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I built a live, weekly web show using it at overloadshow.com. It didn't take me very long to get up and running. The main work for me was making it so that random people couldn't fire up their video. Once permissions are added to the API (I hear it's a priority), a lot of that won't be necessary. I have plans to make it so I can let people start video long enough to ask a question, then kick them out again but I haven't yet implemented it. While there are a few places I think the API could be cleaned up and some features I'd like to see added, overall though I'm very pleased with how easy it was to get started working from the many examples provided.

Oops, dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2171963 (fixed)

Sorry

Original lengthy discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2139107

And they've used jQuery since the beginning. Not sure how that is relevant to their core tech choices.

"And Milner/SV Angel say they intend to offer this for each Y Combinator startup in the future, too." from http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/28/yuri-milner-sv-angel-offer-... Not a guarantee though.

Boulder New Tech has a job board here: http://www.bdnewtech.com/messages/boards/forum/965517

If you want to provide direct feedback: http://blog.appharbor.com/2011/1/27/preliminary-pricing-page

It's not just Git deploy. If I ran my own EC2 instances, I'd have to maintain Windows. They have some other value adds too (free small MSSQL dbs and basic CI in the dashboard, etc).

Someone needs to build this for dating.

Not if you use RestSharp :)

If you want to do incoming handling as well as outbound, you won't be able to use SES for now. SendGrid has a great incoming parse API: thttp://wiki.sendgrid.com/doku.php?id=parse_api

They announced they'd support SMS when the launched SNS awhile back, so I don't think this would surprise anyone.

> I'm guessing you can't sort your email.

Correct.

A bigger problem is newline handling, which no one can seem to agree on.

If there were a market for better Windows VPSs, wouldn't that already exist? I think there's a lot of room for players in this market and something tells me you agree.

I didn't know you were part of a YC company. Which one was it?

Gates was CEO from the beginning of Microsoft until he became Chief Software Architect prior to his retirement. Ballmer became CEO after Gates. There was never a gap between founding and CSA where someone else was CEO of MS.

Gowalla implements PuSH which lets you react to check-ins. Much better than constantly polling their API over and over again seeing if something has changed. I wish Foursquare would add this. It would open up a huge number of new use cases.

I know you can port them to Twilio :) (I work at Twilio)

We can upgrade you to a full account, just email jsheehan@twilio.com. You'll keep your dev credit.

T-Mobile used to do this with every new Sidekick release so it's not completely unprecedented.

We're working on revamping our libraries and will most likely add something like this in a future release.

What don't you like about Nambu?

Microsoft probably loves the leeway that Apple's position gives them right now to act the way they love to act.

Correct. There are free versions of VS for C#, Web, etc.

You should contact jf http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jf

Are you guys BizSpark or BizSpark One?

From that same page: The BizSpark Graduation Offer assumes a standard production configuration of 4 Windows Server Standard Edition and 2 SQL Server Standard Edition (Proc) which we believe will meet the needs of most startups. For startups who have different or greater needs, the BizSpark team will work with them to build a customized configuration at graduation.

The vast majority of questions are non-tech (telephony-related, account issues, and other FAQ type stuff). The next largest set of questions is technical and that's what we have the evangelists for who are all working developers. reneighbor is also more technical than she gives herself credit for :)

The Silverlight perspective is probably right since Steve is a long-time .NET developer who recently took a job at Microsoft.