[alabut]

"Hopefully they haven't burned through too much of the $250,000 that they started with."

They mention at least two large cost items - luxr (basically consulting by Janice Fraser, it says around $10k on the company page) and pivotal labs. Pivotal is the huge one, I once got a quote from them on a project I was working on and they basically said they don't do less than 6 figures. So unless they got some kind of insider discount, the back-of-the-napkin math says at least half of their cash is gone.

Whether it was worth it or not is a separate matter. As a resume builder for a young team: sure, why not, you could do a lot worse. As a product for end users: you might support their cause, it depends on whether you're 1) a Facebook-hating neckbeard-sporting privacy nut - excuse me, libertarian, or 2) willing to cut them slack on an early release because there's some interesting technical challenge they're tackling.

For everyone else: no thanks, Facebook's fine and we'll stick with the real thing.

[steveklabnik]

According to a post in a thread yesterday, they just worked at Pivotal's office, they weren't consulting for them.

[modmajgen]

>it depends on whether you're 1) a Facebook-hating neckbeard-sporting privacy nut - excuse me, libertarian

What exactly is so abnormal about being concerned with Facebook's privacy problems? Particularly, what issues are normal to be concerned about and what issues make one a "neckbeard-sporting privacy nut"?