adamkiss

Someone in the inability field for 20 minutes still can't hyphenate.

Even then would work (on youtube, for instance) if the owner was entertaining enough, while eating delicious chocolate.

I am not questioning whether OP did something wrong; If he did, as a paying customer (and first offender), I would anticipate some kind of notification email, or something at least.

Sure, for repeat offenders: repeat notifications, then close account, refund adequate part of payment and that's it. You should never irreversibly delete someone's data. Moreover when he's paying you.

Ah, that didn't cross my mind. Thanks

Does it even care if it's rejected or not? There is a prior patent, doesn't that count as 'prior art' (i.e. this new patent is just overpriced paper)?

> They seem to have the same quirky creative culture

I see what you did there.

+1

Well, at least they "Think Different" – "Here's to the crazy ones…"

:D

> But a simple 2-strike rule is worthless.

If paid service unrestorably deletes data without first getting in touch with client, it is worthless, as you should have moved away first time it happened.

for $10k-$15k and good brief, you could get let's say 5–8 freelancer designers to do a PAID creative pitch (there's your difference between spec work and 'normal' creative pitch), get multiple high quality (and relevant) options, and give the job (and the rest of the money) to the designer you like most.

Basically, you pick few designers, who you think will fit the job most (looking through their portfolio) and will pay them for the time pitching to you. That's it.

FYI: I really wanted to sign up just to try out the service, but I can't, I picked GitHub (because that one takes less information than, say, Twitter ["Application will be able to follow new people"]), but I just keep getting redirected to sign up.

>> I know the founder of remenis.com he explained to me the idea in Dec 2011

That's good for him, but you can hardly clone something, that's an idea in someone's had, right? Thus it seems that - shocker - there was no cloning involved.

>> Whats the difference between this and blogging socially on wordpress.com or blogger or tumblr?

I bet that the authors can explain this better than I can (if they haven't yet in this post on HN)

Simple WHOIS shows that storylane.com is online since 2003 (although this service probably wasn't there, but I am a user of storylane since about march 2012) and remenis.com was created on 18-Jun-12, so you've got that clone the other way around.

I can't believe the amount of positive reactions to this. Am I the only one who is reading something along the lines "Yeah, they don't want us, and we don't care. We won't do anything in hopes of people switching iOs for Android" in this?

If that's true… they must be naive, at least.

You kind of already do target mobile – except, of course, professionals quoting wikipedia.