$200,000 isn't cool. You know what's cool? $41,000,000.<p>Honestly though, grats Kyle. Passionate users, revenue is coming in, you obviously deserve it.
kylebragger (forrst's founder) first introduced forrst with a small <i>Tell HN</i> invite session a year ago:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132947" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132947</a><p>Then a more wide-spread RWW article:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1440847" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1440847</a><p>Grats Kyle!
I love this. A small, sizable round for Kyle and his two employees -- I think there are three people building Forrst? -- to advance the product and see where they get. If all things go well, they'll get more financing and continue to build it out. If not, his options are to (1) sell for a reasonable amount; (2) reduce the team size and chug along on their revenue; or (3) let it run as a side project.
The reason I like forrst is because an engineer created a community that brings together people who might have never have ever met. Also, the name rocks.
Good for them, but it still annoys me that I have to give a twitter username to sign up. Not everyone tweets all day. Some of us waste our time on here instead ;)
> Coders hang out on Stack Overflow. Designers hang out on Forrst.<p>Actually, designers hang out on Dribbble, and - to put it bluntly - those who can't get in hang out on Forrst. It is really weird that TechCrunch included no reference to former, feels almost like it was intentional.
The article kind of assumes developers and 'coders' are mutually exclusive, and seems to suggest Forrst is not for people who write code, after a glance at their home page for a couple of seconds it seems apparent this is not the case.<p>Still perhaps I'm being pedantic.
Forrst is an incredible community. I post my in-development snaps on there all the time and receive a lot of great advice from some amazing and extremely talented people. Super happy for them! :)
Forrst has been a source of inspiration for my work ever since I started using it. Honestly some of the designs I see there are so polished and refined that it makes me (a developer trying to improve on my design skills) feel downright design-dumb sometimes.<p>Congrats Kyle!