mikeknoop

That is an interesting pattern. There are a few projects doing similar things: https://github.com/tblobaum/nodeQuery

I imagine there is enough content for a series like this to warrant guest posts (since we are biased towards paid SaaS web APIs).

@Lockitron, I recall the original story going: "We decided to host our own "Kickstarter" because investors did not seem interested and Kickstarter changed their policies."

I am curious, have you found that investors have changed their tune due to your successes so far?

I always assumed Service Packs were a way of "resetting" the version of Windows. Instead of installing Windows 7 then needing to immediately endure 2 hours of updates/restarts, you could simply install Windows 7 SP1 with all the relevant updates and patches already applied.

A recent blog post by OP: http://ektomarch.com/blog/?p=36

You can force it to show 4-letter domains http://www.swola.com/index.php?limit=4 but none are actually available, they just don't have DNS records.

http://instantdomainsearch.com has this same problem when deciding if a domain is actually available or not.

This is an awesome anecdote. If anyone is in the process of building an open REST API for their company right now, shoot me an email. We'd love to help kick-start your platform.

Compare the comments on this story to the ones found here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834976

What's the qualitative difference which elicits a different response?

The docs don't mention, but are your list endpoints capped or paginated? Also is there an implicit order applied to the list endpoints?

Someone suggested this below. Maybe they should pivot (slightly, more like adding a new feature) and offer a Kickstarter-as-a-service SDK to products that would fall outside their liability-acceptance zone. That way they can still take their cut and offer a valuable service to folks who want to offer funding campaigns.

EDIT: For clarity, the idea is Kickstarter provides some sort of white-labelled page to show a counter and collect/skim funds. I have to imagine liability falls back to the originating company at that point.

Kickstarter certainly did open the door to these styles of private hardware-funding campaigns. And given how successful private Kickstarter-esque launches can be (App.net, Lockitron), I can't see myself trying Kickstarter -- I would go the private route first. From the article:

""" A brief e-mail exchange ensued, culminating with a firm “No” – stating that Lockitron fell into the “home improvement” category of prohibited projects. """

Maybe it is HN bias, but all past popular Kickstarter launches seem to be products that would now be prohibited. I think Kickstarter is writing their own fate by not allowing these things. All the new popular launches are going to go off-site.

There are probably legal implications (and other problems) that come with being a "store" and Kickstarter does clearly not want that. But I can't envision the future of Kickstarter unless they come up with a solution to the store problem (and not by outright banning store-like products).

There seems to be a lot of HTML leaking through. We'll see if there is any way to sanitize it further...

No, please leave them incoherent.

I learned Flask, Python, Uwsgi, and Nginx configuration in order to make this happen.

EDIT: Oh and NLTK, of course.

EDIT2: If you missed it, you can see all the posts here: http://prlibs.posterous.com/

Oh and if you're feeling generous, you can buy them for $2 a pop:

https://prlibs.com/nocc

Something random I wanted over the weekend: drop-shipping stickers. Let me set up an account and order stickers via an API given a customer address.

My parents are in this exact same position. They have never heard of Google Voice but paying for an expensive landline.

I would immediately recommend a service like this.

I came up with a good explanation for the "vision" of app.net:

A replacement for traditional communication (instant messaging) that is built into everything.

Don't underestimate design (and the constraints which the BoostedBoards team have solved to achieve such a design).

http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/boosted-...

compared to

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0119/3292/t/4/assets/slide_...

or

http://i.imgur.com/QjhIM.png

This was an ad-hoc project because one didn't seem to exist. Recently, http://digmydata.com added Stripe support and certainly supersedes this project.

http://digmydata.com added Stripe support, too.

Yes, there a number of assumptions and simplifications made due to the easiest-available data from Stripe. Pull requests welcome: https://github.com/zapier/stripeboard

Send me an email (email in profile) -- this may be a really cool use case for Zapier.

There really is some really cool tech "locked up" in these big tech companies. Yahoo Pipes, Google Fusion Tables...

I think startups are, in a way, almost required to unlock the full potential of novel tech ideas. A startup can apply an awesome idea to a niche, gain traction, and expand whereas the defacto launch of a tech product at BigCo X or Y applies the tech across a broad segment of their user base. Broad launches are a good way to make your product generally available, but a bad way to ensure it truly solves some core need your customers have.

One of the cool things I've seen people use Zapier for is to test out other collab tools (https://zapier.com/zapbook/asana/trello/). You can test out Trello for a week by piping in data from Asana without the fear of losing a weeks worth of data in Asana if you don't like Trello.

The referral link itself is from Danielle (co-founder, not the Daniel who submitted the story): refer.ly/r/aY0H/show

My guess is OP saw it via refer.ly and submitted it straight without stripping the identifier.

New bootstrapping strategy, anyone?

My understanding is that it is. There's been a box inside (and now out front) for a few weeks now.

They committed ("non-reversible changes" on the livestream) to the landing about 20, 30 minutes prior to entry.

From the other thread: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/76008/Screenshot%20from%202012-08-0...

An alternative: you can do this verbatim with Zapier https://zapier.com/zapbook/twitter/webhook/179/post-twitter-...

Most things only happen once every [polling period] so the loop would occur relatively slowly.

There are fixes in the works for Opera (and non-push state enabled browers)