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A few points that may help you:

1. AngelList has a backlog of submission on the investor and startup sides. It may be you just haven't been reviewed yet.

2. Add more info. When you think you have enough, add more. Info on your startup, fill out bios of key people, etc. etc.

2a. Unless you have figured out how to print money, you at some point have to sell something to someone. If you can't put effort into selling yourself on AngelList, that shows investors you are bad at running a business.

2b. See item #1. Someone at AngelList has to review your application and work directly with it. Do you call up customer service and refuse to give your account number? Of course not. You are less likely to get exposure if the employees of AngelList don't have to do a bunch of leg work to complete your app for you.

3. You may just have a horrible idea. As much as AngelList is a service for startups, it is a service for investors as well. It is possible your "Foursquare for Pets" was just marked as hidden.

4. Your AngelList submission is not the template for your final term sheet. List numbers on the low end to drum up interest, and if you have a good idea demand will swing things into your favor.
Since email is used to recover lost passwords, just checking/sending mail is equivalent to "the keys to every website I have an account on". By trusting Google to keep your email safe, you're trusting them to keep your entire online presence safe. In that light, letting someone run code on your computer seems relatively tame.
I do some work with a Bible search site that saw its traffic drop dramatically right around the time that Google implemented some of these changes. My conjecture is that the site was penalized because it had similar content (the Bible itself) as other sites.
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Steve Blank gave a great presentation at WealthFront the other day. One poignant quote:

"There are about 50 or 60 people in this room right now. About 4 to 5 of you will make 10 million dollars; one of you will probably make 100 million. The great thing about this room is that you're all feeling sorry for everyone else."
Did you guys even try to sell it, even for a firesale price? I ask because recently Xmarks went through a similar decision - didn't want to continue running the service, and announced they were shutting it down.

After an outcry from the user community, and a quick survey to see how many would be willing to pay for it, they offered it for sale instead, and it was bought, gained a premium component, and continued existence.

I hate seeing promising work like this just eradicated from existence without even considering whether there might be another organization out there willing to take it on and continue developing it.

And surely there's some value in the name, market presence, email list of beta hopefuls, and current work/infrastructure. Despite listing other services that provide cloud hosting for Django projects in your announcement, Djangy is the only one I'm personally aware of. Surely there's value in that.
The best way to get designers involved is to ask them the question, "What don't you like about this software? How would YOU change it?"

This shows that you respect their input and are inviting them as a peer to think about the project both visually and on a systems planning level.

I'd also recommend having a design lead who can bring on other designers as needed. The design lead should be responsible for making all design decisions and ensuring consistency. He should also be regularly communicating his decisions and reasoning to the community. (Mark Boulton did great working with the Drupal community, for example.)

When you give feedback to designers, try not to say "Take this out." or "Make this bigger. Or change this color." Tell them why (this is very important) you want something changed, and let the designer come up with a solution. And trust them to make the right one.
That is indeed Lion running there. See the full screen icon on the top-right and smaller buttons on the top-left. I haven't played with it yet but there is much more control over colors in Terminal.app in 10.7.
An update to the Google App Status page at 5:02 PM PDT says the issue affects less than 0.08% of Gmail users.

So if the original 500,000-user estimate was based on 0.29% affected, then we're now looking at approximately 137,000 users.

http://www.google.com/appsstatus#rm=1&di=1&hl=en
This isn't a joke guys. It's an insightful comment to which pjscott responded appropriately.
I disagree with some of this. I think a designer should have the skin to take some criticism, even from a programmer. When my programmer co-founder critiques me, I sometimes think, "shit, I must've really screwed up for him to mention something." And yes, I do think it results in better work as long as there is justification. I think that generally, one cannot be too precious about aesthetics unless there is a clear vision with core principles.
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I've been to many TEDs and can confirm: To sit in the first very few (3?) rows you have to be a Patron or whatever, but if you want to be in row 5 or so, you simply have to get in line 20 minutes early. (Kind of like the old Southwest Airlines system.) So I don't know what all that back-of-the-bus stuff was about.

Oh wait...people who insist on typing on their computers during the talks are relegated to the "blogger zone" in the balcony. Maybe that's it.
True, but it's my understanding that he asked for, and was denied, a rematch.
Perhaps a given automaton could be told to open a bucket of paint and then have that paint expend itself over time (drop in color intensity, increase in opacity, or whatever).
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Asking them that question also gives you an idea of whether they understand the project and if their ideas for the design align with your own.

