sanketsaurav

This is absolutely true. As a person who loves building stuff, it's pretty easy to remain into a state of denial that you're not spreading the word out if you're busy building the next great feature or revamping your UI yet again. From my own experience, this comes almost naturally to hardcore product guys. In your early days, I believe it is critical to have one co-founder who is solely focused on selling - when you are busy building.

Contact, by Carl Sagan. One of my absolute favorites. It's such an intense book emotionally. I read it when I was 14. It changed how I looked at life in general.

Of course, goes without saying. Thanks!

Hey Sam,

I have a product which is a direct competitor of one of YC11 companies. We have pretty decent traction, and we are solving the same problem significantly different from them. What are our chances? Does YC accept competing companies?

Thanks for clearing this out. This is also mentioned in one of their FAQs.

The companies who are our private beta customers have been using the other company's product (and a few others in the market) for long, and they were dissatisfied. We sat down with at least 15-20 of them and figured out what was the reason. We think we have "What do you understand about this that $COMPANY does not?" figured out. And the product has been very well received.

Actually, we ourselves think we are not in competition with them, because although we are trying to solve the same problem, our approach is starkly different from theirs. So, we're prepared for that as well. :)

It's but a proof-of-concept.

Yes, you cannot post the same URL twice. If you had submitted with Show HN, it should show up in the "new" section. It it gets a lot of upvotes, it'd show up on the frontpage. You might want to delete the earlier post and post it again.

Why don't you do a Show HN? It's look like a cool product!

IMO, it depends on the nature of application that you are building. If it's going to be used by an audience that includes people stuck with ancient browsers, then ignoring that 2% could be a loss. But in most general cases, it's obviously better to cater to those ~17% people with reading disabilities (I read this figure somewhere).

Thanks! Hope you'd use it somewhere :)

I respect your opinions, but we really think students should get acquainted with these technologies. If you do, and love, Python, you know what I am talking about.

And, we are not trying to make the students in-demand. We cannot do that in a workshop. But yes, we can at least start a spark. The response we have been getting in colleges we have been has been tremendous. The students are so excited to learn. That's a good sign, isn't it?

The workshop scene in India is quite messed up at present. The organizations who provide workshops in colleges are not keeping up with the Internet. There is no company who teaches HTML5, CSS3 in workshops. In web development, most of the companies start with a CMS, like Joomla or Drupal.

We, web-developers ourselves, were quite frustrated by this fact. We did a survey on colleges and found that students who had attended these workshops rarely continued, and most of them dropped whatever had been taught in the workshop.

CampusHash was started aiming to change this. We want to change the status quo, and bring the latest technologies of the Web into the college ecosystem. This might seem naive to a non-Indian, but the college curriculum in India still lags 20 years behind.

So, we are trying to revolutionize workshops in India. Thanks.

Yeah, there might not be a real purpose to it. But this license looks way cooler!

Thanks a lot, but I used typeform.com for this. :)

Exactly. I think its definitely worth a shot. I'm not at all a literary guy, but I tried to pitch this idea to some of my friends who write. While some said its a great idea, others were skeptical. They argued, literature is so different from coding. And writes don't like to share credits.

Python. I use it for making web applications with Google App Engine and Django.

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