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Great question, there is going to be a follow up on the results - we just need a couple more months for a better sample.

You can have your cake and eat it too if you focus on client-side adaptation. For instance, with MIT-licensed Mobify.js which we recently released (http://mobifyjs.com) you can have any amount of mobile-specific functionality while keeping the URL of your desktop site intact. Works especially well if your site is complex!

Used Ticketive for a bit, looks like it could be a solid competitor for Rapportive/GMail itself, especially if third-party developers start contributing functionality.

Does anybody have insights into general performance implications of using UIWebViews vs Mobile Safari?

Job Postings, eg. http://google.ru/jobs ;)

Great news for the mobile web. Thanks, team JQuery!

William Davidow's (of Intel) definition is as true as ever:

"Marketing must invent complete products and drive them to commanding positions in defendable market segments"

If you subscribe to this vision, things like advertising, promotions and product development become easy to align.

From my experience, complicated earn-out structures are a nuisance. They are hard to set up fairly (a lot of edge cases) and even harder to deal with if things go south.

I second what nedwin said about vesting & equal split. Instead of focusing on putting equity value on every hour spent, think of the desired outcome (great company equally split by three cofounders) with a lot of time allocated and a kill switch in place.

PnP model is selling services to startups - first office space, then based on your needs it could be hosting, HR etc. They don't take equity and don't have any limits regarding how long you can stay there (because they get paid cash). However the owner (Saeed) also has a fund and does get in on some Series A rounds. There is a lot more about PnP & Saeed Amidi on thefunded.com

the latter is what we're trying to accomplish. Facebook, Google, YouTube all have great touch versions, why shouldn't everybody else?

First day of University

Well, it's pretty much a standard:

cnn.com & m.cnn.com

facebook.com & m.facebook.com

gmail.com & m.gmail.com

So definitely disagree with the notion of "fundamentally flawed" as literally every significant site is doing it at this point

Good start! Reminds me of iUi

There's also the mobile view we did a while back at http://yc.mobify.me/ - back then pg said that the HN mobile strategy is in the works, so maybe we'll see something soon

Absolutely love the 4 Steps book, the best part is how re-reading it as the business grows keeps bringing more insights.

It's hard to digest all the knowledge in it unless the pain has been experienced first-hand

Get up between 6 and 7am, check email and go for a work out or a long walk while the city is still sleeping. By 8 am figure out what absolutely must be done today by me and what should the team be doing (I am the "businessy" guy). Work until 7PM, take "re-charge break" until 9PM, work until midnight, go to sleep.

I actually added that later to make it clear to our customers that I am not talking about the product they're paying for.

But I like your train of thought =))

I wish I could call them up and ask, I stand corrected

@zaidf At least the founders of the company must want their own product, like @hwijaya was saying. However that doesn't mean anybody else does.

Also a great quote on the need/want subject: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” [Henry Ford]

Hey, @johnboxall just put a few more minutes into it, looks a lot better. Check it out and give us more feedback! Thanks

can you succeed with both of them at once?

Thanks for the feedback, most of these will be rolled out shortly. Glad you liked it!

It's probably because I suck at CSS =) For an example of a mobified site styled by a CSS pro over a couple of hours check out http://spin.mobify.me . Perhaps you can do a better job yourself - our platform is an open service.

Paul,

What you actually want is a mobile projection of the HN site! iPhone is the dominant device in the US but I am sure you want to open up to Asia's Nokia, Google's Android and the BlackBerry as well.

We launched Mobify.Me in a post earlier today and here's a mobile version of HN done in around 5 minutes (as it's very late here in Vancouver). All you'd have to do is point a DNS entry for m.ycombinator.com to:

http://yc.mobify.me

Hope you like it!

Team Mobify.Me

Thanks! Actually the lower tier would be something like a pizzeria and a higher tier - a publisher with 500k uniques a month. We will ofer a wide range of pricing options to serve both.

They do affect it but we'll have sufficient support for it! There's a large amou.nt of customization allowed with the system.

Coming right up :)) Been a bit busy helping clients with much more mobile traffic than our homepage.

MoFuse is an RSS feed converter. Mobify.Me supports proper URLs, search, forms, sessions, interaction - mobile is a lot more than RSS. There is a big gap in that niche, though RSS converters are definitely very common.