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You’re a few steps ahead of the person who asked that question. Just landed on this page from googling for this very thing. Context Engineering > Prompt Engineering

Oh hai. Jon Crawford here (Storenvy founder). Glad to see this post getting some love again. Thanks for the kind words, everyone!

Neither gives you a store. Every band, designer, boutique I've ever talked to wants their own store at their own URL that looks like their own brand. Storenvy let's you edit all th…

Hey Hacker News! Thanks for the thoughts. Actually, here's how we're thinking about it: Storenvy is a custom store platform first and a marketplace second. Every merchant gets her …

Hi, Jon here! Actually, I'm the technical founder. I'm a Ruby on Rails developer originally (have commits in Rails itself). The other founders were graphic design and sales. For ab…

I much prefer Flow by Metalab ( http://getflow.com ). It's virtually the same product only much more fleshed out including a Mac app, an iOS app and more. I tried Asana several mon…

San Francisco - Frontend Engineer or Ruby Hacker Storenvy, an awesome online storefront builder and social shopping marketplace is hiring Ruby hackers and a front-end engineer. Thi…

http://www.storenvy.com/help/articles/can-i-use-any-payment-...

That's a battle I just don't care about winning. Times were crazy, and missteps and miscommunications may or may not have happened. But I've got nothing but love for these people. …

Couldn't agree more. This is about the future! We could sit around and dissect events from the past all day long, but I'm way more interested in building a team and destroying the …

Incidentally, the other 2 guys are running a successful t-shirt printing company. You should totally order your swag from them. http://threadbird.com/

Yeah it wasn't really like that. The guys were willing to move if they had to. They were willing to make the move and I had no idea they were going to be out until they were. But a…

A big life decision like that takes at least a few days to process and decide. We had 7. Things got pretty crazy in that week, understandably.

FYI, we were all full-time, the business was already profitable and we were all living off of the income it was generating. The startup clearly had legs then and still does.

This is covered. We'll be releasing loads of new stuff involving $$ in the coming year. But it's still free!

She's amazing.

The smiley face/close parenthesis move is completely valid. (Otherwise you get double lips. :))

Yeah, but my wife's cute. ;)

It was more an issue of timing. The conversations started with my cofounders about 72 hours before the first YC dinner. I was already scheduled to move out of my apartment and had …

I came to SF the first time by myself because I was the hustler in the group. I talked to my team members every day. They knew I was in SF talking to investors and they knew I was …

It's hard to say. To be fair, YC never met the rest of my cofounders. I was the only one they'd ever spoken with. - Jon (The guy who wrote this story. :)

I look at a YC investment (and most investments made by good angels) as less about the money and more about improving your chances of not dying. When you've got an early company, e…