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Notifo (YC W10) gets a Co-Founder... Me

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Re: Notifo (YC W10) gets a Co-Founder... Me

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Post by jazzychad »

rjett wrote: post #20
jazzychad wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes, it was... YC definitely set me up on several "cofounder dates" during the course of YC... some of them looked promising, but ultimately none worked out. Eventually I had to just bear down and prepare for launch/demo day. As soon as I stopped looking, the right person came along :)

Cool! I'd be interested to hear your experience with 1) getting into YC as a single founder and 2) working alone in the ensuing months. That's quite a feat.

I've been considering writing a post about my experience to this effect.

Basically it boiled down to sheer ignorance. I didn't know that being a single-founder was such a big deal (in a negative sense), so I didn't know I should have been worried/nervous about it when applying/interviewing.

As for working alone... I had done so many personal projects at nights/weekends after work at my day job that working alone was just natural (again, ignorance was bliss). I was also able to draw from each of the previous projects to piece together what I needed to build Notifo very quickly.

This is the advantage of working on a bunch of different small projects all the time. The criteria I used for starting a new project was that I had to do at least one thing I had never done before which required me to learn a new language/technology/framework/API/etc.... after a dozen projects or so, this built up to a huge arsenal of skills to throw at new projects. Never stop learning.

That said, having had a co-founder for about a week, there has been an obvious increase in productivity, so for that I am truly thankful.

Re: Notifo (YC W10) gets a Co-Founder... Me

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Post by d0m »

By digging in, I understood what Notifo was about, but it wasn't really clear at first. On the main page, you say "What is notifo" with two paragraphes, one for user and one for services. I think it might be better if you seperate those two horizontally with a nice subtitle such as:

USERS -------------- SERVICE

And honestly, the "push notification" isn't really easy to understand because it really can means lot of thing for a developer like me, and absolutely nothing for someone like my girlfriend.

I think a good example is needed for the new user to truly get what notifo is. And also, a good example of why a developer would want to link to a service like notifo. I mean, I understand now what Notifo is about and I think it's great; however, as I said, I needed to read a lot.

Re: Notifo (YC W10) gets a Co-Founder... Me

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Post by jazzychad »

d0m wrote: post #27

By digging in, I understood what Notifo was about, but it wasn't really clear at first. On the main page, you say "What is notifo" with two paragraphes, one for user and one for services. I think it might be better if you seperate those two horizontally with a nice subtitle such as: USERS -------------- SERVICE And honestly, the "push notification" isn't really easy to understand because it really can means lot of th…

This is great feedback, and I agree it needs to be improved. Since Paul is a great writer, hopefully he will be able to help in this regard.

Re: Notifo (YC W10) gets a Co-Founder... Me

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Post by frossie »

jazzychad wrote: post #12
geezgod wrote: post #6

i've used this service and i think it's great! I'm a huge google voice sms user and I hated the fact that i couldn't get PUSH notifications when new messages would come in. Notifo solved the problem and it works great. Yes there were other options like boxcar but that required me to leave my computer on all day while Notifo didnt. BIG PLUS! Only downside is whenever i try to open the app on my ipod touch - it always…

contact me (email in profile) with your Notifo username, and we'll fix the crashing issue for you.

Interesting service.

I was thinking the other day, what I want is geolocation push notifications to my iPhone. For a trivial example, I have been meaning to ask my coffee shop if I could have some of their empty ice cream tubs. Every day I pull up at their drive through caffeine-deprived, pick up my coffee... and forget to ask.

Sure would be great if, while I was sitting there waiting for my drink, my phone blipped "Ask them about the damn tubs already" :-)

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