Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions • Hacker News Board

Re: Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions

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Post by zachster » Tue, Nov 02, 2010, 9:08 PM UTC

danielsiders wrote: post #12

zachster wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rules? I don't understand.

YC might not love us making public a list of applicants. Less so promoting it on HN.

It was kind of a rhetorical question. The process clearly encouraged rebellious behavior. Though I don't think this really qualifies as such. We're entrepreneurs. We network. We promote. This is what we do.

Re: Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions

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Post by jkalkbrenner » Tue, Nov 02, 2010, 9:14 PM UTC

Sorry, seems there are too many destructive people. If you can find a way to control input, please let us know. We would be more than happy to provide input.

Re: Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions

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Post by ABrandt » Tue, Nov 02, 2010, 9:26 PM UTC

bpierce wrote: post #4

genius!

I upvoted you to get your attention, but comments like these are usually frowned upon here on HN. The general rule is that a comment should have some kind of substance to it, rather than simple agreement.

Check out the site guidelines(http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), good luck, and welcome!

Re: Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions

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Post by alexl » Tue, Nov 02, 2010, 9:31 PM UTC

Ooops. Sorry about making a reaaaaaally really tall table cell there. I actually used the same texts I used for the Ycombinator submission. If you could make the cells slightly wider, please, the text would fit better and not make the entry all over people's screens.

Re: Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions

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Post by bigwally » Tue, Nov 02, 2010, 9:34 PM UTC

All we need now is the ability to vote on submissions and see if we can make better picks than YC.

Re: Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions

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Post by dstein » Tue, Nov 02, 2010, 9:43 PM UTC

Well I know what I'm gonna apply with next year... Google spreadsheets absolutely suck for this type of collaboration.

Re: Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions

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Post by kellyreid » Tue, Nov 02, 2010, 9:46 PM UTC

jkalkbrenner wrote: post #42

Sorry, seems there are too many destructive people. If you can find a way to control input, please let us know. We would be more than happy to provide input.

look at my comment above - the form version i put up should handle the destructive edit problem

Re: Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions

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Post by benzheren » Tue, Nov 02, 2010, 9:55 PM UTC

dstein wrote: post #46

Well I know what I'm gonna apply with next year... Google spreadsheets absolutely suck for this type of collaboration.

has anyone tried the zoho one? I know it is not free though

Re: Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions

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Post by alexl » Tue, Nov 02, 2010, 9:56 PM UTC

leftnode wrote: post #33

jdverni wrote: post #30

Shopobot looks sweet

Is another similar service - http://camelcamelcamel.com/

I'm afraid I like Shopobot more. Camel is waaaaay too crowded, just like the myriad of other price aggregators. Just too much on the same page.

Re: Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions

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Post by alexl » Tue, Nov 02, 2010, 9:58 PM UTC

ig1 wrote: post #34

jdverni wrote: post #30

Shopobot looks sweet

Agreed, but I'm not sure if they'll be able to keep at it I looked at building something similar a while back but found most of the big retailers (Amazon, eBay) prohibited you from storing historical price data. Unless that's changed I'm not sure their approach is going to be feasible in the long term.

That should be easy - store just the graph, not the actual values :)