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Sorry dcurtis, but the day Paul Graham makes danhau a moderator is the day hell freezes over.

Yep, you actually just walk into the office with your laptop in hand, set it down on the table, everyone gets up and stands behind you to watch as you start driving and talking...then they start asking you questions, you get derailed answering the questions, and suddenly ten minutes have gone by.

Just to clarify a bit...Dan is one of the best "off the cuff" speakers that I know, and Tom is almost inhuman in his ability to work for countless hours straight and turn out an amazing product.

The Ticketstumbler advice is definitely spot on:

- Make sure that you know your shit when you're going in for the interview. Know your competitors inside and out (there will be laptops open during the interview and active googling will be conducted while you're talking), and be able to articulate why you're different.

- Be confident in your idea, but also be open to suggestions/recommendations. Push back if you feel it's necessary, but being open and flexible are traits that YC is looking for.

- Anticipate obvious questions and have intelligent answers ready.

- Definitely have a demo/prototype.

We'll be writing up a more in depth blog post in the next few days on the Anyvite blog, but just wanted to toss some ideas out there now in response to the TS blog post.

I'm pretty sure we'll be spending more than the amount in that original reimbursement check that night.

Congrats Ivan and Abby!

Ritual Coffee Roasters: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/business/smallbusiness/04v...

Congrats to Slinkset...this new functionality makes the service even more versatile than it was before. Very nice work guys!

I'm curious as to what would you consider a must-have feature to be in an invitation creation site? With more and more people relying on mobile Internet access while on the go, I would think that a mobile interface to view and manage your invitations would be a bit more than a nice-to-have feature. The other issues that you present are definitely hurdles to overcome when attempting to take on a product with a well known brand in the space, but are not insurmountable, as we've seen continued user adoption of Anyvite. Hopefully, in the future, we'll have the product to the point where you wont even consider spending an extra ten minutes on Evite when organizing an event.

Soon my friend...very very soon.

We'll be pushing out that feature in the very near future.

Congrats guys! Great idea. Looking forward to getting one for the fam for the holidays!

Voted up - 5 stars

I'll take a drop-dead easy solution over a theme any day.

Don't get me wrong, themes will be awesome, but simplicity and ease of use are the game changers with Posterous. Keep up the good work guys!

Yeah, we're pretty excited for the turnout tonight. Should be a good time meeting everyone in the Boston area. Speakers should be excellent as well!

Already passed it on to some artists I know.

Absolutely! Feel free to shoot me an email and we chat about it.

For now it's definitely a drop by for a beer, but if the number reaches a certain tolerance, then we need to cap it. So basically we just want to get an accurate number with the RSVPs to make sure the venue is prepared with us and we don't violate any fire laws by having too many people on the 3rd floor.

You can respond Maybe if you don't know for sure if you can make it.

If you're in the Cambridge/Boston area next Monday, come join us for a hacker meetup. PG will be answering some user submitted questions on the YC process and how to increase your odds of getting in.

Check out the invite for more details and RSVP if you're able to make it.

I just generated mine at Starbucks!

Is that bad?

Days? I think we're already into negative minutes...

Agreed, it is a crowded market space with different sites targeting different sub-segments. We have some ideas that we're working on for user adoption and growth.

Great suggestions! We're definitely going to add the pop up calendar ASAP and will look into the other bugs with the date and time stuff.

Thanks for the recommendations!

Using Evite is not the most intuitive thing in the world. We hear from lots of people who won't create invites using it because it's just too confusing to use.

We realize that Facebook is a dominant competitor in this market space and a lot of people use it for creating events, but there are still some people we've talked to who aren't entirely happy with it, as well as some market segments out there that aren't avid Facebook users.

We would be more than happy to oblige! Whatever you can do to spread the word about Anyvite would be much appreciated ;)

Yup! If you have an account on Coordinatr, then all of your data and past history should be available to you.

Congrats guys!

Great blog post on business cards:

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/08/business-car...

If you do a quick search, you can usually find some pretty decent coupon codes on the net.

Our goal all along has been to make the site as intuitive and easy to use as possible so that users can create events without being slowed down by a multitude of features. We agree that there are a lot of little features that people would like, but if we added all of them, the usability of the interface would definitely diminish...something we've been working hard against.

In that regard, we've taken a page from 37signals' book "Getting Real":

"The best software has a vision. The best software takes sides. When someone uses software, they're not just looking for features, they're looking for an approach. They're looking for a vision. Decide what your vision is and run with it."

Hope that kind of explains where we're coming from and why we haven't given creator's the choice of response types.