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richerd

154 karma · joined October 18, 2008

My name is Richard Chan, I am a Co-Founder and CTO of the Poppy Company (http://meetpoppy.com)

I am a full stack + mobile hacker, Bitcoin entreprenueur, and previously iOS lead developer at Couple.app (YC W12) and Hootsuite.

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richerd··on Show HN: Spread bitcoins by lending to friends
While its true for a lot of Bitcoin users, one of our goals was to make bitcoin more accessible to the public and the average person who is interested in bitcoin but doesn't quite know how to get started.

We are using Facebook as a trust network.

richerd··on Ask HN: Am I committing career suicide?
I had some super interesting housing arrangements the whole time I was there.

One of the more interesting ones...

http://richerd.com/2011/09/03/sleeping-on-the-streets-of-kua...

richerd··on Ask HN: Am I committing career suicide?
I occasionally did some consulting jobs. Put it this way, some people make about $500 a month in Malaysia (which is more than enough to survive comfortably on). When you charge $100+ an hour you can make more in a day than the locals make in a month.
richerd··on All of my side-projects from 2012
I probably shouldn't say yet, suit is still ongoing and isn't settled yet.
richerd··on All of my side-projects from 2012
- PairMixer - http://pairmixer.com - Find someone to Pair with (got sued for this one had to take it down)

- Sink or Ship - http://sinkorship.com - Ship Your Project In Time, Or Else...

richerd··on With the #25 issue, Hacker Monthly celebrates its 2 Year Anniversary
Just got my HM in my in box, and as always it looks beautiful. Congrats on the two year milestone :)
richerd··on Ask HN: Good travel planning app?
dcovery.com looks promising, but its not released yet.
richerd··on Show HN: Sink or Ship - ship your project in time, or else...
Sadly no, I had to adjust the ship time. bearwithclaws is now $5 richer. But we shipped!
richerd··on Show HN: Sink or Ship - ship your project in time, or else...
Then you beat the system :) but then why pledge yourself in the first place?
richerd··on Show HN: Sink or Ship - ship your project in time, or else...
thats a great idea. We are just testing the concept out right and scratching our own itch/problem. Figured $5 was the simplest thing we could do to start.
richerd··on Show HN: Sink or Ship - ship your project in time, or else...
We had a few ideas on how to iterate from here. a kick-starter model is something we considered, but wanted to start with something really small for people to try out first.
richerd··on Show HN: Sink or Ship - ship your project in time, or else...
Starting is easy, shipping is hard.

I have a folder on my computer with a number of unfinished/unshipped projects. We created Sink or Ship to address the problem of following though and shipping what you started.

http://imgur.com/BdtwZ

richerd··on Ask PG: Can you start a HN crowd-funding venture?
Today is a bad day to ask PG. YC interviews just started.
richerd··on Ask HN: How do you compile an iOS app?
In the Menu, Product > Archive. If you want to distribute your application you'll need to make sure that its properly code signed.

And checkout Testflight https://testflightapp.com/ they have lots of resources on how to build and distribute Ad Hoc builds which are builds that you can give to people.

richerd··on TheComplete.me Launches Social Dating Site, Raises $1.22M
They detected my fake Facebook profile http://imgur.com/CCPUU
richerd··on Show HN: PairMixer, find singles to "Pair" with
The problem is that we launched on HackerNews which generally has a more Male audience.

We are going to try to get more females on PairMixer though other channels.

richerd··on Show HN: PairMixer, find singles to "Pair" with
Thanks, how about access to your API :)
richerd··on Show HN: PairMixer, find singles to "Pair" with
False. Everyone on the site is real.
richerd··on Show HN: PairMixer, find singles to "Pair" with
thanks for the feedback. Editing your personal profile is a requirement after signing up, if you would like to view other members. As for the leading questions great suggestion, our goal for launching was just to get things going first.
richerd··on Show HN: PairMixer, find singles to "Pair" with
it was a placeholder. We fixed it.
richerd··on Show HN: PairMixer, find singles to "Pair" with
No its not a real testimonial. Thanks for the heads up. It was left over from our designs. We've changed it.
richerd··on Show HN: PairMixer, find singles to "Pair" with
After Pair was released, I wanted try this "thumbkiss" thing to see what it was all about. The problem was I had no one to pair with. So I figured hey wouldn’t it be fun to create directory of singles to pair with, and so I created PairMixer over the weekend with my friend (bearwithclaws). I reversed engineered the Pair's private API so pairing is done "automagically".

What do you guys think?

Screenshots: http://i.imgur.com/QBbB9.png http://i.imgur.com/zU7AY.png

richerd··on [dead]
I wanted to try Pair to see what this "thumbkiss" thing was all about. The problem was I had no one to pair with. So I figured hey wouldn’t it be fun to create directory of singles for people to pair with, and so I created PairMixer over the weekend with my friend (bearwithclaws).

What do you guys think?