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peezeon WeWork sues SoftBank over canceled $3B tender offer

Crisis? More like correction.

peezeon Homejoy's Back. Kind of

Probably just the "As seen on" from Homejoy's old website. Same founder, so it counts...right?!

peezeon Ask HN: When do you know your startup has failed?

"All companies die the same way...They run out of money." - Bill Campbell

peezeon Drop Dropbox

I thought this was going to be about Heartbleed...darn.

peezeon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

iCracked (YC W12) - Redwood City, CA

Think of us as the Uber meets AAA of iOS devices. iCracked started on a college campus repairing iPhones 2 years ago. Now, we have a geo-locational, on demand dispatch service going out to over 350 iTechs in 11 countries around the world. We are Y Combinator (W12), very well funded, and looking for talented developers to join our team.

We have an incredible, core team with beautiful office spaces on the water in Redwood City. You'll be joining a talented team of developers and designers to bring together the ultimate on-demand and on-location buyback and repair experience for thousands of existing customers and millions of potential customers around the world. We're working with all kinds of fun data, visualization, APIs, and services to provide a new kind of market and customer experience never seen before.

We're looking for: -Full Stack Backend Developers -iOS Developers -(Our First) Lead Frontend Developer

We're moving fast. We build, iterate and ship constantly so you will be pushing code to production all the time. This is an exciting time to get in a position at the company, as you'll be able to be involved in a lot of the big picture development for our exciting projects in the pipeline. Do you think you have what it takes?

peezeon Why I'm glad my iPhone broke

You should check out iCracked. They'll either fix your iPhone or buy it from you!

peezeon Broken iPhone? Call iCracked (YC W12), the aspiring AAA of smartphones

Yeah, there are definitely people doing it way cheaper, but the quality is terrible and there is no warranty!

peezeon Broken iPhone? Call iCracked (YC W12), the aspiring AAA of smartphones

A lot of that data comes from SquareTrade.

peezeon Broken iPhone? Call iCracked (YC W12), the aspiring AAA of smartphones

When I called iCracked about the same thing, they (very honestly) told me iPhone 5 screens are uber expensive and they currently cost more than it would to get a replacement iPhone 5 from Apple, which is currently $229. The way the markets work though, iCracked said they will be swapping those screens out at half the price pretty soon. I'm assuming it's the in-cell technology in the new screens that makes them so expensive.