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Meteor has publication/subscription system that ships only data you specify w/ very fast communication w/ server.

it was us — HN blew up the single dyno the site was running on.

Thanks for identifying those issues — bugs we'll fix.

Of course ASP.NET was closed source, and from Microsoft — Meteor is open-source, and is being driven by a small team.

Broken javascript app? you're implying that all Meteor apps are broken?

sorry that was a deploy to fix the "oops, this page can't be found" that was flashing before the page loads. When we deploy Meteor, it hot fixes the client (i.e. restarts the app in your browser)

Meteor has a package 'spiderable' which allows Google to index the content — we're having no problems with it.

It might take some time, but I have to agree after working in Meteor for a few months, the developer experience is much better than trying to do Rails/Backbone Rails/Ember or Rails/Angular.

you'll see :)

This must be a joke.

1) Smaller accelerators (especially university-based ones) will accept ideas — for example, Xavier University is accepting applications right now http://www.xavier.edu/williams/xlab/

2) Angel investors will sometimes put money in on an untested idea.

If you can go get pre-orders from real clients, the odds of getting money will go up a lot.

Great screencast @mathec — loving Meteor!

Cincinnati's got a great startup scene.

What skills are you bringing to the table?

1) Definitely ask for more, they're low-balling you. 2) Take it as a lesson learned. The earlier you nailed this down, the better your negotiation position is.

So bizarre that someone would register a domain just to redirect to the official site, without some nefarious longer-term goals.

Emerson,

You better work your butt off the next 16 days to finish strong!

Your dad :)

I built an internet advertising network like Doubleclick back in the 90s — when they launched, they did it so well that I became discouraged and stopped working on it.

In retrospect, if I had kept it going for the past 15 years, I'm sure it'd be a big business now.

I'm wondering if you could add Meteor to this list?

My prediction last night = a tiny, tiny trickle of sales at first, because we have missed on some important assumptions.

But ultimately we have no idea what'll happen, hence why it's so valuable to get the product out in the wild.

Yep I told our designer that. Rotating text then rotating it back is how you can fuzzy your text, if you want to replicate it :)

Seriously tho, we're going to fix it... too bad clean CSS technique ends up this way.

The most important metric is revenue. Can we get anyone to pay for the app. We have 250+ people sign up so far, but didn't have to pay us anything... Can we convert 25 of them to pay us $6.99/mo? Or will it be 2 of them?

Update... so far, no sales. But we have a queue of trial recommendations to fulfill, which we expect is a prerequisite to people paying us.

If we can't get people to pay up front, we'll switch to allowing them to upgrade, but not billing them until X days after signing up.

Whatever it takes to ethically maximize conversion-to-paid ratio.

Thanks for feedback Josh.

We'll find out today if 9 weeks is enough... Odds are, we've screwed up enough of the app that very few people make it all the way down the funnel to the revenue layer.

With learning as our goal, though, we'll have a super successful day today, vs. continuing to build features that may or may not matter.

I'll definitely do a follow up post :)

Yep — Lean Canvas is much stronger than Business Model Canvas for tech startups.

Deploying with FTP is harder than deploying with git.

When people complain about McDonalds being horrible food, not fit for human consumption, they will often talk about the health benefits of their favorite foods. And you know what? They're right.

But McDonald's is still better food.

Imagine a programmer from a top software company writing long-winded rants about how horrible PHP is; how PHP should cease to exist. Everyone would roll their eyes, and say "Well that's the bloody point of PHP, you idiot!"

McDonald's caters to poor people, especially those who don't have their own cooking skills. This is the challenge for all the people who want to complain about McDonalds - if your chosen food is so much better, then make it accessible in the way that McDonald's is.

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"The easy path is often not the best path." -Me

By the way, Ash (and the rest of the the Spark59 team) are working to build a system to provide pirate metrics dashboard with cohorting, lifecycle email campaigns, and measuring impact of a/b test by creating cohorts for each group and reporting results in the context of AARRR.

http://usercycle.com/