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resdirector | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Bored Chat – one-on-one chat app where all chats are public

> Is your chat app asynchronous? As in sending a public message for an offline user?

Ah, so DieWithMe is an interesting, but different concept.

With Bored Chat, it's simply a chat app where you interact via an iMessage like UI. The difference is that all your chat logs (your chat history) are viewable to the world on your profile page...and on a main "activity" feed.

So Bored Chat is basically chat, but with no privacy whatsoever!

resdirector | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Socialize to make software

FWIW You may be interested in an app I'm building which allows people who work remotely (or in remote places) to socialize with other people who work remotely. The idea is to allow people such as yourself who are interested in tech to have "water cooler"-style conversations even if they are removed from the tech scene.

Feel free to give it a go: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/water-cooler-chat/id94476300...

You might find some interesting people on there to talk to, it's still early days and currently only my friends are using it so far, but we're a friendly, interesting bunch of people :)

resdirector | 11 years ago | on: Who am I?

Did anyone else get a brief surge of adrenaline thinking your username was for some reason on the front page of HN?

resdirector | 11 years ago | on: Weave (YC S14) Adds Groups and Events to Its ‘Tinder For Networking’ App

I'm not sure of the "swipe" idea translates well to professional networking.

"Swipe" seems more suited to making visceral fast (~1 second) decisions based on gut instinct, whereas networking requires >20 seconds when face-to-face and longer in a lower bandwidth environment such as an app.

Additionally when using the app it felt like I was "discarding" someone as I swiped them, which is not the right feeling.

The bigger problem with networking, I find, is breaking the ice. I'd pay good money to be able to intro myself to someone without resorting to a "networking hack".

resdirector | 11 years ago | on: The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization

This is a step in the right direction. I strongly believe that marijuana legalization is good for the economy -- personally I've come up with brilliant, practical ideas while stoned[0]. Many of which I have gone on to implement and generate wealth. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Think Steve Jobs and Apple etc.

[0] I hope the nomenclature evolves re marijuana. "stoned", "bong", "skunk", "chronic", etc conjure up images that are too tightly aligned with negative stereotypes IMO.

resdirector | 11 years ago | on: The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time

As the world slowly moves to a knowledge and innovation economy as opposed to a hard-graft economy of the last few millennia, I think we'll see a tipping point. Those with money/power will be increasingly made up of pro-legalization advocates.

I'd be surprised if there isn't full legalization in the US within the next twenty years. And books with titles such as: "How To Expand Your Business And Increase Your Revenue Through The Power Of Marijuana" on the best-seller list.

resdirector | 11 years ago | on: The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time

OT but IMO it's such a huge cost to the economy (and humanity) that marijuana is still taboo. The thought experiments that you describe, for me at least, are not only fun, but more often than not lead to practical, wealth-generating breakthroughs. I assume I'm not the only one.

I hope one day historians and economists will study the lost opportunity costs of the prohibition / taboo nature of marijuana.

resdirector | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Help me find a co-founder

As I mentioned in another comment, the broader (and bold) hypothesis here is that our passions and peeves play the strongest role in determining success of close working relationships.

If anyone here thinks this is an interesting hypothesis worth chasing AND/OR thinks they'll get along well with me (http://willwegetalong.site44.com/), I would absolutely love to chat to you.

Or if you simply know of someone who would be interested in investigating this hypothesis.

EDIT: big thankyou to all the comments here. Much good feedback that will go into v0.2

resdirector | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Help me find a co-founder

Different approaches to responsibility and how to treat others will kill a partnership; Different TV tastes, not so much.

Perhaps I listed way too much TV. The broader (and bold) hypothesis here is that our passions and peeves play the strongest role in determining success of close working relationships.

resdirector | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Help me find a co-founder

i'm squarely on the friends end of the seinfeld-friends continuum, so i guess that wouldn't bode well for a partnership. =)

Don't get me started on Friends! That would rate five thumbs down for me ;P.

Re your larger point of the quiz only giving half (or a third) of the story, true, but I have a bold hypothesis that people who share strong passions and peeves often have similar motivations.

In other words, I hypothesize that our interests tell us more about who we are than we think. (That said, I perhaps listed too much TV!)

resdirector | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Help me find a co-founder

Good points.

FWIW one reason I went for a (very) strong TV angle is that it's a trade off between being too broad and too niche. As an example, I could have put down "The Chocolate Watchband" (awesome band from the 60s), but it'd be a long time before I found another person who shared that passion.

Also, of those whom I've worked very well with in the past have shared some very strong, similar interests in visual media (TV, movies), and much less so, sports, hobbies, or even books. A big "however", mind you: this is just an observation and/or hypothesis.

tl;dr TV ticked both the boxes of being non-niche and a strong discriminator.

Unfortunately I've come across as a TV obsessed junkie! :)

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