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   by kevsim 6y ago

   Look great and congrats on the success! Minor feedback on the landing page - I found the "Contact us at" button floating under "By joining Poliglota you will" a bit confusing. Makes it hard to understand that heading goe
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   by kevsim 6y ago

   Ha! I guess my point was that when those companies started up, searching for those terms was bound to result in some businesses popping up, though I'm sure they made the call that "hey, they're not in the payments/anal
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   by kevsim 6y ago

   Does that really work though? What about mega companies with very common word names? Segment, Zoom, Stripe, etc.
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   by kevsim 6y ago

   Local files like that are fine, just keep them in your .gitignore
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   by kevsim 6y ago

   How different is the React.PureComponent behavior from the "wrap stuff in React.memo()" behavior?
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   by kevsim 6y ago

   I think I'd even take it a step further and not rely on the fact that it's been imported (which sounds a bit fragile and language specific). The number of times I have a new local that I don't want to add is far far smaller t
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   by kevsim 6y ago

   You can, you just need 501 karma first. Seems like someone wanted to prove you wrong since you've been downvoted.
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   by kevsim 6y ago

   I'd say if you have existing customers, you're already past most companies with a "built it and they will come" mentality. Most of those fail to ever acquire real users.
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   by kevsim 6y ago

   Dash on macOS also lets you download StackOverflow for offline use. It was my goto for working on airplanes, way back when traveling on airplanes was a thing.
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    1 year into my startup and I'm super happy to have kept everything a well-organized monolith. Every once in a while a thing pops up where some voice in my brain (remnants from previous jobs) says "just break it into its own servic
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    Empower Your Engineers(blog.kitemaker.co)

    2 points by kevsim 6y ago|0 comments
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    In my previous job I battled this a lot. While I really like slack in general, no one likes it when things fall through the cracks or important people miss out. It actually bothered me enough that I quit my job and made Kitemaker (YC W21) w
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    Indeed! Not intending to be sneaky, just brief.
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    The article mentions Linear as the "sublime text of issue trackers". Just in case anyone is interested in this space, Kitemaker (YC W21) is considerably more keyboard friendly. Much like Superhuman, you can do literally everything
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    We used Ship on producthunt for promoting when we were pre-launch. Then we had a decent number of subscribers built up so when we did a real producthunt launch we already had people to tell about the launch. LinkedIn also worked surprisingl
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    Not insulted at all! Very useful feedback.
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    Hi! That’s just a video playing on a loop taking you through the various screens. The “image gallery” is just showing our work item screen and then it jumps to some other screens. Thanks for the feedback though! It may be that this isn’t cl
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    If you want to try something in this space that's really snappy and responsive, checkout out Kitemaker (YC W21) [0]. I'm a founder and happy to chat with anyone that has any feedback/feature requests: hi@kitemaker.co 0: http
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    Whereby.com (formerly Appear.in) has been WebRTC-based since day 1.
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    Feel like every time one of these articles appears on HN - whether it's batteries, autopilot, whatever - it's one camp yelling "see! told you Musk didn't know what he was doing/cut corners/etc." and anot
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    Just to toss another hat in the ring - people who are interested in a tool that has a lot of same performance/hotkey characteristics as Linear but takes a different approach to what a product management tool/issue tracker should b
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    > could be seen as self-serving Almost spit out my coffee there.
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    Great pieces on product development from 2020(medium.com)

    1 points by kevsim 6y ago|0 comments
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    I really liked obviously awesome, but one thing she cautions against is applying her methodology too early. She says you need to know who your "best customers" are. So if you're too early and don't feel you know who thos
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    This is why we can't have nice things
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    I make a product management tool/issue tracker that integrates to both tools, and I will say from the perspective of a developer integrating to them, Slack is easier to work with (though Discord is ok too). Little things like the &quot
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    Any gotchas? When I read about Snowpack, I always get a too-good-to-be-true feeling. Maybe I'm just jaded by years of grunt, webpack, parcel, etc.
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    BetaList is great! Along with ProductHunt it's how we got our initial user base at Kitemaker. So thanks!
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    I fully agree that no-code tools can help you run your build-measure-learn cycle quicker. For example, with my startup [0] we have our product guy tweaking the landing page, changing the email templates, etc. without needing to bother me (t
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    by kevsim 6y ago

    The team behind Preact also recently released WMR [0] which attempts to simplify the process of actually building a web app. We're thinking of trying it out to replace the current mess we have with create-react-app, webpack, etc. 0: h