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by fookyong 16y ago
Good code is not really a hiring criteria. It's just the price of entry. Hiring criteria for startup programmers: 1) can you work with others ...or are you the comic book expert from the Simpsons 2) can you ship ...can you be happy with a
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by fookyong 16y ago
wellll ok, the real answer is: It depends on your execution. In general, reducing friction will increase signups. That's hard to argue against. The only situation where reducing friction will reduce signups is where you seemingly reduce
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by fookyong 16y ago
those are all horrible examples. all venture-funded, and therefore were news-worthy (in the tech news blog sense) from the very beginning. I think the question the above poster was asking is: If I Move You was being bootstrapped, would it
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by fookyong 16y ago
if signups are your metric, then I would guess you'd see an increase. however, as others have mentioned on HN, by reducing friction you increase the amount of "tyre-kickers" - people who just want to check things out and leave. that's not s
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by fookyong 16y ago
that sounds like a marketing plan to me (rather than a business plan). and as marketing plans go for unknown products, it's not bad.
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by fookyong 16y ago
Here's how to replicate it on my iPad at least In landscape mode, put your thumb on the screen and hold it there. Then move it slightly to the left and stop. The page continued shifting despite the fact that I'm not dragging anymore and eve
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by fookyong 16y ago
I'm assuming you have an ipad. The problem occurs in landscape mode. Try scrolling and you'll see what I mean.
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by fookyong 16y ago
Off topic, but I absolutely cannot stand the way that this site renders and behaves on an iPad. What's wrong with it? It wobbles all over the place and the text looks non-native and jagged. Sort it out, Baptiste!
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by fookyong 16y ago
My mind boggles at Quora too. I just don't get how they can even think of launching while Facebook are about to roll out their own Q&A feature. The StackOverflow folks have the right idea - I think the market can support a bunch of nic
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by fookyong 16y ago
as you said, that's pretty much a recipe for an unstable business. 3rd party platform + a feature that everyone wants + makes money... it would make zero sense for the 3rd party to sit on their hands. you're either going to be acquired (
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by fookyong 16y ago
Regarding your comment about the landing page seeming info-commercial-like, that's par for the course in the content-selling world AFAIK. Potential customers are sold with lots of text, emphasizing the volume of stuff you get for your $25 p
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3 Stages to Beating an Entrenched Competitor(yongfook.com)
2 points by fookyong 16y ago|1 comments
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by fookyong 16y ago
I'm in a management position at a large ecommerce site. I still code every day. I expect to see code from candidates. They can either send in code beforehand or walk me through some code they have written. Either way, I need to see some co
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by fookyong 16y ago
Naysayer alert! Just my opinion (or perhaps I've misunderstood) - but this solves a problem that is better solved by a paper and pencil. Or a whiteboard. On my mac I have a few different tools that I could use to make these sorts of diagra
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by fookyong 16y ago
Overblown. Name me a 1st world country where 20-somethings with generic degrees and zero experience don't have a hard time finding a job. Disclosure: I work in Japan and have been here since graduating uni. I started with a low-paid desi
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by fookyong 16y ago
I made some comments about this on my blog: http://yongfook.com/is-flipboard-legal I think Flipboard will get a free ride for a while. It's definitely in grey territory, but I think the excitement around it means that it represents too m
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by fookyong 16y ago
aaaaaaand the app posted to my Facebook without telling me. not cool. The call to action was "Find Friends", not "Let everyone know that I installed this app". I thought we were past sneaky tricks like this :/
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by fookyong 16y ago
Perhaps I'm not part of the target demographic for this, but I don't really grok it. It seems like (a very well executed) yet-another-photo-sharing app, with an extra layer of marketing fluff. I see the founders are in the thread so maybe t
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by fookyong 16y ago
+1 It always puzzled me as to why we don't see much of that. ...but I guess if you're Zynga and you're serving games to 70 million users already, there's not much incentive for you to go chasing up character license holders to split the rew
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by fookyong 16y ago
hehe. it's a good point though. I think for me, one big way to virally spread would be to make it so survey results get shown after someone responds, make sure the design of those public results looks awesome, and then piggy back on some m
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by fookyong 16y ago
If I was teaching the basics of building an app, these would be some classes I'd teach: 1) hello world using MVC 2) gobble an RSS feed and make it pretty (learn about objects / data massaging) 3) pull data from a database and display 4) put
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by fookyong 16y ago
Pricing is something that you're never going to get perfect right off the bat. Start high, then figure things out with your customers. Remember that it's easier to lower prices than it is to raise them. I will say that it's quite common t
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by fookyong 16y ago
nice. almost 2 years old! I hope there are some new ideas we can think of :) This point was really good from the top-voted answer: "Build ancillary "fun" services that tie into your main web app. Something fun, free, perhaps something tha
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by fookyong 16y ago
I would imagine the friction level is too high. Getting people out of watching a video and into your app is a big hurdle. It could have some nice viral potential for awareness, but then again "making a kick ass viral video" is probably eas
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Ask HN: How to drive non-paid traffic to an app landing page?
20 points by fookyong 16y ago|12 comments
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by fookyong 16y ago
I don't think the OP said "rebuilding". I took the OP to mean that at startup #1 they have an idea and a plan, and they need the OP to help execute on it. To the OP > IMO you will probably get a good rounded experience from #1, but it i
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by fookyong 16y ago
I don't think that's Techcrunch's mission now. However, they could start a sister site (like CrunchGear) and dedicate it to that. I wonder why they haven't... the market is probably a bit too niche. It would require the same amount of man
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by fookyong 16y ago
Agreed. It suggests a significant change in business model. You're not going to exit for half a billion dollars making sites for $8 a month for a bunch of SMEs. Wild guess: they will make it all free, ramp up acquisition until they are a c
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by fookyong 16y ago
Here's something that I don't get. Is funnel analysis even suitable for a monthly subscription service? Unless you're mucking around with your checkout funnel constantly (why?) this seems more like the kind of tool that I'd use once. Or at
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Customer Acquisition - are you being too generic?(yongfook.com)
3 points by fookyong 16y ago|0 comments

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