So... your "startup" is something that bit.ly (and similar) could do in a few hours of work with an already established userbase.
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#12totally broke when i tried to snip.ly the medium post
Re: We just interviewed at Y Combinator – here’s the full transcript
#13So... your "startup" is something that bit.ly (and similar) could do in a few hours of work with an already established userbase.
Aren't many startups like that?
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#14We’d encourage you to think about what this is a feature of on the path to being the next Google.
If the way the next Google will win is by making the current Google irrelevant, one way to make it irrelevant is to take away its revenue from advertising on the web. And one way to do that, is to add in web browsers the feature of hiding ads. Browsers could only show snip.ly ads according to a user's preferences. This might not be as obvious or easy considering for example how after all these years Bit.ly didn't try this.
Have you considered making a browser plugin?
Re: We just interviewed at Y Combinator – here’s the full transcript
#15The remark about frame-breakers seems to be to bring up a valid concern - the sites being linked to certainly would not appreciate having their sites presented in a frameset with advertising which isn't their own. If it were me (caveat: I have no credibility whatsoever) I would be concerned about the long-term viability of this as a moneymaker, given that the more popular snip.ly theoretically becomes, the more animo…
There's no 100% perfect frame breaking strategy, last I checked.
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#16thanks for sharing