Tell HN: Catch.com raises 7m. Didn't get in as solo founder (S08), kept pushing • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: Catch.com raises 7m. Didn't get in as solo founder (S08), kept pushing

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Post by timmins » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 2:41 AM UTC

Hi Andreas! Congratulations!

I'd say this is amazing but I know the amount of work you and your team have done. It's well deserved.

Dan (from Chicago)

Re: Tell HN: Catch.com raises 7m. Didn't get in as solo founder (S08), kept pushing

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Post by noig3 » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 2:53 AM UTC

This is super inspiring. I am still working on finding a co-founder and I have not started looking for funding.

Do your thing my friend. This is great news for you!

Re: Tell HN: Catch.com raises 7m. Didn't get in as solo founder (S08), kept pushing

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Post by samatman » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 2:53 AM UTC

aschobel wrote: post #6

staunch wrote: post #4

Congrats. How much did you pay for the domain Catch.com?

Danke! Sorry, I can't give the exact details but it wasn't that much. What was really cool is the seller of Catch.com could have sold it to a much bigger company and chose us instead. These acts of kindness are so touching, it is incredibly how people go out their way to help startups.

I hope you've at least sent him a really excellent bottle of champagne now that you've hit on some traction!

Re: Tell HN: Catch.com raises 7m. Didn't get in as solo founder (S08), kept pushing

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Post by dmix » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 2:56 AM UTC

Funny I just downloaded Catch on my android over the weekend and thought it was a great app. Well designed and more straight-forward than Evernote.

Good to see you're HN'ers. Congrats on raising capital.

Re: Tell HN: Catch.com raises 7m. Didn't get in as solo founder (S08), kept pushing

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Post by Dramatize » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 3:00 AM UTC

Well done :)

Re: Tell HN: Catch.com raises 7m. Didn't get in as solo founder (S08), kept pushing

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Post by vaksel » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 3:01 AM UTC

I wish HN would enable links in self posts.

http://catch.com (yes it was easier to type it out here, than in the browser)

Re: Tell HN: Catch.com raises 7m. Didn't get in as solo founder (S08), kept pushing

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Post by mindcrime » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 3:06 AM UTC

Congratulations! That's a very inspiring story... thanks for sharing.

Re: Tell HN: Catch.com raises 7m. Didn't get in as solo founder (S08), kept pushing

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Post by jam » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 3:21 AM UTC

  A few weeks later I hit uninteresting roadblock

Did you use speech-to-text to write this post, or is that just an odd mental slip?

Re: Tell HN: Catch.com raises 7m. Didn't get in as solo founder (S08), kept pushing

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Post by rodh257 » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 3:32 AM UTC

Congrats and thanks for sharing - out of interest, how did you meet your co-founder?

Re: Tell HN: Catch.com raises 7m. Didn't get in as solo founder (S08), kept pushing

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Post by aschobel » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 3:42 AM UTC

jam wrote: post #18

A few weeks later I hit uninteresting roadblock Did you use speech-to-text to write this post, or is that just an odd mental slip?

s/uninteresting/unexpected/

Mental slip.

My friends and family were the ones who were most excited about that job, it seemed a bit boring and confining to be engineer #80.

I love the uncertainty and possibilities that I face with Catch.com

I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

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