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by elad 18y ago
We call it a "consumer exploration tool" - a quick way to tap into the wealth of information in social networks to get a better picture of what people are like. The target market is marketing professionals - brand managers in consumer produ
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Ask YC: Feedback on my startup - social media market analysis(hivesight.com)
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by elad 18y ago
Personally, I never ever give my email credentials out. I totally agree with Jeff Atwood on that. However, while you're at it, why not ask people for their facebooks/myspace credentials? You'll find many more "friends" there than in my emai
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by elad 18y ago
It would also mean that your level of protection depends on the amount of air in your tank. As someone who chronically forgets to fill-up, I wouldn't like that idea...
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by elad 18y ago
What people seem to be forgetting is that the US ad market is the biggest by far, and thus the opportunity to make money isn't in the global market. Ask Peanut Labs (formerly xuqa.com) how much money they made as the biggest social network
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by elad 18y ago
Good points. Especially no. 1. However, the eventuality of it makes it unlikely IMO. The web is about here and now. Why not just use a wiki?
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by elad 18y ago
Maybe part of the explanation is that it's very light-weight - the car in the photo looks tiny, it says it's made of fiberglass, and my guess is that the engine must also weigh much less than a comparable internal combustion engine (you don
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by elad 18y ago
Which makes the phenomenon even stranger - nobody here seems to be able to come up with a good explanation of scribd's success, yet somehow they do succeed.
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by elad 18y ago
Really, if you have an office doc that you want to put online, then why not export it as a pdf?
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by elad 18y ago
So let's see, students submitting papers and receiving scores. Sounds familiar? It should strike everybody as an idiotic way to evaluate potential business success. If anything good's gonna come out of it it's that we may come to questions
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by elad 18y ago
Palm actually did have the distribution in place - through palmgear (interestingly, it still exist) which was THE go-to place for Palm apps. Regarding advantages to the software developer, having just one place where you distribute, and tha
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by elad 18y ago
Not being sarcastic at all! If a website is too slow, it has a significant adverse effect on my likelihood of using it. And it's not just me - see Google's assertion that speed is "just about the most important concern of users" - http://b
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by elad 18y ago
Very nice and useful idea. I may actually come back and use it (which happens very rarely with new apps nowadays). Problems: Way too slow. Spend more on hosting :( The "meat" is in the flickr, youtube etc. search results below. The tag clou
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by elad 18y ago
Who develops desktop applications anymore anyway (except maybe game developers). If in the past you used to build apps for windows because that's where the installed base was, nowadays you build web apps. I learned Delphi and VB back then w
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by elad 18y ago
That and more: Apple's platform probably won't be adopted by anyone else, so even though the user base is attractive right now, down the road it would look diminutive compared with the user base for an open platform that could gain support
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by elad 18y ago
That's true on the sole hacker level. If you're considering writing some mobile apps, and the iphone seems like a nice platform, then learning a new language for the purpose should seem like an opportunity, not a problem. However, I guess t
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by elad 18y ago
I find that Microsoft tools in general offer a compelling package when you start out - great IDE, good docs and purportedly good support (I never use customer support myself, so can't comment on that from a personal experience). The problem
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by elad 18y ago
Hopefully Android is just the beginning and soon enough the mobile industry will find that it needs to be educated in the way open source works.
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by elad 18y ago
I started a (commercial) project with Rails, and eventually, when we needed some 3rd party libraries that Java provides moved to running it on top of JRuby. Since then we've been getting the best of both worlds IMO - our code is more mixed
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by elad 18y ago
It's not. You're looking for gigs, which means networking, interviewing etc. Marketing yourself essentially. Vacation is when you don't work.
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by elad 18y ago
My co-founder and I started out working from our own separate homes, and we experienced a huge surge in productivity once we moved in to a common office. And I mean HUGE. Phones, IM, email, they're all very nice, but nothing beats face-to-f
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by elad 18y ago
Since it's a start-up, it's most likely that their lawyers just drafted this up for them, and the founders don't really know any better. Lawyers tend to be overly cautious this way, but entrepreneurs usually realize that running a business
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by elad 18y ago
Indeed, your product is suitable for people who work fixed hours, 9 to 5 and such. I guess you should promote it to people in government, manufacturing or retail jobs.
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by elad 18y ago
Agreed. Here's another thoughtful post on the subject: http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/haque/2008/06/the_rise_of_a...
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by elad 18y ago
I started using the filesystem for storage a while back, and then realized that I'm re-implementing a lot of DBMS functionality in my own buggy code. I switched over to using a database. I'm just saying that you should consider all of your
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by elad 18y ago
A co-worker, who worked with COBOL years ago, keeps getting phone calls offering him COBOL jobs. Very highly paying COBOL jobs. He laughs at them. In other words, a dead programming language doesn't mean that there's no demand for it anymo
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by elad 18y ago
In my case I didn't work in the industry that I'm trying to serve now, but instead realized that a solution from an industry I did have experience in could be applied to another one. The problem is that you're guaranteed to get it wrong at
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by elad 18y ago
Highest scores go to the NT's - ENTJ (20 points right now), ENTP (24), INTG (64) and INTP (71) together represent 76% of the total sample (179/235). It's not surprising though that hackers and entrepreneurs tend to be intuitives and thinker
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by elad 18y ago
It depends on whether your blog (or whatever it is that you're feeding through RSS) is meant to achieve. If you're trying to make money from it through advertising, then the paragraph makes sense. However, your blog better be one of the top
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by elad 18y ago
Whenever possible, pay cash rather than equity. Cash you can get more of. Equity is limited - there's only 100%. Once you run out, that's done. If it's such a great business idea, than you should all the more want to keep the equity. Ask yo

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