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Re:Why Web3?
on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @06:54PM (#29731679)
The point is that YC's model contradicts what you said. It's relatively inexpensive to build an initial version of a product. Build something as quickly as possible, get user feedback, and keep iterating.
I can guarantee you won't find anything Paul Graham has written about doing a bunch of marketing analysis as a first step.
I've been on this website a long time and I suppose the userbase has grown quite a bit. I don't assume everyone has read all of Paul Graham's articles or even know who he is, but are you familiar with how YCombinator works?
Enough money to survive on ramen for a few months and build a demo. Get feedback from users and iterate over and over.
> generally people say one should market their product first then build it if there's enough demand
I don't agree this is the common wisdom, and it's kind of a surprising take to see on this website specifically.
Re:Positions chess engines don't understand
on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:07AM (#27191695)
Kinda reminds me of this old folklore.org story: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Make_a_Mess,_Cle...
Re:A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (2002)
on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @08:48PM (#25451344)
Blitz and even bullet are great for tactics and pattern recognition, especially for < 2000 rated players.
Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role
on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @03:05PM (#16915600)
I don't see how the sum would be unique to a particular combination of letters.
Re:What Developers Should Know About Job Searching and Negotiation
on Friday February 26, 2016 @11:28AM (#11182237)
In all the interviews I've been a part of (1.5 years, maybe ~50 candidates), I've never seen a candidate decline because of salary requirements. We would decide if they were a good hire, and HR would make it happen.
Re:Who Y Combinator Companies Want
on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @05:11AM (#10702850)
benihana made good points IMO. A couple PG-13 words doesn't warrant a ban.
Re:100M games played
on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @04:22PM (#10348802)
I don't play as much chess that much anymore, but ICC (chessclub.com) was the king (and I'd guess that it still is).
You don't play via the website though. Same for other chess servers (FICS, etc).
Re:Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace (2012)
on Friday September 11, 2015 @12:49AM (#10202065)
Re:8402: 2048 from the other side
on Friday March 21, 2014 @10:59PM (#7447119)
I hate this game for some reason, whereas I really liked 2048. Not sure why.
Re:How Do Designers Choose Typefaces?
on Monday February 24, 2014 @03:22AM (#7289652)
Interesting post, but please don't preface submission titles with "Show HN:", especially if it's not some personal project.
Re:Disney Accelerator
on Sunday February 16, 2014 @01:52AM (#7246892)
You mean the Los Angeles river?
Re:Hacking Airline Lounges for Free Meals
on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @09:43AM (#7177640)
You could buy a first class ticket and hold on to it for a year, then use the lounges whenever you actually do travel.
It doesn't look like this is possible in the US though. I don't see an airline that offers their lounge just for having a first class ticket. Alaska even requires a ticket for the day you're there.
Possibly things have changed, but I remember PG posted his correspondence with a car salesman via email trying to buy a Jetta or something. Basically got stonewalled.
Re:Bitcoin drops 50% overnight as China’s Biggest BTC exchange stops Y...
on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @01:41PM (#6929579)
There was some headline about a week ago that said roughly 1000 people own half of all bitcoins.
Re:Aaron Swartz commits suicide
on Saturday January 12, 2013 @10:54AM (#5048012)
How would prosecutors go about that? Going through all his blog posts to look for depression? And that would be standard procedure for everyone they prosecute?
Re:Stop telling people to vote
on Friday November 09, 2012 @03:20AM (#4761888)
I happen to agree with JWZ, but drop the attitude internet tough guy.
Re:Stop telling people to vote
on Friday November 09, 2012 @03:16AM (#4761877)
Politicians should represent the entire country...
Suppose I decide to vote instead of not voting at all. So now the winning candidate (who I may or may not have voted for) represents me, whereas he didn't if I hadn't voted?
...prisoners and convicted felons should also be given the right to a vote. If someone is going to pass laws that affect you, you should have a say in who that someone is.
Ok, what does that have to do with compulsory voting?
Re:A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma to post
on Friday September 07, 2012 @09:13AM (#4488842)
Originally it was called "Startup News". PG announced he was making a new site not focused on startups, since that got kind of dull. Instead he changed the name of this site and nothing really changed. My memory is kind of vague, but I believe that is more or less accurate.
Re:Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg
on Friday July 13, 2012 @12:36AM (#4238228)
I'd bet a majority of reddit users have never heard of digg.
Re:Roulette beater spills physics behind victory
on Thursday May 10, 2012 @03:14PM (#3955364)
Probably true. When I asked a blackjack dealer why they didn't have automatic shufflers, she mentioned the shufflers aren't purchased, they're leased.
Re:Rails isn't for beginners
on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @06:44PM (#3795185)
Whenever I see "This", I picture a caveman pointing and barking.
Re:For the first time ever, the number of poor people is declining eve...
on Monday March 26, 2012 @11:34AM (#3757132)
No, he's not saying that at all. That's explicit if you just read his last sentence.
Re:For the first time ever, the number of poor people is declining eve...
on Monday March 26, 2012 @11:28AM (#3757113)
Calling The Economist "capitalist" isn't much of an aspersion, even if it was meant that way. And an aspersion isn't an ad hominem.
Re:For the first time ever, the number of poor people is declining eve...
on Monday March 26, 2012 @09:10AM (#3756462)
That was not an ad hominem. I really hate that phrase thrown about.
Seems full of questions rather than accusations, and I didn't see obscure mentioned anywhere.
Re:Newly Discovered Planet: Hot, Muggy And (May Be) Livable
on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @06:16AM (#2990736)
Is it really that ambiguous given the submission title?
Re:Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings Q&A about IBM Watson
on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @04:46PM (#2228462)
I've never heard of Kasparov actually crying after losing to Deep Blue. Reference?
Re:How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My S...
on Saturday February 12, 2011 @07:54AM (#2209936)
It's not extremely common for people to list their location in their profile, but for some reason I was compelled to click on your username.
What a surprise I see "Los Angeles."