adamhowell

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A partial visual history of startup sugru(sugru.com)
1 points by adamhowell 15y ago|0 comments
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by adamhowell 15y ago
I came on as the lead designer at The Business Journals late last year after this redesign was launched -- and while I disagree with the 99.5% number -- I agree 100% that there was lots of room for improvement. And that's why we're rolling
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by adamhowell 15y ago
I know everybody hates ads, but it only reinforces the "naive businessmen" stereotype of designers when people say stuff like this: "Since news is accessed only via subscription, most of the ads can be eliminated from the pages." That's lik
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by adamhowell 15y ago
Yeah, most of those were for thumbnailing. What I'm talking about is most like a screenshot version of archive.org.
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by adamhowell 15y ago
I've often found myself needing -- and thinking a/b building -- a webapp/site for taking/collecting screenshots of other sites. But I'm not sure it'd actually be useful and I certainly don't know if anyone'd pay for it.
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By the numbers, Foursquare just doesn't stand a chance(thesocialpath.com)
2 points by adamhowell 15y ago|0 comments
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NY Times on Studiomates, co-working space in Brooklyn(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by adamhowell 15y ago|1 comments
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by adamhowell 15y ago
Well that makes one of us who can live without Dropbox. Drew would have to kill a baby panda with an elephant tusk for me to even begin thinking about switching.
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Bill to repeal 1099 small business paperwork bill clears Congress(bizjournals.com)
18 points by adamhowell 16y ago|8 comments
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by adamhowell 16y ago
Oops, I meant to reply to this. It would especially appeal to me right now because my wife stays home with my 4-year-old daughter.
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by adamhowell 16y ago
After participating in Rails Rumble a couple of years ago a fun idea I haven't been able to shake is if it'd be possible to work 20 hours a day Saturday and Sunday and then take M-F off (plus, you'd have less online distractions during your
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How Lendle (Kindle book sharing) was built(jeffcroft.com)
1 points by adamhowell 16y ago|0 comments
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Browser breakdown of who's using Basecamp Mobile so far(37signals.com)
16 points by adamhowell 16y ago|2 comments
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by adamhowell 16y ago
A question I haven't yet found a satisfactory answer to: should the mobile version of a webapp like Basecamp have mobile marketing pages or just a login form?
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For non-startups, things just take time(cameronmoll.tumblr.com)
2 points by adamhowell 16y ago|1 comments
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by adamhowell 16y ago
I may be wrong, but I believe it's so the suicide bomber can't back out at the last minute. They have a spotter that makes sure they're in position then blows them up.
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Matt Haughey on learning customer service from Craig Newmark(metatalk.metafilter.com)
2 points by adamhowell 16y ago|0 comments
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Using the Google Cr-48 for Coding(ejohn.org)
125 points by adamhowell 16y ago|63 comments
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20 Things I Learned About Browsers & the Web (Google Chrome experiment)(20thingsilearned.com)
2 points by adamhowell 16y ago|0 comments
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37Signals caught treating pricing page like a marketing page(sixteenventures.com)
3 points by adamhowell 16y ago|0 comments
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Twitter Employees Get Google’s 20% Time… For The Entire Next Week(techcrunch.com)
19 points by adamhowell 16y ago|6 comments
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by adamhowell 16y ago
I'd be lying if I didn't admit my main reason for submitting this is because they mention my side-project -- http://mocksup.com -- as a Rails Rumble '09 entry that's now a "pretty polished [application] with [a] revenue stream".
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by adamhowell 16y ago
I don't usually quote pg, but I think in this case it's relevant: "Old Twitter is what you'd get if an engineer brought New Twitter to Steve Jobs, and Steve beat on him relentlessly to simplify it." ( http://twitter.com/#!/paulg/status/2599
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by adamhowell 16y ago
I feel like I'm missing something, because going by these pricing charts -- http://chargify.com/pricing-and-signup -- it seems like if you're a Chargify customer, "freemium" is no longer possible. We ( http://mocksup.com ) happily use Spr
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by adamhowell 16y ago
Everyone who sees me using TotalFinder asks me about it and I know at least a couple have bought it first thing when they got back to their computer. Great work.
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by adamhowell 16y ago
Thanks. Once we got the marketing pages/admin features to a place we thought were worth paying for, I posted a link on HN and from that we got covered by Mashable and several others. That got us profitable. Now we're working on getting to t
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by adamhowell 16y ago
This is a topic dear to my heart, there's not much I love talking about more than side-projects. http://mocksup.com is my current side-project, and while it's yet to "go big", it's profitable and growing.
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by adamhowell 16y ago
I wasn't implying that kids need lots of stuff. I was implying that then you have a kid and have more urgent things to worry about than whether or not your life is perfectly organized. Like how to get the kid to stop wiping their poop on th
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by adamhowell 16y ago
And then you have a kid.
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by adamhowell 16y ago
It's on the frontpage of Reddit at the moment, so I assume that's why it's here, too.

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