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by redguava 14y ago
It's not luck that they are already well known for their UX work. That is part of their hard work to get them to that point. You say these results aren't as reproducible without significant connections... but getting significant connection
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by redguava 14y ago
I recall that had a fairly impressive marketing video on their page previously. This could have cost $50k alone. I think the main unexpected cost that you can incur is advertising/marketing. You can build the software cheaply, but it's ve
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by redguava 14y ago
The irony of having three separate points that all say the same thing... and that thing is keep it brief, don't use filler.
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by redguava 14y ago
As much as I like to see people talking about profit rather than revenue, revenue is really important as long as you are profitable. It is only when you are losing large amounts of money every month that revenue is less impressive. Faceboo
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by redguava 14y ago
It hasn't held them back. I wonder if it's a case of their services been so unique, cheap, competitive, etc. or if we overrate design and it's not really that important. I tend to think it's the former, but it's an interesting example.
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by redguava 14y ago
I think it is sad that this is probably the correct answer. I would love to refute it and say "no, you need to monetize it, don't just get users and hope". However, recent history has shown that gaining traction and losing money every mont
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by redguava 14y ago
builtwith.com is showing fandalism to be running on IIS. It was quite a rant you had about rails before even checking. You can write a resource hog application in any language just like you can write an efficient app in any language. Don'
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by redguava 14y ago
Are you good? If yes, then you're very hireable. If no, then practice, learn and get better. The rest doesn't matter as much.
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by redguava 15y ago
Great to see you respond here. The time that lost me was when you were telling the story about your wife's issues. I understand your intent with that story, but it was quite long winded and it looked like a few times your guest went to sp
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by redguava 15y ago
I am not familiar with his work, but I also don't think I should need to know his reputation in order to watch the video. To me it seemed disrespectful to the person he was interviewing, and honestly a bit egotistical to be talking so much.
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by redguava 15y ago
I stopped watching very early on. It really bugs me in interviews when the host does too much talking. I hope it balanced out as the video goes on, but if you have a guest on that has valuable information... let them speak.
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by redguava 15y ago
Setting up a landing page and doing a few basic things to draw attention to it should take you a day or less. You can either spend that time right away and have 500 people that care when you launch, or you can spend that time when you fini
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by redguava 15y ago
Thanks. I wondered how people were showing ads to me after I had visited their website.
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Ask HN: What paid advertising do you do?
1 points by redguava 15y ago|2 comments
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by redguava 15y ago
So you let people rate it with 5 stars, but then show it as 3.7 magic points. Magic points can be your proprietary ranking system. You don't need to let them rate with stars and also show it as stars.
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by redguava 15y ago
I don't see why 2 minute response times can't be sustainable, you just might need help with it down the track. I launched my SaaS product in June 2011, so am a bit further along than you and am still managing to maintain it. I really hope
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by redguava 15y ago
I hope people don't get too hung up on the numbers thing to miss out on the great advice you give. With all the factors that contribute to a startups success, I think this post really nails some critical ones: - Create a list of people int
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by redguava 15y ago
I don't understand why you want to look for indicators that someone will be a good coder... rather than actually see if they are a good coder (ie. actually look at their code). I understand looking at peoples code takes time... but really
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by redguava 15y ago
I am too distracted by the N in your logo looking like a Z on it's side. Is that intentional?
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by redguava 15y ago
If you developed this you could no doubt seed it quickly with some scripts or something. I don't think this would be wasted time, I checked it out... if there was something to solve I may have, but there wasn't and it's unlikely I will eve
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by redguava 15y ago
This is what your website looks like to me http://cl.ly/3B0V2u0x3g3M3d0l242N (It's down) Might need to get that fixed to take advantage of current Hacker News traffic.
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by redguava 15y ago
Their new pricing page breaks many of the "rules" for getting conversions (eg. clear call to action). It will be interesting to see if they blog about the results of it. http://basecamp.com/pricing
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by redguava 15y ago
Be careful not to let your long runway slow you down. It's long enough to make this a success, but not if you launch in 2 years time because you can. Push yourself to get to beta early and live launch not far after. This will give you ple
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by redguava 15y ago
I am not necessarily advocating the whiteboard, but am advocating attention to detail no matter what the situation is. I agree the whiteboard can be stressful, but so can a server outage and needing to get a fix out quickly. I don't want
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by redguava 15y ago
"Or it could have been that I might have not paid attention to little details which I thought were not important" I think you are underestimating the importance of this. I have hired people before and this is a critical thing I look for.
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by redguava 15y ago
I really love this new tool. I think Amazon has some amazing technologies and services. Why don't they hire a designer and awesome UX guy and fix their terrible interfaces? I know most people use the API's, and I realise it's not really st
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by redguava 15y ago
I am a little underwhelmed by the calendar. 37signals do a great job of innovation in design and I was hoping for something a bit different. It seems like there is a lot of noise on the calendar. A typical problem with this style of calend
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by redguava 15y ago
I think this highlights the difference between justifying to yourself that you are doing everything possible to make it work... and actually doing everything possible to make it work. The difference is significant but often hard to see whe
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by redguava 15y ago
This comment may have been relevant many years ago, but these days companies are struggling to compete with Apple on price (notably Macbook Airs, iPads, etc).
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by redguava 15y ago
I agree it's possible to balance, I do so myself. I do however suspect that the benefits of startups you mention are more for employees of startups than the founders.

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