precipice

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by precipice 9y ago
Nice of you to say, thanks. (I work on Skyliner.)
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Risky Business Requires Active Operators(blog.skyliner.io)
4 points by precipice 10y ago|0 comments
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You Can’t Have a Rollback Button(blog.skyliner.io)
3 points by precipice 10y ago|0 comments
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Virtual Machines Are Fleeting Things(blog.skyliner.io)
2 points by precipice 10y ago|0 comments
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Ship Small Diffs(blog.skyliner.io)
172 points by precipice 10y ago|72 comments
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by precipice 10y ago
(I'm the co-founder/CEO.) We're hoping to make the developer experience of Skyliner comparable, and eventually better, than Heroku, because they have done so well on that front. There are plenty of other tools that are essent
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Welcome to Skyliner: AWS is easy now(blog.skyliner.io)
14 points by precipice 10y ago|2 comments
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by precipice 13y ago
Oh, man, oraperl and sybperl. Brings back memories.
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by precipice 14y ago
That is sort of the point of the Etsy sponsorship! See http://www.etsy.com/blog/news/2012/etsy-hacker-grants-suppor...
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by precipice 16y ago
Marco has mentioned before that the bookmarklet is his biggest support headache. If the current bookmarklet is working for you, there's little reason to take that away; but having some other way for people to get a good experience from Inst
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by precipice 16y ago
(This is Marc from Wesabe.) I definitely, and intentionally, left out a lot of the detail about why we decided to turn the site off. My post was already huge and that final decision wasn't what I was writing about; I was writing about the c
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by precipice 16y ago
It was huge for them. My point, though, was that we made our own mistakes. If we had had a better user experience before TC40, they either wouldn't have made such an impression at the event or wouldn't have overtaken us so quickly.
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by precipice 16y ago
Thanks. I'm naive - I thought it would mostly be of interest to friends and family. I was wrong, but I'm glad if it's helpful.
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by precipice 16y ago
(This is Marc, author of the linked post.) I think people attribute success to a name because that fits the mental model people have for success: You just choose the right name! And then you win! That's nonsense. Winning is a long series o
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by precipice 16y ago
I talked about both of these needs in a post in 2006, when I was wrestling with exactly these issues: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/entrepreneurial-pr...
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by precipice 16y ago
(This is Marc, the author of the linked post.) You're right, I both credited and dismissed a very large category with the word "design." In my view some people believe that it was just the visual appeal of Mint's site that did us in. In my
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by precipice 16y ago
When it's founded, and every day thereafter. Get used to it!
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by precipice 16y ago
On #4, data security, please check out: http://github.com/wesabe/grendel It was designed for a personal finance application, but is generally useful for storing data securely behind a REST-based web service. Think of it as GPG-as-a-servi
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by precipice 16y ago
Charlie is right, but we aren't really Yodlee competitors. As far as I know Yodlee is the sole commercial provider of the type of services they offer. If you want to get data from banks you should download our Firefox extension (which is GP
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by precipice 16y ago
It's a great test for whether you have helpful investors. If a good conversation comes out of it and you learn something, you have amazing investors. If they say, "You know how to interpret this better than I would, so go to it," that's fin
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by precipice 17y ago
Thanks, Charlie. A better link these days is: https://www.getspringboard.com/ We aren't really going after small business accounts (referring to the main article), at least not yet. I do think banking software has a ton of room to chang
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by precipice 18y ago
Hey, I'm one of the speakers at startup camp and I think I'm going to help on judging the submissions. I think your pitch needs a lot of work and I wouldn't vote for it in its current form. I read your blog post and your PDF slides (I did
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by precipice 18y ago
That is a horrible deal. Run away.
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by precipice 18y ago
2-4%.
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by precipice 20y ago
As someone who has been funded by O'Reilly AlphaTech (I'm one of the founders of Wesabe), I would recommend them highly. I've known them for many years, and Mark and Tim both worked with me on my last startup (Popular Power). I can say a l
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by precipice 20y ago
Yes, ecuzzillo said exactly what I meant. I also remember reading that Gmail consciously adopted Pine keyboard shortcuts (though I may have that wrong), which is why I made the direct link. Gmail seems like a very UNIX-y web mail client,
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by precipice 20y ago
A number of people have gotten married through Flickr... http://www.flickr.mud.yahoo.com/photos/matt/1424625/
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by precipice 20y ago
It did in fact launch a while ago (not sure if it was a few months, but it was a while before Ning). But, you're right -- Ning has a lot of publicity momentum now.
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Crowdvine: make your own social network(crowdvine.com)
1 points by precipice 20y ago|5 comments
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by precipice 20y ago
I'm Marc Hedlund, one of the founders of the company. We have eight employees total, and yes, we have a real support line (support@wesabe.com). I usually answer, but you can talk to any of us through it. You can also write me directly at

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