chandrab
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17 years ago
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on: MailALetter.com - Mail a letter online...are there other services like this?
Before spending a lot of time with this - have you thought out your customer acquisition strategy? At such low price points Adwords will be very expensive. How are the others in space doing promotions?
chandrab
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17 years ago
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on: Build Your Own Z80 Computer
The one command I remember was the most powerful command of the Z80:
LDIR (LoaD Increment Repeat)...aka Block Move in 1 instruction.
The IX, IY registers with index registers were cool too.
I'm showing my age...I was 12 when I was hacking Z80 assembly on my TRS-80
chandrab
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18 years ago
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on: Ask YC: Get paid to read your email? Your attention is worth something right?
BoxBe is a startup you should look at...they started with this idea, but according to a few friends of mine that use it no one has ever bothered to pay them for their attention. As a revenue generating business model, it seems thats spammers don't pay!
btw - Goodmail has signed up ISP customers to get mailers to pay a couple of cents per message to "guarantee" the delivery of the message. To me seems like a protection racket of corp. customers by the ISP and Goodmail.
chandrab
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18 years ago
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on: How to implement revenue sharing with users
Not all people are motivated by money...esp. if it's small chunks of money.
chandrab
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18 years ago
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on: Ask YC: tendonitis at a startup?
Better take care of this asap. I've got medial epicondylitis, better known as golfer's elbow from typing to much. I've tried everything to get rid of it including 4 months of PT, but it always comes back. It sucks. I'll try anything at this point.
chandrab
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18 years ago
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on: Boston Hacker News Meetup. Sunday 8:30pm, Miracle of Science Bar
Shoot...totally forgot about this.
Anyone going to Web innovators this week?
chandrab
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18 years ago
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on: Ask YC: What was your first computer?
I used to work for Leading Edge...they owned the Elephant Brand. It was my first job and I couldn't believe they actually paid me to work there!
chandrab
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18 years ago
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on: Ask YC: What was your first computer?
TRS-80 Model III (1981).
I collect old computers and now own: Kim-1 ('75), Apple II ('77), Commoodore PET 8K ('77), TRS-80 Model I (78), Apple Lisa-1 (83), Osborne-1, Atari 400/800, Heathkit H89, Northstar Advantage, Next Computer Nextstation. I even own a reproduction Apple-1 and manuals to the Xerox Alto.
chandrab
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18 years ago
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on: What's your favorite place to meet Boston Entrepreneurs?
Webinnovators is pretty good, but it's every 2 months
TechCocktail
chandrab
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18 years ago
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on: Nah Seriously! Who designs the YC startups websites? Loving it.
Any recommendation on a design firm? How much should you expect to pay?
chandrab
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18 years ago
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on: What rights do I have over my domain name?
Are they doing the same thing or something similar?
The possibility of confusion exists...if you have copyrights on your name and predate them you might have a case (if you decide to spend the money on lawyers). Cheapest way out of it is find a new name IMHO.
chandrab
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18 years ago
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on: List of TechStars companies (6 out of the 10 are listed)
I'm not impressed. Is there an equivalent list of YC companies?
chandrab
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19 years ago
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on: Patent Attorneys
Where are you located? You can give my patent atty (and friend) a call, I've used him for 10+ years and done at least 10 applications with him. His name is David Powsner with Nutter, McCellan in Boston.(
http://www.nutter.com/attorneys.php?AttorneyID=110). Great guy, friendly and very knowledgeable. If you do email him, tell him chandra referred you.
chandrab
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19 years ago
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on: Looking for co-founder/co-worker to build a hybrid of ebay and craigslist
How does ebay fit into it? I see the CL part on OLX
chandrab
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19 years ago
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on: When is it time to give up on your web startup?
I wouldn't give up until you've tried everything you possibly can to make it a success.
chandrab
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19 years ago
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on: ever wonder why pg deletes or deads all non yc companies like he s paranoid that will kill yc chicks
huh?
chandrab
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19 years ago
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on: Anybody go to Webinnovators Boston?
It was great..350+ people. Didn't see any YC folks though :-(
chandrab
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19 years ago
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on: Boston YC Meetup at next weeks (5/22) WebInnovators Conf?
Anyone want to meetup at the next Tues May 22 WebInnovators conference at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge (6:30-9pm)? There are about 150+ people that attend, so I recommend we put a YC on the nametags to identify ourselves. The event is free, but you should RSVP at:
http://www.webinnovatorsgroup.com/
chandrab
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19 years ago
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on: Boston YC meetup was excellent!
Any plans for another one next month?
chandrab
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19 years ago
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on: Apple's Biggest Flop: The Lisa
Very cool....I've got an Apple Lisa-1 sitting next to my..First TRS-80 Model III, Commodore PET 2001 (8K RAM), Atari 800, Apple II+, KIM-1...I keep one Lisa at work to show the newbie programmers at work what we have today existed back in 1982. The Lisa was away head of it's time (yet a huge financial failure for Apple)
- 32 bit 68000 processor (5Mhz)
- 1MB RAM (Very expensive for 1982)
- Virtual Memory and Multitasking OS
- Integrated Applications (btw it also has cut & paste)
- Screen Saver (Dimmer really)
- Intelligent Power-switch (Puts all your docs away before shutting itself off)
- Twin read heads on the 5.25 Floppy for redundancy and speed (but non-standard)
- Diagnostics in ROM
- GUI Based Operating System (Mac's QuickDraw based on Lisa)
- LisaNet networking built-in
Larry Tesler et al, you did an awesome job!