But don't ask them to whip together a "quick" mockup, that's considered spec work and is frowned upon in the design community. No design work is both "quick" and good.
i loved djangy - it was as simple to use as heroku was. too bad you are shutting down :(
I think it's a bit disingenuous to say that the original vouch from the donor didn't factor into the 2011 invite, and that he was accepted solely on his own merits.

Most likely, having attended a previous TED conf bumps you up on the invite list. The original invite came from a vouch by the donor. It's extremely possible that's the only reason this person got the 2011 invite.

Which makes the de-invite more like not getting that promotion because you slept with the boss's daughter. Politics to be sure, but hardly an attempt for the upper classes to squash the lower ones.
You can totally just set up a mirror in the U.S to access any websites. There are also services out there to get around the firewall.
Same experience for me. I have a lifetime account and they offered the migration to me for free. Granted, I had nothing but email and a vanilla CMS running so I had simple needs but the migration was very smooth.
while this may seem to be a quick win for RIM, it would seem that now this just makes this a possibly(?) less compatible android device that will likely cost more money than something Samsung could produce. I really think that Android is great for commoditizing mobile/tablet products, but makes devices by what were previously "top tier" vendors much less attractive to me.
I think that's a brilliant idea. ABSOLUTELY brilliant. With a buddy, developers would be able to:

A: Get some greater insight into the reasons workflow is performed like it is.
B: Get some insulation from the "Here is the Github. Go, be fruitful" nature of a lot of projects.
C: Have someone assist with VC.

The developer would get:

A: Exposure to ideas about design
B: Experience in how to effectively communicate with developers
C: Experience in HCI and usability

You, sir, have given me an EXCELLENT IDEA. TO THE INTERWEBS!
Since I've moved my email to my mobile device, I've switched back to using regular IMAP on my computers.

Google refuses to release optimized versions of Talk or Gmail for iOS, I suppose so Android can have exclusivity, but it seems like an insane strategy. The Google app for iOS is Webkit garbage.

Now I use Lavabit for email. Their web interface is garbage but their security and support are top notch, and they will host mail for third party domains if you ask them to.
This has absolutely nothing to do with "Joyent Cloud". Nothing. The IaaS product has had 99.999-100% uptime this year. This is a 6 year old sharing hosting product that's currently free.
The main thing is negative press. Google is already big enough that people don't need to look them up to hear about them. No news outlets really cared if you lost your very old Reddit username, but news outlets do care if it's Google losing your username because news about Google makes them money.
the right niche

It doesn't even have to be a niche. If you provide basic infrastructure stuff (email, hosting, IT, whatever) there's billions to be made on business customers.

It really just comes down to marketing and sales prowess and the know-how to deliver stuff for less than the big players.
I have 16GB data in GMail and a 2mbps connection, how do I backup?

[Added]: I also fear that pulling so much data from Gmail might flag my account or worst, disable it. I'd really appreciate some help/suggestions.
I think the lack of a gmail app is due to apple not letting them release one since it duplicates the functionality of apples mail.
To even call this "Joyent" is misleading.

The packing system is the same, it's BSD userland. The paths are the same. Everything is the same. The kernel shouldn't matter. And if you had told support that you wanted us to just migrate you because nothing was out of the ordinary, what would they have done? They would have migrated you ....

And this has been quite a good deal for you. The logic of moving from something that costs you nothing to something that does costs you something is interesting.
Any POP3 client will backup your Gmail account.

I just use Mail.app. My Gmail account is not only backed up but also indexed in Spotlight and always available for off-line access. You just need to remember to start up your mail client every once and a while.
Get started and then sit back and wait.
Agreed. They're better.
Oh nice, I quite like that. I'll try it out. Thanks!

Btw, just implemented yet another new feature: the '@' command is an ant bomb. If there are multiple ants in play, @ kills the one that triggers it. That lets you fork without completely annihilating your system.
For the casual user, temporarily losing all their emails while google recovers from backups is far, far better than permanently losing all of their emails when their hard drive crashes and they realize that they had forgotten to backup.
That's the thing though: they didn't fail, they quit.
For example, read the comments below from quintinsykes and chuckmcknight.
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Twitter really took off when celebrities started using it. Shaq's first Foursquare check-in recently got a lot of coverage. The Oscars (and other awards ceremonies) seem like a perfect fit for the service and a good path to go mainstream and get new users.
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No need to kick and scream, Google has a solution for you: Chromium. No automatic updates, 100% open source.
Well, TechChrunch, did you ever find out if people were dying as soon as possible?
I think nobody has mentioned the most obvious reason: 90% of open-source projects are used by other developers, not by designers.

