Your site and idea look great. I would probably move away from the paid accounts and try to monetize another way. I am sure you probably do have some paid users but I wouldn't pay for a service like this even though I like the idea. You'd probably be better off with an advertising model.
My Y Combinator interview.
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Re: My Y Combinator interview.
#12I hope you continue your startup. YC is NOT the end of the line.
+1. Sure I am wondering about historio.us vs Instapaper but congrats on the interview! +1 on the design + Like the feature 'search any word appearing on the page'. Really cool URL.
Re: My Y Combinator interview.
#13A very well-thought out site and a good implementation (I've just tried it). I'm going to use it.
I'm a single founder and whilst I've never reached a point with stratospheric income, the businesses that I have built in the 15 years I've been an entrepreneur have been great. I've enjoyed life. For me, being a single founder has always meant quick decisions and I employ people to compliment me. I'm not a 'finisher' - I'm an ideas person - and so I needed to employ people who would keep me on track and help me finish. There is no right or wrong way in terms of the number of founders, my opinion, and indeed I have both seen and experienced that having more than one founder can lead to disagreements. Good luck with Historious. I really like it
Re: My Y Combinator interview.
#14A very well-thought out site and a good implementation (I've just tried it). I'm going to use it. I'm a single founder and whilst I've never reached a point with stratospheric income, the businesses that I have built in the 15 years I've been an entrepreneur have been great. I've enjoyed life. For me, being a single founder has always meant quick decisions and I employ people to compliment me. I'm not a 'finisher' -…
perhaps your income would be more stratospheric if you hire fewer employees that compliment you and more that complement you :)
Re: My Y Combinator interview.
#15Ah darn, would have loved to meetup with you Stavros, as a fellow Greek startupper. :) I'll let you know next time I'm in Greece.
Re: My Y Combinator interview.
#16I hope you continue your startup. YC is NOT the end of the line.
I will, but it's very disheartening, sadly...
Re: My Y Combinator interview.
#17Ah darn, would have loved to meetup with you Stavros, as a fellow Greek startupper. :) I'll let you know next time I'm in Greece.
Dude stop thinking about Greece and write that notifo Android client!
Also: I'd love to meet up.
Re: My Y Combinator interview.
#18what did you tell them when they said 'i have already bookmarks in my browser'? i started hacking on a similar idea (a chrome extension that monitors every url I visit and logs them with a web service that performs snapshots and full text searches), but then realized chrome's history already performs full text searching.
I said that it's not comparable, as the browser only stores the title and gives you lists, etc. Something like Google Bookmarks is a more direct competitor, but I don't think that's the thing to watch out for either, as it seems to be someone's weekend project and they don't really develop it any more. I'm much more worried about Pinboard, for example.
Re: My Y Combinator interview.
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see. However, when your users like your service so much that they volunteer their time building browser extensions and integrating it into their services, I don't think it's "too stubborn" to follow through... EDIT: I realise that's not the point you were making, I am just commenting with my thoughts on the matter.
No comment on this specific scenario. I don't know you, and what do I know anyway? But it's so hard to distinguish 'determination' from 'stubbornness' that I've decided those labels are useless. No matter which you are, people will call you stubborn until you succeed.
I know, I reflected that in my edit. I agree with the latter, I think history decides if your stubbornness was misplaced or not.
Re: My Y Combinator interview.
#20Thanks for sharing it :)