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Jack and Russ are relentless founders and I'm continually impressed by them. The ticket buying experience through SeatGeek is so easy and is particularly delightful on mobile. Excited to see what they're able to do with this funding.

Tutorspree.

Looking at that growth, I can only imagine how many startups were launched because of HN. HN played a huge role in convincing me to quit my corporate job and join a startup, and then later start my own.

I'm really enjoying my Pebble as well. Screening text/calls on my wrist is a lot nicer than I thought it with be. I'm excited to see what kind of apps the developer community is going to come up with now that they have Pebble's in hand.

Tutorspree (YC W11) is hiring Web Engineers in New York, NY. (Tribeca)

+ Our web stack uses Python/Flask/postgres/nginx. + Competitive salary + stock options. + Live in New York!

Please reach out to me directly if interested - ryan@tutorspree.com

Tutorspree (YC W11) is looking for Python developers in the NYC area who are interested in full-time or contract work. Reach out to me if interested - ryan@tutorspree.com

His main suggestion is that Apple couldn't get enough data to make it good without launching the app, and they had to go ahead and release it at some point. The software works quite well - it's the dataset that's inferior.

What city are you in? We have a bigger presence in certain cities than others, but we're definitely national. I'm pretty sure we could help you find clients.

Startup stories where things don't go as planned but the founders find a way to persevere anyway (like Justin.TV) are way more inspiring to me as an entrepreneur than the overnight successes of companies like Instagram, etc.

If you count Socialcam and Exec as pivots of some sort, that makes it at least 4.

It should be more clear that you'll login to people's OKCupid and Match accounts to handle things for them, as opposed to just writing generic profile text. I'm sure there's people searching for terms like "okcupid tips" on google that might be in your target audience and you could try testing out some adwords campaigns on these terms.

This was truly touching. Thanks PB.

This is a neat idea. Best of luck! Looks great.

Looks great, guys. I think this is a cool idea.

The initial search box is flawed. I typed in "New York City" and it got stuck on that. You should be more flexible with user inputs, or at least fix the autocomplete so it still suggests "New York, NY" after I've typed in "New York City"..

From what I've heard, Grooveshark has been pre-emptively making payments to the labels monthly for over the past year so that they don't sue. They labels seemed to be okay with this as they sort of figured out what Grooveshark was - I wonder what happened to cause the change of heart by Universal.

We do have Tumblr, Etsy, and Foursquare - but I agree, a Facebook size company coming out of New York would do wonders for the ecosystem.

You're right - it's getting better. We still can't get fiber at our new office in TriBeCa, though, which is a real bummer.

This is one of many character assassination posts by this guy in an effort to promote his own startup.

Not the best marketing strategy, folks.

I've had recruiters looking to place engineers get my contact info this way, and I agree with you that it's creepy.

As pg notes above, the best hires early on often come from your personal network. Our first hire I had worked with before.

wow. that's awesome. congrats guys!

This is cool, but it's certainly not a game changer. If you didn't need an Xfinity or Verizon account to get all this content then it would be a lot more interesting.

If I were willing to pay $80/mo for cable, I wouldn't be on Xbox streaming it.

It's true that apartments are expensive in NY, but they're also similarly expensive in San Francisco, and parts of Silicon Valley (Palo Alto).

There's a lot of affordable co-working spaces in NYC if you want some sort office to start, but the most ideal space might be your apartment anyway.

You can also choose to live a little further out of the way if you're trying to save money - like in Queens, Brooklyn, or Jersey City. Depending on proximity to the subway etc, it can be just a 15 minute commute to Manhattan from any of these areas.

Everyone looks so young. Sam Altman looks exactly the same. (he still looks super young)

I met my co-founders through Hacker News.

I'm willing to bet at least a handful of people have gotten jobs through Quora.

Someone claims to have even landed funding for their startup on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-gotten-startup-funding-thank...

Thanks for the advice. It's something we're seriously thinking about. How do you usually find clients?

Tutorspree (YC W11) is located in NYC and we're hiring hackers: http://startups.hackruiter.com/tutorspree

It depends how serious you are about this venture.

I think it's pretty important to at least have a technical co-founder if you want to start a startup. Otherwise, you're starting a business in a field where you have no domain knowledge.

If technology won't be your competitive advantage, what will it be?

The design initiative going on at Google is really interesting, as it's a considerable departure from people's perceptions of Google products.