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In the SF Bay area, lots of people regularly trek from South Bay to work in SF - often between 60+ - 30 miles each way. Whenever I need to go into the city, it's 55miles each way. Fortunately I don't have to do it daily but it sucks when I do as its almost always rushhour.

You can't have it both ways. If you raise money from VCs, their expectation is to have a huge return. Things that have worked when you are a small startup will not work when you get bigger in order to grow enterprise revenues. If those people really wanted it to be "the way it was" then raising money goes counter to that.

I have to disagree here. Much waste is created by founder developers precisely because they can code, but they are not necessarily creating value ( I'm just as guilty ). Good managers / the business, call it whatever you will figure out the priorities, the desires of the stakeholders, help prioritize and more. Any producer (not just a developer) left to their own devices builds what they want to build, and that's not necessarily valuable to the customers or the business. So I agree with your second part, but not the first.

Don't get me started https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women

Traction by Justin Mares, Gabriel Weinberg - would probably reread

Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday

How to Fail at Almost Everything by Scott Adams - great read Scaling Up By Verne Harnish

Great By Choice by Jim Collins - love the whole series

The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes - probably worth a reread

How to Win at the Sport of Business By Mark Cuban - good read

Elon Mush by Ashlee Vance - need I say more

The Hard Thing about Hard Things By Ben Horowitz

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg - probably need to deeply absorb this - a lot of good stuff

Copy This! By Paul Orfalea - another good "small business" entrepreneur book

The E-Myth Revisited By Michael Gerber - 2nd time read. Got more out of it this time.

The People's Tycoon (Ford) by Steven Watts - I love reading about businessmen from this age

Scrum by JJ Sutherland Jeff Sutherland - good read for development teams

Love the idea. I usually hit LinkedIn and Facebook to check out who I know around the area before I go there and try to message them.

I had a similar experience. Posted a profile, get lots of requests, spend money on credits to reply and nada.

Tell me more about this all-in insurance. Where would you find these types of insurance companies. I run a small digital studio and run into similar problems from time to time with startups - it's always startups.

There's already some monetization opportunities in the app - iTunes affiliate. Video ads, etc.

We also have potential partnership opportunities and other revshare opportunities coming.

Not blunt at all. Probably not until there's huge traction.

Yes, eventually. So much to do. That's probably next.

Monetizing? what's that? Currently nothing super innovative. affiliate and ads

Yes I did most of the design myself. A lot of thought went into "engagement loops" as I call them.

Hi David, yes - that's a VERY common use case that is in our TODO list

Currently scraping for now, but we're going to move away from that.

Of course I have :) I used to use a combination of Trailers, Flixster, IMDB, and Fandango for my movie needs. This is sort of an amalgamation of all that with my twist.

Thanks for the vote of confidence Peter. I appreciate it!

Thanks - hopefully it's also simple and easy to use

We're not pulling RT data yet so I haven't really looked.

You can surf trailers right now - there's a whole trailers section. Notifications are coming in the next version - with the use cases you mentioned (when the movie is out in theaters or available on itunes etc)

Mostly TMDB but we also pull showtime data from another source. We're looking at augmenting our ratings data from other providers eg Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB

It's 100% native - objective-c. No Swift yet since it's too new and I like to see examples of what's out there and existing codebase. It's mostly a UI for someone else's API so the backend is very lightweight. We use Parse and a caching server, but that's about it.

You are the second person to point that out. I really should change that but I guess it's in reference to this? http://rs1img.memecdn.com/keanu-reeves-is-immortal_o_676589....

Founder of the app here. Ever since Yahoo Weather came out, it's displaced my default weather app. I really liked it's intuitive and easy to use interface. That's what I was trying to go for here. Hope you guys like it.

What was the idea you published out of curiosity?

Congrats on coming out of failure. I would love to learn more about what worked and what didn't work. What sort of pitfalls you had, lessons learned, etc

Thanks for sharing your story and being candid about it. You only hear of the uber success in the news and everybody feels good. But the reality is most VC funded companies fail or under perform expectations and the few winners hit homerun and make up for everyone else.

Congrats James - I've been watching your journey since Envolve. We were one of the first hundred users to join Firebase (ID:68) and I remember how easy it took to add real time notifications to one of my product (5 hrs I believe). Your team's success is well deserved.

This is especially true in a third world country with perhaps a modest level of corruption. Everyone will want a piece of you whether or not you wanted it. Personal safety and the safety of your family all of a sudden become a major concern.

I'd love to hear Mark Zuckerberg reply to this.