Ask PG: Will you post an update to "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund"?

Re:Ask PG: Will you post an update to "Startup Ideas We'd Li... by dvt on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @04:37PM (#6015281)

RFS #5 has nothing to do with the essay linked. See http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html for all the "Request for Startups" bullet points.

Personally, I think it's a dumb RFS to begin with. From a professional standpoint, I couldn't handle developing on anything else but two 24+ inch monitors (if not three) and a mechanical keyboard.

Not that I couldn't do it on a laptop or tablet, it just makes me about 300x more productive -- and that's what matters.

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Re:Ask PG: Will you post an update to "Startup Ideas We'd Li... by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @11:51AM (#6020554)

I don't think thats the point.

It should be possible to code on a tablet because thats the device most kids will have access to as their first computer.

My first (and most people on HN) computer I turned it on and the OS simply waited for me to give it an instruction.

That is important in lots of ways, not just in the IPO in two years ways.

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Re:Ask PG: Will you post an update to "Startup Ideas We'd Li... by TheMakeA on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @04:45PM (#6015346)

There would definitely be some pains going from huge monitors to a small tablet. The bigger side of our plan was that it wouldn't just be possible to develop from a tablet, but really, from anywhere. Develop iPhone apps on your Windows box, or Chromebook, for example.

I think that in the future it might be possible that developing on a tablet might just mean hooking your tablet or other sub $300 device up to two 24+ inch monitors. Think developing iPhone apps from a $25 Raspberry Pi, thanks to the cloud :-)

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