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Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

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Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#71
Still thinking this is a well done attempt to get viral press. You might want to repost tomorrow if it's true.

Aside from that, I hate to be a downer, but I'll be surprised if this takes off. I'm actually wondering if the whole concept is an April fools joke in itself. It's basically relationship status for everything you own. I'll stick to reading amazon product reviews I think.

Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#72
I have been following TakeTake.com for quite a while now (we're also in this space called "social commerce"), and I still remember your Ask HN thread about whether you should launch after building/refining it for months and your subsequent launch with the explanatory video, which did an amazing job in explaining the service. I would hate to see anyone give up something that looks so promising, but I wish you the best of luck.

Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#73

No "startup" of any value would ever be given away, regardless of how burnt out its employees or owners might be. This is rediculous. Either this is an April Fools joke, or you never had the dedication to succeed in the first place.

Lack of determination doesn't mean what they built is valueless.

Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#74
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Very beautiful site indeed! Very clean design and i liked the xxx have requested invitation + the send a tip! Will you guys be still coming to the Echelon? in Singapore right?

Hopefully we can get a team to take over and then possibly be at Echelon in Singapore. We will see how things develop in the next few days :)

Good luck! And hope to catch you guys in Singapore :)

Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#75
Can anyone say guerilla marketing? We want to give part of taketake.com away. You spend a bunch of much finishing things, marketing it and running it. We keep ownership in the upside.

There is no angel or vc that will invest in anything where the original team wasn't confident enough to stick around and see something through unless those ties have completely been severed and a new captain is running the ship. Plus, there is a lot of competition out there already.

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