YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game
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YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game
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Re: YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game
#2Cool, sounds very similar to the project abossy and I worked on: www.twitterbowl2009.com
Re: YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game
#3Congratulations guys, nice work!
Re: YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game
#4Great job, guys, congrats on the launch!
Re: YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game
#5I'd much rather if the FanChatters (and other YC groups) would just share what they were working on via the site. Using TechCrunch as a middle man in exchange for perceived authority is lame, and I think HN would develop a much stronger community and culture if we all just shared what we were working on directly and asked each other for help.
Re: YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game
#6Congrats dudes!
Re: YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game
#7I'd much rather if the FanChatters (and other YC groups) would just share what they were working on via the site. Using TechCrunch as a middle man in exchange for perceived authority is lame, and I think HN would develop a much stronger community and culture if we all just shared what we were working on directly and asked each other for help.
I think it's a side effect that the announcements happen via TechCrunch. I think the basic flow is this:
- Media coverage of YC companies tend to be posted to news.yc
- If TechCrunch will cover your launch, that's good for a company's visibility
- Thus, TechCrunch stories about YC companies launching end up on news.yc
Re: YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game
#8From the comments:
"that team could build very similar functionality using free or open source projects"
Are baseball teams really in the business of hiring a bunch of programmers to write a twitter clone? Seems like paying this company is much cheaper and much more likely to be successful.
Re: YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game
#9Congrats on the launch. As a passionate sports follower I would love to use fanchatter for my fav sports- F1 and Football.
Re: YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game
#10I'd much rather if the FanChatters (and other YC groups) would just share what they were working on via the site. Using TechCrunch as a middle man in exchange for perceived authority is lame, and I think HN would develop a much stronger community and culture if we all just shared what we were working on directly and asked each other for help.
They do it for the publicity, not the authority. Only a small minority of people read HN. (And let's hope it stays that way.)