hornbaker

Harder than percentages?

Sorry, couldn't resist. :)

Take a cue from the car wraps business: If you could quantify the value of a torso (that person rides the train every day, or walks 2 miles in SOMA, or works at Google, or is the 4sq mayor of 20 hip joints), then the owner of that torso can get your monthly shirt for free... and the startups will pay for that. In fact, any brand would pay for that, so you may want to expand the positioning to take any company's schwag.

Startups will probably subsidize all your inventory if you get some traction, and make it easy for them. You're an advertising platform, the AdSense of high-value torsos.

Either way, it's a surprise coming from someone with a professed focus on design.

If Pinterest continues their exponential growth rate, they will pass Tumblr like they're standing still in the next few months: http://i.imgur.com/bmrdx.png

I'd proffer that it doesn't really matter what they're doing different from Tumblr; whatever they're doing is working and organically engaging a very large number of users. Try their service if you want to see what state-of-the-art social onboarding feels like circa 2012.

Loaded great on my iPad 2, music started playing, tutorial came up, but CAN'T CUT THE ROPE. Ugh. How hard would it have been for them to add some touch event captures?

Really impressed otherwise.

Correction: I found chunked undos listed on a separate feature list: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/891742/Screenshots/tm2_release_notes...

Still no mention of chunked Undos. Undo'ing character by character is why I gave up on TextMate years ago, but I suppose I should be thankful since it helped me find Vim.

Tarang's a great guy. I spent a lot of time with him at my last startup when he was with SoftBank. The book has considerable coverage of Sequoia Capital which I found particularly interesting.

Curious about this as well. Are there any SaaS replacements, or does it mean moving to Solr or Sphinx?

Another vote for NameCheap. Have had ~50 domains with them for nearly 5 years now, never a problem.

Hmmmm, I think I'll launch IsSheASpy.com and sell spy-software detection software.

> The loading modal was a huge turnoff. Why would you ever show that to a user?

IMO, with ajax page loads you need to show the user something that indicates their click was received. All browsers have a spinner or message somewhere to indicate "they're working" on pulling down the next page of content. If you take that visual clue away from users when loading content via ajax, what you'll end up with is frustrated users who click multiple times on the link since they think it's not working.

Whether the big obnoxious "loading" popup with ugly spinner is the right design choice is another matter, but fortunately the styling and location of that is easily changed.

I use the previous version of JQM at http://bumb.ly and have for the most part been happy with it. The key for me was getting rid of the default page transition animation effect, and instead using "none" as the default transition effect.

FYI: anyone wanting to use Amazon's Elastic Load Balancer with a "naked" domain (zone apex, no subdomain) like I do with bumb.ly is pretty much forced to use Route 53 for their DNS, which offers unique "A Alias" records tied to the ELB address (since you can't use CNAMEs for the zone apex).

This release of a management console for Route 53 has been a LONG time coming.

Thanks for the feedback!

Just announced http://bumb.ly in another post today – think of it as a more elegant, fast quickmeme - powered by HTML5, Canvas, and FileReader to do some cool photo editing on the client-side.

> Have you considered what else you could use it for?

Not too much – it's just been a side project to explore what's possible with client-side photo editing and uploading.

If anyone has ideas they'd like to take offline, email bumblyapp at gmail.

> What is the revenue stream?

None yet... I'll figure that out if enough people find it useful. Probably along the lines of selling virtual and physical merchandise with Bumblies on them. Physical postcards are a real possibility - I'll probably ask Brezina if he'll do a Sincerely deal with a web app. I'd like to avoid advertising and keep the site clean and fast.

Quickmeme has ridiculous traffic, and Memegenerator and Memebase aren't far behind. I wanted Bumbly to have a more sophisticated tone, and hopefully appeal to the female / BlueMountainArts / Pinterest crowd.

OP here, just wanting some honest feedback on whether Bumb.ly has legs. It's been a fun little project.

"Messy" cap tables certainly have the potential to scare off larger investors (VCs, super angels) in the future. Lots of very small stakeholders (not counting vested employees) add to legal costs at each round, and VCs sometimes refer to them as "ankle biters." IMHO $5K is not even close enough capital to consider adding 100 line items to a cap table.

Not sure about that. Here's how it plays out: 1) driver coming towards you gets disconnected from her call; 2) she looks at phone to diagnose problem, starts to redial; 3) drifts across center line just before reaching you...

I couldn't live without Fuzzy Finder, and the following two lines in my .vimrc file which really make it fast and simple:

"re-map <leader> from \ to , (comma) to avoid a reach

let mapleader = ","

" map comma-f to open fuzzy finder in the working dir,

" ready for a wildcard filename search

map <leader>f :FufFileWithFullCwd /<CR>