Why being invited to try Circle made me think about a whole load of other stuff • Hacker News Board

Re: Why being invited to try Circle made me think about a whole load of other stuff

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Post by bsirkia » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:20 AM UTC

sakai wrote: post #14

bsirkia wrote: post #3

Really interesting read, it's a weird feeling to 1) to see a very similar startup in the same space make "evil" choices you turned down and 2) frustratingly see them be more successful than you. I'm working on a startup in Vermont, which has a similar amount of startup acclaim as Huddersfield, competing in a space where there's about 2 million Y-Combinator-backed, ex-Googler, triple Stanford-Harvard-MIT dropout found…

Aside: Vermonter here (though currently working in SF). Would love to hear more about what you're working on if you're willing to share your email. And best of luck with it!

definitely, I'm at brian@rocketlistings.com, looking forward to hearing from you.

Re: Why being invited to try Circle made me think about a whole load of other stuff

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Post by red_anorak » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 10:58 AM UTC

yesimahuman wrote: post #15

First of all, unless you are in SF or another tech city, I wouldn't even try relying on your local city in order to build your company. You have to think about the internet as your startup scene, and focus on having a good presence there (twitter, etc.). I think trying to be too local with an internet product is a mistake for most companies. To some extent the social space is riddled with a lack of ethics, mainly bec…

Some fair points. I didn't necessarily feel that I was dependent on the local media and tech scene, it was a more the case that they I felt they weren't doing their job. Even if they just wrote a blog post saying "this guy's an idiot, what he's doing will never work" it would have got a few people talking and generated a decent inbound link. Also "hyperlocal" (yuk - the H word) stuff is easier to grow if you can get a concentration of users close to each other.

Re: Why being invited to try Circle made me think about a whole load of other stuff

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Post by red_anorak » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 11:03 AM UTC

halostatue wrote: post #17

red_anorak wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it's a reference to notices posted onto lampposts. A lot of people said they loved the name. I did wonder how well it would travel, whether or not people from outside the UK stuck notices on lampposts, if they called them lampposts etc.

Here in North America, these sorts of signs are attached to any pole that can handle them, but powerline poles are favourites because they're wood (and therefore staple-friendly). Toronto has community posting boards that have started going up (put up by our beneficent advertisers, Astral Media, who would love to get out of that obligation and just advertise more).

Thanks for the info