soyapi

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by soyapi 8y ago
The deserving 4,000 startups are not getting a devalued experience. They will still have an advisor in groups of 25 startups. The remaining ~11,000 won't have an advisor (at least not yet). And innovators always make mistakes. YC has a
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by soyapi 8y ago
I went to bed after the false acceptance email and had a beautiful sleep! Woke to the kinda bad news and then the acceptance but no advisor email. What a roller coaster!
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by soyapi 8y ago
I'm sure some future unicorns from Team 2nd chance will have a super awesome story to tell in 10 years. Thanks YC (and the bug) for considering to support us. Giving everyone a chance is actually a YC-ish move.
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by soyapi 8y ago
Apparently, you can update your application before the deadline, Aug 13th.
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by soyapi 14y ago
Did anyone regularly using OSX, Windows and/or Linux vote OSX just because it was listed first?
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by soyapi 16y ago
Lilongwe, Malawi, Africa
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by soyapi 16y ago
Day-job work at office; Part-time startup work at home without a distinct office. Since day-job has more hours/day, i voted "An office (not a home)"
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by soyapi 16y ago
On the other had, you don't have to listen to the podcasts in one session or one day.
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by soyapi 18y ago
I don't think hunger and war are a major problem to hackers actually. I thik war-tone countries are a minority in Africa and only affect rural people who are a majority and obviously non-hackers. I'm a hacker in Malawi and have never experi
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by soyapi 18y ago
I think it's possible and more likely so in a niche specific to developing countries like Malaria/HIV software, low-bandwith solutions, etc. Otherwise it's much easier to produce a 37signals, just like everywhere else, I guess. Disclaimer:
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by soyapi 18y ago
Polishing up my Facebook Cross Number Puzzle app http://apps.facebook.com/xnumber_puzzle before submitting to FB App Directory
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by soyapi 18y ago
Impressed to see that no-one here is suggesting a Disagreement Hierarchy: DHH. And no I didn't.
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Evolution in the species "companies"(ln.hixie.ch)
2 points by soyapi 19y ago|0 comments
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Pipes creator leaves Yahoo! Starts polyvore.com(pashasadri.wordpress.com)
4 points by soyapi 19y ago|0 comments