amirkhella

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Is My Product Ready To Launch?(blog.amirkhella.com)
2 points by amirkhella 16y ago|0 comments
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by amirkhella 16y ago
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the next best time is right now ;)
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What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Startups 4 Years Ago(blog.amirkhella.com)
377 points by amirkhella 16y ago|55 comments
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by amirkhella 16y ago
True. Some problems are not painful enough for people to take out their wallets and pay to solve. Yet it is the founder's responsibility to make sure the benefits of their ideas are measurable and outlined in a way that makes people take ou
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How To Choose Your Startup Idea(blog.amirkhella.com)
22 points by amirkhella 16y ago|8 comments
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A Cool Free Way to Share Prototypes and Get Feedback(keynotopia.com)
1 points by amirkhella 16y ago|0 comments
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by amirkhella 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Will fix.
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by amirkhella 16y ago
I found two simple (but not necessarily easy) paths: - Solve a problem that YOU are suffering from. Just make sure enough people have the same problem. - Use Google keyword search ;)
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by amirkhella 16y ago
Actually my experience is almost the opposite. Raising the price of the product made more people buy. There is something to be said about price/value perception.
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Is my startup idea good enough?(blog.amirkhella.com)
26 points by amirkhella 16y ago|12 comments
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How to prototype an interactive iPhone app in 13 minutes(blog.amirkhella.com)
1 points by amirkhella 16y ago|1 comments
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So You Wanna Be an Entrepreneur?(blog.amirkhella.com)
6 points by amirkhella 16y ago|0 comments
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How to prototype like a pro(blog.amirkhella.com)
30 points by amirkhella 16y ago|5 comments
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by amirkhella 16y ago
1) If by wide screen you mean requiring a horizontal scrollbar, the answer is no. I have yet to see a good UI that's wider than a single page. If you mean layouts that fill screen width, I've had some success there (Photo sharing/video shar
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Offer HN: Will answer questions about UX and product design
2 points by amirkhella 16y ago|3 comments
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Extreme Customer Development – A true story(blog.amirkhella.com)
4 points by amirkhella 16y ago|1 comments
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by amirkhella 16y ago
I can say from experience that it does. As long as you create a valuable, interesting (i.e. not boring) video, it will not only increase conversion but it will rank you higher on Google search results. Video headlines are also very importan
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How to make the right decision every time (3 minute story)(blog.amirkhella.com)
2 points by amirkhella 16y ago|0 comments
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by amirkhella 16y ago
"Just because they are the strong, doesn't mean they can't get their a55es kicked" :)
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Passion has a funny way of trumping logic(youtube.com)
1 points by amirkhella 16y ago|1 comments
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by amirkhella 16y ago
Help me put together a useful in-depth follow-up post by leaving a reply to this comment with a couple of questions that you'd like me to answer.
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by amirkhella 16y ago
No plugin. Just their HTML script for each shopping cart item that I embed in product pages. They manage sales through PP and GC, and they even hold delivery on eCheck payments until they are cleared. I think eJunkie + Wordpress make a grea
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by amirkhella 16y ago
OneWeekApp looks pretty cool! I spent a couple of hours a day afterward to do testing, upgrade the templates, and improve copy.
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by amirkhella 16y ago
I am more surprised by how much people are trying to reinvent the wheel every day. I think there are enough tools and APIs out there to build small useful products in less than a week.
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by amirkhella 16y ago
I just got it installed and activated, and deactivated most plug-ins on the blog and website. Hopefully that will solve it.
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by amirkhella 16y ago
Correct- The product itself has been created over time, as a byproduct of my day job. But it wasn't a product until I put together that MVP website.
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by amirkhella 16y ago
That's exactly right. I really don't think I did anything new or special here. My biggest challenge was to stop thinking about it and do it.
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by amirkhella 16y ago
:) No secrets here. I've been keeping a journal of the whole experiment, and can compile it into a couple of posts this weekend.
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by amirkhella 16y ago
That's a very good point. I had some pricing variations in the beginning and the one I have now is at the sweet spot. One of the most interesting moves was to add a company license (a friend suggested it and it took less than 10 minutes to
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by amirkhella 16y ago
Sure. If enough folks want to dig into this much detail, I'd be happy to put together an in-depth write-up.

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