You need a better idea. Too many companies are starting companies that can really just be a feature of a big company.

ie. Just because Facebook hasn't implemented a feature, doesn't mean you should start a company over said feature. You may pickup a quick paycheck, but many won't survive the long run.

Vegas Jelly on Thursday nights at the Beat Coffeehouse

LaunchRock needs better compliance with CAN SPAM, perhaps double opt-in integration with a email marketing platform like MailChimp, AWeber, et. al. It should also have an option for unsubscribing, even with the automatically generated email. And at least a basic privacy policy integration that complies with Google AdWords.. because traffic doesn't just magically appear on your launch page.

Great idea, but without venture funding this is a tough operation to scale. With such low barriers to entry for this market, other local markets can easily replicate this model if it is indeed successful.

Um, perhaps because they're a little overly strict on what you can keep in there.

This photographer got his account banned and deleted after they found 4 partial nudes:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2012/07/19/is-microsof...

Which apparently is against it's long list of prohibited uses listed here:

http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-what-you-store-on-skydriveyou-m...

Nice. In particular, given that every email ever "could be considered 'junk mail'", Hotmail now forbids the transmission of email.

I think it's good journalism. That's their job, to get to the bottom of things and I think he did a great job.

I think it's just the vocal minority here voicing their opinion. Franze you mention all great points with data to back it up (I've noticed the same fwiw).

WRT to SEO, anonymity, posting on your feed and notifications.. FB comments are crawlable, You can still remain anonymous with FB comments (sign-in with a yahoo account, etc.) and you can skip posting it on your feed and I've been notified everytime someone has liked/replied to a comment I've made using Facebook comments. More so than Wordpress, who wants to subscribe to a popular author and constantly get notifications throughout the day whenever anyone makes a comment??

For those who sometimes work super long hours, checkout the sitting + standing desk on Ikea Hackers:

http://www.ikeahackers.net/2011/09/sitting-standing-desk-com...

Just moved into Vegas so there's no Ikea around me :-(, but plan to make the trip to CA just for this

The Ikea in Covina, CA delivers to Las Vegas [1]. There are also similar, cheaper services [2].

[1] http://www.ikea.com/us/en/store/covina/services/

[2] http://modernlv.com/

Awesome piece. It's rare that a startup dives this deep into the details. You deserve the 1000+ signups you'll score from a HackerNews front page ;-)

Hey thanks man! I just happen to really enjoy data--and it's paid off.

I've also been getting some great feedback from the HN crowd, so these are great signups :)

Rochester guy here who has enjoyed watching a non-NYC startup gain some traction. Nice job!

Also, will there be a "post HN front page" report?

I think I may do one

I just Googled for, "How to do funny looking e on Mac" and got the answer I'm looking for.. like @recursive mentioned, a "significant proportion of useful search results come from the long tail."

Oh btw, é!