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amichail
18,811karma·7,884submissions·February 20, 2007
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I'm an indie game developer.
My previous games include DropZap and DropZap 2 for iOS.
My latest game is DropZap World. Check it out: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1072858930
https://bsky.app/profile/dropzapworld.bsky.social https://x.com/DropZapWorld https://www.threads.net/@dropzapworld
a.michail@me.com
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Why is textmate interesting? I've been using Eclipse for java development and have been very happy with it.
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Maybe you can use something like reddit for this purpose.
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Why try to guess what many people would want? Let them tell you more directly via a service for collaborative startup specification. Unlike implementation, specification -- at least at an informal lev…
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Since advice and connections are the major benefits of Y Combinator, why not take on many more startups without funding most of them at all? I suspect that many people would be happy with such an arr…
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For me, programming is just a means to an end. I do it not because I find programming intrinsically rewarding necessarily but rather because I find the creation of applications to demonstrate my ide…
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Why do you think users will be interested in trying out your service and giving you feedback in the first place? You need someone to help you understand what users want.
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But what are the statistics for very specialized startups such as X-Plane?
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Another example: http://www.stephenwolfram.com/about-sw/
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Open source projects such as TeX and TeXmacs also support this view.
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It seems to me that if a startup requires very specialized knowledge, then one founder may be better than two or three. An excellent example of this would be X-Plane by Laminar Research: http://www.…
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Whether or not a startup succeeds has probably more to do with understanding what users want rather than anything to do with the tech side. Tech is important later when you need to scale the service …
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Would it not help to have a cofounder who is fanatical about the service itself rather than its implementation? Such a cofounder could take on something like a program manager role.
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The problem is that PageRank puts you in a mindset of creating sophisticated algorithms that are much more resistant to spam than naive approaches. In that sense, it discourages people from even tryin…
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BTW, this paper about wikipedia is fascinating: http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/papers/history_flow.pdf See in particular the sections on "Vandalism and repair" and "Statistical corroboration".…
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I don't think it's obvious at all that you can control spam in a social app such as wikipedia or social bookmarking. You need to try it out and see what happens.
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And from Geeking with Greg: http://glinden.blogspot.com/2005/06/yahoo-gets-social-with-myweb.html http://glinden.blogspot.com/2005/10/getting-crap-out-of-user-generated.html http://glinden.blogspot.co…
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Take a look at what Sergey Brin has to say about wikipedia:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7137075178977335350
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After seeing what PageRank can do in terms of controlling spam, VCs would be reluctant to fund a startup that is much more prone to spamming (e.g., something like wikipedia, social bookmarking, etc.).…
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But then you could miss out on more qualified people who are not in your immediate social network. It seems wrong for example that most VCs will only take you seriously if you are introduced to them …
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BTW, this might make some interesting reading: http://www.stanford.edu/group/esrg/siliconvalley/docs/siliconvalleyedge.pdf
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"Like Photosynth, View3 will let you walk into and explore 3D images of photos, but will let you use as little as one photo to get started." This sounds very interesting. Maybe this is related work? …