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Congratulations on the launch! The app looks beautiful and the fact that it automatically does all of this for you is pretty cool. Anyway, I was wondering, are you guys funded at all? You seem to have a pretty big team. Just curious!
Thank you! We did raise a seed round from some investors. It was $2M and from a bunch of people: https://angel.co/hey
This is great! I could definitely see myself using this if my life was more interesting than home -> work -> home (mon-fri). And if weather permits, home -> beach -> home (weekends).
This is sort of off-topic, but I think it's still HN relevant and might be helpful. The WOT (web-of-trust) plugin rates your site as untrustworthy. But the rating shows some crazy IP-based russian spam site from a year ago. I'm new to WOT so I don't understand--is this rating due to too-broad-a-wildcard in the system, or due to previous use of the site owner, or something else? (I'm hoping someone more familiar with…
I think the evaluation is based on the previous owner / user of that IP address (it's hosted on S3, and IP addresses are kind of like relatives on your family's christmas get-together.) I submitted the site for re-evaluation though.
Here's an interesting example of where time to market really matters. I've had Memoir since upgrading to iOS7, and I'm pretty happy with it. So it feels like you're late to the party by several months. Bit of a bummer since it sounds like you put a lot of effort in. Conversely, when Memoir came out, they couldn't handle their anticipated scale, but they got their foot in the door. Seems to be a good case for "just sh…
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Why did you spend 2 years of your life on this to give it away for free? It sounds like you don't want to benefit from this in any way, monetarily, which is interesting. Much respect. I'm only curious... EDIT: Whoops, I misunderstood the meaning of freemium.
Freemium is how things like Dropbox and Evernote make money, and they seem to be doing okay. =)
Here's a good article to consider: http://blog.priceintelligently.com/blog/bid/188339/Screw-Fre...
This is sort of off-topic, but I think it's still HN relevant and might be helpful. The WOT (web-of-trust) plugin rates your site as untrustworthy. But the rating shows some crazy IP-based russian spam site from a year ago. I'm new to WOT so I don't understand--is this rating due to too-broad-a-wildcard in the system, or due to previous use of the site owner, or something else? (I'm hoping someone more familiar with…
Engineer @heyday here. Thanks for letting us know :) I think the evaluation is based on the previous owner / user of that IP address (it's hosted on S3, and IP addresses are kind of like relatives on your family's christmas get-together.) I submitted the site for re-evaluation though.