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Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by jl »

spoinkaroo wrote: post #108
jl wrote: post #69

Rather than responding to everyone's complaints about the site: I whipped this together in less than a day, I was mostly focused on content, no one at YC who usually makes beautiful designs was available to help, I can't program, I'm using Strikingly, this is version 1. I'm happy to get feedback, but please go easy on me. We will plan much further in advance next year and make it easy to scroll through ideas and look…

Out of curiosity, why did you alphabetize the site? Wouldn't some other sorting method be more productive / feature solid products which happen be late in the alphabet more?

Now arranged by categories.

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by rokhayakebe »

jl wrote: post #69

Rather than responding to everyone's complaints about the site: I whipped this together in less than a day, I was mostly focused on content, no one at YC who usually makes beautiful designs was available to help, I can't program, I'm using Strikingly, this is version 1. I'm happy to get feedback, but please go easy on me. We will plan much further in advance next year and make it easy to scroll through ideas and look…

Not knowing who made it and why, my first reaction was: "I won't be buying anything, but I want THIS UI for my online shopping."

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Post by teng »

taneem wrote: post #53

It would be fairer to the companies at the bottom of the list if you had the list randomly resort itself with each page load, instead of being rendered in alphabetical order.

Yea the list was getting long, so the site was updated with categories!

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Post by msh »

run4yourlives2 wrote: post #73
jdminhbg wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Compared to your ancestors 100, 1000, 10,000, and 100,000 years ago, you're hopelessly dependent on machines and technology to survive. Fortunately you can harness the surplus energy and attention you aren't dedicating to just getting by in everyday life to do more productive and amazing things.

No, not really. (I mean, I don't want to come off as a Luddite by any means, but...) I'm 40, so perhaps things have changed a bit more than those younger than me, but I can still make most food from scratch ingredients, have no issues sleeping outside in the cold, and can iron and mend my own clothes. I don't really see that much of a difference between myself and a person 100 or 1000 years ago, spare electricity, an…

Well, you say from scratch but compared to lets say cooking a 100 years ago I guess you would find that a challenge. Of cause you could do it but it would be much harder than today.

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by yoodenvranx »

yoodenvranx wrote: post #39

Sorry for ranting, but this type of modern webdesign and "user interface" is _horrible_. Who in their right mind thinks that putting a button called "Show me the list" dead center of the page? Hey guys, I have a novel idea: instead of adding a button, just _show_ me that list! And do you know what happens if you press that button? The website scrolls down a ~300 pixels and then you can see the first 1.8 entries of th…

It is interesting to see how this post slowly climbed up to 12 points in the first 2 hours and then got downvoted afterwards to currently 0 points. It seems to be a controversial topic.

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by socialist_coder »

woah wrote: post #113
socialist_coder wrote: post #101

It pains me to see so many "first world problem" solvers. Nothing can illustrate the problem of the startup tech industry not tackling "real problems" like this list. And hey, I can't even talk; I make freemium mobile apps so it's not like I'm solving real problems either. It just sucks and I wish it was sexier and more profitable to go after real problems rather than silly stuff like e-sheets or digital frying pans…

I would dismiss a lot of stuff on that list, but not the e-frying pan. Automating cooking could be a huge labor-saver, and really help with women's rights, like the washing machine in the last century.

I guess you could also argue that a lot of this stuff is a stepping stone towards a Star Trek future. We'll never get robots preparing our food if we don't start with e-frying pans, right?
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