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by logicallee 10y ago
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I liked your comment but you won't believe how I felt about one part:
>Iphone app companies do this one neat trick for this.
I'm sorry, I just found it very distracting... like you use clickbait title interspersed in your writing. I tried to replicate the effect for you at the top of this comment. There's nothing wrong with what you said, it's just kind of like the format of clickbait titles, you know? Thank
EDIT: got voted to -1 but I'm keeping this - it's genuine feedback for someone. the phrasing "do this one neat trick for this" doesn't come from normal writing or conversation and I find it distracting in an otherwise nice and informative comment.
- morgante 10y agoThey're obviously parodying the "one neat trick" trope.
- logicallee 10y agoI don't think so because they're not talking about a marketing gimmick, but rather talking about an actual business strategy - I just found it distracting. They could have at least put it in quotation marks if they really meant to include it in their writing for some reason. I've withdrawn the criticism.
- dllthomas 10y agoI don't know if it's a "gimmick", but it seems precisely "marketing".
- logicallee 10y agoI think you didn't get the point blazespin wrote: they said (or I read it as them saying) that since there's no way to get a "test market" in the U.S., rather than blow their "one shot" on the launch version which they can't iterate on before the whole U.S. market sees it, they use a proxy for a U.S. test market: they use a smaller foreign market. They don't care about "burning" those users or losing their "one chance" to launch, since those markets are small or at any rate a smaller launch. They then take their learnings, incorporate them and launch in the U.S. with a first version that is markedly better. so it's product development. the point isn't about marketing at all. (Except in a broad sense.) it's a product development trick, like a closed beta. I don't think you would call a closed beta "marketing" exactly. at least, this is what I read the comment as.
- dllthomas 10y agoThat was the point I got from it. My point was that it sounds a lot like what's done by the people I know who work in marketing at big companies. Marketing is not just (or even mostly) advertising.
- logicallee 10y agoall right :)
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- rfrey 10y agoI don't know what "normal writing" is, but I hope it's not a virtue to be boring.
- contras1970 10y agoHave an upvote, that cliche was very unpleasant.
- dang 10y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13016485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13016485 and marked it off-topic.