jeffchuber

thanks guys!

Side project - not a startup. But if you want to try it out.

http://pitchback.me/pitchback518

I would agree that Pinterest's layout works terribly for any that is text based.

The issue for a lot of websites is getting users to be intrigued enough to spend 10 seconds checking out the site. Making the site familiar or tying it to a sexy trend can maximize short term traction but at the expense of long term traction (unoptimized UI). I don't think this is right or wrong, each company has to make their own decision.

I know David Hill. He is a great designer and knows his clients intimately. His clients are the heads of IT for large organizations that want reliable solid unbreakable working machines. And that is exactly what Lenovo builds. They aren't sexy. They aren't meant to be sexy. Functionality comes first. Form gets a say if it's lucky. This is also how large organizations function and what they are most comfortable with. For this reason it's no surprise that Lenovo will likely become the largest PC manufacturer by volume this year.

Why is this on the front page? Am I missing something?

This is also exactly why she should be forced to use email. Any appointed government position should come under extra public scrutiny.

Getting off the BART is terrible when it's crowded. Especially at stations with only 1 exit and not very many tills (16th and Mission)

They charge zone to zone. In order to know what to charge you they have to know your end point. How do you propose they figure this out without you telling them?

I'm guessing they paid SendGrid $1470, not Sengrid.

Try this link

http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/?utm_source=AWS&utm_medium...

Completely self-serving - but I do see my project playing into this space. http://knowitapp.com

I agree that there is a difference between designing for utility versus designing for entertainment but respectfully, the new icon looks like bloatware.

I first want to congratulate and praise these advances in optics. I think it's great that they have received so much funding to further their pursuits.

I don't think that the current application of their technology makes sense. The form factor is awkward and they are selling to prosumer / professional photogs. The technology makes sense for consumers - because consumers aren't making art - they are making memories. And memories can absorb the dynamism their technology provides (changes focus and even perspective (minorly)). So this tech on an smartphone would be amazing. (because other consumer level cameras are being fazed out obviously).

For professionals this tech would also be useful in DSLRs - but ONLY for fixing perspective or composition. I dont think most professionals want the general public messing with their art form. Some abstract artists that will be very interested in the interact-ability - but not most. As a photographer myself - I want complete control over my medium and that includes focus and perspective obviously -- but the tech would be useful for post-processing. If they want to sell this to the current market they are selling to (seemingly professionals/prosumers but with a consumer form-factor) -- then they almost need to say this isnt even photography - but a completely new thing.

I can tell the founder really cares about the technology - and doesn't just want this to be like a Cisco and sell tech to larger companies. I can totally appreciate that - I wouldnt want to run that sort of company either. I just don't know that it will work how he wants to make it work.

Maybe that's why this change is happening.

The opening line:

"When you think of technology start-ups, a small cluster of cities comes to mind – Silicon Valley, Seattle, Austin and Charlotte."

Charlotte?? I thought Raleigh-Durham was bad for startups - Charlotte has to be worse. And where is the mention of New York City? Strange perspective. Maybe someone from Charlotte can shed light on their Ive league status.

ironically Peter Thiel has quoted that quote about Rhodes scholars in the class he is teaching at stanford.

Sure thing.

Happy to communicate privately with you more (jeff at knowitapp dot com). Publicly I'll say: - the site didnt work after 6 months and was built in python. - we didn't know python, but Nash had read one book on php so we went from there building the site from scratch. - We built on LAMP stack with jquery and open-source. A beautiful, intuitive MVP was our mantra. Just make it work.

Will post up a blog post in the next few days!

Thanks Rust.

More here (above). http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3648809

When Tumblr gets their act together we will post on our blog more!

Our only experience in UI was using the web. I had extremely little html experience, no css, no jquery. Thanks a lot!

Thanks! We are making it up and figuring it out as we go along!

The site is LAMP(php) stack on AWS ec2 and jquery on the front-end.

Let's see, roadblocks: - front-end -- getting everything to work tolerably in IE7+ - front-end -- the bookmarklet. Definitely the bookmarklet. Huge issues injecting javascript into DOMs. The version live now finally works every time without fail. (details: array leaks, style conflicts, calling in jquery, etc) - back-end -- nothing too serious. Joins in mySQL took a while to get right. Ajax can be finicky but nothing too bad. - Server -- we hadn't set up DDOS protection on our amazon server and so the site went down a few times. There are some great tutorials for getting a Lamp stack up on ec2 - if you know what you are doing should only take five minutes.

Needless to say figuring out what to search is the biggest problem. Once you know what to search, stackoverflow and google can fix all your problems.

We we're pushing our blog over to Tumblr, but this feature has been down on tumblr over the last two days. But yes - soon! Thanks!

Agree with other's comments. Looks a ton like new Google. And why all the backlash against structure? People like structure.

This is sensationalist crap.

Amazon SES definitely. Really cheap and painless.

Be sure to get a fantastic front-end engineer/designer on board. It strikes me the online dating space more needs better design than algorithms. (even OKcupid is just OK. pun intended)

Unfortunately I agree with Mike (on site) on his comments.

Consumer apps used to compete on functionality - now everyone can mostly do that part.

Design (both graphic and interaction) is where companies will compete for consumers.

Bump has needed a TON of help in the past and even does tdoay (even with their iphone app, http://www.iwebsnacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Bump-2....).

Please - start with a new logo.

The rate should be a factor of GDP growth - something like when GDP is growing 3%+, they can have 0 deficit, and shrinking, up to 5%.

Or just some way to save in the good times, and spend in the bad times.

It is interesting how twitter has de-emphasized the obvious benefit to people creating custom streams through #tags