timjahn

Yes, I'm aware. I posted this because GRUBHUB, not GITHUB is filing for an IPO.

"This is one of those things you don't realize till you have kids, but 4 year olds don't want to eat the same things you do."

So true.

I would love to be able to listen to music while swimming. I try to go a few times a few week for 20-25 min each, and it'd be great to have something to listen to.

Your pricing page (http://www.pressfriendly.com/pricing) says "Premium Pricing - All premium plans include access to a PR advisor". But then you have an actual plan named "Premium".

So do I get access to a PR advisor if I subscribe to the Premium plan, 3rd plan from the left, or if I subscribe to any of the non-free "Premium" plans (any of the main 3 boxes)?

Your arm chair quarterbacking is adding oh so much to the conversation.

Are we really back to the childish argument of "this is so easy to build, would just take a few minutes"?

A solid strategy I suppose, just not a risk I'd personally take.

A little scary to me that their entire business is dependent on another business. Yeah, yeah, Airbnb is successful, but I imagine there are a bunch of ways Airbnb could mess with them if they ever felt the need.

That would be awesome. Especially when you're going to markets that aren't that big and have a ton of Airbnb's and whatnot. It'd be great to have one place list the entire realm of places to stay.

"The problem is that the game is rigged until health insurance can be completely decoupled from employment."

This is the biggest problem in the US.

A dog is not equal to a child. Not in any remote way.

Seems silly to have a dog if you're just going to leave it at home for 10-11 hours a day, 5 days a week.

Except in my experience, Carwoo doesn't work (and just ends up like what incision said for #1 above).

You can check out matchist (I'm a co-founder): https://matchist.com

We vet developers and match you to the perfect ones for your project and your needs.

Isn't a news source like the NYT also just a content aggregator? They're aggregating all sorts of content (business, technology, sports, weather, etc.) and displaying it to you to consume.

In both scenarios (reading HN/reddit or reading the NYT/Chicago Tribune), you're consuming content from some sort of layout. I think it's fair to compare those two to each other.

"It's also important to remember highschool teachers aren't college professors. You may have had awesome and passionate HS teachers, but from what I saw, there don't seem to be very many."

So, because you had some lousy high school teachers, that means college professors are passionate and high school teachers aren't? Why are high school teachers inferior to college professors?

"Most suppliers wouldn't return our phone calls and the ones who did just laughed us out of the room. We had to just keep searching until we found the right people who believed in us."

Would LOVE to see a blog post detailing your experience here with what you learned (you know, in the time you have in between building mattresses, heh). The experience of being rejected multiple times is applicable across so many entrepreneurs journeys.

Kudos for bootstrapping and being lean about this. Even cooler that you think 90% of people won't buy it without physically touching it and you STILL started online!

Site looks great, photos are excellent, product looks great based on all that. Having bought 2 new mattresses in the past 2 years, I know how shitty the mattress buying experience is.

Good luck to you, definitely rooting for ya!

Stores, I'd argue to physically try the mattress.

Salesmen, absolutely no reason.

I'm ALL for online shopping and the removal of brick-and-mortar stores where they're clearly not needed. I rarely shop anywhere but Amazon Prime these days.

But.

A mattress isn't a trivial purchase (not just in cost, which is what you're disrupting, but in what it does for you). You use a mattress for a large period of your life and it has a great effect on your health (either good or bad).

Being able to physically lie on a mattress in a store provides some value in regards to feeling how hard the mattress is, how it responds to your moving around, etc.

I'm not sure I could buy a mattress online sight unseen and just "hope" it was the one for me (and my wife), hoping I didn't have to deal with returns, etc. (How the hell would I return a mattress via UPS/FedEx?)

Maybe I'm overthinking it?

Fair point, but you can design a neighborhood to be friendly to walking without being hostile to drivers (ie, putting in sidewalks and designing the layout in more of a grid fashion to put more destinations within walking distances).

Amazing explanation (and makes complete sense). Thanks!

I'll never understand why we continue to design our suburbs for cars and driving with no attempt to encourage walking. Instead, we seem to discourage walking through a lack of sidewalks, concentration of destinations surrounded by parking lots a mile wide themselves, and burying houses in subdivisions that require almost a mile walk just to get out of.

Where does the food chain fit in? The idea of certain species and groups of animals being higher and lower on the food chain than others.

Do we just ignore that? Genuinely curious.

Have a kid.

I actually thought the same thing. At first, I was very worried that Evernote was hacked, as I use it a ton. But as I read on, I realized what they meant.

Personally, I don't think this email was necessary.

THIS. Can't up vote this enough.

Sweet! Been using the description field to store my metadata currently but this is a huge step up in terms of structuring the data and being able to search it if necessary.

Kudos to Stripe!

Tried Car Woo for the first time a few weeks ago when we were ready to buy a new car and was quite disappointed. I thought it'd be a revolutionary way to not deal with scummy dealerships and I ended up getting 1 shitty offer (total).

That was it. No communication from CarWoo, no tips on how to get more offers. Just a scummy offer from yet another typical car sales guy.

Having now gone through the new car buying process, I can confidently say that it is "ripe for disruption" and somebody needs to level the playing field.

"But I don't want to build my entire lifestyle around my job; it should be the other way around. What if I like cooking and eating homemade food? What if relocating to an apartment close to work isn't an option? I get that you have to make compromises, but I would much rather compromise on my job and enjoy the rest of my life than have a great job but compromise on everything else."

Amen. I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks it's crazy that we as a society think it's normal to spend almost all our time chasing money.

Yeah, you're right. This company decided to write a blog post 100% related to the business they're in that has a good chance of being read by their target audience because the post is relevant to that audience. This will probably drive traffic to their site, and maybe help them sell more of their software.

Crazy idea.