[Asa-Nisse]

While I agree that most of the "review my <whatever>" here are pretty Lame I must say that this post entirely misses the point.

So what if the authors of these project chooses to call them startups. Nobody has a right or the power to decide what is a startup or not.

Especially not some guy with a whiny attitude.

[jasonkester]

So if the little website that takes text you type in and gives you a URL that has that text shown REALLY BIG is now defined as a Startup, what should the rest of us with real businesses call ourselves?

[run4yourlives]

Profitable?

Oh wait a lot of us fail in that regard, don't we?

[dunhamda]

I don't know, but I'd like to know how I can invest in your URL embiggener startup

[blhack]

http://newsyndicated.com/embiggen.cgi

Do you think I could get a tech crunch article out of this?

edit: (I misread the joke, nevermind)

re-edit: (Added support for saving messages..I wonder if twitter would buy this from me for a million dollars?)

[lotharbot]

Sounds like a perfectly cromulent investment idea.

[zaidf]

what should the rest of us with real businesses call ourselves

If you were using traction, I would find more agreement with you. On feature, you can make a lot of startups look like POS.

- twitter is an inputbox where you write some random crap about you

- facebook is a freakin ugly looking profile page

1. If you couldn't tell, those are what facebook and twitter launched as.

2. May be you should be figuring out how to make your "real business" as big as twitter and facebook? Of course, you'd hate that and you'll claim you are happy to be running what you already have. So are the tiny startup dudes you seem to be railing against.

You have a very narrow sense of what constitutes a "real business" or a startup...which is totally okay because it's just semantics. It's just not worth getting bogged down on.

[jasonkester]

Narrow vision?

The scale of a software business can be anything from "Hello World" to Microsoft. The little one-day "startups" that we see here every day exist in a tiny sliver all the way to the left of that spectrum, near zero. The "Real Business" part is everything to the right, on out to infinity.