Prismatic Team Page

I don't want to be that guy, but as someone in the medical field, I take issue with OCD being thrown around so casually as a good thing to have. It's a legitimate mental disorder that can cause its sufferers a lot of turmoil.

I absolutely get what you guys are going for, and you seem like a fun bunch, but I'd be a bit more sensitive about using terms like that. It'd be like someone saying "We're looking for ridiculously good programmers, like autistic good."

Prismatic is one of my favourite startups this moment. Bradford's talk on Clojure West was amazing (you can watch it online here[1]).

Their blog bost on Clustering Related Stories[2] was one of the most interesting applied ML posts I've read in a while.

Trivia 1: Bradford Cross was also one of the founders[3] of Flightcaster (YC S09).

Trivia 2: One of his other Flightcaster co-founders (Jason Freedman) is the founder of 42Floors (YC W12).

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Why-Prismatic-Goes-Faster...

[2] http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2012/4/17/clustering-relat...

[3] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/flightcaster

Nicely done! I really like the philosophy behind the prismatic but I don't find myself using it. I've mentioned this several time, their content density is very low. Probably because it was designed on a giant cinema or 27" display and not on laptop.

I would suggest cutting the size of each article smaller and providing me with a context navigation on the side. Like a simple TOC would be fine.

Also I would suggest letting users recommend articles. I know this is all about AI, but probability works in aggregate and machines don't have egos and do not get excited if someone else shares their recommended articles.

wish the typography was nicer, esp. since they are in the news sector. But those fun-animations are definitely showing off the type of culture they are going for?

This is awesome. Nice job guys!

I will work at Prismatic.