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17,500 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-27T19:07:13 | Joost signs major advertisers for TV-over-Web plan | null | http://news.com.com/Joost+signs+major+advertisers+for+TV-over-Web+plan/2100-1026_3-6179681.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc | 3 | null | 17,500 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,501 | comment | cwilbur | 2007-04-27T19:08:30 | null | Well, yes.<p>The key points are (a) when one interest starts to run in the red, you don't want it taking down your other interests; and (b) when your app takes off, you don't want to have to worry about app scaling and availability <i>and</i> converting from a sole proprietorship to a corporation or spinning off a company at the same time.<p> | null | null | 17,382 | 17,138 | null | null | null | null |
17,502 | comment | andreyf | 2007-04-27T19:09:29 | null | Definitely let users know, and block access from other browsers. It's better to see an "Sorry, IE-only for now, please come back later" message than a broken web app.<p>Personally, I can't imagine starting up IE just to check out a new web app, unless it seems insanely cool... so if you're looking at not alienating FF users, it's a good idea to get it working in FF asap (Firebug makes JS coding sooo nice). | null | null | 17,418 | 17,416 | null | null | null | null |
17,503 | comment | GranadaBlue | 2007-04-27T19:11:11 | null | Yes. I spent tens of thousands of dollars to purchase FreeDrive.com. It was a web 1.0 company back in 1997 that raised $20 million dollars and went bust.<p>I'm building the web 2.0 version of this company now and I am starting with a memorable domain that has over 200,000 backlinks already built-in. <p>If you are a web business, your domain name is your most important asset.
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17,504 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-27T19:12:07 | [video] Marketers embrace user-generated content revolution | null | http://news.com.com/1606-2-6179822.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc | 1 | null | 17,504 | 1 | [
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17,505 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-27T19:12:42 | null | Ok this I see, good post. | null | null | 17,498 | 17,378 | null | null | null | null |
17,506 | comment | aristus | 2007-04-27T19:13:45 | null | This is the upshot of putting your software on the web. Word or Access bugs b0rk user data retail. The same kind of glitch in a web app is magnified because it happens wholesale: everyone is affected at once.<p>But I would class this with the Yahoo/Google DDoS blackouts and the eBay scaling blackout circa 1999. Teething problems that will soon be forgotten <i>if</i> they are fixed correctly. | null | null | 17,425 | 17,425 | null | null | null | null |
17,507 | comment | far33d | 2007-04-27T19:14:57 | null | I imagine they aren't very excited about all the press they got about people running businesses out of the building.
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17,508 | comment | andreyf | 2007-04-27T19:16:54 | null | "The problems highlight one of the risks of relying on hosted applications providers, which offer to house software and its data for individuals and organizations."<p>What's with the unncessary bashing "hosted application providers"? I think it's safe to say that many more users would be affected by bugs and dead hard drives had they been running this on their personal computers, had this been a desktop application, like Frontpage. | null | null | 17,425 | 17,425 | null | [
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17,509 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-27T19:19:08 | TechForward Raises Series A Funding from First Round Capital for Consumer Electronics Trade-In Service | null | http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/archives/2007/04/techforward_fun.html#Permalink | 4 | null | 17,509 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,510 | comment | rwalker | 2007-04-27T19:21:57 | null | Sadly, no. I've seen the notice, and am currently housing a few people who got rejected based on their "association" with Justin. | null | null | 17,495 | 17,467 | null | null | null | null |
17,511 | story | wendyp | 2007-04-27T19:21:58 | The Top Ten Free Website Tools and Services | null | http://inspired.entrepreneur.com/2007/04/27/the-top-ten-free-website-tools-and-services/ | 2 | null | 17,511 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,512 | comment | kyro | 2007-04-27T19:28:08 | null | Personally, part of the enjoyment I get out of browsing user submitted content is the lack of advertisements and marketing. As marketers begin to embrace and slowly creep their ads into the majority of such content, I wonder how communities will react.<p>I know I'd be turned away. | null | null | 17,504 | 17,504 | null | null | null | null |
17,513 | comment | aristus | 2007-04-27T19:29:17 | null | It's a visibility thing. Millions of circuit breakers trip in homes every year. Not news. Millions of homes go dark at once? News.<p>Hosted apps have a risk (coordinated failure) that desktop apps generally do not. 100,000 hard drives don't all crash at once. <p>Also remember that it's in the interests of journalists to assume a tone of authority, to write in a way that mimics reasoned analysis: "this is part of a recent trend". It's a little gratuitous, but it's not unnecessary bashing. | null | null | 17,508 | 17,425 | null | null | null | null |
