mingyeow

Awesome joke. Reminds me of my (actual) business plan projections which extrapolated will allow me to repay the entirety of US debt to china in 15 years time.

What an AWESOME posting. Cannot upvote this enough. Balancing focus and diversification in portfolio is definitely the key to success. Rock on!

No way..... someone tell me that techcrunch is just trolling

Apple deserves MUCH more rap and lawsuits than they currently get. They make amazing products, but that should be independent of their business practices

he probably means as a desktop OS. UI for a complex system like the OS is incredibly hard to nail

For people who hate this article, can you please share why you hate it instead of just saying it sucks?

It was meant to stir things up obviously, but I thought that the various points brought up were really valid.

This is a pretty one-sided article. There are 3 parties, and all of them are CRITICAL, because they FEED OFF each other. 1) Tech blogs, 2) Elite Users, 3) Everyday Users.

Tech blogs write about stuff if they hear it from their friends. Elite users mention stuff if sufficient everyday users mention it to them. Everyday users talk about it if it rocks. More everyday users learn about it if tech blogs write about it

If it sounds like a cycle, it IS a cycle. Every few startups get all 3, which is why most launches are pretty terrible.

Hilarious!

"You seem to lack a flare for self-promotion. Lucky for us our PR department stepped in and changed your L/c2 equation into the much more marketable E = mc2"

Smart. ;)

Twitter does not need to throw the book at them. It will never take off

Hmmm... Every price search site has a similar layout and ajax navigation these days. I can name you at least 2 -> wego.com / lessno.com

This is a great comment! This is probably the best articulation of why

"good code is an asset, and it's a compounding asset, and the effect is exponential and not linear" - good insight, well articulated

"running IRR" - definitely right. I think you can apply different variables to the various categories of work.

Summarizing, the main thing, whether outsourcing or in-house is to find people who can write great code. On my end, understanding of the space you are in is very important as well

I have a really really good db expert as a co-founder, but we still started out with a simple mysql when we got started. the very simple reason being that specs are never obvious and we wanted to keep things as fluid as possible. We were very iterative - mysql, federated mysql, and now we are moving to a bigtable like system.

Summarizing - Just do it with a DB implementation that is as simple as you can.

textmate. ;D

This is a GREAT reply, and I really appreciate the very thoughtful comment that you wrote.

I completely agree that what I did was inappropriate given the fabric/culture of Hackernews, which is why I understand why it got killed.

My original thinking was that it would be cool if I could show the community that I had passionate users, because hey, everyone likes to work with folks who really cared and nurtured their users. =)

Hi! I am ok that my submission got killed - but not if it is killed for the wrong reason. I definitely did not "create 12 accounts" to vote it, all I did was tweet about it.

In any case, I have utmost respect for the community, and I definitely want to play my part in making it work.

Thanks for all the clarifications

Hi Paul, this is an misunderstanding - All I did was to tweet about it using an twitter account that was popular. @mrtweet had about 200,000 followers, so it is inevitable that some of them created accounts to vote it. I definitely did not create any new accounts.

Hmmmm.... thanks! I saw that, and it was killed. I wonder why though, i certainly did not think it was spammy, and I took a lot of care to write it in a way that I thought the community will appreciate

Ok, but i see ycombinator related jobs all the time. So this is only for ycomb jobs?

Rajeev helped us out tremendously when we were starting out. Was going to touch base with him again soon, and was shocked to hear about this incident. Enormously sad.

You said it the best. It is clear that the "clone" had been around for a long time already

Wow, this poll is as polarizing as techcrunch

I am so goddamn excited. I cannot wait to get one... (but i will still wait to see if there is gonna be an iphone 3)

You feel you're not accomplishing anything because of "muscle memory" - this is a great insight - thanks a lot for that. Where did you get this phrase from?

"If you're taking care of that so the rest of the team can worry about the low-level details of getting stuff done, that's valuable, and it's not unreasonable to expect that to take up 2/3 of a person in a 5-person team."

- THANKS a lot! that is enormously helpful and concise. Now I am kinda feeling better. =)

I got over it at the age of 25. Bloody hard transition. Pick new friends. If you are in SF, lets do beer!

http://v3.mingyeow.com/?page_id=5

Yup, where did you go to singapore from? (i am from sg)

Hey bro, i am singaporean, and I have a bay area startup. My co-founder has a green card. I started a company,and I am working here on a temp work visa. Not ideal, but works. let me know if you want more details

This is TERRIBLE UNETHICAL business practice

1) Determine a fair price 2) If they insist on being AS ridiculous like cutting off YOUR API access... - Prepare a Twitter / Blog campaign (#zillowfail) - Get the NYtimes reporter aware of this. They will listen to you if your email subject is "Unethical, unfair behavior from Zillow" 3) Negotiate further.

The HN hacker/Twitter community will help out. This is ridiculous

summarize to one page and repost! I promise to give feedback then: mingyeow@gmail

Actually: bad timing. it is a buyer's market right now. sorry founders