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ajcronk

33 karma · joined August 8, 2008

Co-founder and CEO of TempoDB, http://tempo-db.com
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ajcronk··on Why You Should Apply to TechStars Cloud
Hey, that's my desk! And my wife's handwriting :)
ajcronk··on Seriesly - a document-oriented time-series database written in Go
We make a time series database service: http://tempo-db.com Although not open source, many people who've struggled with open source tools end up using us.
ajcronk··on Rich Hickey: The Value of Values
Has anyone seen a Sales CRM implemented with a temporal+value approach? Seems quite useful for tracking movement through a funnel.
ajcronk··on Show HN: CloudPlay - A music player for YouTube, SoundCloud, and more
Most of my music is in iCloud, so it shows up in CloudPlay, but it doesn't actually play. Any way that CloudPlay can fetch songs in iCloud?
ajcronk··on Fouling Out and Moving On (re: Notifo Shutdown)
I read the title as a basketball metaphor, not baseball, and it still worked. The power of sports metaphors.
ajcronk··on Groupon IPO on hold
Yes, that makes it interesting. Which is better for previous investors: IPO bomb or another private market raise?
ajcronk··on Groupon IPO on hold
A theory: Groupon leaked the memo so that it would be forced to pull the IPO, similar to Wired in 1996.
ajcronk··on The Kik SDK: Build Real-Time Sharing into Your App in 10 Minutes
Do I understand correctly that both parties need to have Kik installed on their phones as well?
ajcronk··on Ask HN: how do you share news stories you like?
I find myself emailing news stories to the same email group over and over, but unable to find a history of what we talked about.
ajcronk··on Pay With A Tweet
We launched a feature like this last year; we called it Tweet to Download (demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIngL60r3_M).

At first it did seem like spamming, but I am at peace with it now. It is analogous to the FB Like button. You should only tweet out stuff that you like, and want to share and download.

The key is to give a sample of the product (in our case song clip) before broadcasting to your social network. I think we could even allow full song stream, and still see similar download/tweet numbers.

In a world where musicians don't get real currency, they are asking for your social currency.

ajcronk··on Please check out our side project, OhLife (from MeetingMix, YC S08)
There is a typo in the url at the end of the How did your day go? email. Should be ohlife.com/today, not ohlife.come/today
ajcronk··on Ask HN: Why do no other laptop manufacturers get it?
I just got a Dell Vostro 3400, and am quite impressed. Clean design, multitouch trackpad, nice battery. Just missing the MagSafe power. It's the first PC laptop I could imagine myself using every day, if I couldn't use a MacBook.

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/us/segments/bs...

ajcronk··on Ask HN: Please Review My New Social Music Website
We've been running http://bln.kr for over 6 months and haven't had a single DMCA notice.
ajcronk··on Ask HN: Review my Startup - imVOX
I am skeptical of using products when it's not clear how they make money.

If you give everything away for free, when will it stop being free? When will the bait and switch occur?

If everything truly is free, how long will you be around?

ajcronk··on Starting Today, Facebook Apps Can Ask You To Hand Over Your Email Address
I wonder how much it costs Facebook to send all of those application notification emails? It seems this announcement is decentralizing the sending of those emails, and putting the onus on companies.
ajcronk··on Django-forum
I started with their socialauth app, and heavily modified it for http://bln.kr. I wanted to allow a user to login with one service, then add additional services to the same account.

http://uswaretech.com/blog/2009/08/django-socialauth-login-v...

ajcronk··on Android on x86
why are the files split in the first place?
ajcronk··on Ask HN: Please review and give thoughts on my app
We expect anyone who makes music to upload. We have a few famous artists like The Streets (http://bln.kr/-skinnermike), some internet famous folks like Levar Thomas (http://bln.kr/-LeVarThomas), and plenty of people just trying to make it. We also have hobbyists who just want to share music with friends.
ajcronk··on Ask HN: Why is it so hard for social media/networking sites to monetize their users?
If PoF is a launchpad to premium dating sites, how do people end up on PoF in the first place? I assumed SEO, and I searched for "dating" and "online dating" but PoF didn't rank high. Maybe they go after more niche keywords.