17,514 | comment | Harj | 2007-04-27T19:30:49 | null | This is no PR stunt. Auctomatic are living out of suitcases atm and we're pretty pissed. | null | null | 17,495 | 17,467 | null | null | null | null |
17,515 | story | rjam | 2007-04-27T19:30:51 | Hello Kitty Banana cover: The most useless finished product you will ever see | null | http://www.hellokittyhell.com/2007/04/25/hello-kitty-banana-cover/ | 5 | null | 17,515 | 0 | [
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17,516 | comment | iamwil | 2007-04-27T19:31:05 | null | Maybe it's time YCombo also bought some property. | null | null | 17,467 | 17,467 | null | null | null | null |
17,517 | story | nettiehart2001 | 2007-04-27T19:31:15 | Value Acceleration | null | http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertising/public-relations/4057718-1.html | 3 | null | 17,517 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,518 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-27T19:31:45 | null | What do you think of them, though? I don't really like them, but perhaps it just takes some getting used to. Google and Yahoo are different, because I don't even now the words they are derived from. But the others - it's weird that those misspellings will probably become normal words if the startup is really successful. Perhaps they'll even replace the correctly spelled words.<p>Then again, if the exist strategy is getting bought by Google or Yahoo, perhaps the name doesn't matter much - it can be changed after the acquisition anyway (ie scripts.google.com). | null | null | 17,492 | 17,439 | null | null | null | null |
17,519 | story | gcaprio | 2007-04-27T19:33:08 | Oracle shafting thousands of AppForge customers | null | http://blog.1530technologies.com/2007/04/oracle_here_is_.html | 1 | null | 17,519 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,520 | comment | danielha | 2007-04-27T19:33:44 | null | Wholeheartedly disagree. You can turn a worthless domain into a valuable one. <p>Can you really count on people manually typing in familiar urls today? Even organic search results are not as crucial as they once were. | null | null | 17,503 | 17,439 | null | [
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17,521 | comment | jaf656s | 2007-04-27T19:38:45 | null | although I agree that we should be happy to be free, I believe this article has too much sleight of hand. Yes we should be happy about having the lifestyles we do, but should we be happy enough to overlook the recent behavior of our government? | null | null | 17,318 | 17,315 | null | null | null | null |
17,522 | story | entrepreneur | 2007-04-27T19:40:23 | Banned from Adsense? What's Your Blog Advertising Alternative? | null | http://www.emomsathome.com/blog/2007/04/27/banned-from-adsense-whats-your-blog-advertising-alternative/ | 3 | null | 17,522 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,523 | story | unfoldedorigami | 2007-04-27T19:43:55 | YC Jamglue's Growth and Scaling | null | http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/04/jamglues_growth.html | 16 | null | 17,523 | 1 | [
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17,524 | comment | danw | 2007-04-27T19:52:28 | null | Sounds like an opportunity to rent a large house and create a YC 'frat house' of sorts | null | null | 17,467 | 17,467 | null | null | null | null |
17,525 | story | unfoldedorigami | 2007-04-27T19:54:22 | Six Basic Truths of Free APIs | null | http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/04/six_rules_for_a.html | 8 | null | 17,525 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,526 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-27T20:11:39 | null | That's really cool - especially as it seems kind of fun to participate in creating names. <p>A problem is of course giving away the idea, but often one can probably formulate it general enough to not do much harm. | null | null | 17,481 | 17,439 | null | [
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17,527 | comment | smock | 2007-04-27T20:13:26 | null | it must be someone else (we're exiled in berkeley but haven't yet been evicted from san francisco) but, personally, i think the situation is absurd-what percentage of this place was filled by referrals from justin.tv? | null | null | 17,485 | 17,467 | null | null | null | null |
17,528 | comment | juwo | 2007-04-27T20:16:17 | null | top priority for me - port to other players. After that, video and flash demo.<p>There are links to 3 screenshots on the details page.<p>Thanks for the link, I am surprised it is by W3C!<p>I disagree with them. Will your grandma recognize a hyperlink intuitively?<p>My web page is for people like her (rhetorically speaking).<p> | null | null | 17,339 | 16,967 | null | null | null | null |
17,529 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-27T20:24:01 | null | In that case, the smart thing to do is like that other landlord story -- offer to invest! Give them free rent in exchange for the option to also buy a small percentage of the company. | null | null | 17,507 | 17,467 | null | null | null | null |
17,530 | comment | ido | 2007-04-27T20:24:07 | null | My only interaction with them is through yahoo games.
