I just returned home from hauling most of my clothing to the local Goodwill. On a related note, I look forward to seeing more people wearing startup/conference t-shirts around NYC, since they comprised the lion's share of my wardrobe...
I've been researching these services for the past few weeks since I've committed myself to liquidating most of my belongings (I live in a small apartment with no closets -- thanks New York! -- and was inspired by this blog post: http://www.raptitude.com/2011/01/i-dont-want-stuff-any-more-...), and would prefer to see them in the hands of friends and those in need rather than a landfill.
Does anyone have recommendations for where/how to donate more valuable items? For example, I want to donate an expensive drone I never use, but would prefer to see it go to a classroom/after-school program. Thinking I'll search DonorsChoose.org and offer things to teachers, but is there another service?
Our investors have been incredibly supportive -- especially these past few [rough] months.
The biggest concern I have is not so much the price it would fetch (which is probably not much given recent events), but rather finding a suitable steward for the community.
I found myself in the same exact position with Canvas/DrawQuest earlier this year. Everyone (including myself) was laid off a few months ago, but we'd hoped to keep the app running with the remaining revenue/cash-on-hand and volunteered time (cut short by a recent hack).
It sucks, but I think we'll see more of it in the coming months/year. A lot of the seed-funded apps/companies from the past few years simply won't represent later-stage venture opportunities, and may find themselves in a position where they can't raise additional capital but can keep the service afloat without the payroll overhead.
> they were still committed by a dev as experienced as moot
I'm not a terribly good programmer, and have been very hands-off with 4chan's code for quite some time. I still direct development and am responsible for the servers/sysadmin tasks, but there are far more talented developers out there than I. In the case of Canvas/DrawQuest, I was 100% uninvolved on the tech side.
But again, in both cases I accept full responsibility for the breaches since ultimately it's up to the project leader to ensure these things don't happen -- even if not active on the technical side.
> I wonder how old the code was for "Mistake 2"?
Very new. It was in a once-off file that we used to quickly pull stats about reported posts, which a) shouldn't have been on a domain without HTTP auth, b) should have been deleted long ago, c) shouldn't have had a bugged auth check or injection vuln to begin with.
Good point -- frankly I'd suggest doing both (clean repo and revoke/replace the secrets). The developer in question simply overlooked the issue, and since we were busy spinning down the company, nobody else caught it.
Venture capital for a separate business/entity != money for 4chan and/or myself personally. It's incredible how so many 4channers confuse the two and have a fundamental misunderstanding of VC...
The goal was to create a framework through which people could safely test and report exploits. In addition, 4chan isn't in a financial position to dole out large bounties.
We actually implemented Facebook Connect for April Fool's back in 2010. It was a real app and posted your 4chan post(s) to your Facebook wall.
EDIT: Here's a screenshot -- http://i.imgur.com/p0peJp6.png
The best part was the reviews. They were all either 1 or 5 stars. People were shocked it actually worked.
