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Shut Up & Sit Down: Board game review show and secret project. http://www.shutupandsitdown.com/ http://penny-arcade.com/patv/show/shut-up-sit-down

Shut Up & Sit Down ( http://shutupandsitdown.com & http://penny-arcade.com/patv/show/shut-up-sit-down ) A board game review show and a few secret projects. Cool because: Very funny…

Ah! My first submission was for w09, I thought that I re-submitted my apps for each of the next cycles, making this my 10th. I'm at 6? Will update the title. Should have made it: "…

Applying to YC actually forces you to think about the things that you need to do to make a project work. If you keep at it eventually you become more capable, start to find tractio…

If I had to guess why they were rejected I'd say that it's because they're typically: #1: Consumer focused #2: Unsexy/unknown markets Were they wrong to reject them? Probably not. …

Yes, they were usually submitted under one-off accounts. I think that one was 'itemshoppe'.

The hard truth: You're not going to get into YC. You're not going to get an interview and your application isn't going to be read in full by anyone who doesn't love you. You will b…

The hard truth: You're not going to get into YC. You're not going to get an interview and your application isn't going to be read in full by anyone who doesn't love you. But it doe…

I love their design and I was a huge fan of Core Wars in HS. I've been trying to get them to give me a peek for the last week, I really want to cover them/give them free ad space a…

Not being able to edit out that "market place" typo is going to bug me forever.

It really didn't. M:TG and Netrunner were both designed by Richard Garfield and Netrunner's design was directly influenced by his experience with M:TG. Cards in Netrunner aren't ta…

The API was just a feature. The actual product was a multi-merchant market place w/ a shipping estimator that was a 1-1 implementation of EasyPost (YC S13).

Unfortunately, and I say this from excruciating experience, this isn't a complete/accurate representation of all M:TG cards. I spent the summer of 2011 scraping Gather to build out…

Well, how are you working to change that? We've made the decision to run our company like a free software project and have been actively ignoring buyout/funding offers since before…

There are days when I wish that Hacker News was divorced from Y Combinator. I don't care about karma, "hellbans" seem like a mean waste of a person's time, and the thought of HN as…