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immad

4,336 karma · joined February 23, 2007

startup: Mercury.com - banking stack for Startups

twitter: twitter.com/immad

Previous YC09 startup: http://www.heyzap.com (acquired)

YC Badge: 0x81827d911cfa2e5e03833e1a0c29becf0c896b23

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immad··on My Top Picks from Y Combinator W14
I found a workaround for the Chrome bug that seems to have fixed it:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=336476#c...

Sorry about that.

immad··on What’s gone wrong with democracy?
India and Nigeria seem to be winning in terms of high populace countries with low incarceration rates.
immad··on Eventjoy (YC W14) Is A One-Stop Shop For Organizing Events
Pathjoy was renamed to Homejoy, so not really two examples.
immad··on Clinkle gets hacked before it even launches
The developers of Clinkle should try to get the FBI to do a court case based on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
immad··on Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Second Quarter
people always release earnings after hours.
immad··on Balanced Will Release an API to Push Money to Debit Cards
People have their debit cards in their pockets. ACH account details are not as readily available to most people.
immad··on Show HN: Funded.io rapid prototype
Would be cool if you could export to Excel. That way you could lay the fundamentals in place here and do custom things offline.
immad··on Poll: As a founder, what is your salary?
Would be more interesting to also know a) the funding that people received vs salary. b) the revenue people have vs salary.

Salary by itself doesn't really tell much.

immad··on YC's Safe annotated by lawyers, founders, and investors on Casetext
I prefer the way rapgenius does annotations on the actual characters that the person is talking about.

Casetext seems to do it on the right hand side instead, which meaks it slightly unclear exactly what part is annotated.

immad··on Cryptosphere - Encrypted P2P web application platform
Sounds like an interesting idea. I don't think it is able to execute code in a p2p fashion so it's probably better to call it a web publication/storage platform
immad··on Show HN: Omniref - a better search site for Ruby documentation
Awesome!
immad··on Show HN: Omniref - a better search site for Ruby documentation
Can you do this for Rails too?
immad··on BTC correction happening?
Its pretty volatile today. Probably not that interesting for HN to see new posts on it.
immad··on Snap Out of It: Kids Aren't Reliable Tech Predictors
He didn't say that at all
immad··on Introducing the Humble Store
It seems like a missed opportunity to not allow variable pricing like their normal the bundles.

Maybe that only works in a sale scenario.

immad··on Rejected from YC? Here is what you're missing out on
Mostly rice and chilli con carne.

Its been a while, so I can't remember exactly. It was made in massive batches and wasn't that tasty (sorry pg).

It was fun though.

immad··on Easy Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison
This is useful but it doesn't cover reserved or any IOPs which is unfortunately.

AWS in general makes pricing opaque and hard to reason about, more simple tools like this would be useful.

immad··on Easy Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison
what do you mean by donate?
immad··on Bitcoin breaks $200
Back down to $195.
immad··on How To Send Bitcoin Tips On Reddit
Github seems like a good candidate. Maybe Tumblr too.

Seems like in HN/Twitter/Facebook users don't give that much value to each other that they would want to tip.

immad··on Dropbox disables ASLR on Windows
Citation Needed.
immad··on Balanced Certified Developer Program with API Xchange
Very few SV startups have founders that are from SV in my experience.
immad··on Watsi (YC W13) raises $1.2M first-of-its-kind 'philanthropic seed round'
Maybe you should consider open sourcing your backend, then people could help.
immad··on The Unfortunate Rise of Patents in the Startup World
I agree, its the first post on my new blog. I have changed the contrast and its much better now. Let me know if you have any other feedback.
immad··on Yahoo submits bid for Hulu
Presumably the users.
immad··on Spark Capital will now pay their own legal bills
I wander if they are paying the $25k from management fees or from the fund.

The justification for why VCs don't pay their lawyer bill has always been that they don't want to take the money from their management fees, if Spark has figured out how to take it from their fund and their LPs are okay with that that is good.

If not then they are footing $25k from their pocket. But I guess if they only do 10 deals a year their max liability is $250k which isn't bad for a $450m fund.

immad··on A New Way to see Android Mobile Gaming Trends
Cool. Which game do you make?
immad··on A New Way to see Android Mobile Gaming Trends
The data is sampled from the Heyzap app. So English focused social games will tend to be overestimated.

We did calibrate on quite a few data points. I will think about normalizing for the above bias too

immad··on Catching up with Watsi: Y Combinator’s first non-profit graduate
It's a charity donation
immad··on How Stripe built one of Silicon Valley’s best engineering teams
The fraud issues at least would require a good engineering team.
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