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Re:Simply Hired is shutting down June 26 on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @08:25PM (#11811327)
I worked in an office below them for a few years. They seemed nice, thoughtful, ambitious, and hard-working, much like most folks I've met who choose to work at startups.

I feel sad to see any startup shut down since I know so many people like them; hell, that could easily have been me. I also feel sad to see the commenters here dance on their graves. I would prefer to celebrate the fact that they lived and battled for 10+ years, much longer than most startups. Kudos to them.

Re:Scribd Facebook Instant Personalization Is a Privacy Nightmare on Saturday October 02, 2010 @03:32PM (#1751159)
Whether we like it or not, Facebook is as much a part of the web ecosystem as Google. Instead of trying to fight it, just embrace it.
Re:Review: Blippy ("What are your friends buying?") on Monday January 04, 2010 @11:34PM (#1031868)
Fair enough, but what problem does Twitter solve?
Re:Looking for a cofounder for a startup. on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @11:25PM (#774361)
Check out http://founderdating.com
Re:FounderDating: First Event is on Sep 9th on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @10:55PM (#774330)
It's happening in Palo Alto, CA.
Re:SMSGupShup (India’s “Twitter”) Grows To 20 million Users, $150,000/... on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @12:40AM (#593639)
This isn't equivalent to Twitter at all. SMSGupShup is a groups platform built on SMS.
Re:Identity as Collateral: Preserving Hacker News on Thursday April 09, 2009 @08:40PM (#555465)
"The solution isn't to identify users. That would be too intrusive." - Tara Ploughman

The irony is delicious :)

Re:Divvyshot [YC W09]: Photo-sharing for groups on Thursday March 05, 2009 @01:16AM (#503985)
Sam, congrats on getting techcrunched! Can you share with us your marketing/outreach efforts and how you got them to write about you in such an early stage of the product?

Thanks!

Re:The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad on Thursday February 26, 2009 @12:53AM (#495537)
What exactly about this makes it the most surprising thing you've seen in two months?
Re:Ask HN: New links queue almost at 24 hours, what now? on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @02:34PM (#475750)
How about a karma marketplace?

1. Upvoting costs an amount of karma points proportional to the number of points the article has at that time. Hence, it costs more to upvote an article on the home page than it costs to upvote an article in the New section.

2. If I choose to spend karma by voting on an article and it starts to rise, I get proportional "returns" on my karma.

This incentivizes me to upvote New articles I think HN will like. But then again if I lose all my karma points, I might need a bailout.

Re:Genetic Algorithm building a little car on Monday December 08, 2008 @09:39PM (#390837)
I left my browser open and had it running for 12 hours now, and now my car looks like a porsche.
Re:Ask HN: Should I drop out or not? on Saturday November 29, 2008 @02:14AM (#379956)
Patience, young jedi! You've got the rest of your life to work and experiment with startups, but it's harder to go back to school later in life. It's great that you're already well ahead academically, but try and enjoy college in other ways, be it through challenging yourself with non-hacker-related courses or meeting interesting non-hackers. Good luck sir!
Re:Ask YC: Feedback on early version of my startup, a digital whiteboa... on Thursday May 29, 2008 @11:45AM (#203366)
Check out sketchfu.com. Similar technology, but geared to a slightly different audience.