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Really great work by @steveklabnik to create a simple, clean microblogging solution.

Here's an opinion from far outside the valley. I don't think Tumblr will de-throne Facebook, at least in its current incantation. A few reasons: - They are positioned as a blogging…

The sharing company is called AddThis. Oddly if you put "addthis" in the url or title the submission is rejected as "[dead]" immediately.

I'm in a similar boat. It really depends on how marketable your name is. In my case, I made it up. I'm planning on getting a trademark before a full launch. They key point about tr…

Appreciate the support. Your email isn't the goal -- just wanted you to have a decent experience.

Thanks for the tips. Always nice when you have two contradictory statements in the same thread. Because your feedback requires me to do no work, you're definitely my hero.

Cool idea. I checked it out and thought it was a nice site. Yeah, I'm not really going for emails, just thought it was funny to have a talking owl try to coax someone to sign up fo…

Agree with your sentiment which is why I only allowed an afternoon to put it together and out. My reason for posting was, honestly to see if people actually felt it reflected so po…

I appreciate the candid feedback. I'm not going to say, "I know," although a lot of what you've been saying was bothering me as I put it together. Re: collecting email - that's not…

Building a two-sided market it tricky but early on (as I've read) it takes a lot of non-scalable seeding. If you read up on Reddit and AirBnb, both attacked the problem by going ou…

What would you do if you wanted to put up a landing page for a company you weren't ready to go public with? My hope was just to have some fun with it and garner a smile. This commu…

Appreciate the honest remarks. Problem with my HN post is that I thought my comment (below) was the description for the link :) Probably gives you a better idea of where I was comi…

Thanks for the feedback. I wish I could divulge more!