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by fookyong 16y ago
So who does this directly compete with? I can think of: http://backtype.com and of course http://bit.ly Any word from the above companies regarding this announcement? The packaged response is usually "we work with more platforms" but wh
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by fookyong 16y ago
Wow timing is bad. I'm the developer and would love to answer questions if anyone has any... But I'm just about to get on a plane! Still, will check back when I land :)
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by fookyong 16y ago
I hope you won't mind me lifting that line and repeating it as my own in the future with no attribution ;) It spells out exactly what I want to say every time I hear the "WTF PayPal suxx" debate.
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by fookyong 16y ago
Thank you for introducing me to http://bjango.com/articles/ So much good stuff there!
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by fookyong 16y ago
To give some context, we certainly don't prescribe to the cluttered aesthetic of some other Japanese ecommerce sites. We are much more about letting the product do the talking: Screenshot: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1205/5145308747_25
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UX Bloat Nonsense(yongfook.com)
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by fookyong 16y ago
I'm calling a spade a spade. 100,000 people is pathetic. Note that this is not subscribers - this is "the total amount of people who have paid in one way or another". 50,000 of those are subscribers, which in PR-speak probably means "peopl
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by fookyong 16y ago
can anyone provide a link to the cited video? would be interesting to see.
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by fookyong 16y ago
I did a search and it says "1 to 20 /yahoo results for (query)" Does that mean Blekko is just a nice-looking front end for the yahoo API? I'm guessing the answer is no and the technology goes far deeper than that, but as an average user wit
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by fookyong 16y ago
of course you can. it is switched off by default but takes about 1 minute to re-enable (edit a config file). the author is overblowing the issue
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by fookyong 16y ago
I see this type of argument often and I think it misses the point. The argument is: "Techcrunch will send you un-engaged traffic. Nobody from Techcrunch is going to actually buy your product" Which is used to persuade people that the "T
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by fookyong 16y ago
people who pride themselves on being "UX experts" are the most obnoxious people in our industry. there, I said it.
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by fookyong 16y ago
I don't want to get all wishy-washy philosophical on you here but in Joe's case I would argue that he IS the product. To wit, regarding the OP's main point: - selling potato peelers is not a "fucking great idea" by any means. - selling pota
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by fookyong 16y ago
nice proof-of-concept but after looking at the libraries and non-standard css required, I couldn't help but think "...yeah or I could just do them in photoshop". the A/B test fanatics out there will cry "but this will allow you to test hund
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by fookyong 16y ago
I use CodeIgniter, have done for about 4 years now. I never even think about high level stuff like "what language should I code in" anymore. It doesn't matter to the end user. CodeIgniter allows me to do anything I want, elegantly and wit
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by fookyong 16y ago
I don't make the rules, but my feeling is that content should be judged based on value, not who posted it. The last thing I would want to see is a Digg-like divide between content super-sharers and content creators, trying to get their cont
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by fookyong 16y ago
Is this actually from experience? Or is this simply cherry-picking from famous web apps? If the author hasn't built a successful pricing page themselves, then this is just white noise. Best practices for this kind of thing seem to go in and
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by fookyong 16y ago
there is something unnervingly Orwellian about this.
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by fookyong 16y ago
Hmm this looks like a great alternative to http://amember.com which I have been using for a long time (and am not particularly fond of - old code, ugly UI). I basically use Amember to manage member subscriptions e.g. what plan they are on
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by fookyong 16y ago
it depends how much risk you want to take with your free time :) nothing is guaranteed. neither your small or big project is guaranteed to earn a cent. so all it comes down to is how much of your time are you willing to give up and how en
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by fookyong 16y ago
this is awesome! would love to see it on github :) edit: oh and FYI works great in Safari too
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by fookyong 16y ago
just to bring a little pragmatism to the conversation... we have zero metrics on Hipmunk other than a warm-fuzzy feeling that it's "nice". until there is some kind of study or publicising of figures proving that Hipmunks approach sells more
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by fookyong 16y ago
"Google CEO Eric Schmidt appears to believe that Twitter will coin money someday. Google should buy Twitter even if it thinks Twitter will never make money, merely as a way to get into the social-network business. But if Google thinks th
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by fookyong 16y ago
Yoga. Cook (then eat).
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by fookyong 16y ago
Sorry to sound confrontational but: Why should we listen to startup advice from a startup that is still just a landing page and a mailing list signup? You talk about MVPs and getting to launch, but you yourself have not launched... I'm conf
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by fookyong 16y ago
Disclosure: I am a director of one of Japan's largest luxury ecommerce sites, so I feel fairly qualified to give feedback about this :) Firstly, ecommerce + social is a really attractive combination for us. In that respect, don't give up o
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by fookyong 16y ago
It depends what resources/requirements you're working with. If you're just a bunch of dudes in a room building simple software on your own, you don't need a PM. If you're a bunch of dudes building more complex software (various moving parts
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by fookyong 16y ago
Fair question. In terms of big differences, I'd say that my app offers more ways to get feedback. You create one survey and then get multiple choices on how to use it: 1) web-based (this is like google docs) 2) mobile (optimised for iphones
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by fookyong 16y ago
I 2nd talking to your users about it. sorry to plug my app, but I just added the free plan back to my survey app - use it for free to gather some feedback :) http://goodgecko.com
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by fookyong 16y ago
Interesting. I just flipped the free plan back on over at: http://goodgecko.com I'll write more about this on my blog soon, but in a nutshell my reasons were thus: 1) It helps mitigate some marketing costs 2) I'd also rather the user trie

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