I'm always on the lookout for better summarization tools but this one seems to give similar results to some of the popular ones out there (like smmry).
We've recently started working with the Stride.ai API (http://stride.ai/) and the results definitely stand out from some of the classic algorithms.
I love Font Awesome and use it all the time....but this campaign is to help fund development of a "somewhat faster" commercial licensable version of existing icons?
I would be a lot more apt to donate if this was just to help fund Dave to make more icons freely available.
FWIW this was not what I got from a quick glance through the KS page. I left with an impression that you are just adding extra weights to the FA.
Also, making a completely new icon font ... damn, that's going to be a tough thing to market. Every second person on Dribbble considers it their blood debt to release at least one icon font, usually a freebie. There's ton of established icon fonts too, some of which are extremely well marketed and are essentially the go-to standards in the designer (paid) circles. Granted, you've got a great name at your disposal and an attention of a large user base, but given that FA is free, I just can't help but wonder what your conversion rate is going to be like.
Appreciate all your've done with Font Awesome...just not sure about black tie (while I get that it loads fast cutting points such as the star example IMHO makes the icons look odd like an images missing anti-aliasing).
We have actually been using elasticsearch as our main data storage at backstitch for almost a year now. How I usually explain its awesome power is (1) take the schemaless nature of MongoDB, (2) add the indexing power of Lucene, (3) and give it the flexible scaling of Riak.
The documentation is also fantastic and the plugin availability pretty good.
Great way to visualize skillset match for co-founders, I however feel that this isn't isolated to doing a startup with a spouse but with any co-founder choice; making sure you have the right skill balance.
Since starting backstitch (http://backstit.ch) with my wife we constantly get this question: "How do you work so well together?" We really don't see it different than if we were just two best friends from college that decided to start a startup.
We were used to working together on projects in school and post graduation weekend hacks. Our careers led us to work on different things and pick up different expertise (font-end design vs operations vs data analysis, ect.) Yes you need to consider thing such as establishing a work vs personal relationship but the same is true when going into business with a close friend as many people do.
> Since starting backstitch (http://backstit.ch) with my wife we constantly get this question: "How do you work so well together?" We really don't see it different than if we were just two best friends from college that decided to start a startup.
When my wife and I discuss the possibility of working together on a business, our main concern is about spending almost every waking hour together or in contact with each other. Neither of us can stand being around the same people constantly. Hell, neither of us can stand being around people constantly. I don't think I could do the 12/7 or 14/7 startup thing at all unless I was spending significant portions of that time locked up by myself. If I tried to do that with my wife, or anyone else I was living with for that matter, it would be disastrous. Is that ever an issue for you?
The best thing we found is making sure to try take an hour a day, usually before going to sleep to do something by ourselves in a separate room - we call it our sanity check.
Might be as simple as she will go watch an episode of something on Netflix and I'll go play a couple rounds of a videogame. During crunch times its not always feasible but its something we feel strongly about and try to make the effort to do.
We recently doubled our team size and are trying to make "having a sanity check" and part of our developing company culture - it works wonders not only for working together but for helping prevent burnout in general.
Thanks for the kind words! And yes, the article was meant to address picking key hires, whether your spouse (main focus of article) or any other person who would play a major role in your business.
Full disclosure I'm the founder of this product (hey its hacker news) but a lot of people have been using http://backstit.ch as an alternative rather than a direct replacement for iGoogle (and google reader).
Rather than just show snippets from different sites we analyze the content so you can easily filter or even create automatically curated pages around your favorite topics.
I don't like the "river of news, most current at the top" UI, but I did use iGoogle's "bunch of boxes with headlines, spread around in a bunch of columns" approach, do you guys have that as an option? Looks more like Google Reader replacement than iGoogle.
This. I think of any of the comments so far you express what I'm seeing as well (I know 'use case of 1'). Distributed & modularized apps where each component uses the language/framework best suited for the job.
