I love all the "aren't the current players going to win this war" posts. That's a HUGE advantage for you: everybody is going to underestimate you and your possible impact.... until it's too late. This isn't a sure bet, not by a long shot, but it's got a good chance of being something as impactful as Square has the potential to be, and that's a big fucking deal y'all.
This is the Moby Dick of blog posts. Incredibly boring, but that's the point: he's illustrating how boring his startup was, so he quit, just as HM illustrated the monotony of whaling by making Moby Dick beautifully written but unreadable.
Still, I hated reading it, and I didn't mind MD.
This is the Moby Dick of blog posts. Incredibly boring, but that's the point: he's illustrating how boring his startup was, so he quit, just as HM illustrated the monotony of whaling by making Moby Dick beautifully written but unreadable.
This guy says he saw his business losing profits from the "tube" sites (free porn aggregators) but instead of bitching about it he said: thank you for raising the profile of our industry, now let me go innovate and create something to capitalize on it. Love it.
Exactly, the guy saw his profile being raised and instead of saying "I'm not getting paid, let me litigate" he said "How can I be smart and work this to my favor?"
My porn pitch would've been:
Add a streaming video component where people can pay X/minute for 1 on 1 interaction. Allow donations. Let them sell videos for either a given dollar amount or make them freely available when a threshold is met.
Then, on top of that, run a free, ad-driven, anonymous imageboard. (Yes, a "chan.") Give each girl one, and some common spaces for grouping of similar interests. Consider images your business cards, spread them far and wide, freely. Maybe some of your videos too.
Don't sell media, sell a service. And give me a cut.
A hacker that was 3x as productive as the average hacker in my company that specifically wanted 3x as much pay, as opposed to other benefits, as my average programmer would be suspicious to me. Great hackers want to be paid well, but they generally first and foremost desire other things, like benefits, control, respect, and a good working environment. Anything beyond the pay at which they become stable financially generally is of a limited appeal to great hackers.
Couldn't fit this in the title, but I would love comments on the UI/UX and code. We're building something totally different out of this (a local recommendation engine for finding what to buy and where to go when you want to drink and when you're out drinking) but the current principles that apply to our most recent version will permeate the rest of what we build. That's really why I'm so eager for feedback from HN.
