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From my experience, you get much better generalized startup feedback, but it's frankly harder to get true user feedback unless you're building something for SF types. I tend to filter a lot of my more general consumer product ideas through friends who DON'T live in SF because I want them to not be comparing it to every other startup they've heard about recently.

I don't understand how this gets 200+ points. Has a vast majority of people not received these blanket recruiter emails before?

It's not illegal, I've had Virgin America actually tell me to just not show up when I was canceling a flight once because the cancelation fee was more expensive than my ticket. Essentially, I had to pay them $20 or something to cancel my flight or just not show up.

It would be better if it inserted line breaks:

http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=library.gettracks&#...

A 5x return assumes that the VCs owned 100% of the company, which seems 'mildly' unlikely.

To 'Hipmunk' an industry: Be a cofounder of a successful startup. Leave that company. Make a new one. Whatever industry you're involved in will be hipmunked!

If anything, this post further reinforces the notion of trolling. If this was true, then your original post makes even less sense.

That crunchbase link says nothing about engineering, only product management. Am I missing something there?

I suppose I'm pretty immature, but when I saw the URL I immediately assumed it was a Web 2.0 porn site.

Is this basically a less effective version of Trunk Club?

Also, how do I disable my account so I don't get texts in the future?

You should let people know that you're going to SMS them before you do. Having skimmed the blurb and just signing up, I was surprised when my phone started buzzing. Thankfully I had my google voice number tied to my foursquare vs. my actual number (which doesn't have a text plan anymore.)

Yes, I had the same "whoa!" reaction, then never went back because it's a terribly ineffective way to acquire information.

Sure, playing WoW lead to me getting a job at a startup (Rupture, which was later sold to EA) and moving to San Francisco. Considering I'm radically happier in my life now than I was previous to living here, I'd say it was quite helpful.

I always assumed it was born out of Microsoft's desire to make more money.

The reason to quit is to open your mind to other opportunities. It's easier to keep plodding along at something mediocre than to quit and force yourself to find something awesome to do instead.

Your notion of everyone having 'something seriously wrong with them' holds true everywhere. It's a core tenet of what makes us human, it's not isolated to people on dating sites.

Have you never heard the phrase 'no one is perfect?'

How's the 20th century working out for you?

If decent careers aren't growing on trees for you, you are doing something wrong.

It's nothing like quickbooks. It's literally like the main tab of mint.com, it shows your current balance and you can drill down into transactions. If you want a proper quickbooks-like experience, I recommend xero.com which is, unlike indinero, actually useful for a small business.

Use it as your primary phone. At a cursory glance, it seems fine, but you find all the quirks when it's what you deal with day to day. If AT&T wasn't such a miserable experience, I'd have switched back to an iPhone already.