Why not just open source your code (MIT-licensed perhaps), then give away the domain in one month to the person who takes it in the best direction? That would be easier than trying to evaluate people based on a HN comment and would almost guarantee a more fit selection.
I'll give away one of my startups to someone on HN
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#22lets fix the reasons why you aren't still engaged. Because no one is using it. I bet with some marketing you'd be 100% all over it. Here's how you do it - man, its so easy to market your app. Do this: a) get a better catchier name. One that can be tweet'd as "Cool, just got listed on x" b) go thru the most influential twitter names and group them in cool ego-massaging groups. Not celebrities, you can't reach them. Sm…
No one's using it because I haven't told anyone one about it. The reason I'm giving this away is because I simply don't have time to maintain multiple projects. I'm focusing 100% of my energy on Divvyshot.
Divvyshot looks cool. You could probably use a tehcrowd-like mechanism to promote it or increase engagement within the app
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#23I just got out of an unsuccessful attempt to start a hedge fund with several other quants. I am looking for a new project to adopt and this fits my interest.
I recently started playing with a ranked Twitter search engine in Django and would be happy to combine both projects in order to create a more useful thematic Twitter-powered knowledge base type of project by combining the ranks and group belongings of each twitterer.
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#25I'm an undergraduate college student currently working as a code monkey (pity me) for a New York City startup. I tell myself every day I am going to quit and work on my own project -- but I can't think of a project idea. Though the idea needs some refinement, I'd love to talk to you about it and take over.
what startup?
Re: I'll give away one of my startups to someone on HN
#26I was working on something similar a while ago. I bought the domain twitchboard.com (Like a switchboard for twitter, harhar ^.^ ). I cobbled together a proof-of-concept on it. Since I'm not a hacker I can say with certainty that the backend is janky at best, and I am much more comfortable doing design work and marketing, but all that is to say, if anyone is interested in putting 2-and-2 together we could use the Twit…
Trevor, did you design twitchboard.com alone? Do you have a portfolio of any UI design work you have done which you can point me to? We are looking for someone to help us with design. Thanks.
Yes, I did do the design. I emailed you a few other details.
Re: I'll give away one of my startups to someone on HN
#27Why not just open source your code (MIT-licensed perhaps), then give away the domain in one month to the person who takes it in the best direction? That would be easier than trying to evaluate people based on a HN comment and would almost guarantee a more fit selection.
I'll let the highest ranked submission decide what to do with this. At that moment it looks like that's you. :)
Let's give it another 30 minutes and make a decision at 3PM PDT.
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#28Re: I'll give away one of my startups to someone on HN
#29Why not just open source your code (MIT-licensed perhaps), then give away the domain in one month to the person who takes it in the best direction? That would be easier than trying to evaluate people based on a HN comment and would almost guarantee a more fit selection.
I'll let the highest ranked submission decide what to do with this. At that moment it looks like that's you. :) Let's give it another 30 minutes and make a decision at 3PM PDT.
Since there seems to be a tie, between this idea and another contestant below, I'd like to transfer all my points to this idea :) (as much for selfish reasons as the public good).
Also other comments suggesting the same things have points which they should get! :D
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll let the highest ranked submission decide what to do with this. At that moment it looks like that's you. :) Let's give it another 30 minutes and make a decision at 3PM PDT.
Since there seems to be a tie, between this idea and another contestant below, I'd like to transfer all my points to this idea :) (as much for selfish reasons as the public good). Also other comments suggesting the same things have points which they should get! :D
Done: http://github.com/srosro/tehcrowd/tree/master
In a month if anyone has built something cool with this code and wants the domain send me an email: firstname@lastname.com.