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19,093
How important is a woman's perspective for Web 2.0 startups?
null
story
nurall
1,178,222,063
8
12
[ 19133, 19100, 19110, 19165, 19351, 19108, 19123 ]
19,061
How to market your Web 2.0 application in Europe?
null
story
nurall
1,178,214,875
9
10
[ 19101, 19064, 19063, 19448 ]
19,050
How many YC companies have been working on mobile startups?
null
story
danw
1,178,212,731
9
23
[ 19075, 19170, 19077, 19058, 19116, 19051, 19092 ]
19,036
MBAs go contrarian on Google
http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/05/03/mbas_go_contrar.html
story
far33d
1,178,211,307
19
16
[ 19189, 19204, 19074, 19104, 19127, 19086, 19067, 19043, 19304, 19316 ]
18,956
Cell Phone Software: The Billion-Dollar Sand Trap
http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2007/05/cell_phone_soft.html
story
Alex3917
1,178,183,394
19
20
[ 18980, 19012, 19439, 19079, 19182, 19317 ]
18,953
Paul Graham - The Record Label Executive
http://www.maximusklein.com/2007/05/03/paul-graham-the-record-label-executive/
story
julycohen
1,178,181,635
26
17
[ 18965, 18988, 18983, 18989, 18972, 19000, 18966, 18994, 18960, 19298, 18962, 19319 ]
18,917
A Hard Lesson About Planning For Scale
http://www.joedavison.com/startups/a-hard-lesson-about-planning-for-scale.html
story
mattjaynes
1,178,165,122
18
11
[ 18949, 18940, 19299 ]
18,675
We want a developer to come to YC with us
http://www.webkitchen.co.uk/2007/05/we-want-developer-to-come-to-yc-with-us.html
story
madmotive
1,178,110,488
11
17
[ 18717, 18886, 18711, 18698, 18719, 18716, 18718, 18720 ]
18,652
Digg Surrenders to Mob
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/01/digg-surrenders-to-mob/
story
mattjaynes
1,178,095,410
12
13
[ 18658, 18659, 18655 ]
18,590
Digg shuts down user submissions after every story on the front page is the HD-DVD key
http://www.techpwn.com/?p=422
story
nickb
1,178,079,508
20
25
[ 18609, 18832, 18616, 18623, 18627, 18606, 18594, 18613 ]
18,545
iminlikewithyou invite in exchange for site feedback
null
story
brlewis
1,178,069,582
4
19
[ 18546, 18562, 18604, 18560 ]
18,531
Michael Arrington argues silverlight is the future of the web
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/01/take-time-to-understand-silverlight-its-important/
story
Sam_Odio
1,178,065,667
15
38
[ 18636, 18769, 18559, 18585, 18555, 18758, 18802, 18747, 18538, 18587, 18663, 18552, 18578, 18746, 18605 ]
18,412
Google Fails To Blink
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/01/google-fails-to-blink/
story
mattjaynes
1,178,033,069
13
11
[ 18428, 18442, 18443, 18439, 18526 ]
18,363
What hosting provider are you using for your startup ?
null
story
sajid
1,178,021,432
19
37
[ 18430, 18413, 18391, 18463, 18365, 18519, 18520, 18544, 18495, 18502, 18529, 18389 ]
18,361
Vote on news.yc without reloading the page -- Greasemonkey script
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8951
story
youngnh
1,178,021,129
19
10
[ 18388, 18481, 19047, 18421, 18480, 19172, 18548, 18477 ]
18,308
How to get/make a Logo for Your Startup?
null
story
tocomment
1,177,994,109
24
21
[ 18334, 18335, 18310, 18331, 18359, 18326, 18350, 18318, 18644, 18364 ]
18,279
Ask YC: How's jaCal (my organizer app) look so far?
