For me it doesn't works. I changed from 'api.instagram.com' to 'www.instagram.com' for the Oauth - have one "302 redirect" back to my site with "error 400". Strange...
Okay, thought I'd mention it because it's had such a significant effect for me. So that possibly means that in my case the Auth0 <-> Instagram connection is something to investigate further.
Usually the idea of a hackathon is you make something in a short period of time. Because you can start now, before the event has started, really it's "Hey developers, please make some stuff with our API and then come and show us on the day of our conference". Or have I got this wrong?
The part of this hackathon that concerns me is this:
> Are granting us an irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide right and license to: (i) use, review, assess, test, and otherwise analyze your Entry and all its content in connection with this Hackathon; and (ii) feature your Entry and all its content in connection with the marketing, sale, or promotion of this Hackathon and of Salesforce.com (including but not limited to internal and external presentations, tradeshows, and screen shots of the Hackathon Entry process in press releases) in all media (now known or later developed);
Maybe this isn't their intention, but win or lose there's nothing stopping Salesforce from taking your submission and running with it.
Under the terms of the Rules and Regulations they explicitly say that they don't claim any right to own or use the Entry. They do get a license to use, review, asses, test, market, promote the entries in connection with the Hackathon. It generally seems it can be used for marketing but nothing really beyond that scope.
I don't see "distribute" or "use in contexts outside the Hackathon."
They will surely have enough info to recreate your submission, but the language above doesn't explicitly allow them to make commercial use of your submission.
That link errors out for me. That said, I've never seen time constraints actually enforced in any real way at a hackathon, and I suspect there's a good amount of cheating at events with decent-sized rewards. Multiply that a thousand-fold for a hackathon offering $1m.
It's a good point that you can't be responsible for the things that people who recommend you say online.
The idea is that you'd share the link privately just with people you really trust, so it's unlikely someone you don't trust would add their recommendation. I agree - you probably need to be able to remove any recommendations that you don't think are appropriate...
I think Rdio is great, but unless I'm missing something, this isn't meant to be a joke. It just needs a line next to one of the images saying something like "Ryan is significantly cooler than you can ever hope to be".
I agree! I think "experienced" is open to interpretation.
Anyway, hence we're throwing it wide to someone who's got a passion and an itch they want to scratch. It's a bit of a stunt, obviously, but it's with good intentions. Thanks.
On the "free" idea, our main principle is "give a leg up to the little guy", and we thought that one way of fulfilling that would be to enable people to have a place to sell their things that doesn't incur the heavy percentage that some of the marketplaces take. By using Paypal adaptive payments and Stripe Connect under the hood, we've managed to make it so that the processing doesn't even go through our bank account. So essentially Bitsy is a software service, rather than a payments processor. Much like other freemium models, there'd be opportunities to offer value elsewhere via pay-for services. That remains unproven.
Makeshift is a "startup of startups" - our intention is to build a series of digital products/services by experimenting with many ideas. So rather than going the traditional "let's do a startup" route, we're following the foundry model.
Paul Birch, my co-founder had been investing in some pretty well-known companies for a few years, and wanted to get back to the craft. I've been doing lots hacks, and wanted to do something around taking rapid experiments and turning them into businesses (if they worked). Nick Marsh, the other co-founder is from a design background, and was similar inspired about building a studio that builds digital products. He talks about the Eames Studio of the 21st century.
We looked at a number of hacks for our first product, and picked Bitsy because we thought it would be quick to hack (we were wrong!), had a good prospect of being revenue positive early, gave a leg up to the little guy (our core proposition as a company), and it was about enabling people that we know to sell digital products online easily.
I have a bunch of friends who could or should be selling online but don't know where to start. Being unable to price for the UK market, having to set up a paypal account, the legal issues involved, are all barriers for those people, and we wanted to make a very easy way for them to do that. With some elegance (Jon Gold is on the team), focusing on selling socially (via Twitter, Facebook and so on), and in a way that supplements the marketplaces. If you've done the hard work selling something, why give away a large percentage other than for payment processing?
From a US point of view, it probably looks like a solved problem, but in the UK it's really not. So that's where the initial motivation came from - help our friends, and people like them, make income from the digital things they make.
If you are searching for an experienced entrepreneur (not a good idea - see above post) you cannot expect to pay him a 2K pre-tax salary. As far as I know, an immigrant gets almost the same amount for low-level jobs. If you substract the living expenses, you will end up with almost nothing. Maybe you should try Eastern Europe countries for a salary like that, unfortunately racism is off the charts in UK lately so that's not an option. I have a business in the UK also and even though my employees from EE are really smart they are still rejected by the british community.
Ha - it gets a second chance! I think the main problem is that Medium can have multiple URLs for the same article. So it got picked up as an editor's pick and so has a different URL. Doesn't HN usually give a vote to the previous posting if the URL matches?
I've been wondering what was Medium's secret sauce for hitting the HN homepage so often (a part from a lot of good content). I guess multiple stabs per story helps ...
If the URL matches (or is "similar enough" under some secret metric) then a submission acts as an upvote for the original. In this case the URL is no "similar enough" so it's a new submission.
What I'd really like to see is for this behavior to also give a link a second chance on the New page. As it stands, if someone submits something, it falls off New with no upvotes, adding a vote two days later is completely useless.
Here's my fork for the omniauth-instagram Ruby gem, which is now allowing me to consistently log in: https://github.com/stefl/omniauth-instagram/blob/master/lib/...