Love this as a founder! Can see value in leveraging sales specific data to fine tune results.

I built an app earlier last year to help with spaced repetition on web content: https://retaino.com

It's been interesting to see a lot of interested over the past year around the concept, though it may just be the Badder-Meinhof effect at play (which I'm now able to recall the name of thanks to Retaino!)

This is exactly what i've been looking for for a while now. signing up! have been using readwise for books, but this will be great for things beyond books! thanks!

Would love to hear your feedback on https://booxia.wensia.com , which handles both books and web content.

This looks great. Do you have plans to support an offline version?

But you'll have a different amount of surplus money, since living costs might cost, 50k in Munich but only 40k in Berlin.

Thank you! That's the one I was looking for.

Interesting thing to note: The Yale CS department has been hiring peer tutors and undergraduate course graders, which should definitely help alleviate things.

The idea that Scaz is working with 25 students on projects is a bit concerning. How can you give the necessary attention to any student, your own work, and any classes you teach when spreading yourself that thin?

This should be on Quora.

Life: Deciding that I want to make a difference in the world. Programming: To start programming.

I remember reading about Color from the get-go and being astounded by the inordinate amount of money invested in this idea. Not surprised to see how it turned out.

What was the idea, again?

Pick an unsearchable name for your product, then don't make a product. I think it was performance art.

This was my thought too, and set when I searched on un-logged in Google, they are number 1 for "color".

Now we know what they needed $42 million for!

Something like live mobile streaming? http://color.com/about :

    At Color, we believe in the opportunity that the new mobile era presents and are excited about developing products that transform the way people share the stories of their lives.

    We work collaboratively, iterate often, and enjoy problem solving. Color is a company of entrepreneurs and innovators, highly skilled in their respective specialties, constantly striving to learn and grow.

    We’ve cultivated a very relaxed and informal culture and enjoy our extra curricular activities, which include but are not limited to: ping pong tournaments, ball pit acrobatics and impromptu poker nights.

I really have no idea

It seems like someone with a modicum of jargon, zero ethics, and balls of brass would be able to suck a nearly unlimited amount of cash out of the herd mentality that rules VC. Perhaps there's a startup idea in there.

> Perhaps there's a startup idea in there.

Bill Nguyen, Inc. for the last two-odd years...

It was a geolocation social network w/ pictures that are tied to locations. Then it pivoted extremely quickly to live video streaming.

Neither had they.

Double stealth mode then.

Initially, Color was for photo sharing around a place and time. For example, if you and I are using the Color app at the same party we would see each others photos even if we aren't "friends". It's a little abstract, but a very interesting take social sharing.

Didn't it used to listen through your microphone and match signatures of the sounds up with data from other people's phones to figure out if you were in the same room?

That and a number of other clever things. The tech and talent acquisition was likely a good one. As a product, Color was launched so clumsily, and squandered its one good shot at a relaunch.

Google Plus has a similar functionality that is pretty neat, however it requires people to "Attend" an event.