nicholasreed

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I build things. I'm at nicholas.a.reed at gmail
  1. I've been a paying Heroku customer for a decade, with multiple businesses (a surf company, tennis reservation system) and personal projects hosted without issue. On Tuesday, I woke up to sites down and my login not…

  2. Via email: We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding. Please don't take it personally. The applications we receive get better every funding cycle, and since there's a limit on the number of…

  3. Hey HN, I've been working on an email client and wanted to get some feedback! Minimail is built on Phonegap, so it uses HTML/CSS/JS for everything user-facing. The app also uses emailbox (a related project of mine) as…

  4. Previous title: Ask PG: Can you display some subdomains on urls? For example: plus.google.com. It is a very different product from google.com and I have the understanding that discerning where you are headed is the…

  5. Impressive SOPA blackout (littlehart.net)
  6. http://ycombinator.com/apply.html Application Form link (http://news.ycombinator.com/apply) leads to: Sorry, we're no longer considering applications for summer 2011. Check back later to apply for winter 2012. [Edit]…

  7. I've been experimenting with building an API for Spotversation over the last few weeks. I couldn't get OAuth to work correctly (yet) and I don't like the process anyway, so I made my own SMS-based 3rd party…

  8. Want to get feedback on your YC app? This bookmarklet turns your YC App into a readable format that you can easily copy-paste into an email.…

  9. YC Apply Auto-save Save the following Javascript as a bookmarklet.…

  10. I built a scheduling program for businesses in a niche market (~1000 potential customers) that now has 4 customers that each pay ~$300 per month. While current customers love the product (saves time/money, very simple…

  11. What is the appeal of Foursquare/Gowalla? Is the value in the competition, or exploring new places? What makes you pull it out of your pocket to check-in?