I have moved from yahoo mail to gmail a few month after it was released (it took me a while because invitations were still a bit difficult to get).<p>So when is google going to make online chess without the annoying banner ads that yahoo plasters all over the damn thing? | null | null | 17,466 | 17,411 | null | null | null | null |
17,531 | story | usablecontent | 2007-04-27T20:31:19 | Yet Another YCombinator Clone | null | http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/27/yet-another-ycombinator-clone/ | 4 | null | 17,531 | 8 | [
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17,532 | comment | shosie | 2007-04-27T20:40:32 | null | as an IP lawyer frequently adverse to MSFT, i can assure you that it is not dead quite yet. on the essay itself, as thoughtful as we have come to expect, I suppose the relevant question is what will the next "black swan" event be?
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17,533 | story | far33d | 2007-04-27T20:41:33 | SmugMug on Amazon S3: Outages, slowdowns, and problems | null | http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/01/30/amazon-s3-outages-slowdowns-and-problems/ | 5 | null | 17,533 | 2 | [
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17,534 | comment | far33d | 2007-04-27T20:42:30 | null | The way they use S3 for cold storage and their local servers for hot storage is really interesting.... A lot like some of the things people have been discussing regarding memory vs. DB (yes, this link was grabbed from inside the jamglue article) | null | null | 17,533 | 17,533 | null | null | null | null |
17,535 | comment | byrneseyeview | 2007-04-27T20:42:47 | null | This works both ways. There are lots of laws that are easy to violate and exist almost entirely so unpopular people can get sued (Michael Milken was barred for life from the securities business and fined $600 million for violating an obscure regulation that cost shareholders an estimated $300,000).<p>Options backdating is tricky, because the cost of backdating is reflected in the company's financial statements whether or not they announce it. It's like paying employees less than standard wages, but giving them lavish perks -- it's all the same on the income statement, so it's closer to PR than to lying. | null | null | 16,937 | 16,937 | null | null | null | null |
17,536 | story | jslogan | 2007-04-27T20:49:39 | It's not enough to be different, your customers expect more | null | http://www.jslogan.com/content/view/161/ | 1 | null | 17,536 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,537 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-27T20:56:24 | Wow! Weebly.com Is a "Sexy Business" | null | http://www.carolynnduncan.com/2007/04/27/wow-weeblycom-is-a-sexy-business/ | 2 | null | 17,537 | 2 | [
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17,538 | story | msgbeepa | 2007-04-27T21:06:31 | Web 2.0 - The Best Personal News Site | null | http://www.wikio.com/webinfo?id=17799560 | 1 | null | 17,538 | -1 | null | null | true |
17,539 | comment | sethjohn | 2007-04-27T21:09:54 | null | Sounds like good news to me. YC can't pick every good team, and can't be the right fit for every good team. Highland seems to be specifically seeking life sciences and what looks like some more techie (non-software) ideas.<p>They seem to have their dates confused in the article, though. How can this program have "just launched" if the application due date was 11 days ago? | null | null | 17,531 | 17,531 | null | [
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17,540 | story | ereldon | 2007-04-27T21:13:18 | The War for Talent Is Back | null | http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/sutton/2007/04/the_war_for_talent_is_back_1.html | 1 | null | 17,540 | 1 | [
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17,541 | comment | sethjohn | 2007-04-27T21:17:19 | null | Somewhere down the line you're going to sink many $K into marketing, I don't see why paying for a domain name that already has some traffic and name recognition is a categorically bad idea. <p>Was it a bad deal for 'freedrive.com'? Depends on the specifics of the situation and how the company leverages their name recognition. | null | null | 17,520 | 17,439 | null | null | null | null |
17,542 | comment | geebee | 2007-04-27T21:20:17 | null | This might be a practical joke. Not an especially good one, but it's so over the top that I have a sneaking suspicion someone is having a laugh about all the indignity this post has generated.
