nReduce: an alliance of hackers
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My guess is they said "hackers" when they meant "Hacker News readers".
Perhaps our understanding of the word 'hacker' is evolving to the word 'hackers'. And given your presence and comment here, aren't you by definition a "Hacker News reader"? Just sayin'
But a good magician demonstrates through magic tricks and sleight of hand.
Getting crazy rich and becoming a rockstar entrepreneur, not so much, but automating the rent and bill problem once and for all by coding something to bring in money, just one in a long string of problems a 'hacker' might consider solving in their lifetime.
Email-based signup > Facebook-based >> Twitter-based
On top of that, the permissions indicate that nReduce wants to post Tweets for me. Um, no thanks.
We won't post tweets. We added write permission so we could help organize groups together. Twitter doesn't really make it easy to choose exactly what permission you want to pick. It's write all or nothing.
I guess this is because connecting my Facebook account will mean that I am sharing a lot of new information about myself with the service whereas with something like Twitter there's just the authentication bit that's shared - there's no new data that now becomes available to speak off. My tweets were already public.
Thanks!
You should assume a highly technical audience already has that problem solved, via LastPass, KeePass, or something similar.
> And what founder doesn't have a twitter account, it's sort of as essential as email at this point.
Some of us prefer to compartmentalize our online identities instead of linking them all together, at least initially.
Hopefully the community will graduate some awesome startups and will give the next batch some program klout.
My biggest worry is that this batch works well and a number of companies raise investment and we see thousands upon thousands of startups flooding the process the next batch.
However I'm stoked to be part of this.
Manchester UK participant.
In my opinion if a few gems make it large from the program then the crowds will flock to be part of the program, misinterpreting it as a get rich scheme.
However, I'm sure this could be easily solved and is a scaling issue N-Reduce will be happy to have. :)
I've been in so many meetup groups which started off with really smart hard working people that have been slowly run down by tire kickers and dreamers coming along each week but never actually making any progress on their company.
EDIT: Ah just noticed in the FAQ that they kick teams out who don't ship, awesome, good to see them keeping the quality high.
Hint: The more you want to be like YC, the less you will be like YC. nR is nR, give it it´s own shape in the communication.
and... thank you for integrating the "Follow Discussion" Button. I just updated the git right here. https://github.com/jermaink/hnfollowbutton
Renamed from "Follow Discussion" from "View Discussion" which makes more sense. Also some compatibility issues solved.
Thanks for the note, I will DM you.
-Joe
I think it depends. A lot of organizations would rather terminate the employee and find a replacement than wait for their leave to end.
Alternatively, many will replace the employee without terminating them; after their leave, they'll re-hire them if the position is open (aka they're hiring), otherwise let them go.
Not trying to be cynical I'd just like to know what the incentives are other than "let's just be awesome".
Apologies if it was explained somewhere, I did look but didn't see anything obvious.
I'm also thankful some great people (like Joe) have stepped up as partners and will be taking it over so I can focus on my startup.
If everyone is at the startup stage someone with more experience (more than one) needs to be available to help make connections. We need someone who can review each other's work and submit to different news site and media. This is a great idea but there needs to be a plan for execution.
A startup or a product without exposure is nothing. The benefit of being part of Ycombinator or other incubators is not the initial funding but the following guaranteed exposure (atleast one writeup by TC, mashable etc) and helping with connections.
We need similar kind of thing and I have got some ideas how we can collaborate on this
But sadly, due to random bad luck I can't do it: my Tuesday evenings are spoken for. (It's one of the very few times during the week that I have a fixed schedule. Let's call it a sanity preservation activity.) If nReduce was on, say, Wednesday evening (or Tuesday morning), I'd sign up.
If the expectation is for people to take a leave of absence (or quit) from their job, anyway, then I would have scheduled it during the day, as most extracurricular activities (IME) are in the evenings.
We are just scrappy guys putting this together, we needed a place that was open at night and that you could meet at : A Bar.
We have no expectations on whether you are employed or not, just if you can build great product.
Best, -Joe
I am planning on attending a conference at the end of July (BSides Las Vegas/DEFCON, for those wondering), which would probably take me completely out of the running for shipping anything that week.
I am still very interested, but have other responsibilities as well. How would this work?
Looking forward to having you!
We'll put up an RSVP page soon that shows what the counts are for each city.
Please sign up, it is going to be awesome!
Also, I'm an Associate Partner at a local VC fund. What else do you suggest for how investors can support or encourage this activity prior to Demo Day? Thanks for watching the comments.
That'll require a bit of curation by the nReduce team so the mentors only see the valid, honest questions submitted. But we're working on a way to manage that workload (between the nReduce partners and moderators).
What mentors get out of it is being exposed to lots of early stage startups and possibly find some great teams that they enjoy working with and can step in as official advisory roles if there's a fit.
There were some error in our form where peoples email addresses weren't saved correctly.
I am forwarding information about this to other teams as well.
I get how confusing that might look at demo day, but could one 'graduate' doing things that way?
In fact, inherent in our system is that their is no one person or group of people who can say yeah or neigh on all startups.
What our system does is we document your progress, so we try to answer the question, can this team execute on an idea.
Then the quality of the idea / traction / investor interest takes over from there.
The question is if when I launch an investor sees my progress, what will it say about my team?
Also, some people are joining just to be a part of the community and not really for the demo day. Our goal is to help startups, so we welcome all types.
If you feel like you can do that solo, please sign up!