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Post by powerflex »

burnout1540 wrote: post #2

Okay, I'll start. I'm 24 and living in San Francisco. I'm a programmer but would like to find another technical person to work with. I have three ideas for a startup: 1. An easy software solution for multivariate testing web pages. 2. A bid management tool for PPC. I'm thinking something like www.efrontier.com, but for small and medium sized businesses. 3. Totally different from the top two, but I'm interested in a p…

I'm 30 in San Francisco. For your first idea, if you are talking about website "performance survey" / "A/B" type testing then you have some wicked competition based out of SF.

I agree that advertising is not the way to go. However end users have demonstrated that they are not very willing to pay for services unless its to meet girls ;)

Corporate, on the other hand, doesn't seem to want anything for free...

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#82

Post by jsjenkins168 »

anewaccountname wrote: post #58
pg wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I'll add a note about that.

By the way, while we are on this topic--can you confirm that passwords are not stored in plain-text?

I hope you are not reusing an important password for this site.. Even if they are hashed on the disk, they are sent insecurely to the server when you log in.

Re: Looking for a co-founder? post here (3 rules apply)

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Post by aggieben »

memius wrote: post #35

i'm a programmer fresh out of college in bergen, norway (planning to relocate to boston or bay area). i'm 34, and i'm building a neural network to do speech to text. i need another programmer, preferrably someone with more experience than myself, especially with browsers and low-level signal processing.

with browsers and low-level signal processing

wow. Those are quite divergent worlds, I should say. You may be looking for two people.

Re: Looking for a co-founder? post here (3 rules apply)

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Post by burnout1540 »

powerflex wrote: post #81
burnout1540 wrote: post #2

Okay, I'll start. I'm 24 and living in San Francisco. I'm a programmer but would like to find another technical person to work with. I have three ideas for a startup: 1. An easy software solution for multivariate testing web pages. 2. A bid management tool for PPC. I'm thinking something like www.efrontier.com, but for small and medium sized businesses. 3. Totally different from the top two, but I'm interested in a p…

I'm 30 in San Francisco. For your first idea, if you are talking about website "performance survey" / "A/B" type testing then you have some wicked competition based out of SF. I agree that advertising is not the way to go. However end users have demonstrated that they are not very willing to pay for services unless its to meet girls ;) Corporate, on the other hand, doesn't seem to want anything for free...

Yes, there's definitely a lot of competition for the website testing idea and it would've been nice to start on it a few years ago. But I think that a fragmented market is an entrepreneur's best friend. There is no industry giant that you will always be compared to and will be crushed by. More importantly, a fragmented market also indicates that there is money to be made.

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Post by sharpshoot »

imsteve wrote: post #73
ptn wrote: post #72

Why must someone meet with the person who posted that same weekend?

Just what I was about to say.

This was posted at the start of the weekend. Some people are already getting together.

Just imagine what would happen if you left this for next weekend. And then felt a bit lazy, and put it off for another few days. Then didn't bother meeting up at all. Chatted over IM, got offended by something someone said because they were nervous and then never met at all.

Momentum breeds momentum. People have a huge inertia to changing their situation.

If you want to stay how you are, then do it. Everyone around you will be finding great people to work with and moving on.

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Post by powerflex »

burnout1540 wrote: post #84
powerflex wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm 30 in San Francisco. For your first idea, if you are talking about website "performance survey" / "A/B" type testing then you have some wicked competition based out of SF. I agree that advertising is not the way to go. However end users have demonstrated that they are not very willing to pay for services unless its to meet girls ;) Corporate, on the other hand, doesn't seem to want anything for free...

Yes, there's definitely a lot of competition for the website testing idea and it would've been nice to start on it a few years ago. But I think that a fragmented market is an entrepreneur's best friend. There is no industry giant that you will always be compared to and will be crushed by. More importantly, a fragmented market also indicates that there is money to be made.

I don't know what you have been considering doing with testing, but off the top of my head I don't know of anyone doing content A/B testing (ie: which version of content is more effective). I would expect to see a more granular, dynamic approach in website verbiage as NLP matures. For example, at my day job they argue semantics endlessly. Tailoring a websites' grammar to the user could increase effectiveness. This is an area I consider fascinating and wouldn't mind chatting more about it off line if you like.

Re: Looking for a co-founder? post here (3 rules apply)

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Post by kajecounterhack »

JesseAldridge wrote: post #34

I know pg says you need co-founders, but I have a feeling that partnering with a stranger will hurt your chances of success more than it will help. I remember Jessica saying a major cause of death in startups was founder disputes (link: http://www.grid7.com/archives/189_podcast-28-jessica-livings... , around the 14 minute mark).

Just never forget the derek powazek and JPG mag episode...

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Post by DaniFong »

dcurtis wrote: post #45
cawel wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then, when editing one's HN profile, it could indicate it better (whether the info is shown publicly or not).

But News.YC prides itself on having both a terrible user interface and a terrible user experience. What kind of site calls a feature "noprocrast" without giving any detailed information about what it does? Only news.yc! --edit I wonder why I am being modded down. Maybe I said it too sarcastically. News.YC really does have a terrible interface. Look at the account settings page-- imagine yourself as a user who has nev…

Shiny graphics do not a user experience make.

Re: Looking for a co-founder? post here (3 rules apply)

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Post by duke »

memius wrote: post #35

i'm a programmer fresh out of college in bergen, norway (planning to relocate to boston or bay area). i'm 34, and i'm building a neural network to do speech to text. i need another programmer, preferrably someone with more experience than myself, especially with browsers and low-level signal processing.

speech to text interests me because SLS (same language subtitling) now helps many in india learn to read..

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/same-language-subtitl...

synxi theory: with tools to easily sync/caption youtube, kaltura, etc, we can make a fun way to learn/teach each other language, (ie engelsk, spansk, norsk, etc)

Re: Looking for a co-founder? post here (3 rules apply)

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Post by pg »

brett wrote: post #78
pg wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure. You can see for yourself in the source: http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc1.tar

On disk at least. They're temporarily logged to memory in the clear: (def good-login (user pw ip) (let record (list (seconds) ip user pw) (if (and user pw (aand (shash pw) (is it (hpasswords* user)))) (do (unless (user->cookie* user) (cook-user user)) (enq-limit record good-logins*) user) (do (enq-limit record bad-logins*) nil)))) It might be good to pull the pw out of the record list: ... (let record (list (seconds)…

Ok, I took it out. Turns out nothing later ever needs the pw anyway.
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