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nate
7,926karma·1,070submissions·October 10, 2006
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YC alum. Founded Inkling and Draft. Ran Highrise. Founding engineer at Census (acquired by Fivetran)
https://ninjasandrobots.com
I'm working on https://allihat.com, https://pageforth.com, and more. If I can be helpful at all with anything, please hit me up on X (@natekontny) or email me anytime (nate.kontny+hn@gmail.com).
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I totally agree. Real html of the redesign is better than just looking at an image. You can add whatever link you want so when people click on the image of your design it can definitely go to a site…
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K, thanks for that, i debated about that too. I don't see it being too hard to have native comments and slurp in twitter posts.
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Just something quick we (the guys at Inkling: inklingmarkets.com) whipped up. I absolutely love the 37better projects and explorations of making a design better. Here was a good one I saw today: ht…
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Ha ha. I loved the part about Webrick and lighttpd coming next :)
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Right, sorry I wasn't clear, I was only using their more recent adwords success (or lack thereof) now to extrapolate what their success would be on "buying a small amount of adwords and using a fake s…
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I like this talk a lot. It's a very important goal to get the minimum done to start testing and to start getting feedback on. However, one dangerous thing I think communicated here is, and I paraphr…
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I have a new campaign. No more reading of sites with ginormous interstitial ads.
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Yeah, looks pretty useful. Any thoughts about charging anything for it? I'm a huge fan of Joe Krause's advice to beta test a business model while you beta test your product: How you make your money i…
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I said something similar about A New Kind of Science, and that was ridiculously underwhelming. I respect Wolfram like crazy, but I want my money back on that thing :)
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love this line: » TWITTO IS NOT SECURE, DON'T USE IT FOR YOUR NEXT WEBSITE «
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Thanks :) We could always introduce some better filtering if that ever happened. And incenting more with Tipjoy might help some overlook the "shopping questions are unfun", if they decided they liked …
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I understand what your saying, however I had the extra constraint of I was getting this TV definitely before Jan 1, so I wasn't going to wait for the Super Bowl. And so I honestly have no idea how TV…
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siong1987 thanks man! it was fun doing the event. i hope i wasn't too harsh to our hosts when i said that, i don't mean whatsoever that all these events are useless. i've been to my fair share of t…
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Sorry, dreeves, yes we didn't put this in place as a way to gamble. I personally like gambling maybe more than the next guy :) , but Inkling was really not created for that, and we don't condone or s…
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Yep, my bad. Great example and I forgot. Before I saw your comment I actually just posted this today: http://n8.tumblr.com/post/77817247/forgot-about-probably-the... …
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Yep, totally, and I'm trying to say that too. I totally understand they are different things. And maybe that's still the best strategies for them respectively. But, you still can't help notice that …