Startup Weekend: Problems

As a sweeping generalisation, I find people of our generation (assuming we're all young twentysomething hackers, mostly) far less informed on what you should be paying for these sorts of services than our parents. Of course, it doesn't help that a lot of us are happy to throw money at the problem as long as the prices aren't too unreasonable.

You know, talk about replacing brake pads! I just had mine replaced, and I had this coupon that made it $99 for resurfacing and other labor (of course the replacement was another $105) instead of $159, so that worked out well. If you're actually interested in that sort of thing, I highly recommend actually opening that ValPak junk mail, there's usually some really good coupons in there.

if news.yc used Disqus, this would [potentially] be much easier.

The really big difference of the iPhone is that it's mobile, and is therefore around in social settings. Because of that I think the killer use case for a Kiva iPhone app is evangelizing Kiva to others: showing them the investments I've made, the repayments, the status updates from the entrepreneurs, and letting people look around for other people on the site that appeal to them. Help me show my friends - over dinner - that they should put money into Kiva. Actually signing up or doing lending on the iPhone, I think will always be simpler on my full computer.

When you were pitching the idea Dave McClure mentioned that the biggest problem Kiva has is inventory of borrowers, not of lenders. I think that didn't come properly over the mic.

I think what you're doing is great - I'm stopping by Startup Weekend later on today and will say hello. Have they fixed the wifi problems yet?

Is it an error because we are using a subdomain? i.e. you are logged into uservoice.com but not problems.startupweekend.com?

Just a guess.

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