It is really excited to see how closely each YC company work together with each other.
off-topic: It was cool to see you in UIUC. I like what you said in the end of the event. We should keep more time on development of the product instead of attending those startup events.
siong1987 thanks man! it was fun doing the event. i hope i wasn't too harsh to our hosts when i said that, i don't mean whatsoever that all these events are useless. i've been to my fair share of these startup talks and many are great. and this one was a great opportunity for attendees, but a balance needs to be found.
i still even find myself reading more articles on "news.ycombo" then i should be and get caught in the too much analysis/thinking phase, and not enough doing. it's like an addiction for most people to get stuck in that too, so these events and all the blogs talking about how to start a business should almost carry a warning label :)
This is not quite as interesting as it sounds. Ie, they're not using Tipjoy as a way to have real-money prediction markets (which would be wonderful and, sadly, illegal in the US).
I wonder if an unspoken agreement could be reached among like-minded bettors that all debts in inkles get settled via tipjoy tips in dollars. If you could also tip people from your inkles balance then this might be easy enough to establish (even without Inkling officially condoning it).
Sorry, dreeves, yes we didn't put this in place as a way to gamble. I personally like gambling maybe more than the next guy :) , but Inkling was really not created for that, and we don't condone or support it on our sites.
off-topic: It was cool to see you in UIUC. I like what you said in the end of the event. We should keep more time on development of the product instead of attending those startup events.