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

immad··on New: Distributed Open House the day after Startup School

Heyzap (564 Howard near 2nd st) is going to have Foosball table, Xbox, probably some pizza, drinks, and a ridiculous PA system.

We will also be doing work.

Any one have other suggestions?

immad··on New: Distributed Open House the day after Startup School

We are also very close to the Montgomery BART/MUNI: http://www.bart.gov/

immad··on Stop lying on stage

"Lying" is way too harsh a word to use. It is a shame that everyone can't be completely open and know they will never be misinterpreted or taken out of context. But here is an example of when you are too open about your thoughts on record:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinkus...

immad··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

Heyzap - SF, CA http://heyzap.com/jobs

We are hiring for an iPhone Engineer role and a normal Engineering role.

We distribute online games to 300k sites and are doing a cool new iPhone project too.

We are funded by YC and Union Square Ventures.

Email me! immad (at) heyzap.com

immad··on Groupon in Retrospect

Two factors that mitigate the 75%:

1. They are betting people will spend above their groupon value. So if you have a $30 that give you a $60, they are hoping you will buy $90 worth of food.

2. They are trying to get loyal customers that will come back every month and have a greater life time value than that first sale.

immad··on [dead]

I would be pretty surprised if they don't already outsource the streaming to someone else and its just white labaled. Brightcove.com does that.

immad··on Google Instant Is Anything But a Time-Saver

That is how they define an impression in their reporting but they are still payed on a click basis.

immad··on Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

Heyzap is hiring engineers!

http://www.heyzap.com/jobs/engineer

jobs@heyzap.com

Heyzap: We work in the sweet (and challenging) spot where the social web meets online gaming. Everything we build has to work at scale and ship fast as we work in one of the hottest and fastest growing markets on the web.

immad··on Autocomplete your life with Greplin (YC W10)

Looks really awesome, can't wait till my life is fully indexed. Congrats Daniel and Robby

immad··on Ask HN: can a company do too much OSS?

Spam protection with obscurity is different from security through obscurity. Spam protection through obscurity is fairly prevalent and reasonable.

immad··on 2010 Startup School: October 16 at Stanford

AngelConf was run in 2010 too. http://angelconf.com/

immad··on Rapportive (YC S10) Raises Over $1 Million From Gmail Creator & Others

Users chose to do it to themselves. So presumably its just as legal as adblock

immad··on Heyzap Arcade Allows Publishers To Easily Add A Gaming Portal To Websites

We give rev-share on virtual goods. Bigger market than ads

immad··on Heyzap Arcade Allows Publishers To Easily Add A Gaming Portal To Websites

We haven't said Youtube of Flash gaming since January 2009. TC mentioned it in passing.

Its not something we compare ourselves too.

immad··on Heyzap Arcade Allows Publishers To Easily Add A Gaming Portal To Websites

Let me know if you have a suitable social/community/content site that you want to try the Heyzap Arcade on: immad (At) Heyzap.com.

Or if you have any other feedback.

immad··on Heyzap (YC 09) raises $3M round for social game platform expansion

We are hiring (not just spending all the money on Ferraris).

Engineers and BD welcome. http://www.heyzap.com/jobs, or email us at jobs@heyzap.com

immad··on Simple Way to Extract GET Params from a JavaScript Script Tag

You can use a static counter to get around that

immad··on Work at a Startup

We are open to helping with TNs. I am sure others are too.

immad··on "Great Web Site, Pixar" -- Seriously?

From 86 to 2006 it was run by Steve Jobs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar

immad··on To Facebook the answer must be no

This comment did not deserve 43 points :)

immad··on To Facebook the answer must be no

Its 2010.

immad··on Boring website? Step on up to the Heyzap (YC W09) Social Games Bar

The bigger widget plays within the widget area (the 650px+ widgets).

Game need certain real estate unfortunately.

immad··on Boring website? Step on up to the Heyzap (YC W09) Social Games Bar

A lot of websites are out there for people to Socialize, interact with content and have fun on (outside Facebook.com). Those are the main target audience for embedding Games.

The user does not leave the website, can leave the games when they want and return to the site. Makes the experience similar to Youtube embed of videos.

immad··on Boring website? Step on up to the Heyzap (YC W09) Social Games Bar

Yes we do in various sizes:

http://www.heyzap.com/publishers/get_started

The lighbox only happens when the user is in the middle of the game, which we thought was reasonable to avoid them clicking out by mistake and ruining the game. Happy to hear other alternatives.

immad··on David Pogue’s Review of the iPad from 2 Angles

With my mac laptops I have consistently seen high battery life at the start and it has diminished considerably after a few months. Does this not happen with everyone else?

immad··on The First YC Conference

Yeah, great idea. We (Heyzap) can add a bunch of ideas but would love to hear how everyone else does it.

immad··on Internet stocks Predictions for 2020 (GOOG, AMZN, maybe FCBK?)

You really had to create a HN account just to say that?

The reason I did not respond is because of your overall trollish comment with very little content. Everyone is having a good discussion on the article so the content was at least interesting to the community.

immad··on Internet stocks Predictions for 2020 (GOOG, AMZN, maybe FCBK?)

Completely agree with you. That is why I didn't put Netflix on the list. I just think they cant own online streaming like they have owned "rentable" DVD subscriptions.

immad··on Internet stocks Predictions for 2020 (GOOG, AMZN, maybe FCBK?)

http://www.comscore.com/International_Solutions

Comscore has a few more products than its consumer facing analytics.

immad··on Fred Wilson's Investment Themes for 2010

Virtual tractors in fv only have one supplier. Therefore the pricing will be monopolistic and would not trend to zero.

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