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aviswanathan
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About aviswanathan
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Comment #8208843
I'm super excited to start playing around with this. Although there is still friction in moving from one app to another, this API is a first step in weaving together what is now a …
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Comment #8134262
We need more female entrepreneurs with attitudes like this. Although awareness for equality issues is undoubtedly important, Collin hits the nail on the head by re-focusing on the …
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Comment #6285347
Interesting demo site design as well. Not sure if I love it, but the speckled header was definitely memorable.
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Comment #6258392
D3 is the reason I got into animation in the first place. The general ease-of-use combined with the hackability of it is awesome.
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Comment #6195111
Crowdery (YC S13)
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Comment #6187545
Super glad that this is on the frontpage. Dashboard design is probably the single biggest thing that analytics companies overlook when building product. It took us nearly 5 iterati…
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Full stack hacker for YC S13 predictive analytics startup
We’re a YC-backed startup looking to disrupt the way products are made. We’re building a platform that (1) introduces massive amounts of data to a production process currently rely…
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Comment #5901304
I'm sometimes a skeptic of flat design, but the flattened Dropbox icon looks awesome on the new site.
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Comment #5809317
I think the article is great, but I'm not sure about a few particular industry segments. For example, in SaaS, it often may make sense to actually charge for software up-front befo…
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Comment #5799529
Looked at the screenshot, is this using some sort of integration with Screenhero? After playing/using Screenhero, I've been excited about the possibility of incorporating it into w…
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Comment #5761333
A bit confused; the TC article says all of the startups in the current batch are B2B, but Boxbee seems to be B2C. Am I missing something?
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Comment #5726749
Love the tech, but the design is spectacular. I'm one to get turned off pretty quickly if things aren't obvious/well-designed, but this is the exact opposite. Kudos.
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Comment #5692394
I love the idea. An immediate thought is whether this technology can be abstracted for use in different departmental infrastructures (training a new frontend dev on the platforms/t…
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Comment #5682080
I believe the raw data can be exported as well - the graphs are just nice to be able to glance through and quickly digest
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Comment #5681021
First of all, I think this technology and application is awesome. Glass really is pushing the boundaries of what can be done in the physical world with contact to software and the …
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Comment #5680980
I can attest to this. Initially, I was extremely skeptical that the Tesla was anything great (electric cars haven't been the highlight of the automotive industry despite repeated a…
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Comment #5676825
Cool idea. Seems pretty similar to http://www.tweetspiration.com/ . After putting a decent spam-filter on this, maybe there's a way to introduce crowd-supported mechanics (ala upvo…
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Comment #5593151
Stressball 2.0
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Comment #5585055
I sort of understand the reasoning behind App.net, but I'm worried that its developer focus will prevent many average users from joining the service and prevent it from really prov…
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Comment #5581406
They basically just ran a (very extreme) Groupon. Most companies that do daily deals lose money on them in hopes of turning some of those initial customers into recurring or lifeti…
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Comment #5578380
I think turnaround CEOs have the some of the toughest and most public jobs in the industry. The particularly difficult roles are for those individuals that already have a successfu…