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17,543 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-27T21:21:43 | null | Pure genius!!! Seriously, I can't get over the brilliance of that invention. | null | null | 17,515 | 17,515 | null | null | null | null |
17,544 | comment | dawie | 2007-04-27T21:26:27 | null | you just give them your idea in a sentence or two and they fly with it. Also I had my new name in 24 hours, which is pretty cool and fast, especially when you where supposed to choose a domain yesterday... | null | null | 17,526 | 17,439 | null | null | null | null |
17,545 | comment | bls | 2007-04-27T21:32:11 | null | What makes you think that the price is $4,500? In almost all cases, these prices are very negotiable. Keep in mind that the owner probably paid less than $10 for it. Even considering overhead, $200 is a very good return on the sellers investment. <p>Here's how I would go about negotiating the price:<p><pre><code> Subject: Interested in buying a domain name
Date: 2007-04-28
To: squatter1; squatter2; squatter3; ... ; squatter50
I am thinking about purchasing one of the following
domains. According to the WHOIS information, you are the
owner of one or more of them. If you are interested in
selling, please reply back with domain name and the price
you want for it. In order to give everybody enough time to
respond, I will wait a few days collect the responses I get
before I make a decision. I promise I will not disclose
your offer to anybody.
Thank you!
domain1.com - squatter1
domain2.com - squatter2
...
domain50.com - squatter50
Subject: RE: Interested in buying a domain name
Date: 2007-05-10
To: squatter
Thanks for your reply. I cannot afford the price you gave
me. If you still are interested in selling, please reply
back with a smaller price. Thanks again!
Subject: RE: Interested in buying a domain name
Date: 2007-05-25
From: me
To: squatter
Thanks for your numerous replies. I guess my expectations
are unrealistic because I didn't want to pay more than $100
for this project. I am not interested in the other
variations (.net, .org, etc.) you offered me. Please let me
know if you will accept $100 for just .com.
Subject: RE: Interested in buying a domain name
Date: 2007-05-30
From: me
To: squatter
Sorry, $ is too much for me. I will pay $200 if you throw
in the other variations too. I want to finish this up soon
so please reply back with the payment/escrow information.
</code></pre> | null | null | 17,440 | 17,439 | null | null | null | null |
17,546 | comment | pg | 2007-04-27T21:34:56 | null | This isn't news; it was posted here several weeks ago. | null | null | 17,531 | 17,531 | null | null | null | null |
17,547 | comment | jeffrese | 2007-04-27T21:50:53 | null | weak!