http://jacal.webhop.org/
story
omouse
1,177,983,213
1
10
[ 18340, 18509, 18281, 18282 ]
18,275
Vote up if you want YC to remember your cookie for longer than a few hours
null
story
lupin_sansei
1,177,982,892
78
15
[ 18525, 18314, 18354, 18390, 18292, 18333 ]
18,233
Bootstrapacitor - A meta-startup to keep your energy levels up
http://www.bootstrapacitor.com/
story
nostrademons
1,177,973,387
5
12
[ 18234, 18265, 18351 ]
17,980
Double your userbase with two lines of code and a box of Modafinil
http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2007/04/double_your_use.html
story
Alex3917
1,177,895,803
20
22
[ 18028, 18366, 18178, 18752 ]
17,969
Boston Meet-Up for YC Founders and News Contributors (Sunday, May 6th)
null
story
ed
1,177,893,717
19
24
[ 17972, 17988, 17993, 18015, 18116, 17989, 18142, 19977, 17981, 18117, 17998, 18038, 17971 ]
17,968
Reddit Case Study: How personality impacts success
http://www.startup-review.com/blog/reddit-case-study-how-personality-impacts-product-success.php
story
Sam_Odio
1,177,893,454
20
11
[ 17979, 17976, 18192 ]
17,947
The Hacker's Guide to Investors
http://paulgraham.com/guidetoinvestors.html
story
byrneseyeview
1,177,885,194
59
46
[ 17963, 17957, 17978, 31129, 37008, 18137, 18850, 18382, 27825, 18003, 18020, 272708, 55267, 22072, 23707, 18256, 19953, 23982, 18079, 36540, 743829, 339581, 28120, 397945, 18981, 18171 ]
17,938
How do you find a web designer for your web startup?
null
story
waleedka
1,177,882,623
8
13
[ 18026, 17956, 17966 ]
17,889
Integration Is The Killer App
http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/29/integration-is-the-killer-app/
story
Sam_Odio
1,177,860,886
10
12
[ 17900, 18081, 17906 ]
17,863
How much hacking one should know before starting a startup?
null
story
ankit
1,177,850,957
1
10
[ 17874, 17913, 17865, 17873, 17864 ]
17,711
Possibility of news.yc chatroom or IRC channel?
null
story
kyro
1,177,776,108
17
19
[ 17723, 17717, 17712, 17760, 17716 ]
17,701
Anyone who knows how to program in Lisp is smart.
http://occamsoftware.blogspot.com/2007/04/anyone-who-knows-how-to-program-in-lisp.html
story
bsaunder
1,177,772,423
11
19
[ 17720, 17726, 17995, 17769, 17767, 17746 ]
17,679
Is Flex/Actionscript a real programming language? Can it do what Java does? (work offline, write files, networking etc.)
null
story
juwo
1,177,765,797
9
26
[ 17778, 17698, 17680, 17756 ]
17,674
Paul Buchheit: Whose reality are you living in? Whose reality would you rather live in?
http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/04/whose-reality-are-you-living-in-whose.html
story
paul
1,177,762,209
19
13
[ 17704, 17681 ]
17,669
Is this how news.ycombinator.com runs? (Ctrl+F for "Closures Simulate Subroutines")
http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt
story
MobileDigit
1,177,760,729
29
20
[ 17675, 17793 ]
17,591
News.YC Traffic So Far
http://www.ycombinator.com/images/news.yc.2month.png
story
pg
1,177,722,018
14
12
[ 17626, 17600, 17592, 17609, 17619, 18210, 17910, 17640, 17677 ]
17,573
Why would your project be hard for someone else to duplicate?
null
story
npk
1,177,717,374
3
14
[ 17641, 17671, 17574, 17597, 23200, 17575 ]
17,467
YScraper not so friendly? - Justin.tv getting evicted, Auctomatic denied apartment
http://dontevictjustin.weebly.com/
story
danw
1,177,694,287
19
20
[ 17599, 17524, 17489, 17516, 17548, 17495, 17507, 17648, 17485, 17470 ]
17,439
Would you buy an expensive domain name?
null
story
Tichy
1,177,690,319
10
23
[ 17449, 17457, 17481, 17587, 17443, 17492, 17459, 17440, 17503, 17461, 17475 ]
17,416
You say Launch Early, but what about browser compatibility?
null
story
dawie
1,177,687,506
5
11
[ 17422, 17418, 17827 ]
17,357
If Google has hired all the best hackers, why do they still buy companies?
null
story
Tichy
1,177,671,668
4
13
[ 17383, 17437, 17389, 17359, 17413, 17477, 17469, 17362, 17412, 17400 ]
17,325
URGENT URGENT PLZ READ B4 OTHERS VERY URGENT NO TIME WASTERS
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=499980&start=0&tstart=0
story
Sam_Odio
1,177,655,012
17
12
[ 17350, 17542, 17347, 17384, 17904, 17372, 17326 ]
17,138
What is the point of startup formalities (e.g., incorporating your company, having official job titles, etc.) before you have significant traffic?
null
story
amichail
1,177,615,540
3
17
[ 17182, 17140, 17367, 17175, 17203 ]
17,107
Whats your favorite tool for creating a wireframe interface sketch?