Making it hard to contribute can be a barrier, but it's not the number one reason. Designers redesign apps, icons, and sites all the time just for fun, even if they know that their contributions have no chance whatsoever of being used.

Designers want to contribute to something that they care about, and the simple reality is that a majority of open source projects are made to appeal to developers, not designers.

In other words, if you want designers to contribute to your open source project, make it something that they will use and be passionate about.
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oh dude, I have one of those lifetime accounts. Last summer, I looked into how to migrate, but I got lost in outdated pages. Can you drop some links in this thread?

Maybe you can shut down jervis.textdrive.com if I migrate my account :)
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Just can't win.

I am reading all the comments, and I'm not spamming the thread. I'm having a conversation on a site that I frequent everyday. This is called being responsive.
I back up my gmail by forwarding it to a comcast email address, which i then forward all that mail to a yahoo email address(double in cloud back ups). Unfortunately, my chat history is not being backed up, but my emails and all my SMSs(google voice) are.
Pages crawled is a strange graph to post. The dramatic dropoff makes me think you have a crawling problem, not that google pegged u a content farm. Is google simply not crawling content farms? No they are ranking them lower but still crawling them.
Yes, you can contact support at help.joyent.com and they'll move your old textdrive account from jervis.
I don't know how reliable of a source the Tehran Times is, especially since it says that King Abdullah met with Zuckerberg personally and got his assurance that Facebook would block Saudi protest pages, but this rumor is going around so here it is.

Edit: Wael Ghonim tweets about it http://twitter.com/#!/ghonim/status/42005631544074240
Initially, tt was actually called "StartupList."
Jason, you're experiencing a PR hiccup; it's not a big deal but it's also not clear that responding to every message in this thread is going to help you. Instead, why not (1) make things right for the OP and everyone else on Howe and (2) put a response on the blog?

You Joyent folks will never get a subset of your customers to migrate off textdrive hardware (so it's no use to keep yelling "just migrate!"). However, if you let those older servers fall apart you'll only get more negative PR.
You could use Imapsync and a VPS somewhere running an IMAP daemon. Then it's easy to sync back out to another email host if you hit trouble with Gmail
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Just as you expect that non-programmers have no clue about code, you must accept that non-designers (you) have no clue about (user interface / user interaction / graphic) design (keep reading).

Obviously this isn't an absolute, and there are exceptions to this rule. The most important thing I can get across is this; End users do not, and will not, think like you do about your software (Read 10x). The reason you must get perspective outside your own is because yours is tainted beyond repair when looking at your own project.

So, what can you do to make your open source project more appealing to a designer?

1) Let go of preconceived bias when it comes to your UI / look-and-feel.

Someone more interested in the visual appearance and usability of your application is going to want to make changes to the workflow. Just as you test your code, test your design to make sure the designer's assumptions hold up. As a president once said, "Trust but verify."

2) Develop a clear understanding of where your designers implementation responsibilities end and yours begin (and vice versa).

Which is to say, know their limits, and know your own. If they don't know how to integrate their work into your project then either help them or find a third party that can. If you don't know how to integrate their work into your project then have them help or find a third party that can. Focus on your strengths. Nothing is more dissatisfying that seeing your work butchered.

3) Check the ego at the door/keyboard/whatever.

This applies to everyone involved in any way, shape, or form. Objectivity is the ideal, but lets be realistic. Personally I know more people who have had bad experiences volunteering / interacting with open sources projects than good (including myself). While this is anecdotal I think it's still important. Don't mistake popularity with success, and don't let popularity become validation for your lack of social skills. The people at the other end of your emails, IMs, IRC channels, etc are just that... people. The golden rule gets turned up to 11 when someone decides to take some of their free time and donate it to your cause.

This is hardly comprehensive, but I think it touches on a few points in ways I have yet to see in this thread. Keep doing your good work.
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Paid for lifetime service in advance to help bootstrap your company, not "free".
it's currently free? I pay $15 a month for it.
I'd suggest it might be more worthwhile thinking in terms of development teams and UX teams.

I think the appeal of working on an OSS is that a developer gets to hone their skills and work collaboratively. It's a way to contribute (give back), to gain experience and to gain kudos.

