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Wild guy from Eastern Europe where not many understand his attitude towards risk and trying things ;-)
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apa-sl··on Ask HN: Ideas for services under http://sexy.one domain
Thanks! Didn't know that such service exists :)
apa-sl··on Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine Says Farewell
"I'm paying exactly the same amount of money as the next US-citizen for the content, yet I am treated differently."

Nope, it is even funnier because most probably you're paying more than US citizen. 1eur>1usd on exchange market (and it is a long trend) and - correct me if I'm wrong - price levels are the same for US and EU (ie. 9usd in US, 9eur in EU)?

apa-sl··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)
www.ElimiApp.com | Sopot, Poland | ONSITE | Full Time

Position: iOS Developer

We're looking for an experienced developer who would like to develop further with us Tinder witch CAPTCHA ;)

We are a full team of 9 people (4 devs) located in Sopot with a view on the Baltic Sea.

You will be: - developing new features in Elimi for iOS, - making impact on the app's UX and on the API.

In the future you can become our lead iOS dev. Tinder is over, market is changing, we are in a good spot at good time with the right product :)

Drop us a note at hello@elimiapp.com

apa-sl··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)
Sopot, Poland, REMOTE/ONSITE | B2B SaaS

Front-End, Ember.js.

Guys, we are developing some interesting B2B SaaS service (.net+ember.js+android+ios). Currently I cannot disclose details about the project, but I can add that we have a great sales power compared to out potential competition and already secured interest from top companies in our country.

Nevertheless to the point: system is being created in Ember framework and our full-time front-end developer has sometimes insufficient experience with this framework. We are looking for some mentor with practical experience with Ember.js.

We can start with some remote co-operation, eventually mix it with some on-site time. If you will be interested - we will be also interested to turn this into long-term relation with an option to join us full time as a lead front-end developer and get some stock options (beside the salary).

Drop me a message at adam@invemax.com

apa-sl··on Ask HN: What are your unused domain names?
Fashioner.com
apa-sl··on Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
I'm happy with Opera browsers since the times when they were still serving ad banners and started to release promo codes for their users to remove those ads :D
apa-sl··on Stop Using LinkedIn
I'm happy with Opera browser since the days when they were still serving ad banners :)
apa-sl··on Philae has landed
Awesome! Launched over 10 years ago (our "smartphones" back then had 1mpix cameras, youtube was not born yet, etc), travelled +6,5b km and nailed a target 3-4km wide...
apa-sl··on Ask HN: Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?
Few years ago on one day I took al my toys from the equity market (I've got this feeling that I'm not creating any real value and wasn't happy with that) and burned all money in my first startup (http://fashioner.com domain is for rent/sale ;).

1 year later I've inspired my friend to start another startup (service market on national level). Unfortunately VCs in Poland did not wanted to believe that it is such a good opportunity (and it was, currently 2 big competitors sharing this market). But the good thing was that we have inspired another friend to join us and gathered some money.

Now, 2 years later, we've managed to create another startup from all that ;) (http://ElimiApp.com). Just taking off, seed in the bank, fingers crossed!

I think it is just about the way you think and what you want to do in live. I could live very comfortably live from securities transactions (but create nothing, nada) or comfortably while working in some bigger company (no way). Instead I've choose to fight for years for my own thing.

apa-sl··on Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft
Uber just started here in Poland (currently only in Warsaw, our capital city). I was quite surprised that event Polish startup oriented blogs and news outlets were rather sceptical about Uber and were preffering already available local services (iTaxi, Taxi5, German MyTaxi). Usually it is quite opposite when some global startup is staring on Polish market.
apa-sl··on #Love: Virtually No Sex
This part about differences in both sexes approach to dating services (guys going into quantity, girls being flooded with messages). It's 100% true. But Tinder is not the only solution.

Before Tinder we've started to work on Elimi project which blocks contact between girls & guys until the girl will allow selected guy to contact her. And how she does that? By simple task-based games with guys (from 1 to 4 in one game). It seems that people like the idea behind Elimi. You can try it on iOS and Android (beta): http://www.ElimiApp.com

apa-sl··on After reviewing about 30 YC applications, here's some general advice
In our case we will wait till next batch to reapply (we applied for the 1st time when we were "naked and stupid" ;-) )

Some months have passed, we've learned our lessons, gathered great team, got feedback from around the world and finally seeing that we're onto something. Nice thing is that on the day-to-day basis it seems that we are doing exactly the same thing as few months ago. But when looking from the time perspective we've discovered that there are changes - details really matters!

