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Re: Tell YC: Summer 08 decisions out

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Post by wallflower »

wheels wrote: post #105
schaaf wrote: post #52

When I was visiting Harvard one time before undergraduate college applications, my tour guide mentioned something that stuck with me -- that after a round of auditions for the highly selective a capella groups on campus, the students that were passed over for all the existing groups decided to band together and form a new group. And that that group ended up training more seriously and later that year came in first in…

I've just created a LinkedIn group for Hacker News (unrelated to this thread, but reading it reminded me I was planning on creating it). I'll post the details here and in a new article when it's live. I've also added my LinkedIn profile to my HC profile.

Great LinkedIn profile. Thanks for bringing a smile this morning

Re: Tell YC: Summer 08 decisions out

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Post by mrtron »

I was once again not accepted.

I really wasn't expecting to get in this time, but it really can be a big hit on the ego seeing all these people getting in and not being on the list. However, it shouldn't deter me - I will continue on fighting the good fight. Best of luck to the other applicants.

My idea is great, and I have just starting working on it. I will keep you guys updated, hopefully release before demo day, and with some luck nobody will notice I wasn't in this round.

Re: Tell YC: Summer 08 decisions out

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Post by Readmore »

fallentimes wrote: post #74
Readmore wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! I've thought along those same lines, and I'm hoping to make that an option in the future. Currently I'm not confident that I can track everything well enough to attribute purchases to an individual user. I didn't want to say a user could pick their own charity and then not actually be able to donate the money for them. As I get traffic I'm hoping to find a way to pull that off.

Maybe you could set something similar to what ebates.com has done? Each user has an individual login and everytime they go to an affiliate site they are provided with a tracking ticket. It's a really cool system and I've made over a few hundred dollars with them related to business trips for my "real job". If your site ever starts marketing towards fundraising groups, a user could be asked to enter a simple identifie…

That sounds like a great system, thanks. I'll take a look at ebates.com and see what I can find.

Re: Tell YC: Summer 08 decisions out

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Post by shaunxcode »

aschobel wrote: post #59
wumi wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the first part sounds a bit like twitter/ letsprovewhere

Kinda, but this is a very different animal. There are two itches I'm scratching with 3banana. The first is that I want to keep track of small bits of information and make it easy to retrieve them from any device. Right now I email myself notes, which is clunky. The site has full text search and allows you to label your notes. The site also automatically labels stuff like Address/Phone Numbers/etc, so you can query it…

I dig the idea for sure. I am constantly jotting down "memos" or lyric scraps/ideas for projects etc. in my black berry notes deal and I ALWAYS forget they are there til I write another one. I really like the idea of broadcasting your idea to a group of people immediately as well and I definitely see it as different than email. Keep scratching!

Re: Tell YC: Summer 08 decisions out

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Post by ameilij »

I was rejected, but to be honest, I didn't expect too much. My project is in Panama and is in Spanish, so my chances were low to begin with. But I was happy just to get a chance to participate and a great forum to bounce ideas.

Good luck to all the projects!

Re: Tell YC: Summer 08 decisions out

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Post by wheels »

wheels wrote: post #105
schaaf wrote: post #52

When I was visiting Harvard one time before undergraduate college applications, my tour guide mentioned something that stuck with me -- that after a round of auditions for the highly selective a capella groups on campus, the students that were passed over for all the existing groups decided to band together and form a new group. And that that group ended up training more seriously and later that year came in first in…

I've just created a LinkedIn group for Hacker News (unrelated to this thread, but reading it reminded me I was planning on creating it). I'll post the details here and in a new article when it's live. I've also added my LinkedIn profile to my HC profile.

I couldn't find the group rms posted at all. There are already a few members that have joined the new one that I created. I created a post here with some possibilities for networking:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=160398

Re: Tell YC: Summer 08 decisions out

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Post by aschobel »

morbidkk wrote: post #96
aschobel wrote: post #29

Just got the "rejection" letter, I'm a bit disappointed I couldn't get the team reviewing the proposals as passionate about the project as I am. I think being a solo founder hurt me, but I've been working on the project full-time for four months (over 12k lines of code). This won't slow me down. =) What is your company going to make? We make it easy to jot something down from any device and then share that note with…

have you checked evernote.com. That is the one major reason I see

Yep, their recognition software looks neat.

There are a ton of Notepad apps out there, but they are all clunky to use.

My goal is to make 3banana as easy to use as a Google search. I'm writing plugins so you can post notes from QuickSilver, shell, FireFox, or write your own using the Python API.

Here is my updated pitch:

3banana makes it easy to jot things down and makes your notes more useful, whether it is by helping you find something on the go or by allowing seamless collaboration with your friends.

Tap into your friends' ideas and expertise, and get instant feedback by sharing your notes on Facebook, Twitter, Email , AIM or wherever your social graph lives.

3banana, your notes are social.

Re: Tell YC: Summer 08 decisions out

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Post by aschobel »

bigbang wrote: post #104
aschobel wrote: post #29

Just got the "rejection" letter, I'm a bit disappointed I couldn't get the team reviewing the proposals as passionate about the project as I am. I think being a solo founder hurt me, but I've been working on the project full-time for four months (over 12k lines of code). This won't slow me down. =) What is your company going to make? We make it easy to jot something down from any device and then share that note with…

i like the concept. Right now, I email myself the small interesting tidbits i find or in some txt file which I later forget abt it. if executed well, i can see many ppl using it .or atleast me:)

Hehe, I also use text files. I can never find anything.

One of the cool things that 3banana does is that it labels your notes automatically based on basic patterns, so you can query it to give you all the Phone Numbers you jotted down in the last week.

Re: Tell YC: Summer 08 decisions out

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Post by aschobel »

shaunxcode wrote: post #115
aschobel wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kinda, but this is a very different animal. There are two itches I'm scratching with 3banana. The first is that I want to keep track of small bits of information and make it easy to retrieve them from any device. Right now I email myself notes, which is clunky. The site has full text search and allows you to label your notes. The site also automatically labels stuff like Address/Phone Numbers/etc, so you can query it…

I dig the idea for sure. I am constantly jotting down "memos" or lyric scraps/ideas for projects etc. in my black berry notes deal and I ALWAYS forget they are there til I write another one. I really like the idea of broadcasting your idea to a group of people immediately as well and I definitely see it as different than email. Keep scratching!

Thanks.

One of the problems with email is that it is "offline" in the sense that I can't link to an existing conversation from AIM or Facebook.

Launch will hopefully be next week. crosses fingers

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