Show HN: We built our startup in 100 days (giveit100.com)

Hmm that's really weird - sorry about that. What version of Safari and OSX are you using?

We totally agree. We're all about doing. Check out some of the things people are doing on 100[1]

[1]: https://giveit100.com/projects

Well I think you are missing the point, no? This website is exactly that, DO. And I like the idea of forcing yourself to post a video every day, it kind of obliges you to actually DO as you say :)

I like how Shaun Inman describes some of the benefits of journaling in "Lift Off. The Last Rocket Development Diary". He wrote, “By documenting your creative process regularly, you can identify patterns that make you appreciate the too infrequent peaks, help avoid the pits and hopefully make future creative climbs a little less daunting.”

There are things to learn from an accounting of history. A development journal is among the most personal of histories (not personal as in "private", but personal as in "relates to my daily life"). If you're not going to study your own history, one may ask why study any history at all?

Seriously, you created an account just to flame someone else?

What if I told you that documenting your progress actually motivates some to keep going, to do more?

Why is your generation so obsessed with "complaining" instead of actually "doing"?

Wow, you made a new account just for this?

I think what Give It 100 does is that they take away a lot of the overhead from documenting so that you can focus more on the doing. Like, it lets you be publicly accountable for your progress in a simple and enjoyable way, without needing like... a youtube account?

Confirmation bias much?

Those that are 'DO-ing' and aren't documenting, you don't see.

Thank you! We want this be a place where mistakes are okay, and hope to do the exact opposite of glorifying. I've personally tried to take lots of videos when I was feeling stress/down, because that part is usually so well hidden among startup founders. We encourage users to post their fail videos (there's videos of people falling off unicycles, for example).

>> it glorifies someone showing off what they are doing.

Yes. You, Sir, are EXACTLY Right. I think it's called Narcissism, and there's plenty of that going around with this Generation obsessed with Instagram (taking #selfies and posting it for the whole world to see), Facebook (showing off how awesome their fake life is) etc.

I think this. https://giveit100.com/advertise

We've been running a private beta for a few months. Some of our users have already finished 100 days.

I got a bunch of emails from people who had seen my dance video, and invited them to do the 100-day challenge. The earliest version of 100 was people sharing videos with us via dropbox folders.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daC2EPUh22w

Thanks for checking it out. Missing days is fine, in fact lots of people have gaps. We've only been running the project for a few months and already have a few people who have reached 100 days. Lots more are fast approaching.

Yeah, we really hope more people start documenting their startups in this way. So often you only see the techcrunch articles and shiny IPOs, I'd like to see more of the struggles.

Thank you! We restricted it to 10 seconds to help keep the videos interesting. We definitely need a better way to trim the videos though. We'd like to build a mobile app that makes it very easy to select which 10s of the video you'd like. For now, it just uses the first 10s.

Thanks! Good question. We really wanted to optimize for the experience of comparing one day with the next. Video is much harder to absorb than photo so we wanted to make each day really short and easy to digest.

People getting cut off is a problem. I think we can fix it with better tools for upload, i.e., an app.

Probably the same reason as limiting twitter messages which many people like you criticized when they were just starting.

I think thats actually a great idea to limit video length, the reason behind it is to force people to film only the important and most interesting parts of the process, this will attract more people to watch it vs just film videos. There is a clip of a girl learning to monocycle, I watched it because it's very short, if it was 1min+ I would never watch it otherwise.

Yeah! I'll post that video into our meta 100.

Thanks! Yea AFAIK twitter doesn't provide a uniform endpoint anymore just for retrieving profile image url. I need to write a script that will periodically fetch the "fully hydrated" user and update the profile.

Unless there's another way...?

Thankyou! Yea I've seen a few things like that recently. One other interesting one is the 1 second every day app[1].

[1] http://1secondeveryday.com/

Thanks! It has been a blast.

Ah yes, I meant to remove the footer from the pages with infinite scroll - sorry about that and thanks for reminding me!

Awesome - hope to see you on the site soon!

Finbarr's co-founder here. I personally love the Seinfeld method and use Lift to help with that. We want to make videos of before/after, but with the whole journey. We've made a video of one of our users, who is re-learning how to walk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHSMUq0bDLg

Thanks Michael! Glad you liked it.

Thank you Michael!

That was the first thought I had. "She looks familiar" check the front page and instantly knew who it was.

I love this idea and the implementation is pretty slick. Hope the exposure from the dance video helps push this along. Best of luck.

BTW I would sign up, but I won't do it via facebook or twitter. If you add a normal email password I will be in.

Thank you!

How could you, you've just peeped it for a minute, you don't know anything about what they're thinking!

I don't know what they're thinking, but in general with an aspirational product like this I don't think it should be too hard. They could very easily market classes, books, all kinds of stuff to their users to help them reach their goals.

... as opposed to something like Facebook or Twitter, where people are mostly just looking for entertainment or inf0. To me the monetizeability here is a lot easier to trust.

Oh that sucks, will need to look into that - thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Alright I managed to fix this. Had to write some pretty dirty route hacks in rails to get around the problem, but such is life.

Thanks! We're definitely open to implementing our own login/accounts system and I'm sure we'll do this sooner or later.

Yep. Interested in trying it out, not interested in using social-media logins.

Social login does not have to mean ability to post as you. If used just for oAuth (login) it just provides profile information and a list of your friends. Twitter won't even provide your email address. If you use Twitter it will be no more than what is already public if your account is not protected. I would rather not have another login to remember myself.