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Yet another platform for finding hacker co-founders?(findahacker.com)
1 points by alexl 15y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Fun donations platform based on Paypal(giveabeer.com)
2 points by alexl 15y ago|0 comments
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by alexl 15y ago
Wow, we reached the limit of the sausage string. I have to reply to my own comment :) I still believe I can do it "alone," i.e. with just that other guy. I'm just gonna go get the needed money elsewhere and forget about Y Combinator. That b
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by alexl 15y ago
Yeah, but that whole single founder thing is so messed up. They don't really send you the message that they rarely take single founders on board. You have to find horror stories on the net. One of them is about a guy who had two other co-fo
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by alexl 15y ago
My point exactly - again! "They are more comfortable in that area" means "they don't actually invest outside that area." I feel I could have saved some time if I knew this before I applied for the first time. But yeah, I get it, you can't c
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by alexl 15y ago
Well, I don't live in The Valley. Not in the US, actually. I thought it would be reasonable to assume that people calling themselves investors would look at anything. Right now it looks like that guy from Mountain View was right: if the iPh
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by alexl 15y ago
I sincerely hope that you did get the point - that was a "kamikaze" application not meant to get me in, but meant to get them out of their self righteous loop! You appear to not have read the whole thing. Okay, you didn't have to, of course
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by alexl 15y ago
I got rejected twice. However, I have a different idea for a startup. Non web startup, not based on coding. Based on the fact that I never even got a reason why I was rejected, I thought I'd apply differently this time. Saved my application
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Ask HN: What do you think of starting a crowdfunding platform by crowdfunding?
1 points by alexl 15y ago|0 comments
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by alexl 15y ago
I posted my entire application here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2361753
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by alexl 16y ago
I find it sooooooo ironic that I'm stumbling upon this post now. I just published my last YC submission and then posted it here on HN. You might want to read it, opaas :) (if you think it's spam, just don't click the link, okay? :)) http:/
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by alexl 16y ago
Absolutely not :) I was just trying to get them to think more about what they're doing. Then I thought others might want to read the thing. It's that simple.
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by alexl 16y ago
It isn't. And I'm not bitter or frustrated, either :)
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by alexl 16y ago
Nope :)
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Show HN: My latest Y Combinator application(thypope.posterous.com)
5 points by alexl 16y ago|8 comments
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by alexl 16y ago
Nice. Gonna brush up the resume a little bit and then apply for Junior IT Support Specialist. I mean, I know this is HN but the guys who know almost everything else besides programming are very often ignored completely here. How about compe
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by alexl 16y ago
Has anybody received the rejection letter very soon after posting their submission in that table? I got it the next day. I don't even know if there were 24 hours between the two events :)
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by alexl 16y ago
Exactly. Especially since the vast majority of investors I asked replied "No! No! No! I can't... la la-la-la-la-la-la laa-laa la-la-la" Just like in Eddie Izzard's Dress to Kill, if I may :)
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by alexl 16y ago
That should be easy - store just the graph, not the actual values :)
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by alexl 16y ago
I'm afraid I like Shopobot more. Camel is waaaaay too crowded, just like the myriad of other price aggregators. Just too much on the same page.
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by alexl 16y ago
Ooops. Sorry about making a reaaaaaally really tall table cell there. I actually used the same texts I used for the Ycombinator submission. If you could make the cells slightly wider, please, the text would fit better and not make the entry
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by alexl 16y ago
Don't be sorry for what you think. I did think that you were a bit harsh on the theme of HN, though. It's clearly for smart, educated people who want to find out the interesting things from the gazillions of information bits that they consi
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by alexl 16y ago
Wow. Excuse me for sharing something I found enjoyable. This type of "article" shows you a creative approach on something, in this case it's creative speculative fiction. It may or may not increase your creativity, but it can be considered
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by alexl 16y ago
I would think it's humor in the form of speculative fiction. The humor would be pointing at the fact that you can install Linux on mostly anything. Never forget that you can install it on a Commodore 64. I think that's why the author made i
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A great, funny and handy dictionary of corporate English(unsuck-it.com)
2 points by alexl 16y ago|0 comments
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by alexl 16y ago
Yes, simple as in "sureshot" :) Also, keep in mind that you only have to design the hardware once and only the content you sell is different. Debugging the hardware isn't something you do with every DVD/BluRay release.
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by alexl 16y ago
Well, tube sites have ads going to dating sites. Dump the porn, click here to find someone and screw each other's brains out. Tube sites will always have someone buying ad space. The solution, if you ask me, is interactivity. Wanna know wha
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by alexl 17y ago
You know what I think is hillarious? Let's say Nike is an official sponsor for whatever event. Let's say I go there with a different brand of sneakers, underwear, pants...everything! What are they going to do? Strip down! You are wearing a
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by alexl 17y ago
Doesn't work so well. I think the guy there wanted to tell me something, but I could only hear his words VERY slow. Like a magnetic audio tape played back at much less than the normal speed. Then again, who knows how far apart we were from
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A fresh look at traditional medical diagnostics(ted.com)
2 points by alexl 17y ago|0 comments

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