lennysan

Oh hi! That's very strange indeed. Have you tried emailing Substack support? I'm not doing anything weird here.

Very important insight. Thanks for sharing it.

Loved that quote

100%

Good call, I’m going to dig into this further.

What a beautiful HN success story

That's amazing

Thanks jedberg <3

I've come across a few other startups that got started this way, but from this research it was interesting to see that wasn't big for any of the biggest consumer apps.

Since you've got a SaaS product, (hopefully) you'll be happy to hear I'm doing a follow-up looking at how the fastest growing SaaS companies got started.

That's how they (allegedly) got supply, not demand, which is what I focused on in the post

(Lenny here, one of the people behind this) Excellent point. Very much not intentional. Scrappy mode of using a ToS generator maybe wasn't the best idea. Fixing now. Thank you for pointing this out.

Works for me, what are you seeing?

Also note: this is a brand new talk.

Is it worth putting the time at a big company like Intuit, or if you were to do it over would you go straight to your own startup?

The future of gaming

"Eric Ries has a posse"

Pivot or Die

I appreciate the feedback. That is where a lot of our energy is going right now, fostering the intrinsic motivation and making it as easy (and fun) as possible to answer. I think there's enough precedent (e.g. Stack Overflow, Quora, Aardvark, etc.) to be confident this can work.

Feature coming, or if you really want to get off just email help@localmind.com.

It's really interesting, the word serendipity keeps coming up around this concept. I'm giving a talk at TEDxConcordia later this month titled "Losing Serendipity", though it has nothing to do with Localmind. Certainly gives me more fodder for the talk.

Re 13" MBP: Good point. The UI itself will probably look a bit tight as well.

I initially put that in there to measure (using mixpanel) how many people wanted those, to avoid overbuilding. Learned pretty quickly that people want a Twitter auth option. While we build it, wanted to at least acknowledge that they are on their way.

ha! unintentional freudian font choice? will investigate a better option :)

It's probably not a good idea to trust the wisdom of a small bird anyway.

Thanks for sharing, very informative.

I second that

First @souders gets to the front page of TechMeme, now he's on the front page of Hacker News. He's on a roll!

BTW, if you are interested in web performance, we could use your vote for this StackExchange community proposal: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6960/web-performan...

If you are interested in this topic and would like to have a place online to ask questions about optimizing performance, we could use your vote for this proposed StackExchange community focused on web performance: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5821/proposal-for-st...

I've been working on a standard guideline for postmortem communication, and ran this post against that template: http://www.transparentuptime.com/2010/03/google-app-engine-d...