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tom3k | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Startup owners/employees, would you use a service like this?

Hi, thanks for your comment. Whilst I haven’t used basecamp before, I’ve used trello quite extensively. Suppose each team in a company had its own board, and each board had lists splitting milestones into ’this week’, ’this month’ and ‘this year’. Sure, you could go through each board and see what teams were up to, but wouldn’t it be easier if you could aggregate all of that data in one place? Wouldn’t trello boards become even more complicated if you wanted to add the concept of individual lists, whilst still maintaining the format ‘this week’, ‘this month’ and ‘this year’? Lastly, I’ve yet to see how trello could provide a ‘timeline’ visualisation of milestones that were achieved in the past alongside those which are still yet to be achieved.

Basecamp, on the other hand, does appear to provide a ‘timeline’ visualisation of a project, but the service seems to focus more on keeping ‘stuff’ to do with a project in one place. My proposal is very different in that it focuses solely on milestones. Users would have the ability to group similar milestones together, for example ‘achieve X sales’ where the value of X could then be plotted on a graphed alongside the date achieved. This would allow, say, a team lead to monitor the progress of an individual or the team itself. I think this is quite different from basecamp’s offering.

Hope that answers your question!

tom3k | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Django API Tools – Run RESTful APIs Alongside Forms/Templates

Any feedback would be much appreciated!

tom3k | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: New to SF--where do I meet people?

cool idea! I've also just moved to SF and am looking for ways to find a co-founder/someone to help me out with the project I'm working on.

tom3k | 11 years ago | on: Ingredient delivery for restaurant recipes

Totally agree! I'd be really interested to see how pricing between the two services compares.

tom3k | 11 years ago | on: Ingredient delivery for restaurant recipes

Pretty much the same concept as these guys who are doing it in London: www.simplycook.com

tom3k | 11 years ago | on: Confessions of a startup: all our numbers, insights, everything

A really good, honest read. Thanks for sharing!

tom3k | 11 years ago | on: Songza is Joining Google

Thanks for the feedback! You're not alone in sharing this view, so I'd definitely like to try and find a conceptual workaround for those who like to keep their music open in a background tab.

tom3k | 11 years ago | on: Soundcloud Releases New App, Allows Universal to Flag Your Account

I'm actually working on a service which sits on top of SoundCloud. It's still in its infancy, but I'd love to hear what people think of the concept; the service aims to help musicians and photographers expose their content to a wider audience, and on the flip side, allows you to sit back and listen to a playlist of music whilst enjoying a beautiful photo slide show. The playlists are tailored to a user's mood, and you're able to filter the music based on genre. The website's voliyo.com, and if anyone's interested in signing up to the beta as a photographer or musician, feel free to message me for an invite code!

tom3k | 11 years ago | on: Songza is Joining Google

The service I'm working on is still in its infancy, but I'd love to hear what people think of the concept; it basically helps musicians and photographers expose their content to a wider audience, and on the flip side, allows you to sit back and listen to a playlist of music whilst enjoying a beautiful photo slide show. The playlists are tailored to a user's mood, and you're able to filter the music based on genre. The website's voliyo.com, and if anyone's interested in signing up to the beta as a photographer or musician, feel free to message me for an invite code!

tom3k | 11 years ago | on: Pints in the sun

Reminds me of the almost identical https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beerinthesun/beer-in-th... which was around last year. Looks like their homepage (beerinthesun.com) is now something completely different.

tom3k | 11 years ago | on: How my school rejected an app made for students

Another instance of killing entrepreneurialism: It is common for university admission contracts in the UK to contain clauses stating that the university owns anything you create whilst attending the institution. Again, this lead to many of my peers hiding software they had created (which was clearly a great shame) and/or constantly worrying about what rights they had.

tom3k | 11 years ago | on: Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud

As it so happens I've just launched a service built on top of SoundCloud. voliyo.com (non-mobile for now) aims to help musicians and photographers expose their content to a larger audience, and on the flip side, allows you to find new music whilst sitting back and enjoying a photo slide show!

If any photographers/musicians are interested in trying out the private beta, PM me and I'll happily dish out the invite links :)