2/4/10 Release: New features for a new year

To start the new year right, we've cooked up an exciting new batch of features based on your feedback. Now, comments can turn into full-fledged conversations, items can be treated and managed as tasks, completed things can be moved out of the way, and you can be notified of it all via email.  This set of features takes Outspokes from a brainstorming tool to something that can fit into your daily work flow. Feedback Conversations Not sure what Susan meant by that comment? Ask her right on your ...

Interviewing with Y Combinator or How to Not Finish Your Sentences

Arthur and I arrived in Mountain View bright and early to interview with Y Combinator.  We grabbed a filling American breakfast in a diner nearby and were pumped to interview at 10am.  Twelve hours later we would get an email from Paul Graham explaining that YC would not accept us for the Winter 2010 round. We felt deflated to hear the news, but the feedback was helpful, and our inner optimists continue to drive us towards helping our fellow web consultants.  On top of the aggregated YC i...

East Bay Ruby Meetup Developer Spotlight

We'll be doing the inaugural developer spotlight at the next East Bay Ruby Meetup.  Come hear us talk about what worked and what didn't while we built the Rails backend and the Javascript frontend.  Learn from our suffering and share your experiences as well. The EB Ruby Meetup is a really chill crowd and a great local resource for asking beginning and advanced Rails questions.  We've been going regularly since 2007.  Check it out here.