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It might be worthwhile to interview those YC founders who were not successful in raising their Series A and had to close shop. Weed out that survivorship bias in the analysis.
As a service whose value is derived from its users, its early adopters were its most valuable users. You only get one wave of those.
The UX is so constrained that you had no choice other than to straight up copy: a) a control to hide the table of contents with a semi-transparent strip hover; b) a table of contents with a near-identical layout; c) a "next page" bumper with opacity-on-hover; d) an annotation stream in a third, right-handed column; d) a cute octopus mascot; etc. etc.
That's not to mention the store.
I mean...imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but I draw a line at copying Inky the Octopus.
Wow I'm sorry that happened. I guess the traffic is killing our sever now (shared hosting). I just re-uploaded the the index file and that seemed to give it the kick it needed. AIM me at thesiedlecki if you run into anymore errors I can fix for anyone!