Dalton Caldwell: We Did It

Congratulations to Dalton and the entire team at App.net! They deserve every penny.<p>Dalton's steely resolve through this entire process has been an inspiration to me; it takes a lot of guts to go out on a limb and ignore all the haters. Even if App.net as a platform doesn't take off I still consider this project a success.

I would like to publicly admit my total wrongness and congratulate Dalton on his success with this project. You have won my backing and I'll be there 'apping' with the rest of you guys.<p>This was the somewhat popular but incorrect comment I made previously: <a href="http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4278378" rel="nofollow">http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4278378</a><p>Much love. Props.

Congratulations from me, too! A very impressive result in such a short timeframe.<p>In danger of asking a silly question, I do wonder about this bit though:<p><i>In the very near future I will ask an impartial 3rd party take a look at our data (while preserving all privacy of our backers) and publicly verify that the join.app.net was operated in an honest manner.</i><p>I might not be seeing the forest for the trees here, but how would anybody actually go about doing that? If you don't release identifying information (which I assume would include names, credit card numbers, and so on) how would anybody be able to verify?<p>I'm not, in the slightest, implying there was any wrongdoing, I have no reason to believe that App.net is inflating any numbers or isn't "operated in an honest manner". I'm just genuinely curious to know how it would be possible to independently vet that all transactions were legit (or whatever it is you're trying to prove).<p>Am I correct to assume that the best anybody could do would be to say that "the numbers looks right"? Or maybe something like "the amount of money transferred via Stripe to App.net is in the right ballpark"? If people can do better, how so? Again, genuine question.

Did Svbtle change its font recently? The text looks terrible. It's blurry, poorly aliased and some of the letters have full-out gaps in the strokes.<p>When viewed in Windows, of course.

Congratulations!! Incredibly excited, still waiting for that killer app.<p>EDIT: I purchased it weeks ago, but you get the idea...

Just completed the sign-up, but still get "We don't recognize that username. This is probably because you haven't been invited to our alpha yet. To request an invitation, please email join@app.net." when I try logging in.

I'm glad they're going to have someone verify it. It seemed really strange to me that they rolled their own crowd funding platform for one use.<p>Why didn't they go with a third party like Kickstarter in the first place?

Congrats. Looking forward to joining the alpha. Interestingly enough, I was skeptical about App.net before I paid the $$, but now I am all excited about it. Maybe you've got something going there :D

Well I admit it. I drank the Kool-Aid. Partly to grab my twitter handle, not that I think it was in any danger of being scooped, and partly to see just what is happening on the inside of the walled garden.<p>I can't comment any further, my password I signed up with doesn't seem to work, and the password reset feature also appears broken :) I will reserve judgement for now.

Bets on how soon someone will imitate this approach to the platform business in other areas?

&#62;&#62;There has been zero manipulation of numbers, or “stuffing of the ballot box” by App.net.<p>Why would he even suggest that? I wouldn't have expected such behavior.

Mission Accomplished!

I watched the video, and I still don't know what app.net is. "Social platform" is all I got, that's extremely vague.