HN user
> I think think the vast majority of the HN community is employed by someone else.
I don't think so. HN is YC is full of real entrepreneurs and risk takers. Most on HN are tech founders or at least employed but with having side projects and ambitions to get real founders. The OP is working at Facebook, proud of being an employee and having no side projects (otherwise he wouldn't blog about Gowalla years later).
Such a premium domain and it's just hosting a blog. What a waste of money.
Just focus on what I write and not on who I am.
Excuse my harsh words, but HN is for tech founders, for real entrepreneurs. This is just the wrong place for someone who was once a founder but is now employed for years (and writing such confusing posts).
EDIT: I am not sure who is spreading the hate here. Instead of distracting with mentioning "unmarked edits" just try to comment on the content of my post (which is about non-founders sitting in the safe haven and teaching us how startups work).
EDIT2: your account is also kind of a throw away account (karma: 3 and just one submission in one year)
> Today I'm at Facebook. It's a special time to be at the company right now. We're able to build unique products that few others can dream of.
Sorry but you are nothing more than an office drone in a cooperation writing about achievements far in the past. Calling this post "Playing by your own rules" must be pure irony -- how can an ordinary product manager at Facebook play by his own rules? You are employed man, you play by others' rules and your post is a day dream, just a weak try to get some attention as a boring product manager and covering your endless desperation. Start something new and forget the past.
EDIT: downvoting != disagreeing
There's no place except on HN where Meteor gets regular attention, upvotes and always the same fan posts (i.e., "Meteor is going to be my goto technology", "The Meteor guys are moving fast").
Guys, this is all so obvious.
EDIT: downvoting won't help, people aren't that stupid, $11M funding and sponsored posts are no reason to use any framework
Totally agree plus Haml is slow like shit.
Well done and nice to see that some understood that motion blur is more important than just high fps.
I don't know, the idea sounds nice, but I doubt that this a venture case and will scale and fits into PG's 'Startup = Growth' strategy since it's just a service which requires tons of manpower (except it pivots into a marketplace/leadgensite for lawyers offering a defined divorce package but we had similar models 10yrs ago and they just do not work). The landing page could be stolen from one of ClickBank's merchants (you know those shady ultra long landing pages which want to sell useless stuff).
I understand that YC startups are proud to be part of YC and thus, put the YC label on their site and everywhere else but often (and in particular here) it's the only USP such startups have.