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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
I was with you until the last sentence. How does that help developers who are being harmed under the advertiser arrangement? The developers still make up a minority of the user revenue. Even if that flipped...there are multiple customer i
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
I'm with you on the meta-goal being "right". And I didn't say to exclude money from the equation, Dalton and his team deserve to be paid for their work: once they actually solve a real pain point. Right now the pain looks a lot like fear &#
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
I actually don't hate this project, I think it's interesting or else it wouldn't have caught my attention in the first place. I just noticed a few things about it and wrote what I saw.
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
Sweet. Thanks for sharing.
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
I'm with you 100% on every point you made, but my original point was that the thesis seems to be "the money comes from the users & developers now", and I don't think that's as dramatic of a shift as its been painted to be.
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
I have an honest question for you because I'm trying to understand this mode of thinking myself: why suddenly "no fear" of the rug being pulled out from under you? How does giving Dalton your money permanently align your interests with his?
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
Movement, ha.
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
I don't really feel negative, to be honest. Just noticing some things and wanting to point them out. From the comments so far, it seems I'm not alone in the things I've noticed.
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
This is the healthy outlook I wish more people had...and that we didn't need to throw money at a false idol to have that conversation. Hence, the money being an intentional distraction (red herring) from the real issues.
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
I think part of the disappointment people have in twitter stems from the days when TWITTER didn't know what twitter was going to become. It didn't become what they (and Dalton) hoped, so this is an attempt to reboot. Except the rules didn't
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
I donate regularly to donorschoose.org and organize a blood drive for the Philly tech scene 3-4x a year. I hope you've got a favorite cause, too :)
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
No, I can reason the multitude of reasons that someone would pay, including my own. Empathy is a helluva drug.
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The money part of App.net is a red herring(alexhillman.com)
149 points by alexknowshtml 14y ago|98 comments
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
If you have any interest in populating this with data from the http://weworkinphilly.com API, drop me a line. Email in profile.
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
Disclosure: I used to work at Postmark. ISPs are way more interested in maintaining relationships with ESPs that keep junk from getting to them in the first place than the ones that "quickly fix once the damage is done". It's one case where
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
A friend of mine built this: https://vipbox.heroku.com/r38y
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Ways to improve your collaborations(alexhillman.com)
1 points by alexknowshtml 14y ago|0 comments
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
Don't forget that infoproduct (ebook & class) income is an alternative way to fund product development. In a way, in addition to being helped to their own sustainable success, revenue from the classes supplants the need for angel or ven
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Concrete Steps For Creating A Happier Office(npr.org)
2 points by alexknowshtml 14y ago|0 comments
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
Please don't undervalue yourself like that. This kind of experience and insight is worth much more than "a buck or two".
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Bootstrapping like a Winemaker(alexhillman.com)
1 points by alexknowshtml 14y ago|0 comments
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
When do you tell them that? Before or after you've invested?
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by alexknowshtml 14y ago
As of today we have native support for SVN, Git, and Hg. We've also open sourced the Ruby API we wrote for Mercuiral: https://github.com/isabanin/mercurial-ruby Enjoy!
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Beanstalk launches Mercurial support (blog.beanstalkapp.com)
8 points by alexknowshtml 14y ago|1 comments
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Refactoring 4+ years of CSS development into Sass(wildbit.com)
27 points by alexknowshtml 14y ago|0 comments
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
Another huge vote for Intercom. I use them every day to get to know our customers at http://beanstalkapp.com and the product has saved me a TON of time and made my work much more easy to gain insights from.
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by alexknowshtml 15y ago
Look at it from the other angle: why would the content providers sign a long-term agreement with Spotify?
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10 web development concepts designers should know(netmagazine.com)
8 points by alexknowshtml 15y ago|0 comments
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How I sped up Beanstalk’s test suite by 5x(blog.beanstalkapp.com)
15 points by alexknowshtml 15y ago|1 comments

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