heymatty

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by heymatty 13y ago
What's outrageous to me is the government has to pass laws to make sure the banks police their customers. It's non-sense. You should have the right to deposit money with no questions asked. Law enforcement shouldn't have to r
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Shaman, Sacrificed Pigs, and Other Startup Stories Living Amongst a Hilltribe(ianborders.com)
2 points by heymatty 13y ago|4 comments
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by heymatty 15y ago
We also want to see taketake thrive and we are doing everything we can to see that happen. My co-founder and I simply can't be leading it anymore. We're burned out and skid off our cash runway. We did take a week(s) off. This is not an easy
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by heymatty 15y ago
For people who are serious about it, have the right skillset and contact me by email this will be provided :)
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by heymatty 15y ago
It didn't cross my mind to be honest. Had much more serious stuff on my mind than April's fool when I posted this. It's not a prank.
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by heymatty 15y ago
It's 100% real and not a prank, but yeah I guess I should have waited a day before making my post.
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by heymatty 15y ago
We're not giving away 100% of it. We don't want to have an active role anymore and are willing to give away a majority equity stake to a qualified and competent team who would be taking charge of it. It's almost as if we were taking another
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by heymatty 15y ago
Hopefully we can get a team to take over and then possibly be at Echelon in Singapore. We will see how things develop in the next few days :)
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by heymatty 15y ago
The site is not completely ready and we got stuck into that non-sense of making everything perfect before we opened it.
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by heymatty 15y ago
That's a cool idea and we will certainly consider it if we can't find a rockstar team to take over. Whoever wants to take over taketake would need to understand well the technology we built it with. I'm hoping we can find a team to take ove
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by heymatty 15y ago
They haven't been sent out yet.
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by heymatty 15y ago
$5k is cheap, epipheos aren't cheap.
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by heymatty 15y ago
Well, made a lot of mistakes. Discovered the lean startup principles too late. We should have released an MVP earlier and iterate. Instead we were never really happy with what we built and started from scratch too many times. We became real
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by heymatty 15y ago
Beginning of January.
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by heymatty 15y ago
I'd rather not say here, but it's a bit on the pricy side but totally worth it.
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by heymatty 15y ago
It's not :)
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by heymatty 15y ago
http://epipheostudios.com
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by heymatty 15y ago
We use Redis and MongoDB for two different purposes. Redis is used for our messaging queue (resque), sessions and caching. MongoDB is used to store our user data. Redis could be used to store our user data as well but we feel that MongoDB i
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by heymatty 15y ago
It's no April's fool joke! Thanks for the kind words :)
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Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?
73 points by heymatty 15y ago|71 comments
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Just surpassed Blippy. Can we get a 8 million dollars check too?(twitpic.com)
5 points by heymatty 16y ago|0 comments
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by heymatty 16y ago
I would go where Grooveshark users are. Find who they are and reach to them. Use twitter search and other social monitoring tools to find them. http://lithium.com has got a good social monitoring tool you can use free for 14 days. Should
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by heymatty 16y ago
+1 on the auto complete. I don't know Grooveshark all that well. I'm still unsure how to create my playlist... so I type the title of the song? How does it work?
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by heymatty 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback! The idea started back in Fall of 2008 when we bought the domain name. The original idea was to create a place where people would give their take - review products they have and had. The idea spun from our internet m
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by heymatty 16y ago
Good point. You can watch the video on YouTube which has the transcribed captions, but I'll look into making this better. Thanks for the feedback! Cheers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbMxnQJv2zs
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by heymatty 16y ago
Cheers, thanks and we're thrilled you love it!
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by heymatty 16y ago
It's funny how we thought of it. We felt the footer was a bit empty and decided to "reserve" that space to show blogs/publications who would talk about us. Then when we're about to put the site live and had to remove the placeholders... it
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by heymatty 16y ago
I agree, we've been pulling our hairs out with this one. We plan on split testing a few and see how it impacts the bounce rate and invitation requests. Thanks for the feedback!
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by heymatty 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback, really. The video was created by http://www.epipheostudios.com/ For the lack of content part we will be launching city by city and will be showing wants and haves from people living around your area. We are also w
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by heymatty 16y ago
Yes, each product has its own page with takes, conversations, etc. We've also partnered up with woot.com so their users can automatically import all the stuff they bought into taketake.

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