danielodio

Cool, this is exactly what I'm looking for -- basically things I can introduce her to at as young an age as possible.

Hey thanks everyone for your comments. Very, very helpful.

Yeah I don't disagree! AND they've convinced Google to return them as the #1 result for a search on "coin" -- again for an un launched product with lots of buzz.

Makes me think Google's search algorithm is more heavily influenced by social signals than might be readily apparent.

AND an analysis by ShareThis showed only 2% of the social traffic happening on G+, which makes me wonder if Google's search results are being influenced by other social platforms.

@Kevinthew sounds like you've had some bad experiences. I didn't suggest giving more notice to "make sure the company is run well." I suggested giving more notice as a way to "ensure that when a valuable employee leaves, they leave in a timely and respectful manner to both them and the team they had worked with?" which was the question that was asked on my blog.

If you want to leave a company and burn the relationships you formed while you were there, then by all means, give as little notice as possible.

And so it goes with ideas.

Thanks I'll let @Tynan know

Yeah agreed; in my blog post & comments I talk about how the stock could definitely go to $0 if the company missteps. But then again, after driving a Model S, I believe it's the best car out there, so as long as the company executes well I'm very bullish on the stock, especial in the medium to long term ( >1 year).

Like I said 3 months ago (when the stock was at $34): I'm betting on Elon! http://go.DanielOdio.com/elon

What did you think? It's a new blogging platform called SETT. I'm sure @tynan the creator would love to get your thoughts on it. - DROdio

When we know it for sure, the stock will be in a much different place. - DROdio

I'm taking that type of view on this stock. - DROdio

The NYT article is the best thing that could've happened to Tesla. Any news is good news. Being irrelevant is the thing that kills startups. - DROdio

@hvs, not accurate.

More like:

TL;DR: "I voted in favor of taxes on people making more than $250,000 per year because I thought it wouldn't apply retroactively to decisions made in the past."

But that's my point exactly. There are no other employees at this stage. Or if there are, it's a co-founder or other high-equity employee.

The whole reason to do this is to keep from having to hire an employee (yet) to handle this function.

There's a cost to everything. One of those costs is hiring someone (or some company) to do testing -- something that's especially hard in mobile since it's not a mature technology.

Giving away options is just another way to pay that cost. For a small company with few employees, the ROI is pretty huge.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, just that it's an innovative solution to a tough problem that works well within the constraints that a very young company has.

@nowarninglabel I can agree to disagree with you. Analogies exist for a reason. I never claimed to be a buddhist monk. Seems to me that you're mixing the two up.

DROdio

Hey @iamjason89, I'm not removing anything -- although I am using a new blogging platform that's still in beta. So maybe that's why it's not working for you. I'll ask @Tynan to reach out to you; he's the creator of the platform.

Sorry for the trouble. Bleeding edge :-/

I disagree. On a first production run of a new product, there's the very real possibility it won't work out. Now that they have over 1,000 pre-orders it's obvious that it's a hit, but if you're "backer" #1 you have no idea if it'll come to fruition or not.

What I would agree with is that since they're not collecting $$$ until they ship, there's no risk. But that doesn't mean the term "backer" is misleading. Any early adopter of a new product would be a "backer" of its adoption.

DROdio

Yeah I wrote a post about it and did a Skype interview with @tynan about SETT: http://danielodio.com/moving-from-wordpress-to-sett-a-social...

BTW some great feedback in the post comments from Lockitron co-founder Paul with more detail on how & why they took this approach: http://danielodio.com/dissecting-the-massively-over-subscrib...

Hey @joelrunyon, agreed that it'd be great to see this done on a more detailed basis. I just threw this one together because I was impressed with how they copied the Kickstarter approach, which I hadn't seen done in exactly this way before for a launch (an obvious approach, but effective).

If you want to add more detailed feedback in the comments section on my post (or here) I'll be happy to dig into it more.

Has anyone actually pre-ordered that might have more feedback?

DROdio

VCs seem to think so (almost always).

Rule #1 of fundraising: If it's not a "yes," then it's a "no," no matter what the reason given.

And here's a cached copy:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Since the site's up & down due to load, here's a picture showing that Socialize increases app sessions by 21.8%: http://go.drod.io/pwaqd5 -- video at http://vimeo.com/28162089

Indeed: @Socialize has paid $625 to @Jonathanscard to promote our SDK Speed Challenge. That's enough for an iPad, @sodio! http://besoci.al/q2I0QE http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878875

Trying to make the world a better place. :)

And we just launched our social API and SDKs that add a layer of business intelligence to any app via a drop-in social platform. Think Google+ Circles meets Flurry SDK in any app. http://www.GetSocialize.com

Hacking the hack of the hack: @Socialize has paid $625 to @Jonathanscard to promote our SDK Speed Challenge. That's enough for an iPad, @sodio! besoci.al/q2I0QE http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878875

Indeed: @Socialize has paid $625 to @Jonathanscard to promote our SDK Speed Challenge. That's enough for an iPad, @sodio! http://besoci.al/q2I0QE http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878875

$5,000 for @jonathanscard ... why not! http://twitter.com/#!/Socialize/status/100375061587951616

@jonathanstark someone is totally hacking your card: http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard/status/10036286052539596...