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by bdunn 14y ago
I love Eco's fiction but am now just getting into reading his essays. Which is the one you're referencing?
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by bdunn 14y ago
I write code, and subscribe to a lot of newsletters. When I get an email that provides me with some immediate value, and then pitches me to exchange some money to deliver more value, I'm probably going to open up my wallet. Peepcode is a gr
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by bdunn 14y ago
I'm going to disagree here. Jarrod, a designer, wanted to create a book that would be beneficial to you (presumably, a developer). He had a skill you wanted to know more about to use to your benefit, which is probably why you signed up for
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$30,000 eBook Sales. In 2 Months.(blog.studiofellow.com)
35 points by bdunn 14y ago|16 comments
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by bdunn 14y ago
+1
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by bdunn 14y ago
This is great! I hope you're planning on at least charging for the "Team" feature. Project management / todos / time tracking / and so on are often chided as being oversaturated markets. The fact is: lots and lots of people need these thing
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Why Does Every Consultant Want To Build A Product?(planscope.io)
2 points by bdunn 14y ago|0 comments
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by bdunn 14y ago
Your resume is like a sales lead. As someone who made a living selling these to mortgage brokers, they'd routinely ditch the low credit leads before making contact - they knew it'd be too hard to "close" that lead. So I think Patrick is arg
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by bdunn 14y ago
I reduced my trial period for Planscope from 30 days to 14, and have already seen a dramatic uptick in sales. Unless you're doing something that takes a long time to really shine (like KISSmetrics), 14 days is more than enough to demonstrat
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by bdunn 14y ago
Make something less annoying to do, or help make your customers more money. Make sure the person keying in the card is using a business credit card. Then profit.
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by bdunn 14y ago
What's wrong with marketing an article? People respond well to questions, "Top 5...", and other tried and true methods of "baiting" someone into giving your post a chance. I don't I would have read your post if it was titled like an academi
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by bdunn 14y ago
Absolutely. You're delivering a product (translation of their ideas to actionable deliverables) that's theoretically portable. I blogged about charging for estimates here: https://planscope.io/blog/2012/03/13/6-tips-to-help-you-crea...
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by bdunn 14y ago
I've worked on dozens of projects. And the ones that have sucked have always been fixed bid projects. I'm looking forward to seeing how I won't get burned when the client changes their mind midway through :-) Seriously though, good article
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by bdunn 14y ago
I target a similar audience (freelancers). If anything, a feature would be supporting IE, especially when your app does a lot with CSS3 and bleeding edge HTML5 stuff. And features need to be justified. Planscope ( http://planscope.io ) gets
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by bdunn 14y ago
Absolutely. I loved it and look forward to next year.
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by bdunn 14y ago
Agreed. I was there a few days ago, hands down the best conference I've been to.
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by bdunn 14y ago
People manage projects, and usually get paid for it. The audience is use and wildly segmented. You see a lot of apps in this space for two reasons: a lot of people need project management tools, and most of these people will pay for one tha
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by bdunn 14y ago
I built Planscope ( http://planscope.io ) - very specific (freelancers) and so far successful after only being live two months. Most products, including PM apps invent the tool and then try to find a customer, which ends up resulting in gen
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0 To 1,203 Users With No Marketing, SEO, or Celebrity Status(planscope.io)
2 points by bdunn 14y ago|0 comments
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by bdunn 14y ago
It looks like this ascends the list of parents for an element to generate a signature. This falls apart if you move an element somewhere else in the DOM - a different signature, but it's really the same node. IMO the best approach is still
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by bdunn 14y ago
What is wrong with you?
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by bdunn 14y ago
Chris - congrats man. I've been silently stalking your "chain", and also came across your posts frequently when I was writing Planscope and was frantically Googling for Backbone help. The thing I like best is that you now have a time capsul
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by bdunn 14y ago
Thanks! I actually stole that from Plato. Socrates thought of himself as a "midwife of ideas" in the Theaetetus ( http://philosophycourse.info/lecsite/lec-socmidwife.html )
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I make a living building other people's startups, and that's OK(planscope.io)
20 points by bdunn 14y ago|4 comments
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by bdunn 14y ago
First issue goes out in a few hours, and have 165 subscribers so far. Kudos to Peter Cooper and Alex Hillman for the inspiration.
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Freelancers Weekly, a once a week newsletter for freelancers and consultants(freelancersweekly.com)
1 points by bdunn 14y ago|1 comments
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by bdunn 14y ago
I never really understood this idea of positions (especially the owner/CEO) being pegged to an arbitrary salary figure. If profits are good, reward yourself. Any smart business owner gets the long term rewards of reinvesting in the company
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by bdunn 14y ago
Better yet: Build a company that makes you a comfortable living, acquire customers who pay you (sort of needed for that "comfortable living" bit), and when people try to acquire you, politely decline. You'll make a good or great income, you
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by bdunn 15y ago
A few weeks ago, I wrote about (and presented at RubyNation) on why I think a "dumb backend" is a really bad idea: http://planscope.io/blog/2012/03/25/rails-is-more-than-an-ap...
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by bdunn 15y ago
http://planscope.io is Backbone with a ton of customization

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