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How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code
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Re: How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code
#42Is yours the product used at SHDHs? I (and others) were very impressed with it :)
Re: How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because HN used to be above that linkbait BS. The story is interesting and useful and stands up on its own without having to resort to "in only 300 lines!!!".
Why is it every community ever is awesome until that third person joins? Then suddenly it's all about how things "used to be". Are linkbait BS titles the cancer that is killing /HN?
When you hear people complain about " used to be", just mentally replace it with "I think should be". Whether or not it was true in the past was irrelevant. The main focus should be the statement of how things should be. There's a widespread tendency to romanticize the past, and fighting against it is fighting against human nature.
Granted, HN used to be above romanticizing the past... :-)
Re: How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code
#44After signup, there is a syntax issue: To try our initial beta on Feb 31, invite 2 friends that live nearby: Feb. 31 doesn't exist. :) Also, the watermarks don't show up in Firefox; I almost assumed I needed to know the "secret codes" to get an invite.
"Feb. 31 doesn't exist."
Maybe they are using MySQL? http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html#1_14
Re: How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code
#45As one of the early event organizers to use imhello just want to say we love you guys, and still want to have you back -- until I read this I thought you'd fallen off the face of the Earth. You guys helped us with badges at out City Hall event (where Tim O'Reilly spoke) and also with an event at Twilio HQ. I'm really happy to hear you're back, and my one piece of advice is that once you have that initial traction and…
Wow, awesome to see the demand still there. It would appear that event technology like this still has a nice future!
Re: How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code
#46You probably ought to plan on Apple stealing your thunder with iOS 5.0, which purportedly includes http://siri.com/, a voice-activated app that appears to cover what you're doing exactly.
Re: How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code
#47Great story. re: view.io, I closed my registration window, so I lost the link to send to my friends. Is there no way to get it back?
Re: How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code
#48Great story. re: view.io, I closed my registration window, so I lost the link to send to my friends. Is there no way to get it back?
Hi there, send me an email and I can get you the invite code back: felix@view.io. Thanks!
Re: How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
The actual number lines actually hovered around that until we sold. It was fork soup because we hardcoded everything for each event (I love git so much for making that so easy). For every event, we always seen it as just one more event for promotion so we didn't want to make everything configurable. Simple and easy to test basically. Towards the very end we rewrote everything, made it configurable, integrated all pas…
Never has the measure of 'lines of code' been less relevant to anything though.
yes. I didn't like measuring it. My partner thought it was significant though.
Re: How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code
#50Why did you sell? Besides the offer, were you sick of the business?