olivercameron

I'm not so sure it is. The scroll inertia is completely different from Twitter for Mac, and which custom scroll bars?

There is a cheaper version of Uber, it's called UberX[1].

1. http://allthingsd.com/20120702/a-status-symbol-moves-down-ma...

Everyme (YC S11) - Full Time - Menlo Park, CA

Ruby on Rails Engineer

We are looking for people who can work up and down the web stack and who can pick up new languages quickly. If you are a super smart generalist who can work on the servers one day and optimize complex algorithms the next, we want to hear from you. You will be our first non-founder web engineer and will work directly with the founders.

Ability to work from our Backbone.js front-end to our Ruby on Rails back-end is a must. Experience with server management and databases is a plus. Some days you will help keep the servers up and others you will be adjusting algorithms and designs that affect 100s of thousands of people.

We're currently a tiny team of 5, and have an open and friendly culture, where ideas are encouraged to be shared by everyone. Did I mention that we have a ping-pong table?

We're building something incredibly meaningful. Everyme is bringing together families, couples and best friends who otherwise wouldn't communicate. This isn't just another social network, but a significant mission to change how people share. Candidates will hopefully understand and have a passion for privacy, not to mention have an appetite for going up against Goliath.

We are well funded by top-tier VCs and angels, including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, CrunchFund, SV Angel and more. Come and join our small team of 5, which includes ex-Facebookers, ex-MySpacers, and successful iPhone and Android app developers. We offer market salary, generous equity and awesome perks!

To apply, please get in touch with me or email jobs@everyme.com! More roles open at http://everyme.com/jobs

This is obviously very troubling for Facebook, considering that Sponsored Stories appear to be their main effort to monetize mobile.

It's especially troubling because this is yet another breach of privacy on their part. People liking pages or apps don't expect to be spokespeople for these companies, so showing my name next to an advertisement is disingenuous. It's made even worse that this is opt-out, and my name is displayed on sites other than Facebook[1].

There is going to be hundreds of millions of people who will never even know that they're recommending products to people, and that's bad.

1. http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/22/3110645/facebook-ads-on-zy...

Have you ever lived in a hacker house? I haven't, and if you haven't, then I don't think either of us are in the position to say the whole point of living in a hacker house is to work non-stop. You simply don't know that.

Of course lots of work is going to get done at such a place, but who said that the experience and fun wouldn't also be incredibly beneficial to a young developer?

I'm just not entirely sure how someone can be taken advantage of at a hackathon. Are you implying that someone will steal their product? Or that they'll somehow be convinced to give up a large % stake in their project by someone who can't code? Again, an example of a hackathon where this has happened would be great. Besmirching the name of hackathons in general is wrong.

As for hacker mansions, the post you linked to opens with "Like the idea of living/working in a Palo Alto hacker mansion?". If the answer to that question is no, then the likelihood is you wouldn't apply to this job.

I disagree with your assessment that this ad is "clearly written by someone who thinks they can throw material things at a Developer and then get them to work 20-hour days for three months straight". From my perspective, they're offering an amazing summer experience for the right candidate who wants to work with them. This ad is clearly not aimed for experienced developers, but rather young folk who are looking to get experience in the startup community.

Let's not forget that employment is at will, so if someone is not enjoying working at such a place, they can leave at any time. I, for one, know a bunch of people who love and thrive in such environments. As for "20-hour days", that's just a number you've thrown out. Who's to say you couldn't have a great work/life balance at a hacker mansion?

I'm not entirely sure what hackathons Ryan Carson has been to, but this post is seriously misguided.

Developers don't go to hackathons to be "code monkeys", rather they go to build something cool in a fun environment. It's often a great break outside of the day job to build something they would otherwise not have the motivation to. No one is stealing their concept or forcing them to take it further, it's just fun.

As for hacker mansions, people like to live with like-minded folk and code. What's wrong with that? I fail to see how people are being exploited here. Perhaps some examples would help.

Check out this article, does a good job explaining our evolution: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/04/12/the-story-of-everym...

Would love to hear what you think! Feel free to email feedback to oliver at everyme dot com.

Not right now, we're focused on nailing the circle experience.

I could be in 1000 Google+ circles, but I would have no clue who else I'm in the circle with or what the circle is called. It's a very strange concept, and doesn't improve much upon private sharing (it's more of a lists feature). In Everyme Circles, everyone knows exactly who they're sharing with, because you can see all the content that is being shared.

Great feedback! We're working on fixing this so it's more clear.

Thanks! Great to hear.

We understand the frustration of trying new social networks, but we hope you'll give Everyme a try. We added "Export Your Data" today, which means you can request an archive of everything you've shared on Everyme whenever you like.

We don't offer public circles, since we're focusing on nailing private sharing. We want people to feel comfortable, so having a public option adds complexity.

We agree, completely! Traditional ads are not a good solution on mobile.

Thanks! No plans right now, we're just working on making Everyme a comfortable place for people to share privately.

