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1,991 karma · joined August 20, 2007

My name is George Saines, I've been reading HN several times a day since 2007. In fact, it was partially because of you folks that my two friends and I formed a startup in 2008. Three rounds of funding, innumerable mistakes, and 5 years later, we started our second venture http://www.codecombat.com and got accepted to to the YC W14 batch on stage at Startup School 2013.

I stopped working on CodeCombat in early 2015 and worked at a startup called Lovely, then Salesforce, then Facebook, over to Google, back to Facebook, and Salesforce. Beautiful symmetry.

Personally, I enjoy downhill skiing, talking about cars and computers, working with my hands, blogging, and music videos. Although I wasn't a computer science major, I've built two products from the ground up with the help of my two cofounders. If you'd like to drop me a line you can do so at my personal email gsaines at gmail.com

My personal blog is here: https://www.georgesaines.com

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My Biggest Regret

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Learned at Pycon: Faking Is Easy

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How to Work an 80-Hour Week

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For the First Time in Years, I Can Say I Don’t Want to Be a Developer

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Why You Should Refuse to Build a Startup on Content

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Now You Are a Geek: Saying Goodbye to Wave

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You Can't Criticize a Feeling, and That's Bad

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Why You Shouldn't Follow Your Dreams

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Openblock Geocoder Part 1: Data Models and Geocoding

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Now's a Good Time to Build an Inferior Product

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Any resources for mobile app website design?

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It's Insanely Hard to Make a Kick-Ass iPhone App

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Is Twitter Irrelevant?

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Getting started in python using Eclipse

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Sivers is Right: Customer Service is the New Marketing

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Managing Client Expectations Amind Shifting Deadlines

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I Want To Unsubscribe, Not "Manage My Preferences"

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Ask HN: I'm a successful founder biz-dev guy. Should I get an MBA?

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How Netflix Can Ruin Your App's Pricing

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Know Thy Platform

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Another Way to View the "Decline" of HN

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Why Recessions Suck More Than Expansions Rock

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How to make better friendly wagers

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How I Almost Failed a Facebook Turing Test

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IMDB Score Bias: It's Temporal

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So, you think you’re not a tech fogey?

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21 Empirical Findings About Human Happiness

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How One Check Box Lowered Conversions by 17%

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Startup Advice That Bears Repeating

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Are titles important in a startup?

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