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17,548 | comment | Leonidas | 2007-04-27T22:00:43 | null | Maybe the owners are disgruntled Y Rejects?<p>I don't quite understand why anyone would not want "free" press. The only thing I could think of is perhaps 'doing business' from the property might break a 'zoning' law of a sort. | null | null | 17,467 | 17,467 | null | [
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17,549 | story | rjam | 2007-04-27T22:03:23 | Giving value is what makes a good web application, but how to do it? | null | http://www.robertoalamos.com/what-makes-a-good-web-application | 1 | null | 17,549 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,550 | comment | SwellJoe | 2007-04-27T22:08:38 | null | Holy crap, I hope not! | null | null | 17,358 | 17,358 | null | null | null | null |
17,551 | story | pg | 2007-04-27T22:09:22 | Wireless Startups Searching for VC Dollars | null | http://gigaom.com/2007/04/26/wireless-startups-searching-for-vc-dollars/ | 3 | null | 17,551 | 1 | [
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17,552 | comment | drudru | 2007-04-27T22:09:40 | null | 2 options<p>1. launch now
2. start a blog about the event<p>nice-side-effect: get the rest of the world tuned into the idea and create a ton of competition in the space.
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17,553 | comment | SwellJoe | 2007-04-27T22:11:51 | null | Amateurs. I could do it with a single Nintendo Wii. | null | null | 17,487 | 17,487 | null | null | null | null |
17,554 | comment | paulfgraham | 2007-04-27T22:24:16 | null | <a href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?z=1&h=300&w=610&h=400&w=700&site0=jamglue.com&site1=likebetter.com&site2=&site3=&site4=&range=6m&size=Medium&y=r&z=1&url=jamglue.com&x=0&y=0">http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?z=1&h=300&w=610&h=400&w=700&site0=jamglue.com&site1=likebetter.com&site2=&site3=&site4=&range=6m&size=Medium&y=r&z=1&url=jamglue.com&x=0&y=0</a> IT is a lie Jamglue is not growing<p>Most yc companies are dead | null | null | 17,523 | 17,523 | null | null | null | true |
17,555 | story | mattjaynes | 2007-04-27T22:30:32 | Red Hat Ruthlessly Reduces Complexity | null | http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/401-red-hat-if-we-ship-it-we-support-it | 5 | null | 17,555 | 1 | [
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17,556 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-27T22:33:47 | null | That's effectively like a continuous deadline then: "Always Be Coding".<p>Deadlines are another form of advance planning, kind of a way to tell yourself to clear your schedule of distractions. I think it applies more to obligations you have trouble with dedicating time toward -- you don't really need to plan to do stuff you <i>want</i> to do :)
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17,557 | story | sharpshoot | 2007-04-27T22:34:22 | Amazon outsources its shipping services | null | http://mashable.com/2007/04/27/amazon-web-services/ | 1 | null | 17,557 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,558 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-27T22:43:51 | null | <i>building a workplace that attracts and keeps great people is especially important now because the job market for skilled people is so hot.</i><p>I think it's kind of sad that it isn't seen as a worthy goal in itself, but indicated merely because of a hot job market. The implication is that you should treat people as poorly as you can get away with.<p>I think PG is right in that someday people will view jobs the same way we view serfdom.
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17,559 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-27T22:55:31 | null | Not only can't YC pick every good team, but they have a bias towards certain types of start-ups: fairly simple websites (reddit, octopart, pollground, etc.).<p>CRV loans up to $250k which opens up a wider range of start-up possibilities. E.g. if you are working on something involving hardware; remember Apple really got moving with a $250k line of credit backed by Mike Markkula (consumer price index says $250k in 1977 is about $855k in 2006 dollars).
