MicahWedemeyer

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by MicahWedemeyer 10y ago
It's because nobody really thinks about it until the last minute. That's kind of as it should be, since there are usually more important things to worry about. I think the "back in a jiffy" pages are fine, but if you wan
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Zero Downtime Just Isn't Worth It(blog.wrenchmode.com)
18 points by MicahWedemeyer 10y ago|5 comments
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A Better Heroku Maintenance Mode(blog.wrenchmode.com)
20 points by MicahWedemeyer 10y ago|0 comments
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by MicahWedemeyer 11y ago
I agree in a practical sense. I doubt Mailchimp has a problem with the case I've described. I just think the wording of their AUP is too vague. If taken at face value, it invalidates a lot of legitimate use cases. That just means all t
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by MicahWedemeyer 11y ago
For the people debating the "If it's bulk email, why not just use Mailchimp?" question, consider the Trello use case: Someone updates a ticket and there are 4 people subscribed for notifications. In that case, it sends the sa
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Boxee Team Joins Samsung(boxee.tv)
1 points by MicahWedemeyer 13y ago|0 comments
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by MicahWedemeyer 13y ago
I'd recommend not worrying about it. You can't plan for everything and the time you spend being redundant for this (very unlikely) case is probably better spent somewhere else. Send an email to one user asking for feedback and you
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by MicahWedemeyer 13y ago
I’ve lost friends because they thought I was crazy to try to build my own company. Huh? What kind of friend tosses you aside because you decide to start a company? That makes absolutely no sense. I'm trying to imagine this conversation: Y
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by MicahWedemeyer 13y ago
From the bio: signalgenius.com [founder & growing] fourthsegment.com [founded & failed] ryanangilly.com [blog] mypunchbowl.com [employee & still going] messagesling.com [founded & failed] I'd really like to hear how things e
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by MicahWedemeyer 13y ago
I'd love to see the CPM they get that beats $24/yr from an infrequent user like me. I use it as a storage site and visit it extremely rarely. Maybe I'm an outlier.
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by MicahWedemeyer 13y ago
Not sure exactly what the story is here, but I just sent them a spreadsheet for my kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/252020431/obsidian-porta... They ship the t-shirts directly to my backers. That's a huge weight off my sho
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by MicahWedemeyer 13y ago
Happy paying customer for 2 or 3 years now. I'll probably be downgrading to free because it definitely supports my needs with these upgrades. This is a strange view of business: Take what people are happy to pay for, then give it to them fo
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by MicahWedemeyer 13y ago
Including SnapChat in here is interesting. I would consider it a perfect example of the novel interface and interaction being discussed, but it's also a perfect example of the potential for flash-in-the-pan. SnapChat is exciting now, but wi
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by MicahWedemeyer 13y ago
You'll have to do a retrospective and let us know how this promotional campaign for microha.us goes.
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by MicahWedemeyer 13y ago
Exactly. Mailchimp has a very specific userbase, probably much closer to Basecamp than Facebook. If you're in that camp (serving ads, tracking biz finances, time tracking for freelancers, etc.) then Facebook/Twitter login may send the wrong
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by MicahWedemeyer 13y ago
My point is that the OP is looking for examples of real businesses telling real stories. In the story I linked, PoF is selling the same old "I fell out of bed into a pile of money" tale. A few choice quotes from the first few paragraphs: H
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by MicahWedemeyer 13y ago
Plenty of Fish is one of the worst offenders of what the OP is calling business porn . They've been pushing the "overnight success with zero effort" story for a long time. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/business/13digi.html?pagew...
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by MicahWedemeyer 13y ago
That first sentence really took me by surprise... Our US State Sales Tax system was written by a Shopify employee?!?!
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by MicahWedemeyer 13y ago
I worked for a time at a startup whose claim to fame was "We almost got bought by Google before they chose YouTube" YouTube wasn't alone. They just won the lottery and nobody remembers all the others who disappeared.
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by MicahWedemeyer 13y ago
Imagine two people working hard, doing their best. Imagine their boss, also working hard, too busy to stop and think about the future. One day, one of the workers asks the boss for a raise and a promotion. The other worker just assumes his
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by MicahWedemeyer 13y ago
I'm going to guess that KS will be sending a C&D. It's a cute site, and I like the idea, but the style is way too close to KS. They have to be concerned about people stumbling onto this and not getting the joke. On the other hand, if it
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by MicahWedemeyer 14y ago
A bit of a fluff piece just promoting Gaglers, but the underlying assertion is worth thinking about. A per-seat license model has definitely pushed me away from certain products, while a pure usage model is much more appealing to me.
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by MicahWedemeyer 14y ago
From what I can find, this is the author's company: http://openfi.re/ "A crowdfunding platform for long-term, socially valuable projects." Perhaps the author does not mean iterator in a derogatory way? Obviously, his own company is an ite
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by MicahWedemeyer 14y ago
Email has identity built in. Email is identity. I'm no security expert, but my understanding is that email is pretty flawed when it comes to establishing the true identity of the sender. I guess you could use something like DKIM or SPF, b
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by MicahWedemeyer 14y ago
You're right that I'm using reductio ad absurdum, but my goal is to call into question the idea that productivity is all that matters. If we're going to argue things based solely on productivity, then all sorts of absurd policies become via
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by MicahWedemeyer 14y ago
I wish I could upvote you more. You're exactly right in that I'm trying to make a "reductio ad absurdum" argument: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum I really don't expect companies to start forcing Adderall on people, but
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by MicahWedemeyer 14y ago
I guess I've been doing it so long that I don't really think of it as allowed anymore. It's just something that I feel is my choice. I've gone so far as to co-found my own consulting company so that no one will get to make that decision f
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by MicahWedemeyer 14y ago
Hahaha! Good point! I'm probably not going to convince many people to change their minds or their habits since most of us who can choose have already made a choice.
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by MicahWedemeyer 14y ago
It's kind of what I expected, but all the comments here are actually debating the Are you more productive? question, and the point of the post is that I really don't care anymore. Try examining the other part of the equation: Are you hap
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Working From Home is Like Saying No to Drugs(micahwedemeyer.com)
59 points by MicahWedemeyer 14y ago|81 comments

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