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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.

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.

Fair enough, but what problem does Twitter solve?

Check out http://founderdating.com

It's happening in Palo Alto, CA.

This isn't equivalent to Twitter at all. SMSGupShup is a groups platform built on SMS.

"The solution isn't to identify users. That would be too intrusive." - Tara Ploughman

The irony is delicious :)

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!

What exactly about this makes it the most surprising thing you've seen in two months?

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.

I left my browser open and had it running for 12 hours now, and now my car looks like a porsche.

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!

Check out sketchfu.com. Similar technology, but geared to a slightly different audience.