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Re:Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3 by pen2l on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:15PM (#11633796)
So, on the bright side, you're getting some nice publicity right now. I did not quite know of Pinboard (it's like.. del.ico.us? but with attitude?), I knew about you only a little bit. Now I do sorta know Pinboard and a little more about you... and I've decided I'll pay for pinboard.
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Re:Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3 by webbore on Thursday May 05, 2016 @11:32AM (#11636981)
The attitude (or opinions) comes from the creator/operator. The service itself appeals to me due to it's utter lack of attitude. What? A vanilla service that people pay for?

If the primary criteria is "quality of founder(s)" I have no idea why they passed. Except maybe seeing someone everyday who's been successful with antithetical values might have been too much to bear.

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Re:Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3 by idlewords on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:34PM (#11633862)
Thank you!
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Re:Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3 by kejaed on Thursday May 05, 2016 @07:06AM (#11635098)
It's almost like this is working!
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Re:Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3 by idlewords on Thursday May 05, 2016 @11:46AM (#11637111)
Who could have foreseen, and profited from, such an outcome?
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