null
story
wammin
1,177,612,034
4
13
[ 17149, 17133, 17209, 17110, 17135, 17183, 17147, 17212, 17294, 17151 ]
17,112
What Linux laptops do you use for development?
null
story
Prrometheus
1,177,612,204
11
52
[ 17162, 17346, 17229, 17381, 17482, 17188, 17264, 17186, 17161, 17166, 17211, 17220, 17159, 17118, 17759, 17222, 17154, 17436, 17193, 17227, 17327, 17263, 17179, 17214, 17146, 17242 ]
16,972
Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?
null
story
pissedoff
1,177,598,684
21
78
[ 16980, 17106, 17043, 17008, 17055, 17019, 17369, 16988, 17096, 17029, 17097, 17002, 17020, 17009, 17204, 17552, 17082, 17092, 16977, 17060, 16978, 17215, 17033, 17820, 17267, 17115, 17085, 17123, 17078 ]
16,967
news.YC, Thanks for your website feedback! Mostly implemented here. Looking to make juwo more intuitive and easier to use.
http://juwo.com/earn_money.html#feedback
story
juwo
1,177,596,935
3
28
[ 17006, 17000, 17339, 17012, 18086, 17093 ]
16,937
Steve Jobs - is he not being investigated because everyone loves him?
http://gigaom.com/2007/04/26/apple-jobs-1q-2007-earnings/
story
Sam_Odio
1,177,591,744
8
10
[ 17221, 16941, 17535, 17226, 17243 ]
16,803
Recruiting the Top 1 Percent - Joel Spolsky
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070501/column-guest.html
story
danw
1,177,537,089
16
17
[ 16844, 16884, 16847, 16836, 16841, 16924 ]
16,764
Y2 Combinator launches: the startup starter starter.
http://y2combinator.com
story
pc
1,177,530,620
74
31
[ 16997, 16785, 16832, 19927, 16783, 16830, 16767, 16786, 16771, 16799, 16775, 17547, 16812, 20069, 24594, 16789, 16790, 16914 ]
16,714
How did you meet your cofounder?
null
story
Prrometheus
1,177,523,805
11
27
[ 16774, 16858, 16756, 16865, 16718, 16733, 16717, 16739, 16849, 16805, 16800, 16742, 17348, 18971, 16729, 16855, 16828, 17270 ]
16,703
Vote up if you want the submission title displayed as your browser title for bookmarking
null
story
pashle
1,177,522,926
32
12
[ 16705, 16755, 16706, 16765 ]
16,603
How does a beginner start becoming a web design expert?
null
story
pashle
1,177,499,390
12
19
[ 16618, 16814, 16641, 16699, 16658, 17157, 16612, 16743, 16889, 16607, 16624, 16864, 17385 ]
16,597
TechCrunch: Y Combinator's Unauthorized European Clone
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/25/y-combinators-european-clone/
story
reitzensteinm
1,177,494,660
10
10
[ 16671, 16598 ]
16,544
Charles River Ventures QuickStart seed-level funding program FAQ - Very Interesting
http://www.crv.com/AboutCRV/CRVQuickStartFAQ.html
story
dean
1,177,473,386
15
12
[ 16883, 17391, 16585, 16576 ]
16,419
Lawyer recommendations? (with startup experience)
null
story
jsjenkins168
1,177,442,742
11
12
[ 16453, 16428, 16439, 16420, 16434, 16461 ]
16,407
What do you take out of a story such as this?
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/04/30/8405482/index.htm
story
zaidf
1,177,440,643
16
13
[ 16549, 16410, 16548, 16425, 16795, 17798, 16619, 16477, 16541, 16768 ]
16,409
Paul Buchheit: The secret to making things easy: avoid hard problems
http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/04/secret-to-making-things-easy-avoid-hard.html
story
paul
1,177,440,999
33
32
[ 16432, 16415, 16427 ]
16,375
How We Learn (Is it the same for you?)
http://members.shaw.ca/priscillatheroux/Glasser.htm
story
mattjaynes
1,177,434,194
9
11
[ 16396, 16441, 16554, 16526, 16435, 16378, 16587 ]
16,358
First, second, or third is great--anything else and you have problems
http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/04/1st_2nd_or_3rd_.html
story
mattculbreth
1,177,432,494
5
11
[ 16359, 16374, 16588 ]
16,341
YouSendIt Raises $10 Million in Series B Round
http://startupmeme.com/2007/04/24/yousendit-raises-10-million-in-series-b-round/
story
usablecontent
1,177,428,904
6
10
[ 16350, 16390, 16408 ]
16,331
Python or Ruby ?
