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Some solid points here, but I gotta disagree with this one... If a product grows huge quickly, which almost always requires it to be free, it will probably be acquired for a lot of…

Ok, this is something that I cannot seem to understand - why is it impossible to create a well-designed remote for a TV device? Look at (seriously, look at them now) your remotes f…

You can't really blame them for taking the path they chose. Check-ins were what the market wanted at that time. Gowalla was guaranteed to be building for a market that existed. Yes…

He's being replaced by Executive Chairman Eric Lefkofsky and Vice Chairman Ted Leonisis. They will serve as co-CEOs until they find a permanent replacement. Here is Lefkofsky's sta…

Here's a copy of his statement. -- (This is for Groupon employees, but I’m posting it publicly since it will leak anyway) People of Groupon, After four and a half intense and wonde…

Trust me, I don't like GoDaddy either. But they're the most popular registrar, and I think it'd be foolish of me not include them. The market much, much larger than the subset of p…

Our thinking was to emulate the experience of watching previews in the theaters. You don't know anything about the movie, making it more intriguing. That's why we chose not to fade…

We built MovieDip over the last few days as a way to easily watch movie trailers. We have a lot of ideas of what we'd like to continue to build, but wanted to ship it quick and get…

Techmeme is correct. The post originally said, "investors like CrunchFund, Betaworks, Y Combinator, and more, including some fantastic angels" .

It's sad that people call their little/fun projects useless. I just used your project and thought it was awesome. And even the worst project ever is useful for you . It's how you l…

Really? Only 5 days ago this was on the front page of HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4917689 . And what about the complaints of Twitter and Facebook ads? You can't say tha…

Great, now all the bitching can change to be about their plans to advertise. The sense of entitlement that people have is getting ridiculous. Why do you deserve an absolutely free …