Ask YC: My school wants to shut down my app. How should I respond?
Few hours ago, I received this letter from my public uni's CIO: http://www.scribd.com/doc/15099510/i-letter1 The site can be seen at http://www.classhunt.com Full story: I launched ClassHunt about a month ago. The campus newspaper covered and ~500 people are using it so far. Many are totally in love with it("ClassHunt is AWESOME! I give you serious props for creating this site. I've already told a couple of friends about it and one of them has had the same luck that I have. You're going to prevent a lot of headaches with this system! :)"). The technology behind is in python. It queries the uni's server for every department on campus and parses the course data. At first, I was querying every minute, so ~130 requests/minute. Now I am querying every 15minutes. Few days ago I received an email that my server IP had been blocked. The lady from IT dept was very nice and willing to work with me
Why it failed
Few hours ago, I received this letter from my public uni's CIO: http://www.scribd.com/doc/15099510/i-letter1 The site can be seen at http://www.classhunt.com Full story: I launched ClassHunt about a month ago. The campus newspaper covered and ~500 people are using it so far. Many
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- zaidf
- Ended
- 2009
- Source
- hackernews