shuleatt | 15 years ago | on: HN:Help Pivot Our Startup -- Eat.ly
Well version 1 was really not meant to be about the quality of photos (i.e. food porn), but if we do move in this direction it's a great suggestion
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shuleatt | 15 years ago | on: HN:Help Pivot Our Startup -- Eat.ly
End of the day, probably users and a self-sustaining business model. This was/is a side project among friends so we're not expecting anything too crazy
shuleatt | 15 years ago | on: HN:Help Pivot Our Startup -- Eat.ly
We're definitely aware that site is uuuber slow. Because we're 100% bootstrapped (and not generating revenue) we recently scaled down from Engine Yard to a small instance on Slicehost. We figured we'd cut our costs while deciding what to do. EY was about $240/mth but 10x faster
shuleatt | 15 years ago | on: HN:Help Pivot Our Startup -- Eat.ly
excellent point
shuleatt | 15 years ago | on: HN:Help Pivot Our Startup -- Eat.ly
It's possible. One thing we looked at was working with personal trainers, or programs like weight watchers. Another variation was to use mechanical turk to 'guesstimate' calorie counts and charge as a premium service
shuleatt | 15 years ago | on: HN:Help Pivot Our Startup -- Eat.ly
We didn't have an app initially due to resources and an early belief that we could be device agnostic by leveraging email
shuleatt | 15 years ago | on: HN:Help Pivot Our Startup -- Eat.ly
Awesome! That was great fun night. We've tried to hold true to our roots with quantified self/personal tracking. However, most feedback (here and from friends) suggests we pivot away from this
shuleatt | 15 years ago | on: HN:Help Pivot Our Startup -- Eat.ly
Agree with the iPhone app. We do have a basic Facebook integration that allows users to post to their feed. Also agree with deemphasizing the calorie/health aspects, though overtime, I still believe the stronger value prop for an app like this is to become the mint.com of eating rather than another food porn site. But, yes, in the near term more emphasis on social, food porn, etc is prob the way to go
shuleatt | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
I'm currently based in NYC, but thinking of moving to SF. I'm looking to join or start something though I could care less about the title I'm given. I don't code per se, but have an excellent sense of product, marketing and biz dev. I've raised angel and VC and sold one company. I can get shit done. A recent side project of mine is http://eat.ly. I'm open to whatever and have a few technical folks who'd join the right project I was involved with. Email in profile.
shuleatt | 16 years ago | on: Need salary advice; First time looking for a Rails job after a failed startup
how does one get in touch with you?
shuleatt | 16 years ago | on: Ok HN, 5 weeks in, here's where our startup is at...
It would be cool if you integrated with Open Graph to allow links posted to Facebook to be cross-posted to howl. Feel free to ping for clarification
shuleatt | 16 years ago | on: He Calls Google A Vampire, But Mark Cuban’s Mahalo Is Doing The Sucking
i believe that when mahalo launched it was meant to be a competitor (alternative to google). However, they have now revised their model and leverage google to drive traffic. So when cuban invested he may have seen it as a different play than it now is
shuleatt | 16 years ago | on: Tell HN: My side project, Startup Wiki
yea it's going to be tough to compete with crunchbase and/or tracked.com
shuleatt | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you find work?
For one thing it is not obvious how to contact you. Your blog has one ambiguous link for email but it doesn't even load. Maybe obvious, but you need to make it simple for someone to reach you.
Nevertheless I am actually looking for RoR help. Hit me up: sam dot huleatt @ yahoo dot com
shuleatt | 17 years ago | on: Why 99% of Entrepreneurs Fail: Because they don't do anything
I posted something very similar several days ago called "Finding the 2%"http://www.leveragingideas.com/2009/01/19/find-the-two-perce...
shuleatt | 17 years ago | on: Why I Canceled My CO2stats Account
Great points by Altgate. I have been wondering why no one mentions the opportunity costs associated with the Internet vs. its alternatives. Information and products need to get delivered...the web seems pretty darn good to me as a green solution
shuleatt | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: E-mail invites to our closed alpha. How to gather? How to send?
Wufoo is great for this
shuleatt | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are your favorite talks/videos?
We've been working to assemble lots of great talks and videos both from entrepreneurs and investors on StartupTweet. We're working on a prettier interface as well...
shuleatt | 17 years ago | on: Ask YC: Do you receive Google alerts on your company and industry?
We were using Google Alerts but have since changed to filtrbox
shuleatt | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your blog?
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