Partner at Heartcore Capital in Europe. Previously at Accel Partners, Atlas Venture. Angel investor in Last.fm, OneFineStay, Mattermark (YC), Skimlinks, Thread.com (YC), Typeless, Sofar Sounds. Founder at Qwerly and MyBlog.
Email lists are some of the most thoughtful discussion I have been a part of in the tech industry. Whether they are about music (pho) or AI (Goertzel), they have a depth that tech journalism lacks.
What email lists do you subscribe to? What do you get out of them?
I'm resubmitting this because I'd really, really like some comments from the HN community. This is not "promotional": I'm wondering where to take it next, I'm wondering whether people think there is a business model here, I'm wondering whether I can get people to collaborate on it with me.
I'd love to know what you guys think: http://qwerly.com. Sample result page: http://qwerly.com/twitter/parislemon
Positioning is as a people search for the social web. Queries can currently be done for a Twitter username. That results in a page with other social networking links for that person. Long term vision is to build an open "DNS for people".
I'm wondering where we should take it next. Open to all suggestions and ideas.
P.S. API documentation is here: http://qwerly.com/about_us/api