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Mike has a public profile and his activity is public. Its like being able to read peoples public Tweets.

Edit: Location is optional (based on user) and we only give city level with a truncated Lat/Long. Again this is the same as twitter/instagram etc.

People use Heyzap to install games, so its a pretty good opportunity to promote games to them.

We have a sustainable business model and are not too far from profitable with 16 employees.

We also have an API and will make it very easy for developers to download all the data if they ever want it. Openfeint is unfortunately not allowing that at all.

Heyzap (YC'09) is launching leader-boards on Android and iPhone. Still in alpha but we have some good results, you can check them out here:

http://developers.heyzap.com/

Unlike most other leader-board services everyone has a name and most people have a picture, so you don't see a lot of playerxxxxx scores, and we give you lots of ways of seeing/challenging your friends. If you have an Android you can try it out on: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.piratemonk...

You could roll your own, the benefit in using us is that a) its easy (< 1 hour). b) it allows you to leverage our user base. c) We are working aggressively to add new features like challenges

Get in touch if you are interested or have any questions.

Awesome. I have been waiting for humble to do music. The model is perfect for it.

Joe - I believe you can take your paper value of equity in Virtualmin to count towards being a "high net worth individual".

So you probably do qualify if there is any sort of valuation event for Virtualmin that sets your equity at a high enough value. I know lots of founders that do this.

I was referring to Common Lisp. Corrected it.

Edit: I meant to say functional not pure functional. Blog post changed.

Good point. Added Haskell

You have to have enough background to know what to look up in the literature.

Agreed. The thought process is very important. Will mention that in part 2 for sure.

If you ask for the permission Facebook will give you the users email address.

You can additionally just ask for the users email address.

Any one building a serious business using facebook auth does one of the above.

Many of the most successful companies are way beyond product dev stage. Airbnb had launched ~6 months before they started YC. There are many other companies that are launched and gaining traction before they join YC, tikl, colorlovers are a couple of others that come to mind.

The average age of YCers in my round was 26, and there were people that are below 21 and above 35 too. I think that has gone up as people now receive $150k extra and can reasonably survive even if they have other responsibilities.

If you have the ability to move to Silicon Valley and are accepted in to both programs I think YC is a no-brainer (though I have done it twice so am highly biased).

> they leave their SDK installed on the user's device after they've deleted your application

I have worked on an Android app extensively. I am pretty sure that's not possible.

This is the coolest thing I have seen in Analytics for a long time. This really gets to the heart of most of the information you need on user flows and its fast and clear.

Can't wait till they add events to this.

Without reading the docs at quite depth I think it would be easy to overlook the response content-type

Hadn't thought of that. Done.

I may revise if it increases server load significantly but it looks good for now: http://www.heyzap.com/api/v1/activity/android

Hey, I addressed this point in the blog post. I disagreed with that because a) its not self-documenting. b) On v2 the exact same URLs will have completely different data and probably break every API consumer.

We have a monthly hack day where everyone can work on what ever they want. It was done in one day by Micah.

Techcrunch also covered this, with more details: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/05/heyzap-404/

True. We should do that.

Edit: done

I know, but for all intents and purposes OAuth ended up being a super set of OpenID.

--- corrected years

I am one of the co-founders of Clickpass and I think this is a great move.

I wrote the HN code in about 2 days and I was learning lisp/arc so it was awful code (RTM did the openID part) and literally no one has touched Clickpass code for 2.5 years. The fact that it still works is always surprising to me :).

Also I think Oauth beat OpenID hands down.

Congrats Aaron and Garry

I mostly agree with you, but that is what people used to say about Smartphones so maybe the flexibility given by touch screen will over rule is lack of muscle memory

Come to Heyzap to meet us and other great mobile hackers.

We are going to have burritos being made on demand and potentially a web luminary or two (or just me)

Heyzap (SF, YC and USV funded) is always hiring great interns.

We pay and relocate interns and internships are normally 3 months.

We have a successful Android and iPhone app for games. We do Android, iPhone, Rails, Mongodb, Redis, Mobile web, CSS etc.

apply: http://heyzap.com/jobs

We have a couple of people using Textmate at Heyzap so you should add that.

There is a search at the bottom of HN now

Yeah. I thought HN would catch trailing slashes.