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by avk 15y ago
Instead of reading or replying to things as soon as they come in, I just silence everything on my phone except phone calls. That way, I check emails, texts, tweets, etc. at my convenience. It interrupts me only when necessary.
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How to evaluate and implement startup ideas using Hypothesis Driven Development(swombat.com)
9 points by avk 16y ago|0 comments
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by avk 16y ago
Why do you need to re-order labels? And do you mean in a conversation or in the sidebar?
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by avk 16y ago
Neat. I wonder what OtherInbox makes of this? Their organizer feature is basically this.
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by avk 16y ago
This post was the biggest surprise of my day. I like the sentiment of good enough products market themselves but it also reminds me too much of "build it and they will come." And we know how often that works out...
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by avk 16y ago
I've had luck converting people tweeting about the problem my product solves to beta users. I'm sure it depends on who your customers are and how likely they are to express themselves on Twitter and other social media.
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Nix on “No”: Try not to say “no” to any of your customers(cindyalvarez.com)
2 points by avk 16y ago|0 comments
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by avk 16y ago
Isn't that a problem for Quora to solve? I'd hate to think keeping anyone out is the answer, especially with a challenging UX.
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What do we build now? A page from Blueleaf's Lean Startup Playbook(johnprendergast.posterous.com)
3 points by avk 16y ago|0 comments
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by avk 16y ago
(Copy & pasted from a feedback email to Dave because I thought others might like to elaborate and discuss): Great job on starting HackerBuddy. I was impressed with how quickly it matched me up with someone! Ideas as they came to me: 1.
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User Story Mapping Technique(agileproductdesign.com)
2 points by avk 16y ago|0 comments
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How to Market Your Awesome Start-Up(thenextweb.com)
3 points by avk 16y ago|0 comments
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by avk 16y ago
I like most of these questions but am not sure about #1: "Is this a core investment or something in which you have interest but would walk away from if things get difficult?" Isn't this something you would know based on who the firm has inv
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Designing for the Social Web: The Usage Lifecycle(bokardo.com)
1 points by avk 16y ago|0 comments
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Creating Passionate Users: Attenuation and the suck threshold(headrush.typepad.com)
2 points by avk 16y ago|0 comments
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by avk 16y ago
Good luck to everyone who's applying!
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by avk 16y ago
"Every week, the teams have two meetings. One in which to brainstorm, to forget about constraints and think freely....to "go crazy". Then they also hold a production meeting, an entirely separate but equally regular meeting which is the oth
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by avk 16y ago
"the best thing right now would be to have a boss that is not yourself" I love this but.. "..then get out of the way so that you could just focus on the code" ...completely hate this. At first read, the idea of a boss that is not yourself s
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by avk 16y ago
I think people's backgrounds create a strong bias in what they think qualifies as progress or a solution. Business people want to tweak the deck, the sales pitch, the marketing, the business plan, etc. Designers want to improve the UX, the
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by avk 16y ago
Thank you!
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by avk 16y ago
Will do! Always appreciate feedback. Just tweet @slipstre_am or email feedback at slipstre.am
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by avk 16y ago
Cool. Hiding checkins is a very popular use case.
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by avk 16y ago
Definitely but I want to hit some other big milestones before charging for anything.
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by avk 16y ago
Thanks, I'll consider it. Always more to A/B test :)
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Launching My First Incubated Startup Today(artvankilmer.wordpress.com)
39 points by avk 16y ago|11 comments
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by avk 16y ago
Thanks for sharing. I actually got more out of your post than the presentation.
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by avk 16y ago
Founder here. Thanks for the mention and happy to take feedback! Was planning on doing an Ask HN post soon.
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Yes, but who said they’d actually BUY the damn thing?(blog.asmartbear.com)
1 points by avk 16y ago|0 comments
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by avk 16y ago
I did. That's how I got the original output.
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by avk 16y ago
$ heroku logs --tail ! Realtime tail and filter are not available with basic logging, please upgrade to expanded logging :(

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