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Desperate to get feedback on this tool, so please feel free to fill out my Google Forms doc if you have time :)

https://goo.gl/forms/YIiYFCxhD8niiF1w1

emble, Birmingham (UK).

emble is a web app that helps people plan awesome events with their friends.

We're looking for a full time, in house back end developer.

More info here: https://emble.io/blog/wanted-skilled-back-end-developer/

This makes me feel like the fictional Babysitters Club didn't have a solid enough business plan.

I'd have loved to see Spam the Spammer come to fruition!

Did they say that with a straight face? I can't believe that would be serious advice! "You literally need to contact everyone in your address book and make sure they have the right settings."

Rocket Lawyer's pretty good for basic contracts, and if your work's straightforward, you shouldn't need more than that: https://www.rocketlawyer.com/

Like logn said, you probably would struggle to sue someone in another country, so hopefully you've picked someone on odesk with decent reviews!

Cached on zone-h in case Mr Timberlake gets his site back in the meantime... http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/22698655

That's because, like Hacker News, there are a relatively small amount of people who actually submit when compared to the number of people in the community as a whole. I personally subscribe to quite a lot of startup newsletters and follow people on Twitter who post product-related news, so I tend to have things to post most days. I assume it's the same for other people who also post on a regular basis.

People will use it for different things. Some will submit products, some will upvote, some will comment and get involved with the discussion, and some will do all three.

I don't know why your submission wasn't visible (you might want to contact the PH team directly about that), but with regards to your point about the startups trending that have existed for months: it doesn't matter when you launched, it matters when you were discovered by someone who uses PH and then decides to submit you. All links are hand picked, but they're hand picked by members of the community, then voted on by the community.

I think a lot of this won't be dependent on whether or not the submission is for a YC company, especially since the submitter is often not associated with the product being submitted anyway. I do agree with you about the practice being part and parcel of the startup world though!

I think trying to promote your YC startup amongst your fellow batch members is different to asking the tech community as a whole to vote for your product. Perhaps "founders told each other to upvote their products" wasn't the best way of phrasing it, but I imagine it was more like how you'd ask those closest to you to give you a bit of support.

With regards to the conflict of interest, I don't see this being too much of an issue. Whilst PH itself is part of a YC batch, the majority of the PH community won't be, and it's them who collectively vote.

I'm really pleased for Ryan and the PH team - well done!

Good points - I think the results might have been slightly different if they had been given a particular challenge to think about.

Re your last point: maybe that individual just enjoyed it!

We use Sqwiggle (https://www.sqwiggle.com/) which is almost like being in the office - everyone's there when you need them.

Would totally agree with caw about getting a dog though!

If your team are all Apple users (in part), the Apple calendar is pretty good for sharing.

We use different email apps, but our email's provided by Media Temple as our hosting's with them. I rate Airmail pretty highly if you've got a Mac.