Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

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Post by plinkplonk » Wed, Dec 05, 2012, 5:21 PM UTC

Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding
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Re: Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

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Post by toby » Wed, Dec 05, 2012, 5:30 PM UTC

Congrats to Bradford! Prismatic really is great. Definitely one of the few sites I use several times a day.

Re: Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

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Post by bradfordcross » Wed, Dec 05, 2012, 5:32 PM UTC

toby wrote: post #2

Congrats to Bradford! Prismatic really is great. Definitely one of the few sites I use several times a day.

Thanks Toby, hopefully we'll get good enough at hiring to take advantage of the cash and make those several times a day a lot more enjoyable! :)

Re: Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

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Post by michelleclsun » Wed, Dec 05, 2012, 5:33 PM UTC

Awesome, very useful product, definitely one of the most relevant news aggregation services currently. The recent web redesign also enhanced desktop use as well. Congratulations team!

Re: Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

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Post by briandoll » Wed, Dec 05, 2012, 5:36 PM UTC

Great news! I've been using the Prismatic app daily since it came out. It perfectly fits the job of "what's going on". I tend to skim on the iPhone and save good articles to read later (or with Pocket, another favorite).

The tech is really interesting too. High Scalability had a post this summer on how it all works: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/7/30/prismatic-architec...

Re: Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

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Post by bradfordcross » Wed, Dec 05, 2012, 5:40 PM UTC

briandoll wrote: post #5

Great news! I've been using the Prismatic app daily since it came out. It perfectly fits the job of "what's going on". I tend to skim on the iPhone and save good articles to read later (or with Pocket, another favorite). The tech is really interesting too. High Scalability had a post this summer on how it all works: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/7/30/prismatic-architec...

Jason is the man and we'll be prodding him into doing more posts and starting to open source a bunch of our clojure stack.

Re: Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

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Post by benbjohnson » Wed, Dec 05, 2012, 5:41 PM UTC

Congratulations! The site is great. I use it every day. A few things I'd love to see:

1. API - I'd love to integrate with you guys.

2. Daily e-mail - As much as I like to use the site sometimes I just want to have stories pushed to me too.

3. I would like to have a bar at the top of the list of stories that shows what I have "saved for later". I usually save stories when I don't have time to read them but I always forget to go back and read them because it's not in front of my face.

Keep up the great work!

Re: Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

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Post by bradfordcross » Wed, Dec 05, 2012, 5:42 PM UTC

michelleclsun wrote: post #4

Awesome, very useful product, definitely one of the most relevant news aggregation services currently. The recent web redesign also enhanced desktop use as well. Congratulations team!

Great to hear you say that - the web app was such as disaster! now we have a pretty good foundation to iterate fast on the web, which is super important for some of the really finicky design problems like social interactions that are so hard to iterate on mobile.

Re: Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

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Post by kia » Wed, Dec 05, 2012, 5:43 PM UTC

There is a reason why I would never use such service like Prismatic. The main problem for me here is that it creates a confined universe for you where you are surrounded by only "relevant" information. For example I don't care much about fashion, but once in a while reading NY Times I stumble upon a very interesting articles about new trends in fashion or its history. It makes me think out of the box and expands my knowledge. There is no way a service like Prismatic would provide me with such articles based on my interests.

Re: Prismatic gets $15 million in Series A Funding

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Post by bradfordcross » Wed, Dec 05, 2012, 5:44 PM UTC

benbjohnson wrote: post #7

Congratulations! The site is great. I use it every day. A few things I'd love to see: 1. API - I'd love to integrate with you guys. 2. Daily e-mail - As much as I like to use the site sometimes I just want to have stories pushed to me too. 3. I would like to have a bar at the top of the list of stories that shows what I have "saved for later". I usually save stories when I don't have time to read them but I always fo…

thanks!

1. look at the jobs page: http://getprismatic.com/jobs 2. see #1.

3. Really interesting interaction idea. we're exploring "the many uses of save" and this queuing behavior vs. longer term bookmarking is something we think about a lot.