richardbrevig

I love this! "Login unsuccessful. Something went wrong: Error: api_calls exceeding plan authorized calls" when I went to log in with Twitter. Good problem for you to have, I look forward to you working this out so I can participate.

Honestly, I only signed up for Twitter to join Product Hunt. That was a huge disappointment when I found out that having an account didn't mean anything. This will be a pleasant change, it's about time.

There could be a lot of different reasons why your "Show HN" wasn't successful. Applying that to every "Show HN" is not correct.

My experience was very different from yours. Stayed on the front page 16 hours, spot #5 for 5 hours (iirc). Similar to you, I had to work myself up to even submit it. I procrastinated 2 hours before posting. Only told 1 friend I had posted. However, I'd consider mine very successful. I did not expect it to be, because if I had, I would have increased the Digital Ocean droplet and my server would not have crashed. Of the ~5 hours I was at spot #5, my server was down almost 3 hours between 3 different crashes.

I say this on reddit often, between Show HN and PH, people give PH way too much credit. Show HN is a great launching platform, just remember who the audience is.

> I speculate that these hidden functions are a way for Apple to hold consumers hostage to their platform.

Whether on purpose or not, it's definitely a form of switching costs. It's the same reason I stay on windows. Though windows 8 changed so many things I basically had to learn all over again. I can't do basic tasks at times and have to Google instructions for how to do them. Simply because they changed the interface.

Bravo on your homepage language. A couple years back I looked into creating 'open shift management' scheduling software for caterers. It appears that you've created something similar. Though most OSMs send out a notice of available shifts. It appears you have the employee enter their availability. Either way, your approach is fresh.

Hello Andy, thanks for giving it a spin!

Searching for "HipChat" will find companies that have a relationship with HipChat. If you're looking for HipChat competitors, I suggest searching for something like "private group chat" instead.

Sorry this wasn't very clear, I'm going to try changing the search form a little to make it more intuitive.

Thanks again for the feedback. :)

Edit: Would this placeholder text in the search box be more clear? "search by keywords..." Thanks.

Thanks for trying it out, and I'm glad you like it overall!

One of the great things about RivalSeek is that it only shows you a competitor suggestion once. After you've decided relevant/not relevant, you won't see it again. If you subscribe, it will keep this memory and only alert you of new potential competitors it's not shown you before.

The issue you describe is because of a lag between your browser and the server. To fix it: click on the search term with the checkbox twice (by the "add search term" link). That will manually pull a fresh suggestion list from the server.

Sorry for this bug, should have it fixed soon. And thanks for your comment! :)

For what category? What was your search query?

I put together a landscape for a friend the other day and within an hour had identified the top 100 electronic health record/electronic medical record vendors. :)

It's back up again. Try it now. :)

Hello, thanks for checking it out.

You can see a 30-second video of the app here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-TEgUb33sU

1) enter search term 2) identify competitors 3) view information on competitors

I've had to take the site down temporarily again to resize the disk space (it actually ran out of space!). The prior times I only increased RAM/CPU so it'd be quick. I'll post again once it's back up! :)

Thanks. I'm glad it worked for you. :)

Thanks for trying it out!

What was your search query? I'd like to investigate why, if I may. :)

Thanks for trying it out! :)

I just re-wrote some of the code that's made it 2x more efficient, so it shouldn't freeze now. Try it again.

lol, I'm getting ready to re-write a lot of it. Just rewrote some parts of it and it seems like it's getting things back under control. It's lagging a little but not freezing.

Just made these changes a couple minutes ago. So try your search again. If it's still not showing anything, your search phrase may be too specific. :)

Thanks for trying it!

Thanks for trying it out!

To fix that issue (remove the duplicates), click twice on the keyword/checkbox at the top of the page beside "add search term." That will reload the list freshly from the server.

The issue comes from a lag in updating your selection of relevance on the server, most likely caused by the demand being placed on the server right now.

Thanks again. :)

Temporarily. It's back up. :)

I'll report back once this is done. It's back up.

That was bittersweet. Was on a small digital ocean droplet. Wasn't expecting such a large response, so I'm really happy. I've upgraded the droplet so hopefully everything continues to work now.

Try again. Took a minute to reboot server.

This is very disappointing. I remember how glad I was this finally came into existence when I discovered them. It's a real problem. Of course, since their launch, Intuit came out with their Self Employed offering. I wish more detail was provided about why they're shutting down.

I was going to respond a few hours ago to your post: "maybe you should." There's a fine line here between being cruel and being honest. Personally, I've always struggled with this idea with some of my wealthier friends that act "more polite." They often out-right lie to each other, constantly, over little things. It's so weird to me. But when it comes to business, you shouldn't lie when providing advice or feedback. At the same time, you don't want to put people through an interrogation or completely crush them ("no, I don't like your idea, etc, etc, etc"). I think Paul Graham walked the line very well.

I've watched that lecture a couple times and never even thought what he was doing was bad until you called him out for it. And even still, I think he handled it very well.

I've seen people ask questions to try to get recognition in groups, and when they don't get it, they childishly leave the meeting.

This was a moment where I gained a lot of respect for Dave McClure: https://youtu.be/25TxrhsXFvs?t=46m14s

I've had 4 different choir directors through my life. The best was a man in high school that would get angry, throw his baton down, and walk out (of band). Never saw him do that in choir but I heard about it. He demanded that we were focused. In the select choir, all members were required to perform solos. I wasn't ready for mine, but he still forced me to do it (he refused to continue class until I sang). He was, beyond comparison, a better director than the others and the choir showed it.

Going back to Paul Graham, even if he didn't handle that as well as you think he should have, his overall personality certainly makes up for it. Anyway, it's good to see that he'll be honest and you can trust him to do that.

I purchased a domain a few months back that I found on that site. Still debating on using it as my company's name, just not the best to spell.

> Sam Altman said they got 6500 applications.

Is this online anywhere?

As far as cut-off: if the major experiment here is working with teams remotely, why question increasing the 20 seats? The number of applicants shouldn't affect that experiment as far as I know. If they're using this as a means to increase their reach for YC batches, that's another topic.

The content of the video is left to the founders, they could reasonably talk about whatever they want. Restricting the video to a minute forces concentration.

Great resource, though I've noticed 2 issues:

* New entries start with a vote of 0, the poster has to actually up-vote their own submission to get it to 1 (as opposed to automatically making it 1 like on reddit).

* The ranking appears to be a sum of up votes, only. Links that are added later (like now), show up at the very bottom and it's unlikely will reach the top. In a situation like this, to get attention, you're creating a race to post first. Consider some type of rank deterioration similar to reddit/HN.

Agreed - I hesitated to sign up. Twitter is better.

I know two different guys that sell shoes online. The one moved to Amazon fulfillment and grosses over $15k a month. It's a lifestyle business for him.

This is a neat project, but if you need the full 120 words you're probably not writing as concisely as you should.

When I was looking for a full-text search solution a few months ago, this guide sold me on Elastic.

> You dismiss Musk's accomplishments because he has so many of the "best minds" working for him. That is exactly the wrong way to look at it. Go out and try to recruit someone who is brilliant. You will see it's a non-trivial task.

That's exactly it. We always speak about solo founders and co-founders...because you need to show that you can "convince others of your vision." Musk has done this with some of the best minds. He pulled them together.