jasonwilk

You should take a look at what Omnissio used to do. They were an early YC co that sold to YouTube with a similar concept.

As someone who has gone through YC, this makes perfect sense. My company, along with 15 others in our group, radically changed their idea to the point where it didn't matter what idea we came through the door with. We started out with a Facebook app for sports stuff and ended up as a successful video advertising business. Absolutely zero correlation. PG bet on us in the beginning, not because he loved our idea (it actually was a pretty bad idea), but he saw that my co-founder and I gelled and that we were determined to make whatever damn thing we touched into some form of success.

The other thing to think about is that everyone, i mean everyone has some idea they have thought about which could be a business. If you're the 1% that have never thought of something that could use a change in this world, then the no-idea application probably doesn't apply to you. For the other 99, you can come in with a handful of things that bother you in the world which could be solved by software and YC will more than likely help you pick something they know has a pretty good shot if you are willing to put in the hours.

140Fire (YC W2010) is hiring. Looking for junior and senior hackers in Los Angeles. Ping me: jason@140fire.com

How about breaking up the US cities that have a large tech presence? Los Angeles, Boulder, Austin? Just saying NYC/SF area is offensive.

Yes, Rust-Oleum is a faulty product. It was pulled from the shelves at Home Depot for this reason.

1 word. Erasability.

You should get in touch with us. Since it's for your daughter's room, we can hopefully help you out.

SolutionsMB paint cannot erase the product without using spray. I've used it.

1. It is paint, so it will go over the texture. You shouldn't have to worry about bumps showing through as long as you paint it on right.

2. It's easier to clean because of how we made it. I really can't say much beyond that it just works, where others do not.

3. The good part about whiteypaint is if you do hate it, the wall is still the same color. nothing has changed other than it will be a little shinier.

Hope that helps.

MrDunham, I appreciate the advice. While 3 years ago I wouldn't backlash at TC users, I feel like times have changed.

That doesn't work well. I've seen it in action a hundred time and there is ghosting everywhere. If you have a little extra money to spend, go for a real solution.

Rust-Oleum used to be sold in-stores at HomeDepot. They pulled it from the shelves because it was defective (fact). They now sell it online but at a discount to get rid of the rest of the product. Beware of that solution.

As for IdeaPaint, I agree. They priced themselves high because they were the first mover. Little do peoplele know that they have been around for 9 years and have changed their name multiple times after different iterations.

WhiteyPaint studied everything and our solution is the result of that. We actually have a nice comparisson chart of this page of ourselves vs IdeaPaint here: http://www.whiteyboard.com/order-now-whiteboard/paint.html

Thanks HN for checking us out.

Bobby, this is our first run so pricing is expensive. This stuff us not easy to make and we've already tried to be the lowest price in the market. Nonetheless, we will work on a cheaper price for bootstrappers since that's exactly what we are.

Thanks for the comment Thomas. We created WhiteyPaint to address all of these issues. I suggest you try it and if you hate, we will refund you.

Thanks so much. Although I am a co-founder of WhiteyBoard, I do have this up all over my place and it works fantastically.

For people that don't want to pay $2.5/sw ft. We also have our original WhiteyBoard products which we created to combat the origial expensive dry erase boards. We thought Paint was an awesome way ato approach whiteboards, so we made a cheaper and better version of that as well. Enjoy!

It's memorable is all I can say from experience with this product for the last couple of years. This isn't a product that someone is exactly searching for, so we've seen a high correlation to any name (good or bad) that is memorable to continued word of mouth sales / direct traffic.

+1 for the time delay idea. Once a post has been up for a certain amount of time, points are displayed so we can sort out which comments to immediately go to. No points makes HN more time consuming for me and less interesting. If there is a fight due to points, I'm just not going to read it.

This is Groupon's best product to date. I don't know about everyone else on HN, but I feel like a good majority of people I know have at least bought one Groupon by now, where their credit card is stored. To take that major advantage and apply frictionless rewards for users, is recipe for major disruption.

Checking in to a place on Facebook and FSQ is almost entirely useless for a small business. They need $$$, not someone looking to get 10% off for letting their friends know they are at a place they probably are all well aware of. I hope Grocery stores sign up for this, so for once in their history they can make use of their 'loyalty program', which probably has over 10,000 purchases tied to my phone number for almost no purpose at all.

I'm not saying this is perfect, but this is the first product i've seen in a while that seems like useful software.

my stream is dead too. I've since left.

technically the original AirBnB without a business model.

It really did. Quora I don't really want to follow an influx of questions. If the Reddit community decides something is worth knowing, I can read about it. Genius

My girlfriend still types Facebook into Google to go to Facebook. I don't think it's an issue with Wikipedia.

Feel that. Well, nice work and even better marketing.

I knew this site smelled of Pud as soon as I saw it. Is this another cold fusion operation?

You can do this on Google already: http://bit.ly/mWaKBy

Bill has been a great investor for us from across the pond. He adds a lot of insight as one of the co-founders of Xing.com and 6 other companies he founded to take public. If anyone has thought about expanding to europe and wants an intro, Im happy to do it.

Coli, at least you are learning on this site. I can't say the same for Reddit.

Congrats Austin!

Thanks Rolf