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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 Splines »

frossie wrote: post #30
jazzychad wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 "…

You could probably roll your own, using IP geolocation on a push email server.

The hard part is setting up the notification in the first place. You might be able to wire up something to Google Maps that lets you put pins down that can be queried by your server.

Or something like that, anyway. Sounds like a neat idea :)

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

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Post by jackowayed »

christonog wrote: post #17

Sorry if I missed this in your post, but what are you currently doing with Skribit? The Skribit website (as well as your HN profile info) still has you listed prominently.

He's leaving it running and supporting it a little, but not spending much time on development, probably even less than he planned now that he's a cofounder at a startup instead of just an employee somewhere.

From http://paulstamatiou.com/exploring-san-francisco-silicon-val... :

>Skribit is a niche product that serves a small market well and it is with that in mind that development will continue, but in a part-time manner. Some changes will be taking place around the site to focus more heavily on converting users to paid Pro accounts (and pay off our convertible note) rather than building out certain community features that require much upkeep; making Skribit more of a tool than a destination. Ultimately, I need to land a paying job and focus on paying off my out-of-state tuition, which is still a six figure number.

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

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Post by christonog »

jazzychad wrote: post #11
rjett wrote: post #3

So before this, was Notifo a one-man YC-funded startup?

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 :)

You weren't able to find someone in your personal network first? I'm surprised, especially since you already got YC funding.

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

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Post by philwelch »

robfitz wrote: post #18
geezgod wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this is what i want to know. I'm not sure and I'm not trying to thread crap but is the title Co-Founder the proper word to use? I'm curious because wouldn't a "founder" be someone who started the company from the beginning? From what I understand Paul joined afterwards (after the angel investing).

Being a founder is about what you do and how much of yourself you are able to put into the company, not when you join. If Chad had hired someone with Paul's skillset and then told him what to do, that is an employer-employee relationship. That doesn't look like what's happening here. They're entering into a partnership as equals to discover and build something new together.

I suppose "partner" is a tempting word to use in this situation, but there may be legal connotations to designating higher-ups as "partners"--in particular, the connotation of being something like an LLP or law firm.
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