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17,560 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-27T22:58:56 | null | Useless. Extrinsic motivation will never get someone to work productively for 80 hours a week. <p>After somewhere around 30-ish it's gotta be intrinsic desire-to-make-thing-better, not 'ooh I get paid more'
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17,561 | story | amichail | 2007-04-27T22:59:19 | Anyone interested in setting up a blog for web 2.0 app updates? Pretty well any update would be accepted. | null | 2 | null | 17,561 | 4 | [
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17,562 | comment | amichail | 2007-04-27T22:59:58 | null | But of course, to avoid excessive promotion, we could have a limit of one update per week for each app. | null | null | 17,561 | 17,561 | null | null | null | null |
17,563 | comment | jsjenkins168 | 2007-04-27T23:04:10 | null | So many are searching for A round funding.. but are many actually getting it?<p>Basically, curious on the general opinion of wireless startups among VCs. "Next technology frontier" or "You're still the carriers bitch"... | null | null | 17,551 | 17,551 | null | null | null | null |
17,564 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-27T23:05:45 | null | Wow, way cool. Some friends ran a small business for years that could really have used this! | null | null | 17,377 | 17,377 | null | null | null | null |
17,565 | story | paulfgraham | 2007-04-27T23:08:57 | Will Ferrell created a short in which Dora receives a call from her friend Alec Baldwin. What was Boots thinking when he heard the message? | null | http://teenwag.com/playvideo/4921 | 1 | null | 17,565 | -1 | null | null | true |
17,566 | story | bootload | 2007-04-27T23:09:18 | Amazon S3: Show me the money | null | http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2006/11/10/amazon-s3-show-me-the-money/ | 14 | null | 17,566 | 5 | [
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17,567 | story | bootload | 2007-04-27T23:10:09 | The Perfect DB Storage Array | null | http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/04/27/the-perfect-db-storage-array/ | 6 | null | 17,567 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,568 | story | bootload | 2007-04-27T23:10:42 | Flickr far superior to SmugMug? | null | http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2006/11/19/flickr-far-superior-to-smugmug/ | 6 | null | 17,568 | 6 | [
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17,569 | comment | pg | 2007-04-27T23:13:57 | null | Actually we'll take any promising startup, and some of the most promising we've funded weren't "simple websites." Particularly Loopt, Xobni, Textpayme and an as-yet unlaunched database startup.<p>Though frankly, Octopart isn't exactly a "simple website" either. It's a search engine, and in some ways more complicated than Google. Is Google a "simple website?"
(If so, bring 'em on.) | null | null | 17,559 | 17,531 | null | [
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17,570 | story | far33d | 2007-04-27T23:15:33 | Amazon, VCs Woo Seattle-area Developers | null | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_vcs_woo.php | 6 | null | 17,570 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,571 | comment | randallsquared | 2007-04-27T23:31:08 | null | Sure. This was mentioned last Friday, too, I think. :) I've emailed you. | null | null | 17,561 | 17,561 | null | null | null | null |
17,572 | story | farmer | 2007-04-27T23:33:02 | Wakoopa: Last.fm For Desktop Applications | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/27/wakoopa-lastfm-for-desktop-applications/ | 1 | null | 17,572 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,573 | story | npk | 2007-04-27T23:42:54 | Why would your project be hard for someone else to duplicate? | null | 3 | null | 17,573 | 14 | [
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17,574 | comment | npk | 2007-04-27T23:43:04 | null | I'm thinking about the YC question, "why would your project be hard for someone else to duplicate? My partner and I could duplicate any given YC company, feature-for-feature, quickly. So, to first order, the answer to this question is, "It's not hard." <p>But just duplicating can't be the real worry here. Is the underlying question, "Why won't your competitors quickly duplicate what you're building?"<p> | null | null | 17,573 | 17,573 | null | [
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17,575 | comment | paulfgraham | 2007-04-27T23:44:23 | null |
Will Ferrell created a short in which Dora receives a call from her friend Alec Baldwin. What was Boots thinking when he heard the message?
<a href="http://teenwag.com/playvideo/4921">http://teenwag.com/playvideo/4921</a> | null | null | 17,573 | 17,573 | null | null | null | true |
17,576 | comment | paulfgraham | 2007-04-27T23:44:41 | null |
Will Ferrell created a short in which Dora receives a call from her friend Alec Baldwin. What was Boots thinking when he heard the message?
<a href="http://teenwag.com/playvideo/4921">http://teenwag.com/playvideo/4921</a> | null | null | 17,402 | 17,325 | null | null | null | true |
17,577 | comment | paulfgraham | 2007-04-27T23:44:56 | null |
Will Ferrell created a short in which Dora receives a call from her friend Alec Baldwin. What was Boots thinking when he heard the message?
