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"it's unlikely your site/app will ever be as big as RapGenius" Heroku's entire promise is scalability. And this isn't an edge case, it will bite you if you need anything over 1 dyn…

i'm a designer and a developer and i'm using bootstrap in my latest project as a base UI. i figured, i'm introducing some big new ideas that are hard enough to explain to my users,…

i'm smarter for reading this. need more.

i agree with the no suit sentiment. but i work in a place where plenty of people look like crap in a suit. it's all about how you take care of yourself. you can look put together i…

I'd like to make a significant edit to a field on my YC application (business model tweak after some user interviews this week), which I originally submitted on time. Possible, two…

wtf does this matter?

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this isnt true. as long as youve submitted once before the deadline you're ok.

haha, i like that raising a family is a good option for when your startup fails

im wondering what the signal/noise ratio is like now, the first batch after the start fund. will be interesting to see how big and how awesome this next batch is.

youre in!

yeah i think bay area for sure (and how do you do a poll?)

Here at SXSW, and I had the pleasure to attend the "Life After YC" session with Brian Chesky (Airbnb), Dane Hurtubise (JobSpice), Drew Houston (Dropbox), and Jessica Mah (inDinero)…

I'm down in Austin for SXSW. And while I love seeing poor bastards pop up on my Firesheep sidebar, I can't use HN due to my own name popping up in there every time I open the page.…

from last year but awesome: "I’m totally serious when I say that you shouldn’t go. Instead – while your rivals are distracted in Texas, pissing their money up the wall and ejaculat…

on startup quote: http://startupquote.com/post/1624569753

i was just reading about this today in "Rework", about failing in obscurity. similar notion to failing at something mundane with the M&M's. relish the opportunity you have while op…

i do the same. generally if the project is even on GitHub, that's a great sign it's got life.