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Why did you decide to call it LampNote? Seems pretty hard for someone to guess what the app is about with that name.
LampNote initially started life as a hackday project using data provided by Manchester City Council. The data available for the hackday included planning notices which, in the UK, are still publicised by sticking pieces of paper onto lampposts. Maybe it's an easier correlation to someone in the UK?
Why did you decide to call it LampNote? Seems pretty hard for someone to guess what the app is about with that name.
I did wonder how well it would travel, whether or not people from outside the UK stuck notices on lampposts, if they called them lampposts etc.
Why did you decide to call it LampNote? Seems pretty hard for someone to guess what the app is about with that name.
I haven't really discovered that many connections between start up names and their purpose.
Really interesting read, it's a weird feeling to 1) to see a very similar startup in the same space make "evil" choices you turned down and 2) frustratingly see them be more successful than you. I'm working on a startup in Vermont, which has a similar amount of startup acclaim as Huddersfield, competing in a space where there's about 2 million Y-Combinator-backed, ex-Googler, triple Stanford-Harvard-MIT dropout found…
And best of luck with it!
To some extent the social space is riddled with a lack of ethics, mainly because it's effective and users are fickle. But there are a lot of other spaces where you don't have to make such tradeoffs and can still build a business. Maybe those would be a better fit for how you want to run your company?
Unfortunately, ethics kind of go out the door when you've got major investors that you want to provide a positive return to. Imagine the pressure for Circle to provide a return, and then imagine whether you'd even want to have that kind of pressure on you every day (and they've been around for a while and aren't huge yet, so I'm guessing it's by no means an easy ride for them either).
Why did you decide to call it LampNote? Seems pretty hard for someone to guess what the app is about with that name.
Yes, it's a reference to notices posted onto lampposts. A lot of people said they loved the name. I did wonder how well it would travel, whether or not people from outside the UK stuck notices on lampposts, if they called them lampposts etc.
The story/plot/characters are meh, but I give it 5 stars for provoking thoughts about hyper-connectedness, net neutrality, surveillance, over-sharing on social networks, the ubiquity of technology, etc.
Really interesting read, it's a weird feeling to 1) to see a very similar startup in the same space make "evil" choices you turned down and 2) frustratingly see them be more successful than you. I'm working on a startup in Vermont, which has a similar amount of startup acclaim as Huddersfield, competing in a space where there's about 2 million Y-Combinator-backed, ex-Googler, triple Stanford-Harvard-MIT dropout found…
Things I would do differently... I think my product is too clearly the work of an idealistic technical person, and is slightly dated in the way it just expects people to join in because it will be useful if everyone used it. It's completely different from Circle in every way, not just when it comes to things that can be considered "evil". For example I've purposefully made choices like "it shouldn't need a dedicated…