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I wonder how are they going to make money off this.
The obvious guess would be sell it to Yahoo/Microsoft/Google, but I hope they have a more creative solution than that.
That's not a startup, it's a Gmail feature. Amazes me what gets financing nowadays...
What gets financing is founders. And what smart founders do is launch as soon as they have anything usable. It's not the last thing they'll build. See part 8, and in particular the third paragraph: http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html It makes me wince for HN to see so many people upvoting the parent. It's not just the meanness of it; it's that it's both mean and wrong. Surely at this point everyone is at least fami…
It is cool and useful though, so lets certainly not belittle that.
That's not a startup, it's a Gmail feature. Amazes me what gets financing nowadays...
What gets financing is founders. And what smart founders do is launch as soon as they have anything usable. It's not the last thing they'll build. See part 8, and in particular the third paragraph: http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html It makes me wince for HN to see so many people upvoting the parent. It's not just the meanness of it; it's that it's both mean and wrong. Surely at this point everyone is at least fami…
Unless they're solving crazy hard problems, a lot of engineering types are just going to be underwhelmed. Add in a lot of early success and that quickly turns to cynicism and frustration.
One thing I've been wondering - how does rapportive remove the Google Adwords in the right sidebar without pissing off Google? This has got to be a violation of their TOS or something isn't it?
To the founders: Congrats and thanks for sharing your reflections with us. Is there a Rapportive API in the works? I would love to integrate Rapportive into some apps I'm currently working on instead of plugging into the Gmail sidebar.
Hey Fred, thanks for your kind words. Yes, there is a Rapportive API. It doesn't allow for Rapportive to go inside other applications, but it does allow folks to embed their own applications inside Rapportive. Would that be useful at all to you? For example, MailChimp recently released an integration which allows Rapportive users to see how the people who email them interact with their email newsletters. Checkout htt…
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Hey Fred, thanks for your kind words. Yes, there is a Rapportive API. It doesn't allow for Rapportive to go inside other applications, but it does allow folks to embed their own applications inside Rapportive. Would that be useful at all to you? For example, MailChimp recently released an integration which allows Rapportive users to see how the people who email them interact with their email newsletters. Checkout htt…
That MailChimp integration is a _great_ idea! I could _so_ easily sell some of our clients on that. (I don't suppose you've got anything in the works with Campaign Monitor on that front?)
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It may look like that today, but when you pitch investors you sell them on the team, the market and the vision. You paint a compelling picture of how you get from where you are today to somewhere incredibly exciting.
I hate how well-designed your site is! Congratulations and good luck!
That's not a startup, it's a Gmail feature. Amazes me what gets financing nowadays...
What gets financing is founders. And what smart founders do is launch as soon as they have anything usable. It's not the last thing they'll build. See part 8, and in particular the third paragraph: http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html It makes me wince for HN to see so many people upvoting the parent. It's not just the meanness of it; it's that it's both mean and wrong. Surely at this point everyone is at least fami…
I fell in love with Rapportive the moment I installed it, but probably because I'm a regular blogger and glutton for info about people.
I had no idea it had 10k users in 24 hours, that's Facebook like numbers.
What I'm most surprised at is that they went into YCombinator after such amazing traction and gave up equity for such a small cash offering. The could have had any angel round they wanted with that type of fire. That's a big compliment to YC, but a strange business move for a new company.
Did they give up less equity for the 20k?