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Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by tedmiston »

karmacondon wrote: post #87

This is a great idea, but it seems like it would be more effective if there were fewer items listed. It took me quite a bit of effort to go through the list from top to bottom. An unsolicited suggestion: Maybe it would be best to have to "Buy From YC Companies" page or something like that, and then just select 6-8 of them on a separate "for the holidays" page. At least that way an everyday consumer could quickly scan…

Perhaps small categories would be beneficial. I read and opened almost every item anyway though.

Personally, I'd like to view pre-launch items and gift cards separately from everything else.

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by jl »

matt_morgan wrote: post #89
jl wrote: post #69

Rather than responding to everyone's complaints about the site: I whipped this together in less than a day, I was mostly focused on content, no one at YC who usually makes beautiful designs was available to help, I can't program, I'm using Strikingly, this is version 1. I'm happy to get feedback, but please go easy on me. We will plan much further in advance next year and make it easy to scroll through ideas and look…

Next year be ready for Hanukkah and I'm on board :-). You did a nice job.

For sure in time for Hanukkah!

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by cowsandmilk »

run4yourlives2 wrote: post #40

I look at this site and a part of me thinks that there is a segment of the population that is seemingly incapable of doing very basic things like sleeping, cooking or buying clothes without being handheld by the computer in their phone. I'm being a little overboard of course, but I really wonder how dependent we will be on our machines to survive at all in a generation or two.

I have mixed feelings. I once had a roommate who literally could not drive 2 miles to work every day without her GPS. She turned it on every day and had been working there for over a year. Simultaneously, that bike that talks to my phone's GPS could be very useful when I'm trying to bike places I haven't been before. Of course, sometimes turning down the wrong street on my bike is where cool discoveries happen :)

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by pavornyoh »

jl wrote: post #92
matt_morgan wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Next year be ready for Hanukkah and I'm on board :-). You did a nice job.

For sure in time for Hanukkah!

I know you did this for the holidays but why not just let it continue after the holidays? For example, it can be YC Online store (small one) where little things can be purchased from exclusively. So instead of buying Founders at work from Amazon, it can come from the YC store instead? Just a food for thought..

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by arasmussen »

yoodenvranx wrote: post #39

Sorry for ranting, but this type of modern webdesign and "user interface" is _horrible_. Who in their right mind thinks that putting a button called "Show me the list" dead center of the page? Hey guys, I have a novel idea: instead of adding a button, just _show_ me that list! And do you know what happens if you press that button? The website scrolls down a ~300 pixels and then you can see the first 1.8 entries of th…

You know you've got a lot of great constructive feedback in here but it's hard to take seriously when presented in a negative, whiny way.

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by arasmussen »

rhino369 wrote: post #88
lquist wrote: post #62

Honest question: Are you serious? What kind of person thinks to themselves, "Man, I really wish I had a gift idea list based on a particular financial investor."

Most gift lists are all the same. This one is sort of outside the box. I enjoyed it.

Me too. It actually had things on it I'm considering buying.

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by tedmiston »

samstave wrote: post #74
will_pseudonym wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, and I find myself incapable of doing basic things myself, but not because I only use technology to solve problems. I'm skewing more and more towards old fashioned asking-people-for-help. Where's a good spot for lunch since Chipotle is out of the question? I know, I'll stop in and ask the bank tellers where they recommend! I had a delicious burrito that destroyed Chipotle in taste and quality, and was cheaper…

That's a fun idea for an app: Post a question and only those geographically within one mile of you can answer. All questions and answers are anon and public. Tag the questions and answers such that I can see all the questions regarding what to eat were within my vicinity.

Related idea: I can't find it, but there was an app that plotted Instagram locations visited by locals vs tourists.

Here's something similar but for tweets -- ex. Times Square https://www.mapbox.com/labs/twitter-gnip/locals/#10/40.7591/....

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by tedmiston »

run4yourlives2 wrote: post #40

I look at this site and a part of me thinks that there is a segment of the population that is seemingly incapable of doing very basic things like sleeping, cooking or buying clothes without being handheld by the computer in their phone. I'm being a little overboard of course, but I really wonder how dependent we will be on our machines to survive at all in a generation or two.

The difference I see with a lot of IoT devices is that they enhance something you could already do manually.

Having a fancy grill that automatically stops cooking my steak doesn't make me incapable of using a thermometer + timer + normal skillet + polling by hand myself. It does make it sound a lot less convenient though.

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by codingdave »

jl wrote: post #69

Rather than responding to everyone's complaints about the site: I whipped this together in less than a day, I was mostly focused on content, no one at YC who usually makes beautiful designs was available to help, I can't program, I'm using Strikingly, this is version 1. I'm happy to get feedback, but please go easy on me. We will plan much further in advance next year and make it easy to scroll through ideas and look…

My one bit of feedback is that if this is intended for holiday gifts, you should not list items unless they are actually shipping. Pre-orders are not good gifts.

Re: Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator

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Post by tedmiston »

colmvp wrote: post #38

Some great ideas here. I really like Level Frames. Will definitely use them in the future for my space. The site makes me wish YC kept a publicly filterable curated list of products from YC companies that included these things like pretty images and a tagline that captures exactly what the company does.

That could be an interesting weekend project.

I'm thinking roughly:

  - scrape the list from http://yclist.com/
  - filter the ones that sell a physical product (somehow)
  - write a tiny scraper for each site's store (oh god) or try import.io
  - (potentially) bake in your referral code for each site
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