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heshamgon Founder’s Guide to the Y Combinator Interview

What did they mention the reason for rejection was in the email?

heshamgon Founder’s Guide to the Y Combinator Interview

What did they mention the reason was in your rejection email? If you don't mind sharing that of course :)

heshamgon Show HN: OPEN SOURCE scalable BACKEND services generator + util \m/

Setting it up, looks great. I have a question though.. what's the difference between server api and client(s) api(s) JSON config?

heshamgon A History of Ridiculously Big Companies

"That would place its modern-day valuation in the $7.4 trillion range, making the Dutch East India Company the largest company in history."

heshamgon Reid Hoffman at Startup School [video]

Here's a link to the deck Reid talked about http://reidhoffman.org/linkedin-pitch-to-greylock/

heshamgon The future of UI is text

I agree with the idea of the article. But it will not be limited to slack, check out the home page of this Ride Sharing service for example: https://www.wadeeny.com (disclosure, I am a co-founder)

I am the one who designed it, and I can confidently say that engagement is way higher than using traditional forms and button. The bounce rate is extremely low, almost everyone at least tries interacting with the bot.

Now this is not a testimony that text will always beat traditional web UI, I think a big factor in this case is the fact that it seems so unconventional and people are curious to try it out. Also depends on the purpose of the interface you are creating. Like 1971genocide pointed out, UI is good for giving commands and not learning for example.

In our case, it was important for us to get a limited number of very precise information from the user. Therefore having a Text based interface worked out.

heshamgon Show HN: Storing my variables online (variabl.co)

wow! that is an awesome idea! i'll try to get it done when I catch some free time.. i'll let you know thanks!

heshamgon Show HN: Storing my variables online (variabl.co)

awesome! I wish I saw these earlier.. however the idea of "hosting" is really interesting, and that's what everyone who uses it gets excited about.. You could upload an html page and link a domain name to it in 10 seconds :D

Also having links to other variables within yours.. do you think that is available elsewhere?

eg. try entering: this is a link to [dQtOFV7HXt6]

then go to the link of the real variable. I find the possibility of having these references quite powerful.