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I feel like with proper funding he could hit all 5 and possibly call me out for my high school indiscretions as well. I for one can think of very few things that deserve funding more than that.
alright pinboard, ill give you a shot.
Did signup conversion change when you switched from one-time fee to recurring?
Do you have any current weird channels for user acquisition? I mean, besides those last few del.icio.us users...
*as a Pinboard customer
P.S. For anyone who hasn't seen, Pinboard's Twitter account is pretty amusing startup satire.
This is a funny thread, but if any of you are amused and hopeful about the idea of Pinboard becoming a YC company, and you don't already have a Pinboard account, go get one! I was a bookmarking skeptic before I signed up for Pinboard. In fact, I think I got my Pinboard account as repayment for a favor Erin and I did for Maciej. But now, I have no idea what I would do without it. Pinboard has more or less become a sea…
I use it every day. It's hard to believe that in 2016 neither Chrome nor Safari has support for bookmark tags... my favorite feature of Pinboard.
I have been dumping my links into an email address for years - reading with thunderbird. a long while ago, i was turned off by not being able to try it for a few weeks (i'm slow to take something like this and integrate it into my life) alright pinboard, ill give you a shot.
Though I use Instapaper myself, I'd consider using it more in Pinboard if there were support for a parse webpages into plain text service.
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Let's say you attain this goal and the protest votes are in, signalling to YC that a (no longer) silent majority feel this way. Now they get the message that the community is "uneasy about the values of its founders and more broadly, Silicon Valley". What's next? I imagine reading posts by the community here does not play a huge role in day-to-day operations at the company, they still have day jobs and financial pres…
I understand your point, but established Silicon Valley investors are not the audience I'm trying to reach, or persuade. I would call what I do 'impure trolling', since I run an actual business, and have given an earnest series of talks calling for regulations on mass surveillance. Following in this earnest vein, I live a life of independence and fun, and would like to encourage young technical people to live that li…
I am going to be very sad if Maciej does anything that keeps him from writing prose as much as he wants to.
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I understand your point, but established Silicon Valley investors are not the audience I'm trying to reach, or persuade. I would call what I do 'impure trolling', since I run an actual business, and have given an earnest series of talks calling for regulations on mass surveillance. Following in this earnest vein, I live a life of independence and fun, and would like to encourage young technical people to live that li…
As a 20-something startup engineer, I'd love to hear you write a blog post with more on that last bit.
I* am curious about your growth. Did signup conversion change when you switched from one-time fee to recurring? Do you have any current weird channels for user acquisition? I mean, besides those last few del.icio.us users... *as a Pinboard customer P.S. For anyone who hasn't seen, Pinboard's Twitter account is pretty amusing startup satire. https://twitter.com/Pinboard
My weird channels for acquisition are a variety of publicity stunts and Twitter drama. Something like IFTTT recently threatening to turn off their Pinboard channel is manna from heaven for me.