http://blog.cbcg.net/articles/2007/04/22/python-up-ruby-down-if-that-runtime-dont-work-then-its-bound-to-drizzown
story
mhidalgo
1,177,424,604
8
11
[ 16365, 16418, 16546, 16351, 16500, 16343 ]
16,270
Have too many startup ideas? Share them!
http://startupideatr.com/
story
maurycy
1,177,405,706
8
15
[ 16273, 16528, 16334, 16348, 16344 ]
16,234
RejectedByYc.com - For those of us who didn't make the cut.
http://www.rejectedbyyc.com/
story
nostrademons
1,177,396,518
6
24
[ 16235, 16293, 16238, 16310, 16280, 16288, 16572 ]
16,098
The problem with conventional databases
http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/04/problem-with-conventional-databases.html
story
Sam_Odio
1,177,358,737
33
38
[ 16110, 16296, 16323, 16114, 16104, 16853, 16191, 16231, 16219, 16241, 16102 ]
16,031
What's your favorite entrepreneurial quote?
null
story
jamiequint
1,177,349,886
19
46
[ 16032, 16083, 16506, 16163, 16155, 16061, 16048, 16096, 16081, 16124, 16130, 16085, 16153, 16442, 16060, 16107, 16129, 16112, 16151, 16152, 17421, 16042, 16076, 16691, 16044, 16071, 16256, 16287, 16089, 16200, 16411, 16126, 17733, 16134, 16049, 16046, 16119, 16202 ]
15,995
What to do after you sell your company and retire
http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/
story
abstractbill
1,177,341,280
11
13
[ 16023, 16035, 16188, 16074, 16029, 16192, 16056, 16008 ]
15,988
Welcome to the Dot Com Bubble 2.0
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000843.html
story
jkush
1,177,339,885
25
28
[ 16017, 16065, 16011, 16024, 16014, 15989, 16141, 16137, 16015 ]
15,984
iminlikewithyou invites [All Gone]
null
story
jamiequint
1,177,339,538
1
13
[ 16000, 15986, 16054, 16055, 16057, 15991, 16053, 16067 ]
15,748
Can anyone build a site for sharing startup ideas?
null
story
mojuba
1,177,264,551
8
34
[ 15832, 15749, 15838, 15893, 15816, 15858, 15846, 15848, 16276, 15931, 15765, 15990 ]
15,743
Y Combinator Day, Pt. 1
http://mattmaroon.com/?p=183
story
mattjaynes
1,177,260,466
23
17
[ 15903, 15786, 15745, 15929, 17190, 15774, 15762 ]
15,679
Constructive reasons to use Django instead of Rails
http://jesusphreak.infogami.com/blog/why_django
story
danw
1,177,238,106
12
13
[ 15836, 15750, 15727, 15737, 15753, 15728 ]
15,684
Doing a Startup vs. Building a Business
http://blog.circleshare.com/index.php?/archives/48-Doing-a-Startup-vs.-Building-a-company.html
story
BitGeek
1,177,239,741
15
11
[ 15685 ]
15,628
Y Combinator Clone in Vienna, Austria launches
http://beta.yeurope.net/
story
enki
1,177,224,914
18
74
[ 15686, 15807, 15632, 15695, 16594, 15654, 15665, 15650, 15629, 15915, 15916, 15664, 15712, 15842, 15633, 15635 ]
15,613
Non-hackers: how to find a co-founder
http://pashbonk.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-find-cofounder.html
story
oxygenated
1,177,219,197
9
23
[ 15655, 15624, 15648, 15658, 15618, 15892, 15616 ]
15,554
Allowing voting down of YC comments leads to group-think, Nazi-ism and suppressing of unpopular points of view. Do you agree?
null
story
juwo
1,177,199,631
10
37
[ 15696, 15567, 15561, 15577, 15578, 15692, 16919, 15559, 15588, 15607, 15591, 15592 ]
15,543
Is this how to get banned for life from Y Combinator?
