[gruseom]

Wow. That is the most mean-spirited thing I've read about a new startup in a long time. I also bet it turns out spectacularly wrong and deserves to be preserved in a glass case somewhere.

Come to think of it, someone should collect the worst comments like this for posterity. It would help immunize new founders to see how the predictive value of these things is zero.

[teej]

> to see how the predictive value of these things is zero

Just because the response was blunt doesn't mean it wasn't well-founded. I would actually -love- to hear the dirty internals of Hipmunk, the best you'll get out of Techcrunch is a sugar-coated hype story detailing how nice their house is.

[shill]

This should be a madlib. I'll go first.

When your only competitive advantage is a [feature that lets you poke your friends], your outlook is not often described as "looking good".

[netcan]

Fewer features, anarchist phd dropouts, a home page with less stuff