Ask YC: Who is Nickb and what is his start-up?

19 pointsdemandred17 years ago16 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99923

Just curious, really. Not really a part of the YC crowd so I haven't the slightest clue.

Hi, thanks for asking!

I'll start blogging fairly soon and all your questions will be answered. I need to start blogging because I promised a bunch of posts on Arc (including many modifications that I've made to it), Lisp, business of startups etc. To tell you the truth, I just didn't want to start a blog because blogging eats up a lot of time and time is something that I don't have in abundance right now. If the curiosity is eating you, you can always email me and I'll provide you with more info.

gtani 17y

his life story

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99923

fallentimes 17y

Nickb - when is your startup launching?

nickb 17y

Well, we're working on a video demo and technical information and this stage. The backend of what we're working on proved to be very challenging indeed and was a lot of work. It also ended up being a lot more complicated than we thought due to the volume of data that we'll have to support.

So we're very close indeed!

ashleyw 17y

Maybe hes just the MrBabyMan of HN — just like everyone else here, except he really likes submitting ALL the cool stuff he finds on a daily basis?

Though I am interested what his startup is. :-)

unalone 17y

I believe NickB is one of the FriendFeed guys, though I could be wrong. I remember a FriendFeed staff member going by FirstnameL, anyway.

nostrademons 17y

Don't think he's FriendFeed, the whole FriendFeed team is listed on their website and there's no Nick:

http://friendfeed.com/about/team

NickB also said his startup uses a lot of Ruby on Rails, and Friendfeed's a mostly-Python shop.

unalone 17y

PaulB, then? Hmm.