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by jessep 13y ago
This doesn't take into account the typical shape of crowdfunding curves, which are almost always steep at the beginning and even steeper at the end, and relatively flat in the middle. This is very well documented by a bajillion kicksta
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by jessep 13y ago
I'm confused about the transition from Glass (Google product, no?) to discussion of Microsoft's messaging problems. Can someone explain the relationship?
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Information design: a restaurant menu that makes people choose healthier options(latimes.com)
2 points by jessep 13y ago|1 comments
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by jessep 14y ago
Yelp, not Foursquare, is the clear leader in driving traffic for offline commerce. From my experience, Foursquare isn't even close. Look at your life, look at the people around you. Look at the stickers stores put in their windows. Yelp is
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by jessep 14y ago
Stripe launched and developed this way (yc first). Seems to work out pretty well.
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by jessep 14y ago
Funny thing is: she could make more money by telling people she gets support from the links. She just needs to spin it correctly.People want to buy these books, knowing it is helping her would only make them want to buy them more. I worked
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Workflowy for iPhone and iPad Works Offline (YC S10)(lifehacker.com)
35 points by jessep 14y ago|6 comments
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by jessep 14y ago
That's cool! I like that structure. Maybe we'll write a blog post about this. (I make WorkFlowy).
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by jessep 14y ago
Yeah, we're working on it. Testing it on our phones now, seems to be working pretty well.
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by jessep 14y ago
You should consider including a userid of some sort with the error reporting. It can let you debug down esoteric, hard to reproduce errors reported by users, which are otherwise almost impossible.
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by jessep 14y ago
why no mechanism to give?
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by jessep 14y ago
I tell everyone that I'm working on "a web page". Seriously. It's funny, and it starts the conversation off with a good, playful tone that makes it clear that I don't take myself too seriously.
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by jessep 14y ago
I have a bunch of friends who work at Tesla. They do work hard, one of whom works waaaaay too hard, but it's meaningful work. They're changing the world. It's a similar feeling I get from people I know who work at Apple.
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by jessep 14y ago
Another point that's not explicitly mentioned in the article: raising money isn't fun and afterward makes the whole venture less fun. If you do a good job generating and growing revenue, hopefully you don't have to worry about raising money
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by jessep 14y ago
Regarding the question of estimating the error: I don't know a ton about stats, but can't you use bootstrapping to get a valid sense of the variability/margin of error of your dataset for non normal distributions? http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by jessep 14y ago
:) Thanks so much. Yeah, it's really interesting that after the golden era of outliners, none of them still exist in a big way.
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by jessep 14y ago
Yeah, we're aware of it. Basically, we plan on doing an Android app but haven't had time yet. No reason to squash something that's helpful to people.
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by jessep 14y ago
We do want to make an API, but we think it would be irresponsible based on our current organizational status. We're still in scrappy-two-person-startup mode, and we don't want to do the poorly supported, unstable API thing. But yeah, it's c
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by jessep 14y ago
Ha, thanks (I work on it). Both for the comment and for upgrading to pro. There's still like a bajillion things we can do to improve it. A few big features, but a bajillion smaller usability improvements that add up to a really big deal.
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by jessep 14y ago
It's actually just a normal, genuine review of a product :)
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by jessep 14y ago
Haha. I'm a WorkFlowy founder. A few people have thought this because it is so positive, but it really isn't. The author just contacted me on Twitter saying, "I'm gonna write a story about you, cause I love your product" and then called and
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Everything in your life is just a list(slate.com)
112 points by jessep 14y ago|78 comments
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by jessep 14y ago
It's a bit odd that the main example on the home page references an object called DS on 8 of 10 lines, but DS is never referenced elsewhere in the documentation. I know from prior exploration at their github account that DS stands for "data
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by jessep 14y ago
I think the comments here are responding negatively to the title of the post. True, you're probably not going to spend the rest of the day coding to the music you make in incredibox. But this app is still very cool for what it is: a fun, ea
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by jessep 14y ago
I agree. I was eager to contribute but saw the page and didn't do anything. The rewards just seemed kind of stingy and the target seemed high. It's software, zero replication cost. Everyone who contributes should get a copy, and additional
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by jessep 14y ago
why not name names? seems like it could be informative.
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by jessep 15y ago
Saw demo day yesterday and it was pretty awesome. Lots of interesting startups, and the way Paul & co. coach teams to present is fun to watch. They really make what they're doing seem exciting. It's also kinda like bingo to figure out w
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by jessep 15y ago
This is cool. I'm one of the guys who makes WorkFlowy.com, so I always check out new to-do/list making apps. I'm almost always like, "This is super lame," but not this time. This app actually seems quite nice. I'd like to be able to flip fo
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by jessep 15y ago
It stalled after I entered my credentials. It's just been sitting there for 10 minutes.
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by jessep 15y ago
Ah, I see. Yeah, the "first" claim is bad, we're going to take it out when we update the video. I do think you're probably taking the video a little too seriously, though.

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