<a href="http://teenwag.com/playvideo/4921">http://teenwag.com/playvideo/4921</a> | null | null | 17,415 | 17,415 | null | null | null | true |
17,578 | comment | paulfgraham | 2007-04-27T23:45:08 | null |
Will Ferrell created a short in which Dora receives a call from her friend Alec Baldwin. What was Boots thinking when he heard the message?
<a href="http://teenwag.com/playvideo/4921">http://teenwag.com/playvideo/4921</a> | null | null | 17,531 | 17,531 | null | null | null | true |
17,579 | comment | nostrademons | 2007-04-27T23:53:39 | null | My guess: the owners are uncomfortable with the privacy implications of Justin.TV. After all, <i>everyone</i> that Justin encounters ends up being broadcast live over the Internet. Many other tenants in the YScraper may not want to end up with their mugshot on the net. This also explains why they would evict anyone who regularly comes in contact with Justin: if they're friends with Justin, then Justin is likely to come over and visit, with potentially negative privacy implications for other tenants. | null | null | 17,548 | 17,467 | null | null | null | null |
17,580 | comment | danw | 2007-04-27T23:54:57 | null | Is .mobi accepted yet or should mobile startups use a .com? | null | null | 17,480 | 17,439 | null | null | null | null |
17,581 | story | sbraford | 2007-04-27T23:57:14 | How to Get Higher P/E Multiples for a Site You Might Sell | null | http://tropicalseo.com/2007/how-to-build-an-affiliate-site-you-can-sell-for-1m/ | 3 | null | 17,581 | 2 | [
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17,582 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-27T23:58:32 | null | Running a search on a few catalogs is orders of magnitude less complex than searching the entire web. I don't know what tricks they may have up their sleeves, but it looks like a normal keyword search.<p>For example, use the suggested "red led" search and compare octopart to newark. With newark you select criteria that apply to the part; with octopart you "keep quoting" "keywords" "to:narrow" "it down" and you can't select a range -- like a range of voltage, for example. I'm not sure if you can even "or" a few keywords together to get a range.<p>There's nothing wrong with it, I'm just saying it isn't that complex. Reddit is cloneable in a weekend (remember all the "reddit in 20 lines of Lisp" posts after it switched to Python) and most likely owes its popularity to you personally; it had a good foundation because its earliest users were your readers.<p>Obviously it was a <i>smart</i> investment. I'm just saying it wasn't a hard technical problem. The barrier to getting a large (smart) audience was solved by having a PG to promote it. You're (personally) essentially a catalyst, like start-up yeast.<p> | null | null | 17,569 | 17,531 | null | [
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17,583 | comment | usablecontent | 2007-04-28T00:05:57 | null | The consumer price index might hold true for hardware but how will you justify it for software ?? | null | null | 17,559 | 17,531 | null | null | null | null |
17,584 | comment | amichail | 2007-04-28T00:11:20 | null | It's hard to get users, particularly if you are not the first in a given area. | null | null | 17,574 | 17,573 | null | [
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17,585 | story | bootload | 2007-04-28T00:19:32 | Top 10 Lies told by Clients | null | http://evolt.org/top-10-lies-told-by-clients | 3 | null | 17,585 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,586 | story | bootload | 2007-04-28T00:23:14 | Gigs | null | http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/cpg/306089935.html | 7 | null | 17,586 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,587 | comment | msallin | 2007-04-28T00:40:51 | null | I had the perfect domain name - but it was a .net. We even had the perfect logo for it. But everyone in the biz told me I needed a .com, even my mom. So I spent a few hours with a thesaurus and came up with a shortlist, and of the ones available, the best was offered by BuyDomains.com for $2,500. I mentioned it to my investors and my parents and they said BUY IT NOW. My team was less enthusiastic about the name, but they understood why it was good:
- .com
- 5 letters, 2 syllables
- easy to pronounce and spell
- the name made sense for our business, it wasn't nonsense<p>I went for it and I'm really glad I did. Would I do it for $3K? Not sure. $4K? I don't want to think about it. | null | null | 17,439 | 17,439 | null | null | null | null |
