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Mostly no https and the colours don't shout big business.
Thanks for the feedback. Https is something we'll support at GA and the site's going through a reboot. :)
You're polite :)
Poll: Apply HN Runoff – Which two startups should YCF fund?
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Re: Poll: Apply HN Runoff – Which two startups should YCF fund?
#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
The rankings have been stable for a couple hours now, so we'll close it at 9pm Pacific (about an hour from now).
It's a bit of a shame the European side of the world didn't have much of a chance to vote. When I logged off around midnight last night, this thread wasn't posted. When I logged on at 0700 this morning, voting was closed.
It isn't closed! We reopened it because people pointed out the mistake. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11618034.
Are you still not able to vote?
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree about your assessment on AutoMicrofarm. If they execute it well, I believe there is a good market for such things. If it doesn't break my bank, I would love to have my own micro farm to product most of what I need, for the most part. I think its fun and I don't think I am alone in this regard.
As an AutoMicroFarm co-founder, I think you're exactly right: the idea itself is good, almost too good to be true (a concept my boss blogged about: https://medium.com/@snootymonkey/paul-graham-is-wrong-411fe0... ). I think the market will be obvious when each AutoMicroFarm pays for itself in a year (or even better, a growing season). But, that's a few orders of magnitude away in terms of manufacturing scale.
I'm positive about your idea and it's potential use in the future. Moreover, since you have already moved onto 4th prototype, this looks promising.
May I suggest you to think about integration with other vendors (e.g. SolarCity) for a sustainable home or place.
All the best! [Voted]
Re: Poll: Apply HN Runoff – Which two startups should YCF fund?
#194Cadwolf:
Very interesting. Want to sign up, but your create account button disappears whenever I go to the password confirm field (tried Chrome and FF).
Re: Poll: Apply HN Runoff – Which two startups should YCF fund?
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a bit of a shame the European side of the world didn't have much of a chance to vote. When I logged off around midnight last night, this thread wasn't posted. When I logged on at 0700 this morning, voting was closed.
It isn't closed! We reopened it because people pointed out the mistake. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11618034 . Are you still not able to vote?
Yes, all fine now, thank you and much appreciated.
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#196Re: Poll: Apply HN Runoff – Which two startups should YCF fund?
#197Happy that people with different schedules can vote with the extended timeframe.
Re: Poll: Apply HN Runoff – Which two startups should YCF fund?
#198Voting for Pinboard feels like a protest vote. Naturally, I voted for Pinboard.
This is why we can't have nice things. Protest votes are fun, but they also undermine the system. "If people don't take voting seriously, then what's the point of voting in the first place?", people in power will ask themselves. So yeah, it's cool to vote for Donald Trump or Boaty McBoatface or whatever other silly thing. But the protest itself isn't accomplishing anything. Choosing the silliest option available does…
Are you saying that a protest vote cannot be serious ? I also vote Pinboard, in a really serious protest vote.
Re: Poll: Apply HN Runoff – Which two startups should YCF fund?
#199TBH none of these look like unicorns in the making, so the only meaningful choice is really Pinboardy McPinboardface.
In 1998, Larry and Sergey took their Page Rank algorithm to the top minds of the big search engines at the time -- Yahoo, Alta Vista, and Excite -- where they tried to explain why Page Rank was better and offered it for one million dollars. They were turned down every time. They were told it was not a unicorn in the making. Don't be dismissive until you can see the future.
But to be a unicorn you have to be in a billion dollar market. How many of the start-ups listed can say that?
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#200I know we weren't supposed to comment on this, but the truth is, it's impossible to evaluate these like this. Doing such a shallow pass is just completely unfair to the founders here. I think a better idea would be more of a facemash approach, where you have to evaluate just two and pick which one is better. That way you can do a deeper dive and say something sensible with your vote rather than something stupid. I vo…
Please bring this up in the post-mortem thread. It's a good point and will fall through the cracks if left here.