DDOSing their IMAP.

Of course, we won't stop our project if not invited by Paul-and-the-team. Together with Y, or separately, we'll keep working on it, and, as every self-confident startupper does, we truly believe into it and are sure that it will hit the Web, gain several billions and finally takeover both Google and Apple, so that every investor-who-ignored-us will kick themselves thinking of missed profit...

... but holy, where is that email?

4am is a good quiet and calm time - no distracting noise, no noises, moving cars, speaking people...