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I'm Chris Thurston, one of the co-founders of SearchEye. We raised USD$800K from investors, and we have a marketplace model connecting brands and publishers. Why? 1) Tech companies…

Hi all! We’re pretty far along for a Show HN post, but we’ve worked incredibly hard over 18 months to build a feature-rich marketplace with some polished flows (you be the judge). …

Is this a solution I can use when Gmail challenges a login and asks for a phone number? We often use a "user-company-name@our-company-name.com" convention, with a GSuite setup, tha…

Full credit to Fraser Hemphill who built covidqueue.com which makes it way easier to find COVID vaccination appointments than anything the government of Australia has built. The si…

Instead of build, launch the landing page and do it concierge, by focusing on the skill set you have (building) you'll likely miss out on the most important first step - seeing if …

Well, I think pretty much any and all acquisitions make sense for WeWork. Arguably the most over-valued company in the world IMO. When that happens - diversify or wave hands faster…

> where will they go? I'd change that to where _do_ they go. This trend is becoming more pronounced but has been around a while. As other posters note, they leave for other tech hu…

Back in the day when I used to work on side projects in Sydney before there was really a coworking space culture I used to work at the library. I soon stopped because it was full o…

Working on a script to automatically compile the best threads from HN each day and email. Might also send to pocket so I can read on my commute. Will go by thread count and screen …

Hi Kmaschta, I saw some folks mentioning Gigster so thought I'd add some notes. For reference I'm Christian Thurston and I've been working at Gigster from early on. The benefits of…

Agreed and the 6 month mark thing will raise eyebrows amongst employers, as much as previous commenter things it won't. That kind of advice is meaningful to folks outside the Valle…

So we launched this today and the core thesis is that the issue most non-tech founders have is not knowing what to build or how tech generally gets built (outside of scrappily test…

I know other sites exist with lists of YC companies (http://yclist.com/) but they aren't publicly accessible for editing or always current (YCList is 8 months out of date). So figu…