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I'm Tommy Nicholas, founder and CEO of The City Swig.
I love all the "aren't the current players going to win this war" posts. That's a HUGE advantage for you: everybody is going to underestimate you and your possible impact.... until it's too late. This isn't a sure bet, not by a long shot, but it's got a good chance of being something as impactful as Square has the potential to be, and that's a big fucking deal y'all.
This is the Moby Dick of blog posts. Incredibly boring, but that's the point: he's illustrating how boring his startup was, so he quit, just as HM illustrated the monotony of whaling by making Moby Dick beautifully written but unreadable. Still, I hated reading it, and I didn't mind MD.
The Moby Dick of blog posts. Boring, but that's that point.
This is the Moby Dick of blog posts. Incredibly boring, but that's the point: he's illustrating how boring his startup was, so he quit, just as HM illustrated the monotony of whaling by making Moby Dick beautifully written but unreadable.
Still, I hated reading it, and I didn't mind MD.
GREAT GL reference btw, really appreciate it BRO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOdAbjebs-g It's supposed to be hard.
Sounds like he subscribes to the lean model too.
This guy says he saw his business losing profits from the "tube" sites (free porn aggregators) but instead of bitching about it he said: thank you for raising the profile of our industry, now let me go innovate and create something to capitalize on it. Love it.
A hacker that was 3x as productive as the average hacker in my company that specifically wanted 3x as much pay, as opposed to other benefits, as my average programmer would be suspicious to me. Great hackers want to be paid well, but they generally first and foremost desire other things, like benefits, control, respect, and a good working environment. Anything beyond the pay at which they become stable financially generally is of a limited appeal to great hackers.
Couldn't fit this in the title, but I would love comments on the UI/UX and code. We're building something totally different out of this (a local recommendation engine for finding what to buy and where to go when you want to drink and when you're out drinking) but the current principles that apply to our most recent version will permeate the rest of what we build. That's really why I'm so eager for feedback from HN.
My phrasing of "has anyone here solved it" implied I think it's crazy difficult, I know it's not. I'm just not getting it. If anyone has the code that works for it, gosh darnit I'd love it. tommy@thecityswig.com if you wanna email it
It was a series of posts, but you're right this was the wrong way to vent. This also wasn't passive aggressive it was aggressive aggressive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_aggressive
By the way, what is the process for getting on the front page? I'll be honst, with 19 points and a few comments I expected this thread to appear on the first or second page, but I can't even find it. Damn I hope Paul Graham isn't mad at me.
I would like to be clear that I like Hacker News and I like Paul Graham's writing/thinking, but the posts that end up getting featured, especially on the Twitter feed, are starting to make me gag.
I love Hacker News, but this is MORE a response to what gets featured on the Twitter feed. It's either this or, as many others have stated, very conventional "VC gave us a ton of money so we're super special, are you a super special/rockstar/careabouthteuserexperience developer? Work for us dummy" articles.
That sounds a little aggressive, but this isn't meant as a call out: I'm legitimately curious. Currently UnThink the "anti-Facebook" claims to have solves these issues, but they STILL make their users their product. Anybody got an idea on how to monetize on consumer-taste based products that doesn't involve making your free users into the product?
No way! Their looking for certain things, this shouldn't stop anybody. Just keep building you guys, getting rejected from Y Combinator means nothing except that you won't be in Y Combinator. That's it.
This should say either "God," or "Got" at the beginning. You get to choose!
I control+f'd "accept" on this thread. No results except those asking if the emails were received. I'm thinking maybe acceptances haven't been sent yet.
I got rejected, unsurprisingly. Beside the fact that nobody should expect to be rejected, my project is extremely local and would benefit little from actually BEING in Silicon Valley. Still, I'm sad to miss out on hanging out with other startups and learning from the best.
Bummer dude!
Maybe that was harsh. I think Klout is fine as long as we don't take it too seriously. I believe they're dedicated to perfecting what they do, and that in a couple of years we'll see a much more interesting and useful product.
For now, I would suggest you calm down and quit whining about your privacy when you continue to publicly post hundreds/thousands of thoughts a month on the internet. Klout doesn't come in your home and watch you argue with your wife and see how persuasive you are, it looks at your freakin' tweets.
Another brilliant part of their strategy: it's borderline impossible to friend people. It's like Google+'s closed Beta strategy except it's not a Beta, it's just the whole entire product!
This is the future y'all, I'm telling you.
And I think we can all agree that hurts Groupon in the longterm. So.... doesn't seem like it depends at all, regardless people are trying to avoid using Groupon.
This is a pretty disruptive use of the Facebook API. Personalized entertainment content, I love it!
We haven't even SEEN the local merchants bail on Groupon yet, and that is going to happen. Believe me. I deal with disenfranchised Groupon merchants everyday, and they almost all hate it. The craziest part is they're all considering doing it AGAIN just because they feel blackmailed into it by the "if I don't do it, my neighbor will. At least this way I might get something out of it" situation.
I love selling an alternative, because it sells itself. You're NOT like Groupon? SOLD!
All it took for me was for their revenue model to be revealed. Discounts of 50-90% THEN they take 50-90% of what is paid by the customer? Borderline robbery.
I understand it from the standpoint of privacy for privacy's sake, but beyond that I don't get it.
I'll never understand why people are so afraid of having their information sold by Facebook in order to better target ads to them. Do you like seeing shitty ads that don't matter to you? I don't.
Shit someone already posted that. oh well