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Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

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Re: Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

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Well I admit it. I drank the Kool-Aid. Partly to grab my twitter handle, not that I think it was in any danger of being scooped, and partly to see just what is happening on the inside of the walled garden.

I can't comment any further, my password I signed up with doesn't seem to work, and the password reset feature also appears broken :) I will reserve judgement for now.

Re: Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

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"Why would people pay to tell other people what they ate for lunch?" Twitter and Facebook were fun when not everyone and their parents were on there. I'm hoping that the price tag keeps a lot of the people out who don't have anything of value to share. So far, from what I've seen on the alpha site, the conversations are way more interesting to me than most banter on Twitter. The higher limit of 256 characters helps t…

Twitter's growth hasn't affected the quality of my Twitter experience at all. I just don't follow people who post crap. Is this a real problem people are having, or is it an invented justification for something they want to see succeed?

There are lots and lots of very valid arguments for both sides of this question. Personally, I think it's both. Even if it really isn't a real problem, that doesn't matter I don't think. What matters is if you can make enough people believe it's a problem. In life, perception really is reality in many cases. I'm reminded of the old saying "when the legend becomes fact, print the legend" for some reason too.

But to directly answer your question, I think at this point the only truly honest answer is...

We'll see.

Re: Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

#43

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Against Kickstarters TOS. They only allow "creative projects."

I don't think they ever asked KS. A variety of similar projects have been presented and funded there.

Wait, and your reasoning is that Kickstarter should just "open this one exception"? That'd be like opening a can of worms instead.

Re: Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

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I would like to publicly admit my total wrongness and congratulate Dalton on his success with this project. You have won my backing and I'll be there 'apping' with the rest of you guys. This was the somewhat popular but incorrect comment I made previously: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4278378 Much love. Props.

> I'll be there 'apping' Let's hope this doesn't become a verb. Tweeting is bad enough, but "apping"?

haha was totally tounge in cheek, but seriously i wonder what the verb will be? if it does well there will have to be one eventually...

Re: Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

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I don't think they ever asked KS. A variety of similar projects have been presented and funded there.

Wait, and your reasoning is that Kickstarter should just "open this one exception"? That'd be like opening a can of worms instead.

My reasoning is that it wouldn't be an exception based on past projects they approved. I think it would have been approved if it had been submitted, very likely through the normal approval process.

Re: Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

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I would like to publicly admit my total wrongness and congratulate Dalton on his success with this project. You have won my backing and I'll be there 'apping' with the rest of you guys. This was the somewhat popular but incorrect comment I made previously: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4278378 Much love. Props.

> I'll be there 'apping' Let's hope this doesn't become a verb. Tweeting is bad enough, but "apping"?

It will be called "tweeting on app.net".

Re: Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

#47

Congratulations from me, too! A very impressive result in such a short timeframe. In danger of asking a silly question, I do wonder about this bit though: In the very near future I will ask an impartial 3rd party take a look at our data (while preserving all privacy of our backers) and publicly verify that the join.app.net was operated in an honest manner. I might not be seeing the forest for the trees here, but how…

What would make sense is that the auditor be reputable and have access to all the sensitive private information. The auditor would check as many samples as they need to satisfy their conclusion that join.app.net met the $500k legit.

Since the auditor was reputable and signed a contract to attest the $500k, the auditor would be careful to not divulge any of the sensitive, personally identifiable information.

Re: Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

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> I'll be there 'apping' Let's hope this doesn't become a verb. Tweeting is bad enough, but "apping"?

haha was totally tounge in cheek, but seriously i wonder what the verb will be? if it does well there will have to be one eventually...

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Re: Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

#50

Congratulations to Dalton and the entire team at App.net! They deserve every penny. Dalton's steely resolve through this entire process has been an inspiration to me; it takes a lot of guts to go out on a limb and ignore all the haters. Even if App.net as a platform doesn't take off I still consider this project a success.

Naive question, but how do we know they deserve every penny?
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