I don't think the same collaborative aspect works as easily for design - because design problems are perhaps less easily worked on iteratively as a group.

UX, as a discipline, involves problems which can be solved collaboratively - and lends itself to team work. Design that's born from UX research tends to solve problems which have been more clearly defined from the outset.
Seconded. I see a few brave souls venturing into this market and would like a peek at their architecture decisions.
After spending enough time with a project you realize that you no longer interested in continuing the project. I think quitting is the best choice at that moment, rather than questioning oneself everyday.
Because of this I have just implemented an automated backup routine for all my Gmail accounts.

I used https://github.com/rgrove/larch and Dovecot (IMAP only as no delivery required). Was very easy to setup and seems to work well (still doing initial sync though).
The claim for anonymous blogging would not be held because of the limitation of TCP/IP, where the origin of packets, without special treatment, would be exposed to your server. Nobody can be certain that your server is not compromised at any time (which we cannot even assume that you are not spying on the logs, for example), a claim in such degree may actually got believed by less technical users of your app.

Please consider this as anonymity may be live or death situation to some people in the world.
Kindof off-topic, but - am I the only one that hates it if there's a link on the web that redirects to a country specific site and presents itself in a language that your browser doesn't ask for, the user doesn't want and that's only 'correct' if you're looking at a f..ing ip address?

I quit most Google services because of this single annoyance (they have seriously neat hebrew sites as well. If an application wants to use my Google account and I'm over there, I have to guess which button says yes and which says no)..

I apologize for the rant. This is just barely on topic here as the worst possible user experience and I hope services of YC people don't think that i18n/l10n isn't that easy.
If you want to do e-mail syncing on most mobile devices, NuevaSync[1] provides an ActiveSync interface for any IMAP-capable e-mail account. I'm using them to do calendar sync to a device that doesn't do iCal and the service has performed quite well. Nueva even offers device wipe as an included feature.

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I dropped out of high school partially because my bouts of depressive laziness contrasted with manic hyperactivity aren't well-stacked against the constant intense effort that the educational system requires. You could literally see quarters of steady grades (sometimes 4.0s) followed by quarters with a bunch of Fs in them.

I was taking community college classes instead of 11/12th grade so it wasn't a big "OH I'M DROPPING OUT" thing for me, I just didn't turn in some portfolio because I was working on a different project and honestly didn't give a shit about some piece of paper. Perhaps some part of me just wanted to fuck with the system and prove how useless the pieces of paper are when compared with the ability to create cool shit.

Yes, I would say the my inner rebellious nature wouldn't allow me to have any formal education. I am one lab class away from an associate's degree and taking anything but lab classes in community college :)

I am only 19 so I really do not know whether I am on a path to drug-addled self-destruction (as a typical high school dropout) or something else.
Does anyone know the details on this? Never knew there was such a thing as e-book library 'renting'.
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What would Exxon do if they could get away with selling any old blackish liquid as if it were oil?
Note to self: don't use a product these devs create.
Or, don't ever depend on 'beta' programs for anything.

I get that you have to do your own thing for your life, but what a way to let people down. You had two options for supporting existing users, then you say, "No, we're just shutting it down."

Could have given it away, even.
I'm a designer too, and I don't think there's anything wrong with VLC's UI or design in general.

(Except maybe the fact that the playlist's default setting always goes back to "shuffle" for some reason.)
Drop out. Or don't.
I have a lifetime account as well. Joyent's tech support has always been excellent. I take this as a wakeup call to get my stuff off of the old severs beyond that I can see little fault with Joyent.
I don't think that there's anything weird or "interesting" about the logic of moving from unreliable hosting to something more costly but more reliable. (Also, in the context of hosting service, I don't really think it's accurate to say it "costs you nothing" if it suffers a multi-day outage while you have customer servers hosted on it...)
It more or less all started with Doug Engelbart giving the "mother of all Demos" in 1968. It's all been catch-up since that event.
That's much clearer. Thanks.
Is the personal account information for the submitting individual really necessary for your point? Did the submitter give you permission to tell us about his ticket history and account actions?

Although relatively harmless, it seems like planting the seed to a disregard for privacy.
Doesn't mail.app make it difficult for you to export your mails to non-mail.app email clients? Wouldn't Thunderbird or Evolution be better?
I just wonder when RIM is going to shut up and ship this thing.