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How do you have a burn rate of only $18,500/mo with seven (apparently) full-time employees? Is that burn rate net of some kind of revenue, or are your seven employees making an average annual salary of about $31K each? Even for TN that seems awfully low.

As a point of reference, in SV a ballpark OPEX for 7 employees in a startup would be $80-90K.

I'd recommend "Atlassian suite (Jira, etc.), except simple and un-sucky" as a positioning statement that would pique my interest.

You don't have to wait: http://www.trekdesk.com/

Google Payments (https://checkout.google.com/inapppayments/) has no transaction fee, just a flat 5%.

Battery life is supposed to be better - 8h talk time.

> The price for this is a large, multi-hundred kb framework and a commercial license.

Sencha Touch is free now (not sure when that happened). And the multi-hundred kb framework isn't much of an issue since it's bundled up in the native download and always local to the device.

Not the first interesting tell-all by Numair: http://public.numair.com/2006_parker.html

Love it - I find myself emailing myself notes and links several times a day, and this is a big time saver.

Two suggestions:

1) make a Chrome and FF browser extension for it, so you can get a first-class button on the browser (or be in the right-click menu). Bookmarklets are quick and easy, but I don't display my bookmarks bar in Chrome, so I have to go hunt for it. By contrast, my Bit.ly chrome extension has a cute little yellow fish button at the top of my browser all the time, and so gets mindshare and use every day.

2) The notes are sent without a subject line. Would recommend a subject something like "[cctome] First 30 or so characters of note..."

Ditto. Great logos are simple, and get even simpler over time. This one is over-engineered and, to me, completely lacking in meaning.

The word Groove is strong enough to stand on its own, with maybe a slight embellishment, perhaps some negative space. One of my favorites that may serve as some inspiration: https://community.jivesoftware.com/community/jivetalks/blog/...

> We specifically cite that this is legal for US developers because gambling is 100% illegal in the US, so this is proof that use of our API does not violate any law.

I'm having trouble parsing that.

No, that'd be http://artinmycoffee.com/

There are few niches still unexplored. :)

Wow. That one article (http://uxmovement.com/forms/left-search-buttons-perform-fast...), along with his dogmatic replies there, made me delete the bookmark I just created for his site. It's one thing to come off as a jerk on the internet, but another thing altogether to be so completely misguided on the layout of a simple search form.

> But, because our food sources no longer in jeopardy, that evolutionary urge which led to our survival in the wild now leads to the vice known as procrastination.

and to obesity.

Q1 2011 revenues were down 4%, but since the paywall didn't launch until mid-March, we'll have to wait until the next quarterly to learn the full early results of the change.

> When I'm browsing from my iPhone, I just click the little "x" at the top of the screen

Thanks for that tip! I cleared all my cookies once to get around it, but what a PIA to re-login to all my authenticated sites.

Interestingly, Google should still be counting those who click through to a NYTimes article, hit the paywall, and bounce. So the 40% drop is the result of 1) users not clicking NYTimes links anymore, or 2) fewer NYTimes links being presented to users, perhaps due to a drop in SERPs.

I'm a datapoint of only one, but #1 above certainly applies in my case. I find myself much less likely to click through, especially on my mobile device, because I'm annoyed when I find myself above the monthly free limit. After hitting the limit a couple of months, I just stop clicking thru in the first place.

I'm pretty sure he has: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2650977

I've been the lucky rider of a Mercedes AMG the three times I've used Uber in SOMA.

Ah, there is some fine print:

> Please note: While we do not guarantee our free services, we do want to build a long-term relationship with you. So, even if you sign up today for a free plan, and we discontinue that plan, we provide service for at least a year after you sign up. We will add and remove our Free offers to meet customer demand. Enjoy what we have posted today, and check back regularly for additional offerings!

Anyone else happy with Assembla? 2GB, unlimited repos and users, source browser, etc.: http://offers.assembla.com/free-git-hosting/

Looks like Facebook was similarly flat last May - Aug (2010) - this might just be a seasonal thing.

> if they don't have a pulse to begin with, there's not really a point in CPR

Got a reference for that? What's the C in CPR for if that's true?

Nice try, Meizu marketer. :)

On a serious note, my MacBook Air 13 is 1440 x 900 - not 1280 x 800.

Change from search terms to websites, and Google trends tells a different story: http://trends.google.com/websites?q=okcupid.com%2C+plentyoff...

My guess is googling for "okcupid" all as one word is relatively more frequent than "plentyoffish" as one word, and here's confirmation using Google Insights for Search, which allows OR queries:

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%28okcupid%20%2B%20...

As much as the PoF guy's pontificating gets old to me, and agree with your Facebook-MySpace analogy, he's still killing OKCupid traffic-wise.

Ask O.J.

I'm curious what the HN crowd thinks about using Google Insights for Search as a proxy for measuring consumer traction. Thoughts?

I just did a quick analysis with Google Insights for Search and posted the results. To me, it looks like 4sq is flat since April globally, and down 30% from its peak in Aug 2010 in the US:

http://yak.to/tech/p.bf/Has-Foursquare-peaked

If you have a bike with gears, they don't. If you're sporting a fixie, you probably don't like hills so much.

What is mixpanel telling you? I'd think you could make this call from your engagement metrics.

"Only"?!

24% is a remarkable position for Zuckerberg to have maintained to this point, considering the amount of money they've raised and the "public" market cap of Facebook. Many founder/ceos of much smaller companies find themselves at around 10-20% after two or three rounds.