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jansen

677 karma · joined February 24, 2011

Co-founder at Roma (YC F26). Previously founder at Loom (YC W12 - acquired by Dropbox).
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jansen··on Loom (YC W12) Is Building A Better iCloud
Yes exactly, that's the goal. Both things you mention (seamless upload/integration of existing libraries and importing your favorite photo apps) are on top of our list.
jansen··on Loom (YC W12) Is Building A Better iCloud
Hi, cofounder of Loom here. We upload all of your photos and videos and want to make that experience as easy and transparent as possible. We have especially focussed on being able to manage uploads/syncing for a lot of data since many people have libraries north of ~100GB.
jansen··on Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
Even though they removed the limit from the terms today, it was still active when I tried to upload images to Flickr just now. They'll probably correct that soon, still not the most trustworthy way of making this kind of announcement.
jansen··on Ray Kurzweil's Dubious New Theory of Mind
In the preface to the book Kurzweil argues, with good reason, that “reverse-engineering the human brain may be regarded as the most important project in the universe.”

- for anyone interested, the Human Brain Project is at the forefront of this: http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/12/tech/human-brain-computer/inde...

jansen··on Not a Bubble... At All (Instagram vs. Lucasfilm)
Second that. This is a horrible comparison. Not only can Facebook turn users into gold, Instagram was the first real threat to build a social network that could turn into a threat for Facebook. Both Facebook and Instagram started off by making photos social, extremely successful.
jansen··on The App Store Nightmare
Oh yes, such a nightmare. I moved from Germany to the UK, 2 app store accounts. Then I moved from the UK to the US, 3 app store accounts. I am consistently switching accounts and accidentally repurchasing apps ever since. Luckily, it seems, that with iOS 6 at least you can update all apps, no matter which region they're from (how ridiculous that already sounds), without typing in passwords/switching accounts over and over again.
jansen··on Feast Your Ears On Fresh Jams From Musicians You Love At Hipset (YC S12)
I love the idea, congrats to Mazy and team!
jansen··on BufferBox (YC S12) Solves The Problem Of Missing Packages
Second that! Love the Packstations in Germany, can't wait to have Bufferbox in SF!
jansen··on HiMom (YC S12) Helps Your Parents Keep Up With Your Life
It's sarcasm. Billion dollar company or not, doesn't matter to me and most people out there. It's useful and something people will like. It's perfect for me at least to make my Mum happy from time to time so you'll see me using this!
jansen··on Picplum launches Photo Printing API
Great!! I've been googling for a printing api a couple months back. We're going to play with it as well!
jansen··on Create beautiful photo sites from your phone with Popset
Thanks :) Usually albums don't have that many photos, on average it'd be 1 or 2 scrolls and we wanted to keep that space for pics.
jansen··on Create beautiful photo sites from your phone with Popset
That's a feature ;) The photo site will load as long as the album contains more photos to display. Here is the direct link to our about page: http://www.popset.com/about
jansen··on Create beautiful photo sites from your phone with Popset
Thanks! Still a lot ahead of us, stay tuned!
jansen··on Create beautiful photo sites from your phone with Popset
Sorry for that, however I can't reproduce your issue. Can you help me by describing what exactly happens after which action?
jansen··on Create beautiful photo sites from your phone with Popset
sorry for that, working on it!
jansen··on Create beautiful photo sites from your phone with Popset
We just launched our new web albums and user profiles, here is the blog post: http://blog.popset.com/post/28061685827/create-photo-website...
jansen··on Priceonomics Raises $1.5 MM, Users Unfazed
Congrats on the round and really great post, guys!
jansen··on Show HN: iPG - YC Interview Simulator
Love it, good luck guys!
jansen··on SendHub (YC W12) raises $2M in seed funding
Congrats to Ash and the team!!
jansen··on Sonalight (YC W12) Lets You Text While Driving Without Touching A Phone
I can assure you that the process of iteration is horrible on iOS. It's awful to be in the situation having a team that is able to learn fast and develop improvements within days, but then having to wait a 7 day cycle for every new improvement or test. Plus from time to time Apple will just reject you - last weekend our update (a bug fix update!) was rejected because of a method name we were carrying for months. This is really not helping anybody, neither app developers nor users.
jansen··on Songkick Secures Sequoia's First Ever UK Investment with a $10M B Round
Wow, this is awesome! Always been a big fan of London-based YC startups :)
jansen··on Show HN: Github for Designers
Have been in private Beta and I love it! Keep up the great work!
jansen··on Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers
I actually think that Dave's response was pretty lame. That was a typical PR/B2C response, neglecting that he is talking to techies here.

Everybody knows "why" Path is doing this and the response should have been more of "why this way".

jansen··on My Startup Failed, But It's OK
Second that! Great post, Ben. Keep up the great work.
jansen··on Welcome Garry and Aaron
Both truly awesome! A fantastic addition to YC!
jansen··on A day at the YC interviews, see what it looks like from inside
And here is a link to an Eeve from inside the interview room http://eeve.co/s/12a
jansen··on Mobile UI Patterns
I love the site, am visiting it for a couple months now to get inspired. Another great site is http://pttrns.com/
jansen··on Steve Jobs Takes The Stage At iPad 2 Event
unfortunately the "one more thing" was missing at the end...hoped it would be the retina display :(
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