superamit

"she" is also often used when referring to countries, though the only reason for it (and for vehicles) that I've found is tradition. English is strange.

I used a gendered pronoun in the second sentence to create mystery in the lede (if didn't already know it was about a company being sold when you hit the post, you don't mind out until further down) and go back to "it" afterward.

Thanks for the kind words, Evan. Glad to hear you guys are fans of Photojojo (and photography)!

re: Gender-specific pronouns for inanimates - English is weird. It sounds right to my ear as "she", but the opposite to others. Historically if a gender is required, male is used, but some find that offensive. On the other hand, certain inanimate objects (countries, vehicles of many kinds) are referred to as "she" simply because of tradition.

My girlfriend is learning a little Hindi right now and she finds it maddening that nouns are gendered male or female seemingly at random. I can tell her which is which, but as far as I know there's no system. Some are just male, some are female.

Anyway, "it" sounded weird in that sentence. I should have just rewritten it. :)

AirBoss is really neat!

Are you in SF? I'd love to see it in action. Can lend a Moto X for testing if you want to add to the database of phones, too.

This is really cool.

eCommerce on mobile is still way too much work and I could see people building marketplaces or purchase-enabled wishlisting/product bookmarking apps really quickly with this.

I hadn't seen Hush before -- neat idea! I only wish it'd let me silence notifications forever, or for days at a time.

Sorry, it has one now. For some reason it was lost when i created the poll.

This looks really interesting.

Anyone using this or similar tools they can vouch for?

Thanks for registering!

Thanks, Johnny!

Thanks so much for registering!

Agreed it'd be awesome to get them working together. Anne Wojcicki had reached out and I had a call with her and a couple other folks at 23andme during my 100 days isolation period after the transplant.

They seemed interested, I'm not sure how far it got. I'm guessing privacy issues/conflicting priorities got in the way, but I'll drop her a line to see if they're still thinking about it.

Hacker News was incredibly kind to me two years ago when I was diagnosed with Leukemia (AML). Many friends' posts made it to the front page here:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083770

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3149337

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297091

After about a hundred days of friends registering & campaigning, chemo, drives, press appearances, Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr posts, I found a donor:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3482119

HN played a huge part in making that happen. I want to say thanks not just for me, but for all the others that gotten helped through our efforts in the past two years alone.

Reminder: It's easy to register, and easy to save someone:

- http://bethematch.org/Support-the-Cause/Donate-bone-marrow/J...

This is a brave post, Ben!

Gotta agree with most of the comments here -- I think it's incredibly hard to find someone who's "been there before" who can walk in and actually do it for you in a CEO role. I've spent some time looking + asking others in similar situations.

That said, and though I strongly prefer moving people up from the inside, I think there IS opportunity for finding people who can bring specific areas of expertise, like fundraising+connections, building a sales team, leading a tech team.

And I think there's a lot to be gained in finding a strong mentor or group of entrepreneurs in similar situations to act as a sounding board. I can't help with the former, but perhaps the latter. Let's hang again, soon.

Photojojo (http://photojojo.com) - San Francisco, CA (we'll help with relocation)

We're obsessed with photography, profitable, been around for 7 years.

We maintain a small team (8 FT) and we hire slowly and really stress fit and a SANE work lifestyle.

We're located in the Mission, bike and dog-friendly, lots of standing desks and Apple gear, etc. We've been in the NYT several times, a bunch of the morning shows, WSJ, and appear regularly in tech and photo press.

Every year we take the company on a 2-3 week workcation. So far we've been to India, Mexico, and Thailand.

We're looking hire a Full Stack PHP Developer (with experience working with modern coding practices and frameworks) to join our small design and dev team (currently one front-end designer and one back-end developer).

You'll be active in determining our product direction and get to learn from all areas of the company. The work centers around our e-commerce store (http://photojojo.com/store), our new education offering (http://photojojo.com/university) as well as new projects and brands to come soon.

More info & Apply: http://photojojo.com/jobs/webdeveloper.html

Slick. Been using http://bud.ge/ a lot lately and this looks like a nice complement. Purchased!

It's tough to know the exact number, especially since the numbers from the drives are delayed by several weeks and some of the drives we held weren't "tagged" for me, but from what's come in so far, and the drives we ran in India, we should have registered about 10,000 people.

I haven't been able to get a number of the individuals who sent in for swab kits as a result of our efforts, so I'm not including those numbers. But I'm hopeful that with all the posts online + press (CNN, NPR, Wired, BBC, GOOD, tech blogs, etc.) that those numbers add up to something significant as well.

That's awesome. Congratulations! (And jeez yeah not looking forward to the nausea in the coming week but I'll get through it.)

Me too. Officially the NMDP doesn't release any details to either party until a year has gone by and they both ascent to it. Been trying to gather all the clues I can from the doctors (who have limited info as well).

Thank you!

Those first couple weeks I was pretty sad and felt sorry for myself a lot. When friends started organizing drives I got totally immersed in helping to organize those and forgot about everything else. When that trailed off, I guess I'd come to terms with it. I wish I knew exactly how long I had, but nobody ever does.

I'm looking forward to using this as an excuse to do a lot of things I'd been putting off and living the life today that I always figured I'd love someday.

It depends. If the cancer relapses it can be resistant to chemotherapy I've been exposed to before, which makes the prognosis a lot worse. There are alternative chemotherapies though and they can repeat the transplant. But yeah, if they can eradicate all traces of the cells now, and if the donor T -cells succeed in fighting off any cancerous cells that remain, the odds are a lot better.

It is difficult to deal with, or was definitely so at the beginning. But I guess people are really adaptable -- I've a list of things I want to do and try when I get out, and right now I feel like even if I only had another year I wouldn't be too bummed.

Yep, perpetuates for life. It's called Chimerism.

I'd be interested (obviously) in finding out what other implications this might have for me long term besides enabling me to life a life of crime. ;-)

Anywhere (San Francisco preferred, REMOTE, or H1B considered)

Hi, I'm Amit, the Founder of Photojojo! (http://photojojo.com/). We're on a mission to make photography fun for everyone, and we're looking for two web developers to work on the most FUN online shop ever.

About us:

* Office in Mission district in San Francisco, half of us work remotely

* Profitable and growing quickly. But like being small!

* Our work gets talked about at places like 37 Signals, FOWA, and Hacker News -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764802

* We take the company on a yearly workcation. This year, 3 weeks in India: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photojojolovesyou/sets/72157625...

Looking for:

* One senior web developer to lead our team, and one junior web developer

* Experience in PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and SQL (rather than being front/backend specialists)

* People who love photography and are excited!

* People who love to work, and who others love to work with

* People who thrive on responsibility and want a say in our direction

More info/apply (these listings just went up):

Senior developer: http://photojojo.com/jobs/webdeveloper-senior.html

Junior developer: http://photojojo.com/jobs/webdeveloper-junior.html

Hope you do, and that you release the mods. Really sweet job!

Homebrew. We tried Magento but found the code to be a pile of spaghetti.

Hey thanks! We spent a long time getting the timing on the swoop and the bounce when it lands in the cart right. Cool to see someone notice. :)