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by dmgrow 13y ago
Interestingly, a recent survey of enterprise Google domains found Lucidchart as the 8th most popular web application in enterprises: http://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2013/03/27/20-most... What is not working for companies today i
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by dmgrow 13y ago
Lucidchart isn't open source but it does have a public API allowing the editor to be embedded in other applications. https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/api_documentation Or it has a simpler Visio API which allows other applications to use L
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by dmgrow 13y ago
Have there been any studies definitively showing a link between social media links and increase in search rankings? I've been doing SEO for a number of years and I'm always a little skeptical of what is proclaimed as the latest trend. I ag
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by dmgrow 13y ago
Interesting. What kind of business?
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by dmgrow 14y ago
I work at Lucidchart ( http://www.lucidchart.com ), a browser-based diagramming tool, and I can definitely confirm that UML is still used very widely. Though I can't share specifics, I can confirm it's among our most popular diagram types.
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by dmgrow 14y ago
Interesting to hear. Have you tried Lucidchart - http://www.lucidchart.com . We turn around improvements very quickly and I'd be interested to hear if it meets your needs, and if not, what we're currently missing for you. You can reach m
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by dmgrow 14y ago
Wasn't Google a 'minor twist' on existing search engines? Wasn't Facebook a 'minor twist' on existing social networks? The value difference is huge between poor execution and stellar execution on a solid concept. So just because another co
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by dmgrow 14y ago
When considering pricing for software, it's important to consider more than just the initial sale. It needs to be a comprehensive view of customer lifetime value. One of the critical things in my current business is the upgrade path for cu
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by dmgrow 14y ago
I thought the book was also pretty interesting. Paulson was in a very difficult position -- one I certainly do not envy -- so his first-hand perspective was worth the read.
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by dmgrow 14y ago
Thanks! The price point definitely helps pull away customers from Visio. It is pretty common for us to see a customer get rid of 10 Visio licenses and buy 100+ Lucidchart licenses in its place. More often than not though, it's the other fea
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by dmgrow 14y ago
Great to hear! If you have any feedback, please let us know. Any killer features missing in your opinion? We have got some big and fun things coming in the next few months.
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by dmgrow 14y ago
Thanks. The instant demo converts quite well. If you have a product where it makes sense to do it, I'd recommend it. There's a significant segment that doesn't want to provide an email address just to try something quickly to see if ts the
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by dmgrow 14y ago
My team and I have been working on Lucidchart for a little while now. https://www.lucidchart.com It's an HTML5 diagramming and wireframing app. We've had some coverage but are still in the early stages in this billion dollar per year indu
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by dmgrow 14y ago
That definitely looks similar.
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by dmgrow 14y ago
Lucidchart - Salt Lake City, UT Lucidchart is a rapidly growing tech startup looking for great backend software engineers to join us at our headquarters in Utah. At Lucidchart, we build killer graphical web applications requiring highly ava
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by dmgrow 14y ago
Thanks for mentioning inbound -- hadn't seen that one before and looks good for SEO/marketing/etc. Are there other similar HN-type sites that are business-oriented?
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by dmgrow 14y ago
I think their feature set is probably fairly similar to others. Through some testing of dunning settings and email notifications, we were able to significantly increase the percentage of customers who updated failed credit cards. More than
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by dmgrow 14y ago
Recurly did grandfather their early customers (we were one). For the most part, I'm a fan of Recurly and it helped improve our renewal rates. However, the major outage they experienced earlier this year (including substantial data loss) w
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by dmgrow 14y ago
Lucidchart employee here. Though we don't publicly release total user stats, this recent post about 500,000 installs through the Chrome Web Store gives a hint: https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/2012/10/31/500000-chrome-web... Even with 550
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by dmgrow 14y ago
It looks like all of the charts on that page end in about 2006. The last few years have been quite different. This report includes a comparison of percent change in per student spending in fiscal year 2012 to fiscal year 2008 in each state
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Why to Make Your App Free for Education(lucidchart.com)
25 points by dmgrow 14y ago|7 comments
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Introducing Visio stencil import and Microsoft Word integration(lucidchart.com)
2 points by dmgrow 14y ago|0 comments
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by dmgrow 14y ago
Excellent - thanks for sharing! It's a great model and I'm excited to see it grow. Of course, the nice thing about Kiva is that it is a loan, rather than a donation, which allows you to use the same initial investment to help lots of peopl
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by dmgrow 14y ago
Have you guys met up with the Kiva team? This strikes me as such a similar model in many ways. I imagine they would have an incredible amount of learning from the past several years that they would be willing to share. A lot of this has t
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by dmgrow 14y ago
Kiva (a similar site for microlending to entrepreneurs in third-world countries) does this. From my personal experience, it's been quite effective and encouraged me to occasionally donate while lending to entrepreneurs.
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by dmgrow 14y ago
My view is perhaps a bit limited because I'm in the software industry. Are other industries represented fairly well by the current laws and is it only the software industry that are demanding changes? Though government is adept at yielding
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by dmgrow 14y ago
I would suggest that it depends a lot on the stage of the company. Early on, only build enough that you can legitimately track the key metrics. Other than that, focus on building the product. As the product and business matures, it's like
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by dmgrow 14y ago
Because if you trust your gut, you will often be wrong. There's a reason why the most successful companies regularly A/B test. We have seen some very significant (and surprising!) results at our startup from A/B testing in terms of registr
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by dmgrow 14y ago
I appreciate the sentiment. It seems like the most common title/description on Twitter is something to the effect of "CEO and Co-founder of _________ " Everyone wants to be considered an entrepreneur, CEO, or founder or something these days
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by dmgrow 14y ago
You can find some posts and related information here: http://www.quora.com/Hacker-News/How-do-you-get-on-the-front... There was a post back in 2010 with the formula which PG verified. It's probably changed slightly but not substantially

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