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/09/the-y-combinator-companies/#comment-365012
story
nostrademons
1,177,192,958
12
22
[ 15545, 15708, 15598, 15563 ]
15,391
Is Python or Ruby better as a first language?
null
story
pashle
1,177,135,721
4
13
[ 15405, 15442, 15410, 15426, 15501, 15517, 15521 ]
15,303
News.YC Feature Request
null
story
Sam_Odio
1,177,118,505
1
11
[ 15305, 15346, 15392, 15345, 15351 ]
15,251
How much did karma help? (How many of the top 30 news.yc users got interviews?)
null
story
joshwa
1,177,112,903
4
18
[ 15257, 15304, 15262, 15361, 15253, 15254 ]
15,144
How many Y Combinator founders are/were NOT young hackers? Any 30+?
null
story
webwright
1,177,089,510
10
10
[ 15312, 15180, 15249, 15174, 15196, 15711, 15485 ]
15,069
Awesome color schemes for web designers.
http://kuler.adobe.com/
story
veritas
1,177,079,809
26
11
[ 15080, 15191, 15111, 15167, 15771, 15244 ]
15,030
Looking for startup idea feedback
null
story
jkush
1,177,071,945
6
45
[ 15039, 15031, 15195, 15211, 15125, 15047, 15154 ]
15,029
What do you feel about Software Process like CMM/CMMi ?
null
story
sergiutruta
1,177,071,655
8
15
[ 15073, 15061, 15065, 15219, 15105, 15141, 15037, 15086, 15067, 15209, 15060, 15038 ]
14,957
Vote up if you would like news.Ycomb add a feature where users can save their favorite stories
null
story
mhidalgo
1,177,045,926
54
24
[ 14982, 14959, 15041, 15068, 14973, 15059, 15587, 14993, 15090, 15024, 15076, 15089, 15103 ]
14,947
YC News is one of the best sites I have come across in a long time
null
story
dawie
1,177,043,413
24
15
[ 14948, 15354, 14968, 15020, 15062, 15470, 15106 ]
14,935
How to avoid start-up success? Not offering equity!
null
story
gyro_robo
1,177,041,597
11
11
[ 14936, 15139 ]
14,852
Joy of Victory OR Fear of Failure. What's driving you?
null
story
dottertrotter
1,177,026,950
11
11
[ 14960, 14855, 15075, 15058, 15100, 15053, 14962 ]
14,729
Business Cards: Do you have them and what do you put on them?
null
story
danw
1,177,010,032
5
12
[ 14735, 14751, 14746, 14741, 14797 ]
14,693
Outlook 2007--downgrade no longer
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/04/19.html
story
mattculbreth
1,177,004,365
8
10
[ 14752, 14694 ]
14,675
What is the best RoR book for beginners? Best online resources?
null
story
ballred
1,177,001,989
4
10
[ 14688, 14692, 14696, 14686, 14738, 14699 ]
14,663
We have a winner (startup choosing RoR)
http://blog.pretheory.com/arch/000527.php
story
mattculbreth
1,177,000,879
12
12
[ 14672, 15423 ]
14,645
news.myspace.com
http://news.myspace.com/
story
pg
1,176,999,191
3
11
[ 14646, 14733, 14730, 14650, 14652, 14649 ]
14,605
What are the best non-database solutions you've seen? What did Viaweb use?
null
story
mattjaynes
1,176,993,149
34
65
[ 14616, 14789, 14660, 14739, 14715, 14610, 14754, 14966, 14608, 14750, 14647, 14908, 14847, 14644, 15570, 14787, 14907, 14972 ]
14,602
Joe Kraus: Hiring. No False Positives
http://bnoopy.typepad.com/bnoopy/2004/09/hiring_no_false.html
story
mattjaynes
1,176,992,813
9
10
[ 14653, 14799, 14682, 14674, 15016 ]
14,586
Cofounders - how high a bar?
null
story
anon
1,176,990,379
9
20
[ 14625, 14791, 14614, 14588, 14622 ]
14,541
Options for clusters of 16+ GB RAM 4+ core hosting?
null
story
gyro_robo
1,176,974,965
2
12
[ 14630, 14658 ]
14,485
Amazon sues Alexaholic, everyone loses
http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=350
story
pg
1,176,961,149
14
12
[ 14486, 14510, 14511 ]
14,438
Headin' to California, with an aching in my heart...
null
story
Prrometheus
1,176,954,117
7
21
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Is telling your employer you're quitting to launch a startup a bad idea?
null
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Why Is Twitter Using A Database In The First Place?
http://mooseyard.com/Jens/2007/04/twitter-rails-hammers-and-11000-nails-per-second/
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Shared Virtual vs Dedicated vs Colocated server hosting - which do you use for your startup?
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nanott
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Meeting OpenMoko
http://research.operationaldynamics.com/blogs/andrew/software/openmoko/doing-open-the-right-way.html
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pg
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Google Rains On StumbleUpon Parade: Launches Direct Competitor
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/18/google-rains-on-stumbleupon-parade-launches-direct-competitor/
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