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gsaines

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About gsaines

My name is George Saines, I've been reading HN several times a day since 2007. In fact, it was partially because of you folks that my two friends and I formed a startup in 2008. Three rounds of funding, innumerable mistakes, and 5 years later, we started our second venture http://www.codecombat.com and got accepted to to the YC W14 batch on stage at Startup School 2013.

I stopped working on CodeCombat in early 2015 and worked at a startup called Lovely, then Salesforce, then Facebook, over to Google, back to Facebook, and Salesforce. Beautiful symmetry.

Personally, I enjoy downhill skiing, talking about cars and computers, working with my hands, blogging, and music videos. Although I wasn't a computer science major, I've built two products from the ground up with the help of my two cofounders. If you'd like to drop me a line you can do so at my personal email gsaines at gmail.com

My personal blog is here: https://www.georgesaines.com

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    I’m hacking on an app that helps immigration lawyers spend less time chasing client documents: https://casedaemon.com/ We just launched a couple weeks ago and we’d love any feedbac…

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    For anyone interested in really digging deep into this trend, I recommend picking up the book “After the Spike” by Dylan Spears and Michael Geruso. It opened my eyes to the mathema…

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    https://www.georgesaines.com/

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    Thanks for engaging with this. I'm not trying to troll or be sarcastic. Could well be the case that painted door testing just doesn't work on B2C. What I learned on Skritter and Co…

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    This confirms what I've been discovering. I wrote about the details here: https://www.georgesaines.com/blog/2025/9/8/why-is-b2c-user-a... Maybe it's just that the AI noise has been…

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    It's more than just building something people want. I want a lot of things and would be willing to pay for some of them, but unless there is a way to reach me, it doesn't matter. T…

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    I don't intend this to come off as confrontational or cynical, but I think this question (and many of the responses in this thread) are mistaking the answer for the question. What …

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    Where are they planning to go if you mind me asking? My brother is considering moving to Canada, but he's already living in Ohio, so that wouldn't be a huge move in absolute geogra…

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    TLDR Summary: limit your intake of social media and news.

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    Hey, I was actually looking for something like this a while back and couldn't find anything. Really glad to have discovered it. But I couldn't get it to work. I added the plugin vi…

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    Austin, TX Pros: cheap cost of living for a tech city, warm most of the year, BBQ and live music Cons: it's hellishly hot for 2-3 months, it's expensive compared to other (non-tech…