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I used Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop for the still photos and graphics, then brought them into Apple Final Cut Pro for the editing.

The narration was recorded at my desk (with pillows around me to stop echos) using an Audio Technica AT2020 USB condenser mic.

That's good feedback. As far as the video goes, we used to have only the developer stuff in it. Then the non-technical people didn't get a word of it. So we decided to add the first minute to explain the problem we're trying to solve.

With the JS overlays -- when we launch the real website (in the next couple of months) it won't use those -- it's just a normal, click as you go, website. Also, we'll very likely split the video back into two, one for developers, one for site owners.

That is a great perspective on it. The application process itself almost always helps the applicant. Will keep that in mind.

Has anyone applied to YC, got accepted, and quit their day job?

That is the scenario we're facing with BitsyBox. We love every minute that we're working on it but I wanted to get some feedback from the HN community about whether we should start thinking about it as our big jump out of the corporate developer's life.

Basically right now, we go to our corporate jobs during the day, come back at night and work for four hours on it -- this can't be uncommon. We're ready to make the leap to work on this everyday / all day -- but we'd really like to have some seed funding or be ramen-profitable first.

My first reaction was, how is this different from Lala.com?

My friend Travis built Twittangle. Helps you organize tweets.

http://www.twittangle.com/

I would stick with Clicky. If your traffic is under 100,000 pageviews / day, I haven't found a better one.

The founders are very responsive and there's a good community built around it. I use their REST API to actually integrate popularity into my site. Works great.

Sign up here: http://getclicky.com/27959