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juliamae

214 karma · joined December 4, 2008

YC alumna, S06, JumpChat, cofounders jeresig and skierx
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juliamae··on IfIRanTheWorld I would..
Thanks for your feedback! We have new homepage in the works which should hopefully clear up some of the confusion.

IE7/8 support is almost done. Almost! :/

juliamae··on Given unlimited money/resources, what good can we do in the world?
It's interesting that you started this with "given unlimited money."

Something I've fully accepted lately is that the way we spend our money affects more change than who we vote for (in the USA anyway). So given a huge amount of money, I would start a campaign to educate people about that.

juliamae··on IfIRanTheWorld I would..
Yes Yes and Yes I agree with you on all those n_n

A&B - we have a redesigned home page to get rid of the wall of text and the confusing overlay coming very soon.

C- This is one of my least favorite things about the site. I'll +1 to this issue.

Thanks!!

juliamae··on IfIRanTheWorld I would..
The idea is that you CAN do what you would do if you ran the world, if you had enough man hours to get you there. A little help here & there, and you can achieve it. All this is possible because you're likely not the only one who wants to do what you want to.

The workflow as we have envisioned it is that you answer the question, and we show you similar action platforms and microactions, so that you can get involved right now with the platform you care about. Or, if nothing matches what you have in mind, you can start your own.

juliamae··on IfIRanTheWorld I would..
An iPhone site wasn't in the works for phase one release (minimally viable product), but it's definitely in the works.
juliamae··on IfIRanTheWorld I would..
Hey, everyone, thanks for your feedback! I'm the dev for the site and we know we have a long way to go.

We launched the site a few weeks ago in the interest of getting it out there and see how people are using it and what they want. So yea, there's a lot of stuff that's not there/broken/weird. But that's kind of the point!

We didn't stick a huge beta icon in the corner, but we think people need to stop being apologetic about what they're putting out there and more receptive to feedback and real-world use cases.

So, please, if you have any ideas about what could make this more useful to you, let us know! You can ping me here, or on getsatisfaction.

juliamae··on IfIRanTheWorld I would..
I'm the developer for the site, although I've only been on the project for a few weeks. The initial vision, as I understand it, was to not bombard people with what they _could_ do, but let people find it themselves. We've since gotten a lot of comments about just wanting to see an index, which we're put up at /action_platforms for the curious. This page is in the works, which is why there's no link to it.
juliamae··on IfIRanTheWorld I would..
It is about the idea/message/whatever, but it is also a startup. Currently, other than Cindy, there are only 2 of us on it full time (Jason & me), with a user experience person coming on full-time soon.
juliamae··on IfIRanTheWorld I would..
Hi there! There are only two of us working full time on it (Jason & me, the only programmer at this point).. The site was bootstrapped by Pivotal Labs, but those two developers aren't working on the site anymore.
juliamae··on IfIRanTheWorld I would..
Hi, I'm one of the programmers. The site was bootstrapped with help from Pivotal Labs, so two of the programmers listed are from there. I'm currently, as of a week ago, the only programmer on the project, and one of the two people working full-time on the site.
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