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I feel exactly the same way. Suddenly I feel like a curmudgeon.

"Maybe in forty years I'll finally be able to use Plan 9." - LOL!!

Know some of them, but others were brand new - thanks. Wonder if I should do a follow-up blog post with more details than just a list of links.

cool, dropped you an email.

hey minikomi, i would love to get in touch with you. some of your comments on here are very intriguing. what's the best way to get in touch?

T.H.I.S.

Most people don't get the 'schlep' as pg wrote about recently. Startup success stories aren't all about One Amazing Idea and the code that goes with it. It's about the whole ride.

This is the best iOS app out there. I have been using it for almost a year and I can't imagine owning an iPad without it.

This may sound like an ad for the app, but I have nothing to do with Alex (the creator) or his company. This app is just that good.

The kicker is that Alex is actually working on his own git library for the app, so in the next month or so expect to be able to have native git capabilities right from your iPad. Cannot wait!

Glad to see somebody paint the counter-point to all the hype. I don't believe that there is no substance to the 'big data story' but these points hold up well.

Love this idea! Would love to help out.

looking forward to it!

If you don't figure out how to create a differentiated service, product or software (!) then you will have a hard time no matter what you do.

Random questions

- what exactly does it do? - who's your biggest competitor? - what's the target market/country? - do you want a matching domain name?

Maybe we could hash a name out here :)

Mad props!

I really like what you guys are trying to do here. But, I think your sign up flow needs some clarity and maybe some a/b testing with an app like Myna (mynaweb.com).

For instance, I currently require 3-7 clicks to understand the entire offering and how they compare cost wise. This needs to be done to 2 clicks max.

Also, your primary call-to-action needs to stand out on the landing page, above the fold.

There are bunch of other optimizations I see, but for the first cut this is really good.

Best wishes :)

There are more than a couple of attempts at this. First is CoderWall - It basically let you list each software/engineering achievement and gave you badge for it.

Another one is Skills.To by Joshua (founder Delicious). It's a bit of an abstraction vis a vis your idea, but its definitely in the neighbourhood.

EDIT - Remembered the name -> CoderWall :P

Cool! I don't know how many times I have used a silly 500 x 500 image and just scaled it to random sizes as I built the views. Only to have to go back and check sizes in code when cutting stuff up in Photoshop.

This way I can just keep an instant overview of the pending sizes. Thanks mate!

"We view design as an ongoing and continual process - not a phase." - Boom! Wish I could do more than just one vote up.

Respect!

We just turned every other 'project management' app off but Trello (goals/tasks/bugs/feedback) & Beanstalk (repo);

Agree with most here. New baseline for such communities is

- Email/Pass - FB - Twitter - Google

For your specific community, I would consider the following as well

- Tumblr (designers!) - GitHub - (& maybe even) Dribbble

Love the simplicity of this one. Awesome work Saha & co.

Great job. Been looking for this forever - super, simple and to the point! So many other web instagram apps wanna be full-on 'clients'.

Podio - great app! Used it for a while but after seeing the simplicity of Trello, had to move. But Podio is really great if you like the extra features.

I completely agree with your take on it; but pls note the entirely different problem Instagram solved vs. Twitter. If you build a real-time streaming application for pure text based objects, your stack will look very different. But collecting, storing, replicating and serving images as your primary social object != same thing.

Hence, even when Twitter 'added' photos, they went with Photobucket so as to not change the nature of their stack. It had taken them 3 years to really get ahead of their adoption curve for 'just' text.

They have 13 employees of which 3 were heading web ops.

What you are seeing there is only the visitor traffic metrics for the landing page and the URLs shared out. You aren't seeing the back-end API centric traffic from the app to the core servers.

Holy Cow! www.radioreference.com is that big already? Props! 570k users and 3k feeds = that infra? Streaming must be a bitch.

3 web ops engineers for 30+ (before android release) million users & 100+ EC2 instances = WOW!

fantastic point! ben had spent a ton of time researching the psychology of collecting and you seem to be highlighting that really well - "Posting an item to Pinterest feels additive"

Hope that made more sense now :)

Right now when I search for something like 'reddit logo png' I only get links no inline embedded images in a gallery like format.

Would be awesome to Not leave DDG and preview the image (jpg/png/gif) results in a gallery.

I LOVE your work. So happy to get simple, clean & shareable results again!

Any chance of integrated media galleries? I think Bing & Google are really effin this up.