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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 miss jQuery. It's funny that an argument against jQuery is "oh, but you have to load that big thing to access your site", but then we'll create Single Page Apps that then proceed…
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But is this just news that's reporting what someone read/found here? :)
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In 2013, Tony invited me and other entrepreneurs to Vegas to give us his tour of what he and his team were doing to the Downtown area to revive it. It was amazing. But what really has always stuck wit…
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There's various versions of this anecdote/experiment. There was also a photography class experiment that has made the rounds: https://jamesclear.com/repetitions …
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Got that stat from UNICEF: https://www.unicef.org/media/files/MALARIAFACTSHEETAFRICA.pd... …
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I've done a lot of this as a writer. I'll actually take an article from a favorite writer of mine and paste it on the page. Then'll I'll go through that article and write my own ar…
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> I buy like 4 or 5 packages at a time, just to make sure we don't run out. It sounds like that's how they normally solve this too. But this pandemic has messed with a lot of our supply …
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If you're a fan of Dan's, I just realized recently he has a board game out! https://irrationalgame.com
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An important takeaway is to "send out any email at all". Like the time with our first startup in YC W06. Our first client was the result of me just cold emailing a CEO of a startup I saw fea…
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That's a super interesting idea. There's a ton of community incentive to participate too since everyone's sharing this IP reputation. On the biz side, policing this sucked. Ate up a ton…
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"spam is hardly an unnoticed issue which one meeds to raise awareness for" - I thought so too. Until I tried to run a bulk email service. We had a countless number of people, good people, se…
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I think the original site might make it more clear. But the forbes article might help: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathankontny/2018/02/27/trick-a... "T…
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This was definitely a point of debate before and during this. Honeypots are by definition a deceit. Whether they are a net positive we may have to disagree on. I think in many cases they are a positiv…
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This is also a great way to surprise people. Surprise seems to be one of the most important ingredients to getting things to spread (I won't quote the academic or anecdotal research of that here.…
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Yeah so far from some of the generated Tweets, etc. it seems like there's a form of using this to seed creativity. It's much better than the current give me startup idea titles. I could see …
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Reminded me of someone recently asking on Reddit for advice on making videos for YouTube. They had been at it for a few weeks and only had a handful of YouTube subscribers to show for it. They wanted …
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I've always hated running. But I started at it in my 20s. But never made it probably more than about 4-5 miles at a time. And it was always a labor. Finally I tried something. I was going to run …
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I have the Magicians book on my bookshelf today. And at 42, I'm still referring to it! My daughter just had her 6th birthday and wanted me to perform a handful of tricks. That was one of my first…