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anand

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About anand

Founder of Spatial.io. Previously BumpTop which was acquired by Google.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #34466330

    Agree that close to the metal threeJS gets you best performance but don’t sleep on Unity WebGL. They announced at their Unite conference a few months ago they were gonna add proper…

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    Comment #23167204

    Spatial is a 3D collaborative version of video chat in VR/AR. 4 years in the making, lifelike avatars help you feel like you're sitting next to each other. Collaborate in virtual r…

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    Ask HN: What is the best programmable drone, sub $400?

    I'd like a nice, simple API where I can set relative XYZ position so I can program indoor flight paths. Here's what I've found: • $3300 DJI Matrice 100, nice API with XYZ support, …

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    Comment #6448074

    Pretty cool feature set. Didn't realize you could do things like "remember where I parked" automatically.

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    Comment #3049529

    Doing a startup is really hard. Emotionally grueling and demanding. You have to fight for every 100 users you get. At a bigger company you get 100k's or millions of users "automati…

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    Comment #2310376

    this is pretty amazing. i love how you've maintained the power & simplicity of a physical whiteboard.

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    Comment #609619

    I'm a user and their service is different from Google Voice. It's a professional sounding 1-800/voicemail system intended for business, not personal use. "Push 1 for customer servi…

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    Comment #609615

    Grasshopper is a pretty cool service, had some clunky UI though. We use it at BumpTop.com. They mailed us some chocolate covered grasshoppers recently as a mktg campaign, kinda cra…

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    Comment #567447

    1.6 million files break down in most viewing paradigms. In BumpTop you can turn on "infinite workspace" and you can have thousands of files. Then use pile by type or date to automa…

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    Comment #567441

    BumpTop already works on any folder :) We have an experimental "Bump This Folder" shell extension, which provides a little button in Windows Explorer that turns the current view in…

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    Comment #564831

    Do you have any suggestions for how we could improve BumpTop?

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    Comment #395209

    You can also check out a video of BumpTop on big ass touchscreen here: http://www.vimeo.com/1144121 I'm a founder of BumpTop, we loves hacker news.

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    Comment #376197

    BumpTop is hiring developers too, all the way up in Toronto, Canada! http://bumptop.com C++, OpenGL or Flex. Email me if interested anand at bumptop.com

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    Comment #371224

    We just recently looked at a few options and pbwiki beats them all. WYSIWYG and elegant. It seems ultra expensive but you can negotiate a pretty dope rate. We got $100/year for unl…

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    Comment #357260

    BumpTop. http://bumptop.com a 3D desktop yo.

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    Comment #355303

    I wouldn't say our average tester has given us $25 worth of testing. But some definitely have, even more than $25 worth. Separating these after the fact is potentially sticky.

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    Comment #355300

    Nice. I like the suggestion of giving beta users a free copy of software if they found a bug you didn't know about.

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    Comment #355273

    How deep of a discount would make sense? We're looking at a $25-30 price point. We plan on having a Free and Pro version. The Free version will have a generous helping of the featu…

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    Ask YC: Give Beta users a free release copy?

    We're getting close to launching our product which is a consumer desktop app. We're currently in private beta. Should we give our beta testers a free or discounted copy of the fina…

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    Comment #348421

    There is a official procedure that companies can use to dispute the domain name if you're trying to hustle them that costs them about $1000-2500. I forget what its called but if yo…

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    Comment #344815

    yes it can! see my other comment about zoomii.com

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    Comment #344814

    Zoomii.com is a nice completely javascript version by a friend from a canadian startup. Focused completely on books. Zoomii's really impressive. Its speed makes google maps feel sl…

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    Development without Dictatorship

    A good article for founders on managing software developers in a startup.

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    Comment #320436

    TinEye is impressive. Also nice is TinEye mobile. Amazing. Take a picture of a CD and it instantly pulls up the iTunes store page where you can buy+listen to samples. http://news.y…