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by nkohari 17y ago
Being angry at work is very common, but that doesn't make it healthy. Take it as a sign to look for another job, doing something you can take joy in.
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by nkohari 17y ago
Yes, you are in the wrong major. If you're looking to be involved in the business aspect of a technology company, a computer science degree will not be very useful. I have a BS in computer science, and in my experience, the curriculum was o
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by nkohari 17y ago
I would argue Google had identified the profitable business model, but needed VC money in order to implement it effectively. Their minimum viable product (their search technology) was already developed at that point. I agree that MVP and le
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by nkohari 17y ago
The author is completely missing the point of lean and minimal viable product. His assertion that Google would only be a "small search player" if they'd gone the lean startup route is way off, because Google already had their MVP built by t
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by nkohari 17y ago
We're a product company, so it's a slightly different stance. However, we made a conscious decision early on not to support IE6 for the following reasons: 1. Our app is very interactive, and we didn't want to have to deal with incompatibili
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by nkohari 17y ago
It's just a rule of thumb, like the "rule of 7" when it comes to cognitive load. The point is to continue past the surface issue until you find the real problem. Fixing a lower-level problem (like not having automated testing) has much more
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by nkohari 17y ago
This is a fantastic article. We've had a decent amount of success so far with our startup following this same mantra. Release early with a core set of features, and then follow up with rapid releases (preferably one per feature). This has t
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by nkohari 17y ago
I'm sure I'm not the only one who uses the same password for multiple sites.
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by nkohari 17y ago
Yeah, it's tough to find a balance with freemium pricing. The restrictive free account is one of the reasons we introduced the 30-day money-back guarantee. It's actually baked into the software, so if you cancel your account (or downgrade t
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by nkohari 17y ago
Yeah, I'm on the fence about the tour start page, with the four summaries ( http://agilezen.com/tour ). I might just ditch it and funnel users directly into the first step of the tour. The summaries don't add enough to risk bouncing people
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by nkohari 17y ago
Re: call-to-action, it's between the signup button and the video tour. I might try to make the video tour link stand out a bit more, though. The product itself is (intentionally) sparse and understated. This leads to (we think) a great user
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by nkohari 17y ago
It's funny, I knew that, and then somehow I still put it in the header. :) Thanks.
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by nkohari 17y ago
Good idea. Captions would help. I might also see if there's a way I can direct users to the associated part of the video tour from the screenshots.
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by nkohari 17y ago
Good point. I typically don't believe in the fold, but we are using up a lot of content area for the "splash" artifacts.
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by nkohari 17y ago
Thanks. I might try to funnel visitors towards the video tour more, since that's where the product is really showcased. The screenshots are just meant to grab your attention. :)
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by nkohari 17y ago
When we originally launched our public-facing website for Zen in May, the product was still under heavy development, and we had very few screenshots. Now that the product has stabilized, we've redesigned our marketing site to try to showcas
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Ask HN: What do you think of our redesigned website?(agilezen.com)
11 points by nkohari 17y ago|21 comments
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by nkohari 17y ago
I think this rings true, not only for women, but all software developers. I think too many people in software become too focused on arguing the best way of doing things that they never actually accomplish anything of real value.
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by nkohari 17y ago
Still, an interesting article nonetheless.
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by nkohari 17y ago
This strikes me as an idea that is useful and interesting as a sociological theory, but in practice it's pretty pointless. Imagine the terrible press that the RIAA would get if they announced that they would start suing based on such ridicu
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by nkohari 17y ago
I don't mean to spam, and I'm admittedly very biased, but my product Zen ( http://agilezen.com/ ), helps me stay organized and makes me much more productive and happy. I always have a million things to do, and Zen stops me from being overwh
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by nkohari 17y ago
We were introduced by a mutual friend when we were in high school. We dated through college, and then got married. :) (Yes, my co-founder is also my wife.) I'd always wanted to start my own business since as long as I could remember, but wa
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by nkohari 17y ago
This is a weak article about a pretty slick tool. (They aren't really Linux apps, they're Mono apps, but since Mono is cross-platform, they may be running on a Linux machine.)
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by nkohari 17y ago
The majority of the arguments are just FUD. They might have applied in 2001, but to write this post now is just silly. He complains about breaking changes between 1.1 and 2.0 -- 2.0 came out in 2005. My guess is that he's really just angry
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by nkohari 17y ago
We're in BizSpark. We have a dedicated server, and our hosting company (SoftLayer) used our production licenses. (Great company in general, by the way.)
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by nkohari 17y ago
I agree entirely. I rarely do more than skim the comments anymore, because too often it just turns into a contest for one-upsmanship and ego stroking. There are people on here that will take any opportunity to argue about any topic.
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by nkohari 17y ago
Sometimes growth is the problem. I've worked for companies who were great when they were small, eager companies with solid products, and screwed everything up trying to "go big".
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by nkohari 17y ago
I'll play along. Have you ever owned your own business, and had to make the trade off between absolute quality and efficiency?
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by nkohari 17y ago
We use ZenDesk, and it's been fantastic. Their API is also first-class, which helped us integrate it more cleanly with our app.
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by nkohari 17y ago
It's nice that you shared the reasons for using the picodollar, but I'd never buy your product because it's not blatantly obvious how much it costs. No offense intended.

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