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That doesn't make sense. People emotionally calibrate themselves against the visible skills of the people in their peer group, not a global distribution of IQ.
Yeah, I know they do that, but it doesn't make sense to me why they do that. If everyone expects to be #1 in the world, everyone but one person is going to be disappointed.
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Although I disagree with PG on nearly everything salient to this conversation, he himself has noted the decline of the community here. I'll take his word for it over yours.
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Edit: Original context: BenjaminCoe decided to reply to me with the xkcd comic referencing the, "Someone is wrong on the internet" thing. He has since deleted his comment without explanation.
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You seem to have a very strong opinion of what HN should be about, and yet this bubbling animosity for the OP and his content seems very out of place here. The post's title was completely accurate, to the extent that you've admitted it's not something you want to read. Don't read it then. The fact it's bubbling up the top posts means others found some merit in it. You want to lecture people against upvoting this cont…
Although I disagree with PG on nearly everything salient to this conversation, he himself has noted the decline of the community here. I'll take his word for it over yours.
"I began getting depressed about the lack of a life I had outside of work. I’d bring this bad mood to work with me, in turn making it a worse place to be. I’ve since made an asserted effort to dedicate time to my social life: going on trips with friends; going on dates; and, most importantly, getting work completely off my mind occasionally." Serious question (and my thoughts) here I'm not trying to be cute. Regardin…
I don't see much traction here: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/attachments.me/ It looks like aqui-hire is the best option for attachments.me
Our main products are a Chrome Extension, and an iPhone application. The website itself gets a, granted small, but growing amount of traffic -- but it's mainly just there to direct people towards the clients. I don't think that Alexa or Compete do a perfect job of reflecting our usage numbers, since the website itself is not the main way people interact with us.
2) What are attachments.me actual usage numbers today and 1 year ago?
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Our main products are a Chrome Extension, and an iPhone application. The website itself gets a, granted small, but growing amount of traffic -- but it's mainly just there to direct people towards the clients. I don't think that Alexa or Compete do a perfect job of reflecting our usage numbers, since the website itself is not the main way people interact with us.
1) Compete shows downtrend for attachments.me I understand it could be a mistake due to low numbers, but still does not look promising. 2) What are attachments.me actual usage numbers today and 1 year ago?
These numbers simply aren't well reflected in the Compete score.
My coworkers and I work hard, and believe in what we're doing. Rome wasn't built in a day, let's hold of on the talent acquisition talk ;)
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"The best way to insure that you can live the life you want and have some fun is to put all the effort in that you can now and try to put off having fun until a bit later on." This is insane. While you need to meet your responsibilities and commitments, once you've done that, live the life you want, and live it right now. That might involve work non-stop and very little else, if that's what you really want - but if y…
"This is insane. While you need to meet your responsibilities and commitments, once you've done that, live the life you want, and live it right now." If I understand what you are saying you are telling people to simply meet your current living obligations and worry about the future in the future. Good luck with that. Take a look around at all the people without a pot to piss in that have no savings or can only surviv…
I think what you're suggesting is a great way to end up miserable, friendless, and alone. And those are three things all the money in the world can't fix.
When you say that "Bootstrapping a startup is stressful", are you only referring to the time before you raised the $2.5 million? How long was that? EDIT: According to CrunchBase you raised $500K two months after your company was founded, and another $2 million 13 months later. I'm sure you just used the word without thinking much about it, but technically you bootstrapped for all of 8 weeks. :)
When you say that "Bootstrapping a startup is stressful", are you only referring to the time before you raised the $2.5 million? How long was that? EDIT: According to CrunchBase you raised $500K two months after your company was founded, and another $2 million 13 months later. I'm sure you just used the word without thinking much about it, but technically you bootstrapped for all of 8 weeks. :)
When you say that "Bootstrapping a startup is stressful", are you only referring to the time before you raised the $2.5 million? How long was that? EDIT: According to CrunchBase you raised $500K two months after your company was founded, and another $2 million 13 months later. I'm sure you just used the word without thinking much about it, but technically you bootstrapped for all of 8 weeks. :)
Why is there this overwhelmingly anti-bootstrapping sentiment present in the startup community? What's so wrong with taking outside funding?
"Bootstrapping in business means starting a business without external help or capital."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping#Business
There is nothing wrong with taking outside funding, but then you don't get to call it bootstrapping any more (as per the widely-accepted definition above of what the term means).
This is mixing up terms.
