jmjerlecki

I can already imagine the arguments the team required to implement this change are having about the best way to make this change in the db.

Cool idea. I think this could be really helpful in getting more butts in seats for restaurants on slower days. Maybe you can offer a discount along with the free ride?

"At the time, we were actually racing another company in our Y Combinator batch. It was called Simply Insured. Originally it was fairly different from us, but about halfway through YC the founders decided that they wanted to do what we were doing, and the company pivoted into our market."

One of the more interesting parts of the article. Not sure how you prevent or discourage that.

Happy to chat about how we made this and what our stack is. We were able to get this out just in time for the holidays. A great way to capture the holidays collaboratively with your family

This early with only you doing everything, you need to pick is your product for consumers or is your product selling to gyms. It seems you've had some success selling to gyms, so would think your traction is showing you may want to continue down that path. Not sure if you have shipped a physical product yet, but it's hard enough getting one version right, let alone two.

If you go consumer, crowdfunding for the consumer side is the way to go. I would think if you had a successful crowdfunding campaign, you would be able to convince a good technical guy to join you (as clearly you've done a ton of hustle on your own).

From the fundraising perspective, at the this early of a stage investors mostly are investing in the team (which right now is only you), unless your product/traction is through the roof. At the early stage is also when you get most heavily diluted, so want to think about how much you are giving up vs. how much do you really need the cash? Again, it sounds like you have traction, so may want to figure out how to keep bootstrapping this vs. taking a big hit equity wise.

feel free to hit me up (email in profile) - I love the space you are going after.

This looks great. Would love to see a version that has a camera on the front of lockitron so I can see who is at my front door. It sounds incredibly lazy, but being able to open the app and see who is at my front door would prove useful.

I didn't know either and I went to yahoo and it had an ad on top of the logo. I couldn't believe it.

Interesting comment on the article:

Makes more sense for Google to buy them. They could do two things with them:

1: build the technology into their Google Glasses so peoples names pop up as they come into view 2: redirect face.com to Google.com.

That second option would be well worth the 100 million too. Consider this: after you visited face.com once every next time you want to go to facebook.com and type in 'face' your browser will auto-complete to face.com

1 and 2 are both interesting scenarios.

Pretty good comment on that article, resonated with me:

"When you have to make a hard decision, flip a coin.

Why?

Because when that coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping for."

What if by having a desire to be "special" one was able to create wealth for himself and many others and was able to make a big difference in the world. I find your viewpoint to be flawed.

What is wrong with wanting/encouraging someone to be special?

"Doing so will allow you to blend, and when it comes to dress, this is a good thing."

Why would one want to blend? Sticking out and being different is a great thing. Displaying self-expression and individualism is important to who each of us are. I have found this to be true in my profession and I would encourage people to spend more time on what they wear. It can drastically impact ones success. Simply put, don't look sloppy.

"We call it page stacking and we think you’re going to love it."

This sentence is sooo very apple.

Seems like they shouldn't have just focused on chefs, however could be a good market to test before opening up to other areas of interest. Great work!

It absolutely moves to fast. Love the site though. I would think about putting more information above the fold or incorporating it into the slider a little better. Make the about more clear. Love it though.

Having lived in Vegas for the summer it is not as distracting as it seems. You really will only go to the strip when friends come into town or for the show/poker tournament etc. Residential Vegas/Summerlin is actually a really beautiful area.

This would be great as a map and if people tweeted a certain hashtag, color the map according to their vote. You could really see what direction the twitter audience is leaning. this is a neat implementation though.

This is the direction ecommerce sites need to go down. Think of how much more fun pinterest is to browse compared to something like zappos.

To me thats like saying corporate customers would be turned off by the iPhone. I get where you are coming from, but I think it could be handled in a way that would make both consumers/professionals love the phone. Apple is clearly the example to follow. Microsoft has leverage with the 360 its just crazy to me they don't use it.

I still don't understand why the xPhone doesn't exist. This has always seemed like the obvious direction for Microsoft from a brand perspective. Use the phone as an extension of the 360 and do some really cool things with it - messaging hub, video chatting, go all in on games. It's just crazy to me this doesn't exist.

One of my faves on the list: http://panic.com/~wade/picker/

Nice time saver

I work for a pretty successful app company for iOS/Android and I wouldn't call the free/paid busted by any means. We have ranked as high as 5 in our category on Android in paid and it is not a substantial amount of money. Our free product on the other hand that is ad supported is absolutely killing it.

There's always money in the banana stand.

Are the namericks normally that offensive? Is that a specific memory cue? I would be interested to know if that is or not. For example I made one for my friend Brooke and clicked generate namerick. The first two items that came up were brooke bangs boys and brooke the Blower.

You are dead on about Facebook. Imagine if the conversation shifts from whats your phone number to whats your identity. A persons phone number is becoming increasingly less important.

Lot of action on Twitter about this. Recent tweet from Chris Dixon: http://twitter.com/#!/cdixon/status/124297282274340864

Seems like there might be an idea for a start up in there

Couldn't this mean a number of things? 1. The device isn't fully sealed. 2. Isn't there always going to be air unless you cover each area of the device and seal it off?

Im curious if this has any impact to people who have their phone password protected. "Here, you are more than welcome to go through my phone....just need to guess the password." You can't even hook your iPhone up to iTunes without inputting that password, so I can't imagine those phone searching devices can bypass that altogether.