17,588 | story | geekwhat | 2007-04-28T00:50:06 | LawYours Connecting Startups and Lawfirms 5/10/07 | null | http://www.entrepreneur27.org/archive/got-lawsuit/ | 2 | null | 17,588 | 0 | null | null | null |
17,589 | comment | brett | 2007-04-28T00:56:28 | null | That's a damn good response to a critical writeup. My favorite part of the "we're not targeting the same audience" defense is that no matter what the company says the subtext is always "until we are and we take all their users away". | null | null | 17,568 | 17,568 | null | [
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17,590 | story | farmer | 2007-04-28T00:58:40 | dead | null | http://foo.com/bar | 1 | null | 17,590 | -1 | null | null | true |
17,591 | story | pg | 2007-04-28T01:00:18 | News.YC Traffic So Far | null | http://www.ycombinator.com/images/news.yc.2month.png | 14 | null | 17,591 | 12 | [
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17,592 | comment | pg | 2007-04-28T01:01:47 | null | The big spike is people clicking on reload the day we responded to applications. | null | null | 17,591 | 17,591 | null | [
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17,593 | comment | jkush | 2007-04-28T01:09:25 | null | Half of that spike was probably me.
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17,594 | comment | omouse | 2007-04-28T01:09:36 | null | They reduced the complexity of a license agreement. I thought they reduced that bloated feeling I get whenever I try their distro. Ah well, hopefully that's next on their list. | null | null | 17,555 | 17,555 | null | null | null | null |
17,595 | comment | pg | 2007-04-28T01:09:49 | null | Worked for me. | null | null | 17,560 | 17,287 | null | [
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17,596 | comment | npk | 2007-04-28T01:11:16 | null | If someone wants to copy a YC company that's m months old, a copy-cat site could be build in ~ m months. None of the YC companies seem to have a "secret sauce" that would take years to develop. (And I'm not saying they should.)<p>Since the answer to the duplication question is universally "no", why put it on the application? What is the subtext that I am missing? | null | null | 17,584 | 17,573 | null | [
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17,597 | comment | npk | 2007-04-28T01:13:06 | null | Possible BUG? Why does this thread say n comments, and I only see n-1? | null | null | 17,573 | 17,573 | null | [
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17,598 | comment | pg | 2007-04-28T01:19:03 | null | Deleted spams. | null | null | 17,597 | 17,573 | null | [
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17,599 | comment | coffeeAnon | 2007-04-28T01:30:31 | null | In the justin.tv archives, there is footage of underage people drinking alcohol, people throwing other people into the swimming pool, all night parties, the cops showing up with guns drawn, etc. The building is also not zoned as live/work. This particular landlord is a scumbag, but the tenants have video evidence of illegal activities and breaking zoning codes, so the management is not unwarranted in giving them the boot. <p>Someone burglarized my apartment once, so I called the cops. the neighbors had dogs, and the dogs were barking at the cops. The cops pounded on the neighbor's door and told them to shut their dogs up while their guns were drawn. My neighbors complained to the landlord, and I almost got evicted just because the cops were there, freaking out the neighbors. <p> Another friend of mine had a party at his girlfriend's place. A few random troublemakers showed up, started a fight, and broke the girl's door. The cops had to be called in to make sure the people didn't come back. The owner found out about this, and my friend's girlfriend was evicted a month later.<p>If you are renting in a somewhat decent building and the management finds out about cops being called in to your place, you are probably going to get the boot, ESPECIALLY if you are on a month to month lease, which I believe the justin.tv people are.<p>This may not be "right" but one side effect of justin.tv is that this is all on video, so if laws or codes are actually broken and someone doesn't like it, they can just dig up the video to argue their case...<p>(how do I know there were underage drinkers on justin.tv? my girlfriend is 20 and showed me the footage of herself and her friends drinking out by the pool and in the hallway.)<p> | null | null | 17,467 | 17,467 | null | [
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