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by wikwocket 14y ago
I heartily agree with the statement that competitors provide proof that demand exists, but I disagree that you should have a product "10 times better than any competitor" to have a hope of succeeding. If there are competitors, then you know
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by wikwocket 14y ago
If anyone wants a good primer for a "top 4 lifecycle emails to send," I found patio11's post on the customer.io blog to be very helpful: http://customer.io/blog/What-are-Lifecycle-emails-patio11-pa...
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by wikwocket 14y ago
> IMHO success proves Patrick right. Actually, A/B tests prove him right. Or occasionally wrong! But that's the point of such testing. He mentioned he has an A/B test going between video/no-video. I imagine that, if the video version wi
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by wikwocket 14y ago
If your employer matches, you are literally earning 100% on your investment immediately. Few other investments can promise the hope of that, let a lone deliver. If your employer doesn't match, then it can be a bit of a gamble. But you have
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by wikwocket 14y ago
Another excellent collection of advice from Patrick, this time with multiple email scripts to work off of. All the recent great posts on lifecycle email has me wishing I actually had a SAAS website I could send out email for!
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by wikwocket 14y ago
Patio11 makes some of his software, A/Bingo, available as open source. A/Bingo is a Ruby on Rails A/B testing framework, available at his Bingo card site.
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by wikwocket 14y ago
His email is trivially discoverable in the same way that FizzBuzz is trivially programmable. The point is not that it is hard; the point is that even a very very low barrier to entry may weed out a surprisingly large number of unsuitable ap
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by wikwocket 14y ago
Good reminder that small warm-blooded mammals shouldn't necessarily fear gigantic dinosaurs. And that competition can be a good thing, if only for market validation. I can totally see how a large company providing a general/basic service co
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by wikwocket 14y ago
Even better is naming things as intuitively as possible, and to use explanatory comments where they would be helpful. Not trying to pick on you, but every time I see someone implying that "naming things better" is a panacea, I want to thr
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by wikwocket 14y ago
I can't understand how it'd be profitable either; it seems woefully underpriced. Unless, as timdorr said, individual items are marked up 10-20%. When a family like mine goes shopping, it's for a cartful or two of groceries, and it takes an
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by wikwocket 14y ago
This is sometimes phrased as "fix every problem twice," ie solve the immediate problem, and then figure out what to do so this problem doesn't happen again. This can be done via tweaking your funnel or workflow, adding an FAQ entry, adding
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by wikwocket 14y ago
But how many thieves are up-to-date on the latest in home intrusion prevention, including popular decoy systems? Presumably most home break-is are not performed by career criminals who do research and use the latest technology to break into
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by wikwocket 14y ago
The advice isn't to mathematically prove anything, which as you mentioned is hard and may even be unsolvable. The advice is to look at the issue as you would a mathematical problem, critically and analytically. Don't use shotgun debugging o
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by wikwocket 14y ago
Indeed, Antoine de Saint-Exupery said it best: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Unfortunately, as developers, we're always at odds with the reverse tendency, expre
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by wikwocket 14y ago
I do really like the tour you've built after signing up. But I agree that more screenshots etc would be great before signing up.
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by wikwocket 14y ago
Not to mention that they're making $50k a head working "days/nights/weekends" - a bit extreme! For comparison, doing software consulting at only $50/hour, you can make $50k working just 19 hours a week...
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by wikwocket 14y ago
The lack of a plan between tiny and huge may be intentional. Cellphone providers seem to work the same way, offering cheap starter plans with just enough minutes so you either go over each month, and consider upgrading to the massive plan.