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I really appreciate how Swing Left helps me find the ways my time and money can go furthest to make meaningful change in our country this November. This is a great opportunity to build technology that does real good.

thanks .. hacker news hates my stuff though :(

thanks ryan. happy to answer any questions on here. Just tap the orange button to access the tool.

I'm skit developer #1. And it's awesome.

hey there .. we planned to do this as a Show HN .. any way you can delete this post?

Also posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7531782

Yeah, that's another post. This is just trying to get people to trust the app. Maintaining the trust is actually something else we've spent time on.

For anyone interested in Part 1: https://medium.com/ux-ui-design/9b7e9edd2de8

Morgan is amazing. She's helped Google, Twitter, and Foursquare hire amazing talent and now she's offering her expertise to all startups. Can't wait to see how this grows!

I've never done a Startup Weekend, but posts like this make me want to try it.

As someone who has iterated and launched a lot of stuff in the past year, I love this approach. I think 54 hours is crazy small to release a quality product, and dont know if I could do it, but Bubs is right with the framework. If you have to do it, this seems like a great method.

Love this: "Design is incredibly strategic. Later, visual design becomes absolutely vital, and that’s really more the front-of-the-house way all that strategy becomes expressed. The two go hand in hand: to have both, design strategy as well as design expression, is a powerful combination."

Thanks so much for sharing this. What an amazing story, and a refreshing post with a balanced outlook on this insane startup work. Thank you.

Wow .. I didn't think you could delete a post either. Figured they were just adding that. I'll update the post.

That sounds amazing. Unfortunately, our schedule is already set. But if anything changes, this is great info to know :)

DO IT

I love this.

My guess is that the difference is in the evening, everyone else is awake and there are more distractions where in the morning, it's more quiet and peaceful.

Plus, at the end of the day you have thoughts of the day racing through your head where in the morning, it's a fresh start.

One thing I've found (which I'm not currently doing as well as before) is if I set one time to wake up each day and actually get out of bed (no snooze), I start waking up more and more refreshed. It could be 5, it could be 8, but if I am consistant, it doesn't matter the time, I wake up and am not groggy.

So, could be useful for super early wakeups like 5 AM.

Great idea! I like that model.

That's right. I'm not. I sold my startup last year and am working for the acquirer. I'm building stuff on the side, and having fun. But those are projects.

This is a great description, and I really appreciate you posting it. I might update my blog with it, and really should have looked at Wikipedia too. Thanks.

You make my point perfectly. Wikipedia is very clear to call it a "company." That's what I'm saying. Two hour projects aren't companies (unless they file to be an entity, which I believe makes it a startup - 3rd qualification bullet in the post).

Fair point, and you're right, what I meant was that by referring to something that isn't a startup as a startup, I think it hurts the term startup. I know so many people who have risked a ton to run a startup, and I'm seeing frustration in the community when someone throws together something quickly, releases it, and says "Here's my new startup" without really dedicating themselves to it.

Well, I disagree. But I totally see where you're coming from and respect your opinion. I find that by people continually to call projects startups, it's muddying the actual startup community and taking the standards of what people see as a startup down. But again, I'm hopeful that these projects become startups as the founders dedicate themselves to them.

That's a great point. I'm going to add that.

Registering a company is such a pain in the ass, that if you're going to do it, you're at least serious about this project existing for a while and you're willing to put the time and effort into making it official. That shows enough dedication in my opinion :)

+ "but please don't wear your hat inside. That's impolite."

Great story. Happy to know you guys

Great post by Dan Martell of Flowtown about their new product Timely.is

totally. sub the beer for the chicken. try the leanest meat you can find though

I love concept designs.