This Chrome bug is affecting all the businesses that rely on voice recording. Still waiting for a fix, while users are going away from real-time web chat services.
We didn't say anything about technology stack: we host on Heroku using Sinatra and Ruby, Backbone.js, HAML,CoffeScript is used for frontend, the awesome Firebase for real-time communication with backend workers, which run on AWS/written in Python using Sox.
It's been a rough ride for us regarding browser compatibility. In the beginning we wanted to support them all, but then quickly boiled it down to just Chrome. It's a really good browser for prototyping. At first we wanted to use native controls for audio recording, but quickly realized that it won't go, because it's still very beta. We decided to use Flash for voice recording, but a week ago Google surprised us with a broken release. We're sure they'll fix it soon. In the future we'll be more careful and will consider Firefox and others also.
Awesome product. I tried to play a little, but the things are moving way too fast even on half the speed (on AutoScroll). I suggest that besides tab numbers that are moving fast, you also make the last one sticky on the edge. PageScroll is OK. I hope you make 5 string version for Banjo soon :) Good luck.
Awesome crowdsourced teaching. I just tried the 3D Art class and it's great. I especially like community postings of their 3D work. One passionate bunch.
B1 (business) visa is easiest to get and it allows you to do fundraising, which is what you officially do during YC process. It allows you to apply for 6 month visit on the first entry to the US and then multiple re-entries until you'll get funding and find possibilities/time for a more useful visa, like J, E, O or H1B.
I liked the challenge. It's only limited to web hackers though. iOS/ObjC or Android/Java developers are cut out pretty much if they've never done web coding. Also the hardcore coders that do algorithms and and such. These people are necessary part of any good hackaton, otherwise the final products are just web eye candies. Do you think giving some RegExp's (which are pretty much a part of all languages) would attract wider hacker audience?
Done. There are. But which ones do resonate with people, that's the big question. This one did mighty good actually, quantitatively speaking. But qualitatively looking at this option I agree with you, the term is pretty edgy.
We're currently waiting for the approval in the app store for iPhone. Haven't made anything for Android yet, waiting for a few pokes on the demand side :) like this one.
We're thinking to make it closer to smaller teams and individuals in the enterprise and then they'd take it bottom-up from there. Thanks for the awesome feedback.
Thx. That's true. Will do. Do you think that this is important for the minimum viable product? We're just trying to get it out ASAP and we've been pretty sloppy with the text this time. Sorry for that.
We're testing different variations of the pitch. We find it really hard to pitch features and functionality to business/management people, so we have a few variations running that are pitching only benefits or pains, but no exact functionality. For the features tour we decided one must sign-up and try. And only then we take them trough features tour.
hubot now counts as our official pet and as our new company feed provider. I'd wish for Stripe integration, so the gong plays every time we earn money. Great work with hubot on Kandan.
I really like the ping-pong model here and I think it's the only one acceptable by the privacy concerned masses. I hope I'll remember to use the app every time I'll be curious where ppl are. All I'd wished for is auto refresh.
I like The Secret analogy. I use goldrush. There were all kinds of theories popping out all the time, but the ones that made the most, were infrastructure providers.
SolveMedia is a CAPTCHA system which verifies that you're a human, DoubleRecall is not a CAPTCHA system and it only verifies you read the advertisers message. It's much easier to decypher than CAPTCHA, so more straightforward.
We did more than 100 of design iterations on millions of people to come to the current simplistic design.
Not everything is a conspiracy theory. As a start-up we wanted to solve only one problem: giving users alternative for paying for the quality content. Where this leads us we'll see. As a species we already made a mistake thousand years ago when starting to mass produce the food. But today we're here and it's not that bad.