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The goal is definitely to monetize -- the point is that they don't need to rush to monetize, so they can focus on growth right now.

If Helpful charged $x/mo and competed with other support tools on features and pricing, it could grow into a decent business. If it's a totally free, community owned (meaning customers can get involved in product direction) competitor to those existing companies, it has a much easier path to being a market leader. Once a product like this has huge distribution, the options for monetizing are plenty. (Build a marketplace of add ons, charge for premium features, etc)

This is really cool! A few things:

The design tool allows the full spectrum of colors and the uploading of high-res photos. I'm doubtful that this [1] would print.

Also, I'm sure you need large orders for this to make sense, but 500 feels pretty high. If you allow orders of 50 pair, I'm in for 50 of these [2]. :)

1. http://cl.ly/image/0C3o1l1i3F2t 2. http://bit.ly/105rXVf

Bug: It thinks Oregon is Nevada.

This campaign needs all of the support it can get. If you'd like to help, please upvote on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/19sbuc/fixthedmc...

Certainly true that New Yorkers tend to cross more quickly than SFers, but can't most of them still be lumped into the OP's second group, as people who just follow?

If 30 people are crossing when the cars have passed but the signal hasn't changed, surely some of them are crossing because the group is, not "on their own terms," as the OP would put it.

Considering that Justin Kan is the pivot master and Exec's cleaning service has been so well-received, I wouldn't be surprised if they become a cleaning-only service.

And then there's this search, which returns lots of results: http://f.cl.ly/items/1D3u380L3z3R2E0v101H/Married%20people%2...

This quite different in that it focuses more on events and spaces than on specific companies, but still a pretty cool map of the Seattle startup scene: http://startupseattle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Startup...

OP, here. I agree with much of the criticism, and I have nothing to do with Milwaukee, their PD or this website. I just thought it was quite different from normal municipal websites, and would be worth discussion.

Perhaps they should take the idea of interesting and different design and decouple it from the militaristic attitude, and they'd be on to something.

A diff of a speech.

Writing a bitter rant on your personal website and posting it on HN yourself = "growth hacking"

Here's Lehrer's barely-used Twitter account. His most recent Tweet called Samsung plagiarists: https://twitter.com/jjonahlehrer

Great work, Philip.

Fair critique. We're working on changing our permissions now, and it'll be fixed by the end of the day. Cheers!