immad

Congrats Kul

Hi sawyer,

Social discovery is not just about social proof but also about getting signal from noise. With 70k games and growing knowing what games your friends are playing is a great way of decided what games to try out. Price cost of games may be low but no one has time to try them all out.

Check-ins are more of a broadcast mechanism rather than a gamifying one. Some users check-in for badges but a lot do it for broadcasting to the community. We are going to be providing more value to check-ins by also recommending games from them. Did you get a chance to try it out?

Its a one use website. I think if he had done all those things it would have been overkill.

Why did you decide to host your own servers instead of going dedicated or cloud?

The Next Web covered it also with a cool video: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/03/16/heyzap-for-android-sim...

We let you add friends through Phone Contacts, Facebook and Twitter.

its based on an asymmetric follow model which means you can also just follow people whose game interests you like

This was possible without the advent of HTML5. One could always change the hash frag to your hearts content or use hidden iframes

That graph says Download at Dropbox. Secret info? :P

Being able to count from the top is part of the challenge.

Heyzap is number 8, woohoo.

Tree style tabs are awesome. Wish Chrome had them

Cool, but why isn't it a standalone website instead of an addon?

Congrats Nic.

Been using it for a few weeks now. Its the only way I get to inbox zero. Though not sure it definitely increases me actually getting to all those tasks :)

Agreed situation is the worst on the first round that involves a VC. It can also arise in later rounds if you take strategics or new VCs.

Given that most YC companies will still go on to raise a seed angel round after this 150k, they will be hit by extra pro-rata dilution. If we assume a $5m seed round post money, then the 150k translates to 3%. If you raise a VC round with a VC that insists on a 20% stake then the overall affect is 0.6% extra dilution. Every point hurts at that stage, but not that bad :).

The convertible note insists on a pro rata right on future rounds. Someone who removes that would be offering a slightly better deal.

Pro rata rights cause more dilution in later rounds, but they are pretty standard and at seed rounds most people don't think about removing that term.

Why would a corporate campus be seen as an evil bad idea?

Couldn't Google just lease the backbone too in order to enter the space?

No one is perfect so there will be some holes in all things.

Don't skip over slides or avoid the truth but deal with emphasizing the positives. So if you have been growing 50% per month for 3 months but you only have one inexperienced founder, put the team slide at the end and talk about the traction early and how you have got there.

Also generally every hole will drop a certain number of investors and decrease the overall valuation.

Hard to not be generic when covering a broad subject within 500 words and to a generic audience. Happy to give specific advice if you have questions.

Different investors need a different approach :)

VCs do mostly require some sort of deck.

I often start with "did you check out Heyzap" or maybe a one line sentence about Heyzap. It depends on the situation but most investors have at least seen your front page and the team/market help a lot in framing who you are and your idea.

Yes it is. Its like the web, once the user goes to your App you can show them whatever you want.

In the WorkFlowy Help section at the bottom it says:

What we're working on: Mobile (iPhone, iPad, Android), export & backup, collaboration & sharing, better moving, and about a million other small improvements.

You mean Tencent QQ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_QQ

I take your point. However I assume Reid meant "a few" anyway and the 7 +/- 2 was just to frame it. It doesn't really change the meaning of the statement either way.

I hadn't thought about it. Can't change the HN title now.

Heyzap.com, San Francisco (local F/T position)

We are building a platform for Social and Mobile games. Smart engineers of any experience are welcome to apply, Rails, iPhone and Android experience a bonus. http://www.heyzap.com/jobs

Their is actually a virus scanning app that I installed just to see what it did.

I like that is like the desktop and open enough to be abused. I prefer that to approval process based systems.

In the UK the max you can charge is £10 and I assume their is a time limit but not sure about that.

Agreed. The current funnel is hard to read in the summary page