Thanks for the feedback and encouragement! We've created the timeline such that it looks beautiful on an iPad, filling up the full screen. However, we have our eyes on a native app as well.
We've gotten a ton of requests, but among the most popular are photo albums, family gardens (showing all of a parents' children together), photo editing, and custom backgrounds.
I've been beta testing the WakeMate for a couple months.
The battery lasts about 2 nights, and knowing this, I recharge it every night. Since doing so, it hasn't run out of batteries during the night.
The app crashed a lot initially (I'm on Android), but that was months back and the WakeMate guys were good about using the feedback data I sent to fix the bugs. It hasn't crashed for me in weeks, since I installed their latest version.
Edit: I meant I recharge the wristband every other night, not every night.
I add tags before I go to bed. Based on these, my sleep score is highest when I go to bed stressed, tired (duh), have a snack in the evening, or sleep in a hotel. It's lowest when I go to bed early, fall asleep hungry, or go to bed with my wife (huh?)
I've been using WakeMate in beta for a couple months. As an engineer, I love checking the sleep analytics and comparing tags to try to determine factors that affect my sleep.
At first I was dubious that I'd be less groggy when waking up with the device, but now I'm absolutely convinced. I even bring the WakeMate when I travel, to ensure I wake up in a fresher state (which also revealed to me that my sleep quality is better from hotels).
CakePHP comes with that out of the box. You can use the built-in Auth component for registration and user management, and the "Bake" tools will give you the option of creating admin functions, similar to Django's.
Could you expand on what you see as the bloat? I find the base distribution of CakePHP to be very lean, and using it on half dozen production projects, I have found no issues with speed, especially with proper use of memcached and media compression.
I disagree. Morale is huge deal within a startup. Startups are emotional rollercoasters, and if your environment is always negatively affecting your morale, the lows will eventually drag down your productivity. That doesn't mean you aren't fit for entrepreneurship - if so, why are the majority of successful web startups clustered in the Bay Area?
There's a danger in personifying overall concern about global into a single spokesman, Al Gore. It's a fallacy to try to discredit everyone who believes in climate change by simply tearing down Al Gore himself. It's a convenient way of not confronting the facts on either side of the argument.
It's interesting to see how Wundrbar continues to evolve, particularly with the emergence of Ubiquity as a similar tool. The live results are a big step up, and combining them with pegging gives Wundrbar an advantage on Ubiquity in my opinion. But I imagine there will be a lot of leap frogging between the two products.
The sidebar feed is updated automatically in real time. You can close the sidebar at any time, and receive small notifications in the corner of your screen, or you can toggle updates off completely. I do encourage you to try it out for yourself!
As you point out, "social" can be done multiple ways: as a distraction or as a true value add. And I completely agree with you, it must be laid back and natural to be effective. That was our goal from the start for Socialbrowse: not to change your browsing behavior, but to enhance the way you already browse, and improve the sites you like to visit.
Socialbrowse is realtime, but doesn't require your attention. It's like a human powered RSS stream, so you can pick and choose which links you take or conversations you participate in. Or you can choose to ignore them completely if you're busy. We developed Socialbrowse to be there when you want it, but not to interfere when you don't. That's why it feels very non-intrusive, yet when you take it away, the web feels lonely again.
Incorrect. The only legally valid part of a patent is in the exact language of the claims. Any other description makes no difference, and anything not laid out precisely in the claims is not covered by the patent. In fact, the body, abstract, description makes no difference - it's only to lay the foundation for the claims themselves.
This happens all the time: multiple people you are following share the same link. In fact, that is one of the cool effects: a shared link starts spreading through the social graph. What you as an end users sees in your sidebar is a single view of that link, with multiple small user icons lined up underneath it, showing each of the users to have shared it. Think of Gmail's message threading.
PG is right when he says your ideas change as you implement them! This started as an offshoot to 8aweek, believe it or not. We switched gears and started working on it exclusively near the end of our YC session.
This could be a lucrative space, especially in the enterprise. While the field is a bit crowded, I think Insoshi differentiates themselves by providing the source code, and for secure intranets that is a necessity.
It seems that most people aren't concerned with environmental description per se, but rather how that destruction might affect their own lives. So really it's just self preservation and self interest, which isn't much different from other animals.
In the past week this has progressively turned into a "startups" vs "businesses" meme.
Regardless of your definition, each is simply a different approach towards business, and as such, they will take different paths (VC funded, angel, self funded) towards their goals. There is no panacea and no single way to succeed, so articles like this that imply otherwise just sound a bit pretentious.