May 24 2005
“Yeah, sure” Considered Harmful
Two years ago, Joshua and I were discussing ideas for something very similar to del.icio.us. In fact, it was del.icio.us as Joshua wrote the first version shortly afterwards. The conversations and the pleasant pattern continued - I got to talk a lot, Joshua did all the actual work and every now and then, one of my suggestions would magically wind its way into the site.
Earlier this year, as Joshua was considering taking on investment and working on del.icio.us full-time, he asked me if I’d be interested in joining the yet-nonexistent company. I thoughtlessly said “Yeah, sure” much in the way you might say “Yeah, sure” if approached by a hobbyist musician friend and asked if you’d like to fly around the world and party on his private jet when he becomes a mega-rockstar.
This carelessness has cost me dearly as I now find myself at the del.icio.us office, krazy-glued to a lawnchair with no hope of escape until I implement the top 50 features demanded by del.icio.us users, starting with ‘free pony for every 100 bookmarks’.
Peter Gadjokov · pvg Tags: behind-the-scenes bookmark this
18 Comments
Boris Anthony | May 24 2005 at 11:01 pm
You made yer own bed… now you know what you have to do. ;)
Congrats pvg!
(Can I get a plush toy instead of the pony? They are messy and smell funny.)
Blake West | May 24 2005 at 11:54 pm
So what are the top 50 features demanded by del.icio.us users? ;-)
VonGuard | May 25 2005 at 12:49 am
Can you guys set up some sort of chair fund via PayPal? i think we should all pitch in and get you something a bit nicer than those plastic things. That way, your butt won’t cave in before you can figure out how to configure the Apache pony delivery plugin.
james | May 25 2005 at 2:34 am
wget mod_pony.tgz
slacker.
Ozh | May 25 2005 at 3:24 am
I’m curious, what kind of business model is financing del.icio.us ? In other words, who pays you ? :)
Nate | May 25 2005 at 10:25 pm
Congrats on getting your own lawn chair. :) Welcome to startup round 1. Ding ding. Get it on.
sam | May 26 2005 at 1:53 pm
Is delicious-discuss down? I sent a message and haven’t seen it…
Jeff | May 27 2005 at 4:14 pm
I beleive delicious’ current business model involves selling pvg’s huge stash of Crimean black tar heroin to the guys at Shake Shack, who slip it into their burgers.
Ben | Jun 4 2005 at 7:17 pm
Ozh: Venture capital pays the bills.
As for business plan - i’m starting a rumour that Google is going to use Del.icio.us to seed their trust-ranking system.
sicro | Jun 5 2005 at 5:39 am
@Ben: Hasn’t del.icio.us already been bought by Yahoo! - I thought I had read something of that sort.
WareWolf | Jun 5 2005 at 2:45 pm
Fruit Loops n Fire Trucks all around.
Sakurina | Jun 5 2005 at 2:57 pm
@sicro: No, Flickr was purchased by Yahoo.
sicro | Jun 5 2005 at 4:22 pm
@Sakurina: Ah, yes that was it. Got my tags mixed up…
flickr = folksonomy images sold
del.icio.us = folksonomy links for.sale
Now I got it.
Don’t think it’ll be long though until they are grabbed up by a big player. Now where did I hear that rumor that Google are looking into buying del.icio.us to seed their trust-ranking system … ;-)
peachy blog&hellip | Jul 6 2005 at 4:27 am
Contextual Search Hotness?
del.icio.us is a great place for storing links. When I post a link to del.icio.us, I have to attach a…
Natalie Ford | Jul 17 2005 at 4:58 am
Pony!
Paramendra Bhagat | Aug 26 2005 at 1:59 pm
This is quite funny. But also very telling. Brave believers.
TM4B SMS Gateway | Sep 12 2005 at 12:18 am
Hi PVG! Maybe you (or someone here) can help me to understand what del.icio.us is.
Amongs the may refferers we get at our site, del.icou.us is a frequent one. I’ve had a look at the pages on your site which link to us and i still can’t understand what is going on.
The most recent one is http://del.icio.us/dshewry. Can you please help me to understand?
Thanks.
Abdul Majid
Secure E-Commerce Business Hosting | Dec 10 2005 at 2:46 pm
Free Pony? :-)