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I’m working on a project to help with this problem — basically trying to combat isolation by connecting with small groups of remote/indie workers that are local to you.

I’m collecting interest to see if people would find this useful. If this sounds interesting to anyone, please let me know (contact info in profile)

The irony is not lost on me ;)

A bit of meta-advice: don’t take advice from people that don’t have any context on you, don’t align with your values and priorities, or may have misaligned incentives.

It seems like this is captured with plain old LTV - CAC. What’s the advantage of introducing “depreciation” here?

Seems like a good move for Quora. They'll get early access to acquihiring super talented folks at struggling/failing startups. At the least, they can generate goodwill and word of mouth as a good place to work. Talented people know talented people, etc.

Not sure about the impact on YC though. It may create an environment of mixed incentives. Quora's incentive is almost perverse, in that they get the most value out of YC from failing startups.

Thanks! Let us know what you think.

Screenhero (http://screenhero.com) - Collaborative screen sharing.

San Francisco, Full-Time.

We're rethinking real-time collaboration software, on every major platform: Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, Web, even Linux!

Today, we're answering the question: "What's the best way to work together?" Tomorrow: "What's the best way to play together?"

To realize that vision, we're looking for:

* Design Hero - Own the UI, UX and creative direction of our products and the company. - Design for every major platform. - Solve really hard UX problems, centered around the question: "What's the best way to work together?"

* Engineering Hero - Do you want to contribute to and own major pieces of the next real-time collaboration platform? - Examples of some of the challenges ahead: reducing the screen sharing lag to 0, even in poor network conditions or on a mobile device. Writing mobile clients that meld the worlds of mouse pointers and touch together. Building a scalable architecture to support super low-lag video streaming to multiple parties simultaneously. - Making it "just work." - There's so much more. Email us.

* Growth Hero - Lead the effort to grow Screenhero's active userbase by orders of magnitude. - Understand analytics and measure the right things. - A/B testing invite flows, leveraging existing social networks, guerilla marketing.

Joining today will be akin to being one of the first employees at Skype or Dropbox.

Curious? Email us at everyone@screenhero.com

On the topic of online dating :)

http://blog.screenhero.com/post/45779204029/share-a-little-l...

It was intended to be a play on the phrase "The revolution isn’t dead."

This sounds isolating, and you'll lose a few hours of sunlight in spring/summer months.

To quote Seinfeld: Serenity now, insanity later.

Fair point. We wanted to express our excitement, but maybe it came off sort of generic. Our video is a work in progress-- thanks for the tip!

Answered a similar question in the previous HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4925633

We don't have plans to open source it, but we might be open sourcing components in the future.

We've found that since we've starting using PowWow, we don't need to sit at the same computer when we're working together. In fact, we prefer to stay at our computers, even if we're sitting next to each other :) Being able to use our own screen, with our own particular hardware setups is really nice. It also avoids having to reach over the other person to use the keyboard, or squint at the screen because it's too far.

That's correct, two people can't be doing 2 different things at the same time (i.e., there is one keyboard). However you do have 2 mouse pointers and you can move/point/click with them independently. We found that in practice we actually preferred this because it's valuable to know that everyone is looking at the same thing at the same time.

The networking is P2P (most of the time). The screen sharing is VP8 video compression. Presence is XMPP. The multiple mice, separate dock icon, and a lot of other little things are the result of a lot of hacking :)

We're going to be working on making the encoding more CPU efficient. (btw if anyone has any expertise in real-time video codecs we'd love to talk to you)

Mobile support is on the horizon, though Windows is coming first.

We use workflowy like this to manage all our projects, and it works great. I don't see any particular benefit to using twitter, though.

Offline editing would be a killer feature.

You mention a few things that you were concerned about:

"That it would reduce the perceived value of my app, that it would upset other customers who missed the discount and that the support burden would be too high."

But you don't talk about how these concerns played out after the sale. Would love to hear your thoughts on how valid these concerns were.

How do you separate how much of the sales increase was due to the sharp price drop, and how much was due to promotion by Two Dollar Tuesday?

I like the simplicity, but I think you will want to put up some concrete examples on the homepage of what this could be used for. Also I don't think you should put those on a separate page-- they need to be on the homepage so that you engage attention and interest right away.

Programming Collective Intelligence (http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Collective-Intelligence-Bu...) is a great resource. It serves as a practical introduction to several different machine learning algorithms. Although they are presented from a specific perspective (collaborative filtering), many of the techniques are general and are used across machine learning. The explanations of the algorithms are clear, simple, and the author does a nice job of building up the level of complexity over the course of the book. Also, you will get much more out of it if you follow along with the provided python-based implementations.

iTeleport http://www.iteleportmobile.com started out as a side project while one of our founders was getting a PhD.

Mountain View. iTeleport.

http://www.iteleportmobile.com

Prefer local. Telecommuting is a possibility. We would be able to provide relocation assistance as well.

We're looking for two awesome software engineers who want to work for a startup, are motivated to dive into new technologies and platforms, and want to help shape the direction of iTeleport.

We have a remote desktop app for the iPhone. You don't have to know Objective-C, or even own a MacBook or an iPhone (we'll provide all the hardware).

Email me with your resume: vishal at iteleportmobile.com

SF Bay Area

iTeleport.

Join us in building the simplest, fastest, most reliable system for remotely accessing and sharing your desktop apps. From anywhere, with anyone.

We have hundreds of thousands of paying customers and we need your help to take that to millions.

http://www.iteleportmobile.com/about-us

San Francisco Bay Area

iTeleport (http://www.iteleportmobile.com/about-us)

We're building a remote access platform that will enable users to get access to all of the digital stuff they store on their personal computers (their desktop, music, photos, videos, files) from any device.

Check out http://www.iteleportmobile.com/jobs for some projects we've been working on lately.

We're currently profitable and growing. We offer a competitive salary, significant equity and full health benefits.

Send us an email at work@iteleportmobile.com with your resume and a few words on why you think you'd be a great fit here!

Bay Area, CA

We're hiring at iTeleport (http://www.iteleportmobile.com).

iTeleport is an app for accessing your desktop remotely from your iPhone/iPad. It's been in the Top 100 Grossing iPhone/iPad apps several times over the past couple of years. We now have a revenue stream that gives us a runway of several years to expand on the vision and build a whole bunch of other cool stuff (http://www.iteleportmobile.com/vision).

We're looking for "hackers with a heart" -- great hackers who want to build technology that contributes to a profitable business, and who also want to spend some of their time working on great non-profit projects with social impact. We've been working with a couple of non-profits in the area over the past couple of weeks, which has been a lot of fun and really rewarding.

Send us an email at work@iteleportmobile.com with why you think you'd be an awesome fit.

We (iTeleport) meet these criteria. We just started our blog a couple of weeks back:

http://blog.iteleportmobile.com/

Our latest post details some revenue numbers:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1329108

We're going to try to keep posting actively...

Any chance a non-YC company can attend?

* Apple's strategy is to not burden their users with the mental load of having to make that tradeoff. *

Haven't users been making that tradeoff for years with laptops?