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How about we don't even talk about Yo?
90% white males — what an outrage! :p
It's a little frustrating that I can't get anyone to pay attention to my location-based social chat app and this has 118 points. Haha.
About 1.5 years into the project (part-time). v1.2.2 just released.
Re:Facebook launches Nearby Friends on Thursday April 17, 2014 @04:06PM (#7605957)
Thanks! We're working on Twitter integration with our next release (1.2.2). Twitter's streaming API opens up a lot of cool new features for us to add.
Re:Facebook launches Nearby Friends on Thursday April 17, 2014 @03:38PM (#7605826)
Spott ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spott/id591300005 ) is exactly what you're talking about.

It's basically nearby anyone, with the connection being a location instead of a phone number, email, username, etc... They have done a good job at keeping the content focused on useful information, rather than dick pics.

The downside is it really only has a strong user-base in Chicago.

Re:Ask HN mods: Why are you killing Dropbox submissions? on Thursday April 10, 2014 @02:19PM (#7568565)
As of May 2013, Y Combinator had funded over 500 startups.[20][21] The number of startups funded in each cycle has been gradually increasing. The first cycle, in summer 2005, had eight startups. In the summer 2012 cycle, there were more than 80. Y Combinator has since reduced their class size down to less than 50 with their winter 2013 batch, but they expect to grow it again.[22]

Some of the better-known funded companies include Scribd, reddit, Airbnb, Dropbox, Disqus and Heroku.[20]

drop everything, focus on only on iOS (or android).
Re:Uber Rush on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @08:12AM (#7552847)
false equivalency. what is the risk of being injured selling items on ebay, compared to flying through the streets of manhattan during rush hour on your bike? however, they due insure purchases in the case you get ripped off, which is much more likely to happen.

when did social responsibility go out the window? to me, this isn't a profitable business if they have to claim responsibility for the people they are putting in risk to make a buck. yet, they do it anyone and pass the cost on to the tax payer and no on seems to mind.

Re:Uber Rush on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @08:02AM (#7552798)
This is not insurance.
Re:Uber Rush on Monday April 07, 2014 @10:21PM (#7551075)
I'm only on board with this if they are covering the bikers that are going to end up in the hospital — otherwise it's on everyone else.
Re:Teaching Devina to Code on Sunday April 06, 2014 @07:25PM (#7543684)
1) ask her if she has any interested in programming.
I saw on Twitter today that they landed Ash Furrow as a load iOS dev.
Re:Places to submit your launching startup on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:32PM (#7526356)
link is down?
We're building that. http://spo.tt

No phone number, email, or username required to connect with anyone, anywhere.

Ask HN: Critical Feedback on Startup

I've finding it hard to receive any critical feedback on our startup — I'm hoping it's OK for this type of post here.Spott — Get more out of your social network by finding the answers you need through the world around you: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spott/id591300005I'm looking for any critical/negative feedback to make me rethink what I'm doing.

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Re:My Tech Cofounder Quit on Sunday March 02, 2014 @10:59AM (#7329516)
as a developer, he probably first thought about quitting the moment after you suggested the page flip animation.

all things aside, I don't see how these is room for this product with kindle and ibooks already well established. I know you can't create your own "flip books" through these services, but not everyone is an author.

just my critical feedback — I find it's hard to come by.

Re:NYTimes + Pinterest on Monday January 27, 2014 @03:24PM (#7132956)
well that's confusing as hell. haha.
I think it's insane that so many people are pointing the finger at Snowden, yet no one is pointing the finger back at the NSA / US Government.