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Thank you and I did. I was just wondering if there is already a certain penalty towards me. 1) Only founder 2) Owner of another company....

Thx, for your prompt answer. Enjoy the rest of your AMA and have a great weekend!

I am currently applying to the summer batch and I was wondering about my setup. I came to the U.S. about four years ago and immediately built a marketing agency and after a year added software development services to it. We grew rapidly to a stable stage and now I am at the point where I can step back from taking care of the company and let my other partners manage it (We are four partners). My question is, I am applying as the only founder and was wondering if having a company already might be a deal-breaker, due to you thinking that I would not be able to invest 100% of my time into the startup? My reason for not having a co-founder yet, is because I want to make sure that I really add somebody that will 100% benefit the startup. I do have a pool of people available from my current company, but would also like to branch out first. Any thought from you would be really appreciated.

Vielen Dank für den Hinweis. Um ehrlich zu sein habe ich nicht gewusst, dass man eigene Beiträge posten kann. Ich dachte immer das die Leute von hacker news / YCombinator interessante Nachrichten teilen.

I wünsche euch das Gleiche, VIEL ERFOLG!

I think that there is plenty of room for growth and platforms in the activity based niche. Our products seem similar, but are completely different at the end. Especially when it comes to the approach -> "Bringing people together!". Same thing with SameGrain. Same goal, different approach. But all are completely capable of co-existing, in my opinion

Hi and thank you for your feedback.

The misspelling of motocross was an honest mistake. And yes, english is not my fist language. I am actually from Germany. But the funnier thing is that a lot of my american colleagues missed that misspelling too.

With some words it works with some it does not. We already took that under consideration. The landing page tries to make a visitor instantly understand that the system is all about finding others in your area with the same interest in activities.

The highlighting of the "ing" part is just a branding teaching concept. Inside the system the "ing" is not being highlighted of course.

At the end it is kind of like asking "What's your thing?". I guess if you dislike using that phrase, it goes back to personal preferences and what you like or dislike saying.

We also understand that a product is not appealing to every single person it gets seen by. We did get a lot of positive feedback so far. Not only from the family and friends group, but also from external sources.

Thx for the parallax hint. We did get rid of the parallax scrolling feature for mobile devices. I personally was not able to reproduce the chrome or safari issue. The only time I saw it not behaving correctly, is when the site was loaded in chrome being bloated with tabs and eating up a bunch of memory. One of my partner's browser always has that issue ;) For some reason he does not like closing tabs!

Thx again for your input and taking your time to look over our landing page. It always helps when others take the time to share their point of view and thoughts! Have a great weekend.

Hi,

We don't fully understand what you mean by "writing in the style Paypal T&Cs", but for the second part. Not trying to make an ironic point.

We are always open for suggestions and productive criticism.

Hi everyone,

We are actually building a similar system called Inging™. We are ready to release a beta in a month. Inging™ is an Interest Based Social Network connecting you with others purely based on your favorite activities! The URI is http://www.inging.io . Right now we are allowing people to sign up to get the first invites as soon as we release the beta.

We are actually building a similar system and the feature you are talking about will be included in a little bit different way. Our system called Inging will be web only at first. We should be ready to release a beta in a month. Inging is an Interest Based Social Network connecting you with others purely based on your favorite activities! The URI is http://www.inging.io . Right now we are allowing people to sign up to get the first invites as soon as we release the beta.