Everyme Circles are completely private, and everyone knows exactly who they're sharing with, whereas Google+ Circles are a confusing concept.

Everyme also uses your address book to do some amazing things, like magically create Circles such as family, co-workers, college friends, sweetheart etc., and then keep in touch with them using the address book (this means not everyone needs the app!).

That's the great thing about Everyme! Not everyone needs to be using the app for them to receive your stories, because it's integrated with the address book.

For example, most of my family don't use any social networks, but they all use email. So I created a Circle with everyone's emails inside, and when I share a story, they get a beautiful email with my photo inside. They can reply to the email directly to comment on the story, and all keep in touch. We've made email a first class citizen.

We just added data export to our mobile apps. You totally own everything you share, and you can request an archive at any time with all of your data (full-resolution photos, stories, circles etc.). We also automatically send you an archive of all your data if you delete your account, before it's destroyed.

It's very important to us that users feel comfortable sharing in Everyme.

"With only around 20-30k daily active users, it certainly wasn't money raised based on user adoption".

I wish people would stop throwing AppData figures out as if they're fact, they're not. Dustin Curtis has no clue as to how many daily active users Quora has (no one does), but rather how many daily active users who so happen to have connected their Facebook account.

It's not a good indicator of success, and Facebook (and in turn AppData) has proven to be incredibly inaccurate as of late in regards to user numbers.

This is awesome. Beautiful examples make such a difference. However, every time I try to buy it for $10, PayPal checkout says it'll cost $1.

Palo Alto/Menlo Park, CA - Lead Designer - Full Time

Everyme is looking for a lead designer. We're building the true social network, backed by the address book. We do an incredible amount of intensive computations, but everyone we have showed the product to is surprised by how we've managed to keep the UI beautiful, simple and focused. We like to think we're a dream home for a designer, as every one of our 5 engineers all implement PSDs to the pixel. We're looking for someone who has designed iOS/Mac apps before, and has a keen eye for pixel perfection.

You'll be challenged on a daily basis to make our complex algorithms look simple to the end user. MG Siegler wrote a great post on us, which has a little more info about Everyme[1]. We're launching in 10 days, and have raised $1.5m from CrunchFund and others (Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, SV Angel). To apply, please email oliver at everyme dot com with some of your previous work.

1. http://parislemon.com/post/11647475506/your-true-social-netw...

Palo Alto/Menlo Park, CA - Lead Designer - Full Time

Everyme is looking for a lead designer. We're building the true social network, backed by the address book. We do an incredible amount of intensive computations, but everyone we have showed the product to is surprised by how we've managed to keep the UI beautiful, simple and focused. We like to think we're a dream home for a designer, as every one of our 5 engineers all implement PSDs to the pixel. We're looking for someone who has designed iOS/Mac apps before, and has a keen eye for pixel perfection.

You'll be challenged on a daily basis to make our complex algorithms look simple to the end user. MG Siegler wrote a great post on us, which has a little more info about Everyme[1]. We've raised $1.5m from CrunchFund and others (Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, SV Angel).

To apply, please email oliver at everyme dot com with some of your previous work.

1. http://parislemon.com/post/11647475506/your-true-social-netw...

Of course, it's a means to an end. I meant that the team they have built is inherently valuable, and because of the team they have an amazing product.

One thing that YC drills into you is to not settle for B or C class talent. You just have to look at Stripe's team overview to see how talented this company is: https://stripe.com/about

Stripe is a lesson on how to build a company from the ground up. Surrounding yourself with incredibly intelligent people tends to have an outcome like this (both product and valuation). Congrats guys!

This is a cool project, but the title of the book is very mis-leading ("Building a billion-dollar company").

Without knowing the author, people might presume that this book is written by someone who has built a billion dollar company before, and thus hand over $5 only to be disappointed (since they can't preview chapters). Not to mention it's a little link-baity.

Why not just call it "Gumroad"?

Ah, that explains it.

Curiously, Sean Parker appears to not be on the top shareholders list[1], despite previously having a large %. Did he sell all of it on SecondMarket?

1. http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/01/facebooks-s-1-and-the-large...

Do we really have to go down that same path that we went down with Microsoft vs. Apple? Each company should be held responsible for their own, singular actions. If Google is doing wrong, then Google is at fault, let's not pass the blame to Apple, or vice-versa.

Honestly, it's in the media's best interest for fanboys on each side to be at war with each other, not anyone else's. If you like an Android phone, use Android, if you prefer an iPhone, use an iPhone. It doesn't need to be a point of contention.

Both companies have made mistakes, but we needn't go "Oh, you think Google is evil? Well, let me tell you about Apple". The truth is, it's hard to not be "evil" and have the insane amount of revenue's that these companies both share. Of course, this all depends on how you interpret "evil".

Steve Jobs famously said: "We have to let go of this notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose. We have to embrace a notion that for Apple to win, Apple has to do a really good job".

Geoff was one of my favorite partners at YC, so awesome to see him come on full time. He has this intensity that really gets to the root of a problem, I learnt a lot from him.

Congrats Geoff and YC!