kareemm

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by kareemm 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote Only (located in Atlantic Timezone, ET+1) Full stack Rails developer / product manager. I generally help with two kinds of problems: 1. Helping founders with deep domain experience who need to build a v1: https:&
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Ask HN: How do you implement visitor-to-signup tracking in your app?
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I wrote an article about how we did this at my second company. It worked shockingly well: https://www.reemer.com/articles/why-only-fools-write-code-fi...
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by kareemm 7y ago
> 6. Most founders don't know their website visitor to trial conversion rates This is surprisingly difficult to solve in 2020. The biggest issue is (in Google Analytics) how to separate traffic that could potentially sign up for a t
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Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours(theguardian.com)
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The product grew to $130M in what is effectively GMV.
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Revenue is a lot higher than that. The 0.25-0.5% fee that you cite is an ANNUAL fee for donated securities under management. Other ways to give include cash and cheque. Fees vary slightly based on a number of factors but were 5% on cash a
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by kareemm 7y ago
Ooof. Added a redirect. Thanks for the catch!
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The American Dream Is Easier to Achieve in Canada(cnn.com)
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From idea to $130 Million: key lessons learned(reemer.com)
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Lessons learned going from idea to $130M(reemer.com)
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by kareemm 7y ago
Fantastic. Thanks for sharing. Two questions: 1. How much data did you gather before extrapolating to the numbers in your post? 2. What tooling did you use to estimate traffic?
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I've been writing code professionally since 2001, and on an amateur basis since learning basic and machine language on my Commodore 64 in 1989. The thing that many younger devs don't (yet) get is that tech works in cycles. Today&
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Netflix had happiest US employees in 2019 workplace survey(businessinsider.com)
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Like I said, I don't care about not tracking my users. In other words I'm fine tracking my users.
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Every website needs analytics. The market is huge. Doesn't matter if most don't want to pay.
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Can't find obvious ways to see landing pages or conversions from their demo: https://simpleanalytics.com/simpleanalytics.com Am I missing something?
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I don't care that much about not tracking my users tbh. I'm only using it to optimize conversion on my site. I'm not selling it or doing anything untoward, and wouldn't ever.
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I wouldn't look at how GA implements things. But I'd look at what people are using GA to learn. The four scenarios I listed above are important to understand when running the marketing side of a B2B SaaS company. I don't car
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No need for it to be free. I'd be willing to pay to not blow my brains out every time I have to touch GA.
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Mixpanel's more product usage. The most valuable part of GA is imho the marketing piece. Eg: - "Show me where my visitors are coming from" - "Show me what landing pages are most popular... at driving conversion... by ch
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by kareemm 7y ago
Looks nice. I’m somewhat surprised we haven’t seen an obvious alternative to Google Analytics yet. It’s got a wide and deep surface area. But feels like for the majority of eg B2B SaaS apps there’s a much simpler solution to be built. Somet
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17y old discovers planet 6.9x larger than earth on day 3 of NASA internship(nbcchicago.com)
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Andrew Bosworth on FBs role in the last election(m.facebook.com)
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Facebook won’t limit political ad targeting or stop false claims under new rules(washingtonpost.com)
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Pursuing evolutionary-relevant goals provides purpose in life(psypost.org)
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by kareemm 7y ago
> But isn't finding out clear priorities from sales and other teams, with the context behind it as well, useful as a PM? Absolutely. But: 1. How are they defining clear priorities? With inexperienced support teams it's "
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by kareemm 7y ago
> over time that can start to feel like a black hole that isn’t listened to Great point. Definitely need to ensure teammates feel like their feedback is making a difference so they keep sharing it!
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> Why set the limit at two requests per team? It seems to strike a good balance - asking teams for a single top priority tends to make teams bundle all issues into one big ask, making it harder to find quick wins to slot into sprints, wh
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> How do you get quality feedback? In my experience people will often say yes when asked or shown a mock up but will not buy. You don't find out who will actually buy until they try a functional product. Ask them to pay you based on

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