ritwikt

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The Art of the Awkward 1:1(medium.com)
2 points by ritwikt 10y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Leading indicator metric for measuring “Technical Debt”
1 points by ritwikt 10y ago|0 comments
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by ritwikt 11y ago
1. You have not failed in life 2. The tone of the post seems like you have emotionally accepted that your current endeavor has failed and you are looking for external validation - but lets keep that aside for a moment -- Are you getting pu
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by ritwikt 12y ago
Have been on similar boat and started my own ~7 mos back. Here are couple of points: 1. Be prepared for your savings to Last >1yr, unless you can get seed funding now 2. Is your gf/spouse ready for this 3. A start-up will not eat i
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by ritwikt 12y ago
Would be nice to know why RabbitMQ/ZeroMQ didn't fit the bill [scale/speed?] -- I can somewhat understand the not relying on SQS but then there is anyways a reliance on EC2 right ?
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by ritwikt 12y ago
In plain english can one explain whats broken with iMap/current email and how Inbox fixes it ? I m missing something sure here
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Enter the Cyborg Era:: Can't wait for the Fifa World Cup Kickoff(theverge.com)
3 points by ritwikt 12y ago|0 comments
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The Story behind Cortana's almost human attitude(engadget.com)
6 points by ritwikt 12y ago|1 comments
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GIT Obsession – Are we the Monkeys in the Monkey-Banana-Water Gun Experiment?(medium.com)
2 points by ritwikt 12y ago|2 comments
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by ritwikt 12y ago
Please get a legal counsel and fire the CTO. At this early stage trust and respect is the only glue and he seems to have none for you at least.
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by ritwikt 12y ago
The point to discuss not really looking for a perfect answer :)
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Ask HN: What in Digital Ocean's business plan convinced top VCs to invest?
1 points by ritwikt 12y ago|2 comments
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4 Traits in a solution that make it a good hack(medium.com)
2 points by ritwikt 12y ago|0 comments
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What is a Good Hack – A Jugaad (medium.com)
2 points by ritwikt 12y ago|0 comments
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by ritwikt 12y ago
@bmull you might want to check out what we are doing in the space @ http://www.informion.com - we are essentially using relevance as a key driver for engagement. Would love to connect @ritwiktewari
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by ritwikt 12y ago
Excellent post on lifting the opt-in rate for push .. The opposite side of the spectrum is user annoyance and app abandons when these channels[specially push] are used to spam
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by ritwikt 12y ago
Didn't work with my LinkedIn .. bug or too early for that? Gives me At the moment, your network is not eligible for full access. You can try to integrate more networks to improve your score to 50 or check out our startup toolbox.
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Beautiful parallax scrolling – effective to make you travel Swiss airways?(world-of-swiss.com)
15 points by ritwikt 12y ago|3 comments
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by ritwikt 12y ago
+1 to that Bizspark is an awesome program for startups. We are running linux on it w/o any issues [~3 servers come free] Best part - there are no restrictions on what s/w stack you run..
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by ritwikt 12y ago
This if done right could really be a game changer - think getting an API where I could send a word and get back what it meant ...
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by ritwikt 12y ago
AirBnB and Oculus create value one by disruption and the other by innovation ... They are better left off from King lane which is more ephemeral .. '99 was more of a tide where everything rose - look @ how King got punished in the mark
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by ritwikt 12y ago
You might want to answer what you want from the accelerator - you seem to be hinting @ growth - you might want to qualify that further since you seem to be covered on market access and possibly money
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by ritwikt 12y ago
Coffee-script is awesome but suffers from it's roots as a preprocessed layer on top .. and that essentially leads to poor overall tool chain support .. I actually enjoyed writing code in it .. debugging not so much .. Would love some
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by ritwikt 12y ago
It's a good start but MSFT has a lot of cultural unlearning to do for it to really become the formidable force that it was .. Years of somber have crept into the culture - and shaking that up in going to be a challenge - good thing th
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by ritwikt 12y ago
We really have none of these - yet wanted to apply and encourage others like us to apply. We laid out our reasons with the hope to encourage a few more to polish their customer pitches using the framework we used ... For us it came to two t
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by ritwikt 12y ago
I had written the post yesterday and submitted it - now the email list is STS [Seattle tech startups] and on that we are fairly active and know personally almost all the active members [seattle has a relatively small startup community] All
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by ritwikt 12y ago
Please view the site as a precursor to our customer development conversation or an add-on to the cold call. It's not for inbound marketing, in-fact we have spent Zero dollars on advertising. 1. The service exists as a bunch of Java and
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by ritwikt 12y ago
I must say that we really didn't plan it this way we wrote this yesterday given we felt strongly about it. The intent was not necessarily to talk about YC but to: 1. Spell out the framework we used to evaluate accelerators so others co
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by ritwikt 12y ago
Good point and well 30 yo's applying to YC was funny .. Fixed it in the original post.
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by ritwikt 12y ago
Thats a topic for another post :) - hit me @ ritwikt@gmail.com and I will share the emails we used .. One line answer - think what is in it for the reader and personalize to their scenarios[DO NOT MAKE THEM THINK]

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