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The Pricing Model That Increased Our Free Trial Signups by 358%(groovehq.com)
141 points by nathas 13y ago|36 comments
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by nathas 13y ago
...Pardon my ignorance, I've never owned an Apple product, but you can't use multiple monitors effectively on OS X? You're kidding right?
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by nathas 13y ago
Just a heads up, they modified it to include "or QuickTime 7 on Windows"
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Fixing hangs in ASP.NET web apps(leansentry.com)
2 points by nathas 13y ago|1 comments
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by nathas 13y ago
Anecdotal, but we originally had that approach. We switched to a free trial model and our leads went up an order of magnitude. Paying sign ups also increased, but not quite as much.
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by nathas 13y ago
Did you go back to the bar where they originally met and talk to the bartender? She probably frequents the bar if she lives in the area. At that point, if the bartender knows some of her backstory or friends or anything - maybe only has a f
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by nathas 13y ago
Nutritional value, who owns the product, retailers (e.g. if you're outside of the US often products are harder to come by), etc. Standard stuff.
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by nathas 13y ago
Ah thanks. Sorry about that.
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Gripes with Codecademy(nathanscott.me)
4 points by nathas 13y ago|0 comments
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by nathas 13y ago
I think people forget that Minecraft was literally just a side project for Notch while he had a "real" job. It was his fun thing to do when he was bored. As a programmer, he's clearly capable, but I think he serves better as
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by nathas 13y ago
I respectfully disagree. The fundamental idea here is that some people learn how to learn, and others need to always be taught. Learning "huh, when I hit this switch my wifi turns on or off" is pretty simple. Some people need to b
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by nathas 13y ago
Oh, I'm aware. I always have very specific stipulations put into my employment contracts. Regardless, I never write anything of worth for those side projects -- mostly experimental things, or using new languages/frameworks I had n
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by nathas 13y ago
I know this is _wrong_, but that's the point where I start writing side projects at work. If I'm finishing all my rote work within regular day, at previous jobs I've started working on stupid side projects. A physics engine i
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by nathas 13y ago
Given that they put the author's byline in the description, the odds that the price jumps because it was written by someone established seems likely.
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by nathas 13y ago
As a dev I love the idea that there's 3rd party to handle the finer points of my 2-factor auth. As an end user, I don't want to touch your app with a 10ft pole since you're an untrusted/unvetted source holding on to some
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by nathas 13y ago
Eh, I don't see a huge problem with Google saying "You can't run enterprise-level servers off of our consumer-level lines" even if they have ridiculous speeds. "Your Google Fiber account is for your use and the reas
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by nathas 13y ago
Just anecdotal, but we tried that for a while. Our signups and conversions are much higher with a trial. I work on a SaaS product.
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by nathas 13y ago
Hey! You made ImpactJS? That's very cool, but it's really hard to commit $99 to buy an engine when I can't even try it! It looks super-rad and I'd love to give it a shot, but it's a bit high of a bar for a casual ga
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by nathas 13y ago
How does one become a passive income hacker?
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by nathas 13y ago
All I'm going to say is that even though it's awful The Ladders have all those tricks, they're successful. Not saying the ends justify the means, but I wonder how their business would look otherwise.
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by nathas 13y ago
In other words, being very close to hospitals and well-trained doctors (read: ones working for massive hospitals in the city) means you die less. Doesn't mean you get hurt less, you just have faster (and some times better) care. Title
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by nathas 13y ago
It's a startup, and I've read 10+ articles on HN saying "< 40 hour work week is most efficient for technical work". While I agree, focusing on getting something shipped every 2 days isn't a huge pace. It means yo
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by nathas 13y ago
We're doing 2-day sprints at work, and it largely has the same effect in terms of productivity. Very clear, concise, sharp goals that are actionable and measurable. Programmers can decently estimate what they can do in a day. I know I
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by nathas 13y ago
The age demographic on HN is also deeply skewed. I'm hoping that once the 25ish-year-olds run for Congress we'll see a shift. It's all I can do right now, other than write my Congressman.
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by nathas 13y ago
I can't read the hero text for my life. The white on those pictures is KILLING me. http://i.imgur.com/UoD5gTv.jpg
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by nathas 13y ago
If cookies are being shared, and the users have access to them, what about the cookies from sites with passwords in them...? I don't _think_ I use any sites that do something that dumb, but I'm sure they exist. I would never use t
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by nathas 13y ago
Might be from Joel Spolsky/Bill Gates: "...a person who came along from my team whose whole job during the meeting was to keep an accurate count of how many times Bill said the F word. The lower the f *-count, the better."
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by nathas 13y ago
Re: Unknown error -- $.post(App.route("attempt",this.playData),e,function(e){var n;return n=e.reason,n||(n=e.valid?["Good Job!","Correct!"].sample():"Unknown error") When I pop open the Chrome network
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by nathas 13y ago
Your script executor is still super busted. "Unknown error" for days.
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by nathas 13y ago
I love when a site asks me to write code that works when its own code doesn't. Unknown error.

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