Readit Newstosinaf commented on I am Peter Roberts, an immigration lawyer who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts
How does the J1 to H1B visa work?
tosinaf commented on Connecting the UK Student Tech Scene ammaar.me/connecting-the-... · Posted by u/asronline
I just checked out codelaborate.org. What a shitty website! The design is nice, but the font is almost impossible to read. I assume it's because I'm on Windows (OS X usually renders fonts better than Windows), but it's a really good way to quickly alienate half of your target audience...
Glad you shared your concerns but your comment could have been written much nicer & still achieved the same effect.
tosinaf commented on Connecting the UK Student Tech Scene ammaar.me/connecting-the-... · Posted by u/asronline
UCL has been organizing well attended Hackathons, seed funding pitch competitions, partnerships with founders and accelerators as well as running its own mini incubator for the past few years. Even a quick skim on google would show a multitude of student (UCL) born startups that have succeeded: Loom, backed by Google Ventures and acquired by Dropbox this year + Vungle, raised $17MM series B this year. I understand that from a Kings perspective the tech scene looks weak, but to discredit the scene as a whole when UCL has been leading the way with significant success for the past few years, is misleading.
The post isn't saying there is no tech scene but can we even compare what it is at the moment to how it is in america.
A good example is http://codelaborate.org/ . They went to the same uni(Oxford), same course, both doing programming on the side & yet didn't know each other till this summer in London.
All our efforts before were fragmented, resulting in for example, three hackathons in the same weekend.
Sure great things are happening in individual places but imagine the exponential growth when it's less silo'ed & everyone is working together towards a bigger goal.
tosinaf commented on Show HN: Hacker News for mobile devices hnmobile.herokuapp.com/... · Posted by u/mheguevara
Also see TheNews (iOS) http://bit.ly/thenews-ios
it's for both hacker news & designer news. It also has support for viewing comments in addition to the clean design :)
*disclaimer, I built it lol
Just like to add my two cents.
I'm the little guy in the story. 300 followers on twitter, only just starting to develop a name for myself.
I launched theNews ios (http://bit.ly/thenews-ios) recently which basically lets you read Hacker News & designer news in one app.
You'd think that would go down well in HN but nope, it faded into the bowels of HN & im not surprised. There is so much content due to how "open" it is.
Meanwhile people auctually took notice of my app on PH & DN because u dont't entirely need points to be relevant due to the moderate number of submissions. Frankly a better system for the little guy.
Show HN has its place for hacks & product launches while PH is like a brilliant way to launch your product & get feedback from amazing people that you look up to
& i don't think PH is tryna be like Show HN, it's doing its own thing. giving its own spin on Show HN.
All communities can't be open & frnakly the number of products on PH is already overwhelming at its current amount & with more its only gonna get more where it just becomes impossible to keep up. Thats probably the biggest challenge PH faces.
it's a nice alternative to Show HN & will shine in a different way.