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by sgrove 15y ago
Using this as I add in this comment - talking about hackathons with somepeople in the news.ycombinator.com channel, and looks like I might have found a much more interesting way to spend my weekend! Sites with strong identities (like HN) ha
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by sgrove 15y ago
Congrats to Heroku - it's certainly a fitting parternship! I wouldn't put anything past them. With such an amazing team and insatiable ambition, they're going to be leaving a mark on history.
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by sgrove 15y ago
It's amazing to think IndexTank (and similar API's) haven't completely taken over the startup world yet. I hacked on a few things with their API awhile back because of my experience integrating meaningful search into rails, and the time it
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by sgrove 15y ago
They're handling it considerably better than Digg. They've been phenomenally responsive on the issues, and you can actually see them learning from each of these iterations. The language change here is fantastic - it's easy to understand and
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by sgrove 15y ago
These guys are really on the ball, and have great empathy for their users/customers. I'd certainly bet money on them.
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by sgrove 15y ago
The goal should be to have frequent, small failures that you have enough time to learn from, rather than a few catastrophic failures which end your startup and saddle you with baggage afterwards. Failure is a part of success, but only when
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by sgrove 15y ago
Well done. It's important to get the context and understand what your customer's looking for. All too often we "listen" to a customer and implement a suggestion, not realizing it's a horrible solution to a problem they haven't fully realize
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by sgrove 15y ago
We actually deploy it across a number of client apps, rather than just our own site. We use it to run a dozen or so tests at any given time across multiple apps, and to quickly iterate on others' products. It's an interesting combination wi
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by sgrove 15y ago
We've been using Optimizely more and more extensively (we have a slightly unusual use case for it), and it's been fantastic at successfully ratcheting up conversions. We use it in concert with mixpanel when we need to push people along a
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How to find the right designer(attackofdesign.com)
63 points by sgrove 15y ago|27 comments
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by sgrove 15y ago
Congrats Solomon, it's a very interesting direction. You already have some crazy momentum, I'm sure this'll only boost you farther! Excited to see what you guys roll out next!
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by sgrove 15y ago
Very interesting insight - could you have gotten around the chicken-and-egg problem pre-twitter? What would your approach have been?
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by sgrove 15y ago
Actually, there is a community there, checkout http://hackerstreet.in/ There are a lot of challenges to building a sfba-style startup in India though, more than it makes sense to go into in a comment. That said, there are plenty of very t
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by sgrove 15y ago
Code's there, example application with tests is there, go and try it. We err'd on the side of getting this out (several developers were chomping at the bit even with just a bit of editing on the post) - rest assured that we'll have more com
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by sgrove 15y ago
There are some awesome strides about to made for generating/maintaining POM (or WOM, in our case) - sadly, marketing has shot down all of my suggested names :( That said, it's going to be a lot of fun, and I'd love to have someone with yo
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by sgrove 15y ago
> I think the goal of "impossible to write bad tests" is unreachable. We all sat down a bit ago to reflect on 16 month of non-stop in-the-trenches browser testing for all kinds of people, to integrate it all. We talked about how we want
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by sgrove 15y ago
This is the approach that Selenium 1 took, and there be many dragons down that path. It's workable (we've done a ton of cool stuff at Sauce Labs making it work), but it takes an usual mix of skills and insight to get it to really gel toge
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by sgrove 15y ago
Hmm, that's not really a considered review. Straight off, no on at Sauce Labs hates browser testing, that's just a stupid thing to posit. Test::Right is a really cool mental model of testing, and it's going to make people's lives better .
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by sgrove 15y ago
It's an interesting take - usually, for me, these social dynamics are subconscious (but still present). Bubbling it up to the conscious level should be much more effective.
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by sgrove 15y ago
I've been following you since the last post you had, it was a very enjoyable read - I'm one of the two guys behind http://bushi.do/ I'd definitely love to speak with you - s@bushi.do, lemme know if you have a chance to chat.
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by sgrove 16y ago
It's a bit trite, but it's a message I want to get across to other startups. It's bit me hard at some of the companies I've worked for long ago - the biggest culprit was EC2. There are days that they'd simply stop launching instances for us
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How to rely on other businesses(swombat.com)
33 points by sgrove 16y ago|6 comments
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by sgrove 16y ago
Very enjoyable. Image manipulation/detection/recognition is a field that actually starts out pretty simple (I was surprised, I assumed it would be fiendishly math-heavy), but scales well into the dissertation-level. The article is a pretty
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by sgrove 16y ago
That's an awesome vision :)
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by sgrove 16y ago
Alright, having just deployed several thousand apps with a few more thousand apps in the queue, we're going to lock it down for a bit. We'll be back soon! If you're interested to get in and try it out for real, let me know at s@bushi.do
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by sgrove 16y ago
You're right, we'll have to work on communication for the public-facing side over the next few days! Thanks for the feedback. And, I loves me some Erlang, I understand :)
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by sgrove 16y ago
For what we're showing today, the main difference is: No account required to launch an app. We'll be showing more and more over the coming week or two as we start to share developer stories, but I'll give one hint here... http://locomotive
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by sgrove 16y ago
No, not all; just the good ones :)
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by sgrove 16y ago
You're absolutely right - we also need to explain why apps stick around for 24 hours, how to keep them permanently, etc. Once the ruckus dies down here later today, we'll circle around to that.
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by sgrove 16y ago
Very cool - have you emailed the github guys about this? Tom's insanely focused on the users, and anything that makes github a nicer experience for them. They might blog about it :)

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