neoveller

Two views, both for the full length, give or take.

The last one likely matters the most, at least in my case. Ambitious ideas take more time than just product development/implementation. Marketing and business development run on much lengthier schedules. At half a year in on savings, I'm being pulled away from full-time on my startup back into contract work, where I'm constantly encouraged to just go full-time instead with these companies (mostly founding-stage startups with funding). Meanwhile, my entrepreneur friends who come from exceptionally wealthy backgrounds have no such constraints or risk of going homeless if their startup doesn't get funding or start making revenue. I'm not sure if I'll be able to make rent next month, short of a loan, unless I get a contract invoice paid in full within two weeks. I'll be just fine, but that fear of not making it on the basics is not weightless. I suspect I'll be looked at differently when it shows that it took me N months to get to X revenue, instead of 0.25N, as a result of just needing to survive.

As someone who tried to run such a service years ago, I mostly agree. Even the very best stories written through this method were troublingly self-inconsistent. On the other hand, they were often hilarious a well. We published a few anthologies of short stories written with this method here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...

The experience for writers was surprisingly rewarding, but the end result was not for mass consumption. Still, as a writing tool, it showed great value.

Good man. Thanks!

Nothing here so far. Wonder if YC forgetting/glitching about me is worse than a rejection email or not?

Do late applications get late rejection email?

Does anyone know why the live footage looks like it was taken using a security camera from the 80s?

Think I just found a way using canvas with a semi transparent element inside of it, then overlaying that on each square, grabbing the computed/resulting color of the canvas to decipher which block is what. S O O N

I spent an unfortunate chunk of time trying to auto-click all the red square via jquery in chrome console. After a lot of reading and experimenting, I can verify that the exploit is thoroughly addressed (so far), and I cannot achieve my goal because of it :(.

The most promising workaround would be to find a JS screenshot tool that doesn't rely on the DOM, and then run some client-side image analysis to get the index values of the red squares, and then go from there to click the things. Well played, exploit fixers, well played.

If someone built one of these mobile webapp frameworks using famo.us, but exposed it to the developer as something much less alien vs actual famo.us... I would be so happy.

I winced, because it seemed like the kind of pep-talk speech you might have to hear over and over again when you get called into a very high-level meeting without any discussion about execution, in the middle of a workday where you have code to build and ship instead. There's little here that appeals to my actual intelligence or abilities that screams "challenge". We can say we're in it for the social impact and "meaning", but if there's no succinctly-stated technical challenge to face and succeed over, there's no food on that fishing hook.

Glad to see this out. I've been waiting on famo.us to become available for quite a while now. Exciting stuff.

Now, where is the documentation? The readme from the repo points to a docs folder that does not exist, and links to the online versions of documentation lead me to login-only pages... registering only puts me in line for access.

Have you read the issue? The problem is that the current way things are done requires manual merge requests because of merge conflicts resulting from the updated userlist array. The github api method is 1:1 with the requirements of joining the community and leaves no room for human error (unless the person in charge of pull requests does not standardize their own process for automatic merges).

Really? Yeah, I get that it not being a microtransaction-pile-of-garbage probably helped, but did you play it? Seriously, nobody at the beginning could have thought it was good. After the buzz, quality isn't relevant.

I learned about it through a girl I'm currently seeing. She is very far removed from the whole tech scene. Her cousin told her to try it, and then she told me to try it and impress her by getting a high score. So I tried it, enjoyed it (masochism involved here), and the very next day my roommate asked me if I knew of the game. We've been competing with each other for high scores ever since.

So yes, at the beginning I thought it was good.

Already solved same-day: https://github.com/larvalabs/pullup/pull/11

But never implemented / merged. Surprised the powers-that-be are resisting the most elegant solution. Then again, I came up with it, so I remain bitter and biased :)

Added the proposed auth method. Still awaiting merge for previous pull request: https://github.com/larvalabs/pullup/pull/11

Still waiting on my first pull request to get merged (msied).

The step of just adding yourself to the userlist seems ill-conceived. Automatic merges are just going to overwrite the last person added unless manually merged. Can I propose this just use github for authentication, and only allow those on the contributors list (http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-contributors) to successfully log in?

How does this differ from Verbling (YC S11)?

Agreed. Also, this looks way more like a case where the author mis-structured his data for his intended use case, and is blaming the tool instead of the skill level used to implement it. Nesting deeper than one level in a document is rarely going to result in sufficient query capability with respect to the nested items. Even MySQL can't nest rows inside other rows, which is what he seems to have wanted. Maybe he chose MongoDB because he wasn't ready to think around the architecting issues that an SQL-based database would require, which happen to be, although not immediately obvious, similar to those in Mongo.

The users who are upboating. Do you want to be one of 5 supporters, and then get emailed to use a product with just the other 4? If it doesn't reach 200+, there's also somewhat more incentive for the author of the idea to use the emails for other purposes than the posted idea.

It's not a simple "yes, it's valid". It's a "yes, I like it, and if you make it, I'm going to be among your first users." And suddenly, it's built, and 200+ users auto-appear.

It probably won't at this rate, TBH. But as of now, the only way to find out is to launch.

Have an HN upboat, sir. I think you hit on a point I wasn't even thinking nearly enough about. I naturally enjoy hearing out ideas and knowing my feedback is heard, but I overlooked the possibility of that being uncommon. Light incentives (specialty accounts for early adopters) might be in order per the kickstart model. Thanks!

1. Good call. 2. A widget is an awesome idea. Move aside, LaunchRock! 3. You're the man. Thanks!

Monetizing? Apps aren't expensive, and if it provides value to a community I certainly wouldn't mind not-charging for it. It took me 24 hours to build, and hopefully not a year of labor to maintain. If I can break even, I'd be happy. Otherwise, selling contact info of idea authors who've collected unreal amounts of upboats to investors seems like it could do something, granted I gather the consent of all parties involved.

I'm not sure what angle you're asking this from--the originator of the idea, or someone who might want to use a service?

Regarding the former, that's answered in the OP, so you probably mean the latter.

A) Why do you browse HN? I will assume here that it is because you want to keep up with hacker news. Another possibility is that you want be stimulated/inspired by interesting ideas and premises for startups. While the traffic and postings on Upboat thus far haven't been overwhelming, I've enjoyed reading people's ideas and commenting to probe them deeper about them. It keeps me on my toes for ideas I might have in the future. It also gives me the chance to become an early adopter/user of a service I personally find impactful and needed. I get to be a part of that, if other Upboaters agree.

B) The social aspect to Upboat lets me see how people I follow are upboating. This eases the friction of finding potentially great ideas I would like to upboat for the reasons in A. Although the follower/followee social network thing is overplayed and contrived by now, I feel the social filtering it provides is a compelling reason to stay active and upboat ideas I find valuable and want my followers to take a look at.

You got it!

I agree. I'm pleasantly surprised (shocked?) at the lack of negativity in the comments thus far.

You, sir, are the voice of reason. I'm pushing an update now that removes those conditions.

I just need enough permissions to know that you have > 0 repos, public or private. I didn't see anything between just-email and all-the-things in their oauth docs, but I might've missed something while rushing through. Do you know otherwise?