bradleyjoyce

yeah something like that is decently easy on web... I think it may be a more significant challenge on the Mobile side. I'm also curious about things like... should we have 1 github repository for the base app and then branches for each customer, or some other type of code management setup.

I've hired many people in Peru for projects over the past few years. Your strategy is a good one. Having a solid Github portfolio and/or references from other people you've worked with is very important.

Thanks! It's been a fun product to get off the ground :-)

Why is that?

Angel List is a good place: https://angel.co/jobs#find/f!%7B%22remote%22%3Atrue%7D

Also, I'm looking to hire a front-end developer. angel.co/velocis

While I understand the sentiment, this seems more likely to just encourage site visitors to hit the back button rather than take the desired action.

When I read stories like this I often wonder, would I do things any differently if/when I have that much money?

Would you?

I can tell you the majority of angel investors in Dallas I've talked to that do not have experience with west coast deals do not like convertible notes.

We closed a note with Dallas investors that DID have experience w/ west coast deals that featured a cap and a discount.

would love to learn more.. feel free to ping me, contact info in profile.

Thanks for the detailed response! Sounds like that is working pretty good for you guys.

I absolutely love Tweetbot. I've paid for it on all my devices and use it every day.

That being said, I'm rapidly tiring of Paul's attitude toward his customers. It's like he takes everything negative said personally.

His Twitter bio says "Please don't contact me for tech support, I won't answer."

He often tweets things that annoy him about his customers like "But but but why do I have to pay again."

Paul, if you're reading this, I love your work but your public attitude is so often negative that it makes me not want to continue to support you.

I haven't used it much yet but found Elevatr to be an interesting tool http://home.elevatr.com/

for iOS only or also web?

I'm building a service right now that is a community site for people in the fashion photography (photographers/models/etc) world. The images that these people upload are sometimes much bigger than 8MB but we still need to optimize them for display on the web.

Would love to use something like Kraken as we'll be processing a TON of images, but 8MB limit would be a deal breaker.

I want a car.. but I don't necessarily need to own it. In fact, I find owning things to be a burden. It keeps me unnecessarily tied to a location, working for things I don't need really need, and things I don't really miss when they're gone. Having had the opportunity to do some traveling and live abroad (South America, I'm from the US), it's really changed my opinion on owning lots of things, cars included.

For the past 3 months I've been renting a car because I've needed it for a few particular reasons. However, I'm very glad that I can simply return it at whatever time I choose and be done with the responsibility of it.

or talk to us at Velocis (http://velocis.us). We like to consider ourselves a sort of plug-n-play co-founder to help new ideas succeed. In many cases, we take equity rather than charging like a normal dev shop or consultants.

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Velocis is your technical co-founder. We specialize in building out an MVP rapidly and getting you to market. We're open to both cash and equity compensation depending on the details of the project.

Of course, we're also open to corporate clients with interesting projects. We can build just about anything :-)

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I appreciate the vocal skepticism as I feel it's important, especially when it comes to this topic. Proper studies should be done, but if people want to take on the risk themselves to consume soylent then more power too them, so long as they know the risks.

Google translate of his about page on youtube:

I used a 2-axis acceleration sensor. Is located in the head it. It then measures the gravity mainly. The measured value, by the angle of rotation will change me. --- I will zero gravity measurement value measurements of the axis when the axis of the sensor was leveled to the ground ---. Position in the rotation I was divided into four regions. To detect the falling signal rising and in (up, down, left, right) the boundary position. (With a threshold detection value zero gravity fall detection circuit and rising that). I was triggered by a combination of (H, L signal using the threshold as zero gravity detection value) of H and the raw signal, L signal. Based on these signals, and to determine when to stretch or bend the leg.

This. I was really surprised how short the timeline was from creation to declaring failure.

If you're able to build something that fast, give yourself some time to figure out how to turn it into a business!

This is actually a lot less interesting than I was expecting it to be. I wonder if the "open to the public" version if not as robust as what you get if you're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads.

There is no shortage of money in Dallas, that's for sure. The problem is that currently a lot of that oil/gas & real estate money isn't really comfortable with the high risk nature of tech investments (no hard assets, etc).

The local accelerators (Tech Wildcatters, Health Wildcatters, VentureSpur) are starting to change that by getting those money guys involved, but it's been a very slow process 5 years in the making.

Perhaps I should have put a disclaimer in my original comment that I'm the founder of Launch DFW (though now am only slightly involved)... the long term vision is to find people passionate about their own communities and create a network of these types of blogs.

The Dallas startup scene is exploding right now, especially for B2B companies.

Geographic convenience to both coasts, low taxes, low living costs, high concentration of Fortune 500s and a lot of good talent itching to leave their cubicles.

http://launchdfw.com/

The technology is already there. This is, to a degree, what we do at Socialyzer.

We analyze your social audience (location, activity, tweet content, etc) and use that information to predict when and where you should engage with them.

We don't take it to any automated action other than publishing your content, but it's possible to do.

> What percentage of people who you auto-favorite follow you back and/or register for your service? What threshold do you consider appropriate.

It is greater than 50%. As I said, we do this in an extremely targeted way. We may only favorite 10 tweets in a day because the targeting we do is so specific. To be honest, I haven't thought about any particular threshold being appropriate/not.

> Do you have any visibility into the people who are annoyed by seeing your robot interaction in a place that they feel should be reserved for human interactions?

No, but I think you already knew that. This question sounds like your projecting your personal feelings quite a bit.

> How would you feel if every single service provider interested in finding you were to favorite all of your tweets to get your attention?

Personally, I wouldn't even notice it. I have all notifications turned off for that type of stuff. If anything, they'd be giving me more exposure to the people who may look at their account/favorites.

Apple fans are apple fans because of the OS and the industrial design... not the hardware specs.

You can say any rationalization would be exactly like the rationalization a spammer would make.

Who's spamming and who is not?

I would argue that the way we're doing this is not spam, as it is clear the people we favorite are getting value by virtue of the fact that they are following us, registering for our service, etc.

To be honest I never even thought of the service as spammy, which is why I was surprised to read so much of that in the comments here.

If people are upset/annoyed that is was automated.. fine.. do it manually.. the fact remains that it is a very effective method to build your audience in a targeted fashion.

Maybe Myles should just "pivot" to compete with Little Bird and focus on just surfacing the data on who you SHOULD be engaging with.

De-valuing it for whom, exactly? Given the number of people who are following us back and registering for a service that is extremely relevant/important to them, it's hard to see how there is any degradation of value for anyone involved.

In fact, they are gaining value out of it.