Now preparing to hit the local market so we'll make mistakes and adjust our stuff on local scale before hitting US & YC (and it;ll be also nice to show some real numbers from the market in our application).

Good luck to all S14 applicants!

apa-sl··on Why you might not want to incorporate in the USA
I would say, that by "IP" he meant "Intellectural Property" ;-)
apa-sl··on Why you might not want to incorporate in the USA
Thank you for the comment. We are doing this US mothership thing in anticipation of next round of funding from US investor and according to what we know and have heard, US incorporated mothership is the only realistic way to go, right?

So I presume that it would be the best to only delay the IP transfer from Europe to US just before the investment and formal links (US company owning 100% of European company) might be already in place?

apa-sl··on Why you might not want to incorporate in the USA
We're running a startup incorporated in European Union and planning to incorporate c-corp in Delaware as our mother company. C-corp will simply buy-out 100% shares in our European company which will be still hiring our employees (located and working in Europe).

From what we've checked we shouldn't have any hassle (event the c-corp bank account will be opened in European bank) or are we missing something?

apa-sl··on Why you might not want to incorporate in the USA
True. I was VERY surprised by the quality of mobile internet (and mobile phone connection in general) when I was in San Francisco and around Silicon Valley). Here in Poland I've got 4g connection practically everywhere in bigger cities (15-20mbits download 3-6mbits upload, ping ~50-70ms tested several times) and in SF I was sometimes struggling to get some decent signal...
apa-sl··on Why you might not want to incorporate in the USA
In Poland when you want to hire someone "as it should be" with a proper work contract it is quite a pain in the ass for the employer. 1) Many rights for the empolyee, not so many for the employer, 2) VERY high real costs of employment (only ~40% of total employment costs lands in the hands of the employee to his/her disposal).

That's why many companies are using some "alternative" ways to hire someone still legally with much lower costs (10-25% employer costs including the salary) and more balanced rights for both sides of the contract.

apa-sl··on Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs
And after that think about Flickr selling to Yahoo for like $20m?
apa-sl··on Bill Gates: What I Learned in the Fight Against Polio
Bill's approach to what you can and should do is simply amazing. I respect him for leaving the comfort zone of IT world (which he ruled at the time) and going after real people problems (affecting whole populations, no matter how technologically advanced the society is).
apa-sl··on FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera
I'm also sticking to Opera 12, missing quite a lot of features in the Blink version...
apa-sl··on Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85
I started to love Nintendo when I've got my GameBoy. I remember crying out loud in Geneva when my mother refused to buy me GameBoy color with Earthworm Jim :-)

Renting out N64 with my friend and playing it as much as we could through 1 month. I'm still a fan of Nintendo, this year bought Wii U and having fun with it. RIP

apa-sl··on Namebox - sell your unwanted or unused domains
I cannot verify my domain fashioner.com - TXT record was successfully added to DNS 18 hours ago, I've checked it by char by char using some outside DNS records viewer.
apa-sl··on Namebox - sell your unwanted or unused domains
Please allow people to login using their alias OR email address! I have alias only login :-)
apa-sl··on What do you think of my social app?
err, isn't it SLIGHTLY similar to Tinder app?
apa-sl··on Embrace the desire to make money
I totally agree. I always was clear that OK, I want to TRY changing the world but also I want to make some money to support my daily needs and the team working with me. When I was visiting SV for the first time I was feeling strange talking that we're in it also for the money, kinda silly :-)
apa-sl··on Peek Inside Tesla's Robotic Factory [video]
I wasn't aware of that. Sounds cool - I always like to play with the available options in the software ;-)
apa-sl··on Poll: How old are you?
Waiting for the 'where in the world' poll, that might be interesting :-)
apa-sl··on Google is retiring its Latitude location-sharing service on August 9th
FYI: today we will be uploading the first update for iPhone. hope you like it :-) I encourage you to follow us on www.facebook.com/TeleportMe or @TeleportMeApp on Twitter to be up to date.
apa-sl··on Google is retiring its Latitude location-sharing service on August 9th
Thanks! We will take a fresh look at our design after a short break :-)

P.S. regarding 6 crashes during mail share - we've tested it again while connected to wifi, everything is working OK. Neverthless our ios dev is aware of this and will take a look into stats

apa-sl··on Google is retiring its Latitude location-sharing service on August 9th
We looked at this concept but results were not so good. But there is some visual effect after teleportation is completed. We will work on more that in further releases. For now we have to address some issuess and Android :-)

P.S. My friend just tested all sharing options on his iPhone5 - worked fine. It must have been some random crash in your case. Nevertheless it will be visible in our statistics.

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