Imo, a startup is a relationship, where you need communication - with your team, as with your customers.
I like that.
Sure it's a relationship. But the type of relationship bw co-founders, team and customers is very different. If your co-founders, fellow hackers, the ones that should understand the implications of startups the most, balk at such a simple hurdle to start a startup. Communication is not the problem, commitment (or insert N other reasons is).
A very different relationship (more communicative) exists bw staff who are not the core of the team at the start. It goes unsaid that the on-going relationship with the customers is paramount.
But to misunderstand the idea that founders & co-founders should explicitly have to communicate such fundamental concepts as "we might have to move sometime to achieve 'Foo'" or "we might have to actually do 'bar' to get to the next hurdle is fundamentally different from communicating to hires or customers.
BTW can you point http://www.feedity.com to news.ycombinator?
I didn't get what you mean by that.
can I run feedity over news.yc? or turn the news.yc site to rss. I gave it a go but couldn't get a result. It would be useful to try because it's a pain scraping lots of different nyc pages.
... try again. Ahh now I got it. The first time I didn't select a category. Is it possible to get an rss result back without selecting a category? (like select your own?) as the categories restrict (reduce the returns). I want everything back.
... now I understand. I've tried to do something that's only found in the "Advanced Refine" menu. Would it be a good idea to add an "Advanced" link at the front page?
... aggh the Advanced Refine cr@ps out on my blocks. I'm trying this bit because I've been hacking with BeautifulSoup pretty much doing exactly what the refine is doing. Its an absolute pain. One idea to make selection of the blocks easier is to parse the html doc, then render the structure as an outline visually (like HTML Validator or below) .... table tag
+ td child tag 1
+ td child tag 2
+ tr child 2,1