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armansu

380 karma · joined July 13, 2012

Founder, nFactorial School, nFactorial Podcast. Past: Pinemelon.com, Hora.AI, Zero To One Labs, Princeton CS, Collections (YC S12), ACM ICPC World Finals '09, '11.

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armansu··on Why do we care about likes?
It's a team effort, no doubt. But how do they introduce Linus Torvalds, Kevin Systrom or David H. Hansson? 'The man who created Linux', 'the creator of Instagram', DHH introduces himself as 'the creator of Ruby on Rails'. Obviously, singlehandedly they haven't created what we understand by those products, they started them and were principal forces, but haven't CREATED them. This simplification (the proxy of the reality) is the accepted norm in respectful introductions. My statement about Chamath was merely that.
armansu··on Show HN: Dating turned upside down - Tomonotomo
Sounds familiar. Is it by any chance created by the same guys with whom Paul Graham and Harj Taggar made public office hours at Startup School 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9m9vPAlb_0 [the intended part starts at 25:05]?
armansu··on Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
Jolicloud is great! Collections (circa Dec'12) did the same, but as a native desktop app. Our current focus is not about bringing all your services together in one place (however, you still can do that), but to efficiently collect links/files from anywhere, organize them and sharing the collections you curated.
armansu··on Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
If the local file you're collecting is under 20Mb, we're storing it on our servers. Regarding youtube videos, as for now - they're gone from Collections if they are deleted from Youtube. We're thinking of doing something about it though ;)
armansu··on Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
Thanks for feedback! Yeah, currently we are only saving the top 1440x900px snapshot of the webpage. As for other files, we store it on our servers as long as they're under 20Mb.
armansu··on Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
Got it, will fix it tomorrow ;)
armansu··on Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
True. But we think that overall simplicity (not feature completeness) should be the driving principle when you're starting out. Educating your users step by step. If you give new users Facebook in its current form, they would have no idea how to use it ;)
armansu··on Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
This was the beta for the December 2012 version - a viewer which let you browse the content from your online services in a single place.
armansu··on Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
Regarding the ETA for the mobile app, we don't have anything to announce at this moment, but will keep you updated.
armansu··on Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
Thanks for feedback! The fact that collected items didn't show up immediately in the inbox in your case is definitely some kind of the bug which we will look into. '+'/'-' buttons are actually for creating new collections and removing existing ones respectively. We will definitely make it more intuitive.
armansu··on Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
Thank you!
armansu··on Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
Working on it!
armansu··on Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
Thank you! We'll work hard to make it better!
armansu··on Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
Thanks! We used to support nested collections and 'single item - multiple collections' in the intermediate versions, but decided to disable it for the overall simplicity of the v1. We'll bring it back when/if many users really want it.
armansu··on Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
Thanks! Just updated the subtitle for the footer download button to reflect that. Our next short term goal is to make the app Lion-compatible.
armansu··on Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
Thank you! We disabled Dropbox and Gmail for now, we'll put them back when our integration is more reliable. You can delete collections with 'Delete' key or '-' button at the bottom of the screen. But agreed we should definitely make UI for this more obvious.
armansu··on Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
Thanks! You can definitely collect links from Chrome/Safari, just press Cmd+Shift+C. Unfortunately, we don't support clipping text and images from the web. Yet :)
armansu··on Collections: Easiest way to collect, organize and share anything with anyone
We definitely want to support Lion really soon. But, yeah, upgrading to OSX 10.8 might be faster :)
armansu··on Universal Lessons We've Learned
Thank you! { 'Time': 'since June 2012', 'Problem': 'content segmentation', 'Vision': 'universal Finder' }
armansu··on Universal Lessons We've Learned
Bruce Lee in the screenshot? His quote as the prologue would be relevant.
armansu··on Why We’re Building Collections
We totally agree. Wait for what is coming ;)
armansu··on Why We’re Building Collections
Unfortunately, on the web, browsers can be a limitation for something like this to work well & fast.
armansu··on My key takeaways from Y Combinator’s Startup School 2012
Yup. Most - on my camera, some - on the phone.
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