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Nice of you to say, thanks. (I work on Skyliner.)

(I'm the co-founder/CEO.) We're hoping to make the developer experience of Skyliner comparable, and eventually better, than Heroku, because they have done so well on that front. Th…

Oh, man, oraperl and sybperl. Brings back memories.

That is sort of the point of the Etsy sponsorship! See http://www.etsy.com/blog/news/2012/etsy-hacker-grants-suppor...

Marco has mentioned before that the bookmarklet is his biggest support headache. If the current bookmarklet is working for you, there's little reason to take that away; but having …

(This is Marc from Wesabe.) I definitely, and intentionally, left out a lot of the detail about why we decided to turn the site off. My post was already huge and that final decisio…

It was huge for them. My point, though, was that we made our own mistakes. If we had had a better user experience before TC40, they either wouldn't have made such an impression at …

Thanks. I'm naive - I thought it would mostly be of interest to friends and family. I was wrong, but I'm glad if it's helpful.

(This is Marc, author of the linked post.) I think people attribute success to a name because that fits the mental model people have for success: You just choose the right name! An…

I talked about both of these needs in a post in 2006, when I was wrestling with exactly these issues: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/entrepreneurial-pr...

(This is Marc, the author of the linked post.) You're right, I both credited and dismissed a very large category with the word "design." In my view some people believe that it was …

When it's founded, and every day thereafter. Get used to it!

On #4, data security, please check out: http://github.com/wesabe/grendel It was designed for a personal finance application, but is generally useful for storing data securely behin…

Charlie is right, but we aren't really Yodlee competitors. As far as I know Yodlee is the sole commercial provider of the type of services they offer. If you want to get data from …

It's a great test for whether you have helpful investors. If a good conversation comes out of it and you learn something, you have amazing investors. If they say, "You know how to …

Thanks, Charlie. A better link these days is: https://www.getspringboard.com/ We aren't really going after small business accounts (referring to the main article), at least not yet…

Hey, I'm one of the speakers at startup camp and I think I'm going to help on judging the submissions. I think your pitch needs a lot of work and I wouldn't vote for it in its curr…

That is a horrible deal. Run away.

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