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Opinion
Graham: Founders will not use GiveItOneHundred to document startup crises
“I don't think he would have used your system. No, seriously, not for, like, starting a startup.”
Paul Graham Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 15:50 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Disclosure
Cheng: GiveItOneHundred eliminated photo support because videos were more interesting
“We started off as a photo and video site, but then we cut out videos, we cut out photos because the videos were more interesting.”
Karen X. Cheng Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 12:49 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Disclosure
Cheng: GiveItOneHundred plans to turn user challenges into viral YouTube videos
“But we want to use YouTube, we want to piggyback off of YouTube as a marketing channel the same way we did with my video, so we'll take really compelling 100 day challenges, and we will turn it into a viral video, put it up on YouTube, and say, made with 100.”
Karen X. Cheng Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 13:44 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Insight
Graham: Early-stage startups should stay empirical rather than over-optimize too early
“Don't be, don't, like over optimize too early. Like, let it grow into whatever it's gonna grow into. Maybe it'll end up being kids are the big thing, or maybe not, who knows. But be empirical about it, and don't, like, wire in some outcome too early.”
Paul Graham Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 18:59 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Insight
Graham: A child's current memories constantly overwrite parents' recent memories
“One of the big problems about being a parent is, The memories of the current kid overwrite the memories of the more recent, of the sort of recent past.”
Paul Graham Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 16:22 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Disclosure
Taylor: GiveItOneHundred has around 4,300 people on its waiting list
“Yeah, it's like 4300 or so on a waiting list.”
Finbarr Taylor Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 11:35 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Disclosure
Cheng: GiveItOneHundred has an invite-only beta of 50 people
“We have invite-only beta of 50 people”
Karen X. Cheng Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 11:32 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Disclosure
Karen X. Cheng: GiveItOneHundred caps video clips at 10 seconds
“We cap it at 10 seconds, because I have a short attention span, and I'm building this for myself.”
Karen X. Cheng Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 14:51 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Taylor: GiveItOneHundred users average around 18 video uploads each
“So out of the users that we have, there's an average of, ah, around 18 videos uploaded per user.”
Finbarr Taylor Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 17:33 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Taylor: GiveItOneHundred gets 1,000 views and 20-30 daily returning users
“So the view counts, we're seeing about a thousand views a day, ah, and we have roughly between 20 and 30 of our kind of small group of users are coming back to the website every day.”
Finbarr Taylor Oct 26, 2013 ▶ 13:19 Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
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