Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Directory Lanyrd (YC W11)

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Post by razin » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 5:03 PM UTC

Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With Conference Directory Lanyrd (YC W11)
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Post by simonw » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 5:13 PM UTC

We're pretty excited to be the first YC company to launch following the big funding announcement. It will be interesting to see if it affects the amount of attention we get from the launch.

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Post by Isofarro » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 5:29 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #2

We're pretty excited to be the first YC company to launch following the big funding announcement. It will be interesting to see if it affects the amount of attention we get from the launch.

How does being funded affect your long term goals of lanyrd being a lifestyle business rather than "the next facebook"(tm)? (cf. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/nov/04/lanyrd-twitt... )

Are the two activities mutually inclusive? Just curious really.

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Post by petervandijck » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 5:30 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #2

We're pretty excited to be the first YC company to launch following the big funding announcement. It will be interesting to see if it affects the amount of attention we get from the launch.

This quote had me laughing:

"Founded by Django creator Simon Willison and his wife Downe after finding themselves stuck on their honeymoon in Casablanca with nothing else to do".

:) Congrats on the launch!

ps: the site is pretty slow right now, can you crank up some instances or something?

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Post by simonw » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 5:33 PM UTC

Isofarro wrote: post #3

simonw wrote: post #2

We're pretty excited to be the first YC company to launch following the big funding announcement. It will be interesting to see if it affects the amount of attention we get from the launch.

How does being funded affect your long term goals of lanyrd being a lifestyle business rather than "the next facebook"(tm)? (cf. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/nov/04/lanyrd-twitt... ) Are the two activities mutually inclusive? Just curious really.

The funding means we have a much better chance of building a viable business, without having to go back to freelancing part time to support ourselves.

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Post by simonw » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 5:35 PM UTC

petervandijck wrote: post #4

simonw wrote: post #2

We're pretty excited to be the first YC company to launch following the big funding announcement. It will be interesting to see if it affects the amount of attention we get from the launch.

This quote had me laughing: "Founded by Django creator Simon Willison and his wife Downe after finding themselves stuck on their honeymoon in Casablanca with nothing else to do". :) Congrats on the launch! ps: the site is pretty slow right now, can you crank up some instances or something?

Performance seems OK over here, and none of our monitoring is showing any issues. I'll keep an eye on it though.

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Post by natbat » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 5:35 PM UTC

petervandijck wrote: post #4

simonw wrote: post #2

We're pretty excited to be the first YC company to launch following the big funding announcement. It will be interesting to see if it affects the amount of attention we get from the launch.

This quote had me laughing: "Founded by Django creator Simon Willison and his wife Downe after finding themselves stuck on their honeymoon in Casablanca with nothing else to do". :) Congrats on the launch! ps: the site is pretty slow right now, can you crank up some instances or something?

hehe :)

It was a long term honeymoon - we gave up our flat in Brighton and just set off into the world with just our backpacks and laptops. We were also ill in Casablanca (and it was Ramadan so couldn't find any restaurants open) so we rented a flat for two weeks to cook for ourselves and built and launched the first version of Lanyrd.

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Post by petervandijck » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 5:45 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #6

petervandijck wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This quote had me laughing: "Founded by Django creator Simon Willison and his wife Downe after finding themselves stuck on their honeymoon in Casablanca with nothing else to do". :) Congrats on the launch! ps: the site is pretty slow right now, can you crank up some instances or something?

Performance seems OK over here, and none of our monitoring is showing any issues. I'll keep an eye on it though.

It's fast now, might just have been a hickup.

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Post by vidar » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 5:47 PM UTC

Cool! I have been following Lanyrd for a while but didn't realize they were with YC.

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Post by drtse4 » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 5:47 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #2

We're pretty excited to be the first YC company to launch following the big funding announcement. It will be interesting to see if it affects the amount of attention we get from the launch.

Congratulations! As someone who lives in a country where conferences are quite rare and scarcely publicized a tool like lanyrd (increasingly used here(italy)) helps really a lot.