Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo • Hacker News Board

Re: Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

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Post by greyman » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 7:35 AM UTC

idlewords wrote: post #12

blasdel wrote: post #11

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The always-brilliant Maciej already did that :) http://pinboard.in/ http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idlewords

So far I have only reimplemented what Joshua had built a few years ago. If it weren't for the del.icio.us 2 redesign, I wouldn't have a market at all.

Is the pinboard.in reliable in terms of speed and uptime?

Re: Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

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Post by joshu » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 7:43 AM UTC

YuriNiyazov wrote: post #13

joshu wrote: post #9

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Because then I'd be The Bookmarks Guy. Eugh

Why not work for a YC company or some other small startup instead of Google?

Someone else's startup? I want to be in charge of a product.

Google seems like a reasonable path to redemption - ship something new.

Re: Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

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Post by idlewords » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 7:50 AM UTC

greyman wrote: post #21

idlewords wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So far I have only reimplemented what Joshua had built a few years ago. If it weren't for the del.icio.us 2 redesign, I wouldn't have a market at all.

Is the pinboard.in reliable in terms of speed and uptime?

Stats in the DB show that the site has been fast (user page loads in about a quarter second) pretty much since launch. This is not due to developer skill; rather, the signup fee has kept the user base small enough to guarantee good performance, which is part of the idea.

As for uptime, we've had about 20 minutes of downtime this month, in order to set up a master/slave and enable SSL. I can't guarantee the happy streak will continue, but again the gatekeeping fee deters any massive spikes in load, spam, and other growing pains that could take down the site.