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gsaines

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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The Higher Education Bubble: Are Foreign Students the Answer?

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How We Increased Conversion Actions 218% And Increased Sales 0%

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Don't Let Your Startup Trap You

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A Tale of Two Users, or How Design is Tough

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Let's Admire the Rich for the Right Reasons

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3 Things Steve Krug Didn't Tell You About Usability Testing

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Be happier: Rent Everything

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Why your Referral System Won't Work

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3 Lessons for Effective Cofounder Decisionmaking

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Lean Startup Techniques: In Praise of Poll Widgets

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Founder Mood Swings: Lessons from a Quantitative Analysis

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Be the Startup with the Skull Decal

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Ask HN: How to determine what's turning people off about your service?

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Does length matter? It does for video

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The Statistics of Chow Yun Fat's "Hard Boiled"

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Are entrepreneurs these days playing it too safe?

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Field Report: Lessons Learned from 1-on-1 Usability Smackdown

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Ask HN: What's a Non-Programmer to do?

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Our Story: 1 Year in the life of a startup

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Ask HN: Feedback on Skritter, Learning Chinese with Spaced Repetition on App Engine

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