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This is Frederick, I can speak to our specific case. The code the original poster provided to us was never used in investor presentations. We rebuilt the product from scratch almost a year before we had any real traction or investor meetings.
Your assessment was correct, read our response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8242361
My name is Frederick Hutson, and I am the President and CEO of Pigeonly. I was recently made aware of this post.
In light of the defamatory nature of the poster’s statements, I felt compelled to respond. Well over two years ago, we entered into a work-for-hire agreement with the poster to write aspects of the software code for a beta version of our initial e-commerce platform. Our agreement with the poster makes it clear that we own all work product produced pursuant to the agreement. In the end, however, we were very unhappy with the quality of the poster’s work so we terminated the relationship and requested a refund.
In addition to my own assessment I consulted with several independent sources including a founding member of the CakePHP project (the framework the poster used). Everyone who evaluated the code said the same thing, to sum it up (in their professorial opinion) the framework was not utilized correctly which resulted in the numerous bugs and browser incompatibility issues. The truth is even if we wanted to work with the code the poster provided we couldn't because it was flawed. So we were left with no choice but to start from scratch with a new developer.
The bottom line here is that through hard work and determination, we indeed built the Pigeonly platform from scratch and in no way incorporated any of the code produced by the poster. We are very proud of what we have built at Pigeonly, our mission is to build great products that solve the type of problems most would overlook.
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Pigeon.ly provides a platform that allows for targeting and converting of consumers that exist beyond the reach of traditional marketing. We're solving a problem no one else has tackled before in a market that no one generally wants to touch.
Our suite of products and services includes a desktop and mobile application that allows our customers to send printed photos to their loved ones. Our product roadmap includes expanding into and disrupting the VoIP and telephony services for our market. Read more: http://bit.ly/10j8QfB
We applied late too. We heard about for the first time 4 days after the deadline. I think we will be hearing something soon.
Did You apply before or after the deadline?
I am waiting as well.
How do you know did they send you an email or something?
Couldn't sleep last night thinking about it!!