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Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by rdlecler1 »

aliakhtar wrote: post #144
rdlecler1 wrote: post #105

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We're an investment marketplace for agriculture and agtech. On the face of it, this sounds totally dull in the world of SnapChat and Secret. Our job is to make sure that your grandchildren have food to eat by 2050 when we we need to feed 10 billion people. I started the company because I was working for a company in west africa before this. We failed to marshal enough capital to grow our business beyond the pilot sta…

Great idea. You're the 3rd company in the food / agricultural space that got in for interviews this batch. Two others posted here, one which makes analytics for fish farms, and another for cattle farmers.

Where did see that? I search and didn't see them post? I'd like to reach out to them.

Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by tomasien »

philk10 wrote: post #169
tomasien wrote: post #167

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Thanks for letting me know that is super weird - I don't see that error and I don't recognize it. Are you browsing in some non-standard way I need to account for (weird browser or something?)

The site http://wehighfive.com gives the error - Error 521 Ray ID: 180ff4b9abf0042a Web server is down

OHHH that sucks! That's mah old project - I run https://knoxpayments.com now

Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by corobo »

wernerb wrote: post #149
flipside wrote: post #136

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I know, right? One of these days I'll figure out the right way to explain things in writing...

"Have you wondered what honest video feedback aligned to your own movie watching taste looks like? Check us out at tinj.com" Haven't looked at your site yet, but this is what I would relate to. Good luck!

If you're a fan of websites that mess around with scrolling functionality you're in for a treat!

Holy damn that site is all over the place if you try to scroll a bit too fast

as someone working on a video-based site I am interested in this concept but I just cannot use this website without irritation. Also there's barely any "Now you've seen that it's pretty, this is what it does" information.

Document! document! document!

Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by aliakhtar »

wellboy wrote: post #151
aliakhtar wrote: post #147

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I'm not going to get a co-founder just to get into YC.

You do need a co-founder though to build a startup. The value of having 1 person to bounce ideas off is incredible versus just yourself. The value of the second co-founder for bouncing ideas off is 50% less than for the first one, that's why one co-founder is optimal.

I bounce ideas with my friends - and I don't have to give them 50% of my business!

Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by aliakhtar »

rdlecler1 wrote: post #171
aliakhtar wrote: post #144

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Great idea. You're the 3rd company in the food / agricultural space that got in for interviews this batch. Two others posted here, one which makes analytics for fish farms, and another for cattle farmers.

Where did see that? I search and didn't see them post? I'd like to reach out to them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8524230

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8523993

Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by resca79 »

I appreciate the seriously of Y Combinator, but I dislike an article like that, first the title: 'We make mistakes'

While I found the rejection a good and sincere email, I'm trying to figure out the role of this article

Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by SnacksOnAPlane »

flipside wrote: post #136
bobbles wrote: post #131

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"We're building dramatically better ways for people to share information..." reaction: cool! "...starting with video ratings" reaction: meh

I know, right? One of these days I'll figure out the right way to explain things in writing...

Why is the product called "curve" in the demo video but "curv" on the site?

Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by hnriot »

hessenwolf wrote: post #159
vacri wrote: post #111

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I once tried to become a paramedic. I was working in a sort-of outpatient clinic at the time, talked a couple of times with an paramedic instructor, along with some regular officers. I never got in - the HR recruiters didn't like me for some reason. This made no sense to the instructor, who thought I was a prime candidate, nor to my medical colleagues, and I also later successfully coached two friends through the pro…

I got a reply from a financial engineering consultancy HR person on Friday to say that they would not be able to process my application until I had submitted my high school results. From 1997. I have several applications on the go right now, so I do not have time to go historical for them. They miss a candidate.

that's not unreasonable, when applying for job you need to get your stuff together. So many companies have later found out employees claimed degrees they never got. HR protects against that.

Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by SnacksOnAPlane »

flipside wrote: post #71
aliakhtar wrote: post #56

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7 times is a lot. Has it always been with the same product, or different ideas?

Team has changed, name has changed, product has changed, vision has been refined. 10/30 marks my 4 year anniversary for coming up with the core ideas behind Tinj. We're building dramatically better ways for people to share information starting with video ratings. More than anything, I've grown enormously as an entrepreneur, as a developer and as a person.

OK, this is me being a jerk, but:

You've spent 4 years working on a product that lets you draw a line on a time graph?

I mean, I see that it's synced to a video, and that's a small bit of interesting functionality, but...this is not a product. This is a feature of a product, maybe. It's a less-useful imitation of those "+/-" knobs that you see the results of during political debates on CNN.

I'm sorry, I really do like to see people succeed, but I think you need to move on from this idea.

Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by flipside »

corobo wrote: post #173
wernerb wrote: post #149

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"Have you wondered what honest video feedback aligned to your own movie watching taste looks like? Check us out at tinj.com" Haven't looked at your site yet, but this is what I would relate to. Good luck!

If you're a fan of websites that mess around with scrolling functionality you're in for a treat! Holy damn that site is all over the place if you try to scroll a bit too fast as someone working on a video-based site I am interested in this concept but I just cannot use this website without irritation. Also there's barely any "Now you've seen that it's pretty, this is what it does" information. Document! document! doc…

The landing page was an experiment and has been slated to be replaced for several months.
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