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by zaidf 15y ago
If this is what the second dotcom bubble popping feels like, we're doing really well as an industry!
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by zaidf 15y ago
We built a killer product, that was ready for prime time, but unfortunately didn't end up selling to anyone. I'd be curious to hear your definition of a killer product. Personal a killer product to me is one that sells though I understand
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by zaidf 15y ago
If you are getting 1 meeting from 50 emails and you're not even trying to sell something, you are doing something wrong. I have to think that cold calls convert better than emails. That’s probably the real answer here. Get on the phone and
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by zaidf 15y ago
it seems like many people can now just use the free version linked from ux.se It's a good question but generally the overwhelming majority of customers of such products can easily afford them. One way to think about it is imagine wantin
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by zaidf 15y ago
It's up to the owner not to be an idiot Actually no, the common wisdom is that you should expect your users to be idiots when developing a product.
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by zaidf 15y ago
Remember, Jim is the comedian. He's probably not looking to hire comedians like him to run what's in his mind a bunch of geeky shit. So yeah, being lighthearted is okay, but not at the expense of losing your cred as someone serious.
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by zaidf 15y ago
Appreciate your answer. Parts of your post make it seem like you have next to nothing to do with this; while other parts make it seem like you do have responsibility for this. Also, it is not our company and operates completely indepen
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by zaidf 15y ago
"...but they are not affiliated at all. It was operated by a completely separate entity" Well if what you say is true, then it seems like they are affiliated and the CTO's above statement seems off. Of course you can be a separate entity an
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by zaidf 15y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean when you state that chat.youporn was operated by another entity? So you guys cut a deal with another entity to let em "rent" the subdomain chat.youporn? Just intrigued by how this works.
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by zaidf 15y ago
I thought this was about twitter moving away from hashtags. For some reason I got a bit excited, may be because I find vast majority of hashtags to be annoying noise. That said, I know they serve a purpose in specific use cases and donno a
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by zaidf 15y ago
The thing about people like Jobs is that their definition of "ignoring" still means that they put more thought and effort into thinking about profit than your typical founder who is obsessed about profits. They simply operate at a differe
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by zaidf 15y ago
Paula asked us a simple question, “your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?” I have never really asked myself that question as a consumer. I have never felt "confused" that the logo is NOT a window. I have just generally liked Windows, t
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by zaidf 15y ago
you will get in trouble regardless of your templates being on the server or client My view is that you will get in significantly less trouble because manipulating an HTML template that is rendered on server side is much easier to manage
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by zaidf 15y ago
I have to agree here. A major problem with client-side json is the need for additional documentation and likelihood of things breaking because of simple html edits. For example, if you are populating a bunch of divs inside a parent div with
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by zaidf 15y ago
and if their service isn't truly valuable, they should fix that problem, not their pricing table. Totally agree.
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by zaidf 15y ago
could be working on something that matters instead Sorry, but what does this even mean? You may it seem like there is a universally accepted definition of the word "matters" to which these folks are not living up to.
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by zaidf 15y ago
It's amongst the possible prerequisites. Others include being profitable, of course. If you are not profitable, funded or part of a large corp, there is a real chance of SaaS creep from a cost angle.
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by zaidf 15y ago
The reason there is no SaaS fatigue is that $117/month is still chump change for most companies or even angel funded startups. So yes, if your customer base is made primarily of individuals or nonprofitable or nonfunded businesses then ther
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by zaidf 15y ago
Very underwhelming. His point about risk is very unclear and/or misleading. He suggests we should think big vs small. It's almost insulting to read an article this vague. What do you even mean by small and big? As far as I know, businesses
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by zaidf 15y ago
When Google begins charging $150K/yr for something like this, you know there is room for someone in the market to disrupt Google. Does anyone remember how much Urchin used to cost before Google acquired and made it free?
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by zaidf 15y ago
they've been nothing but headaches (especially if you're young—nobody trusts you.) Ah, things must have changed from early 2000s. I had no problems getting (pretty high risk) merchant accounts back in high school. That said, Stripe looks
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by zaidf 15y ago
While they are at it, might as well announce the acquisition.
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by zaidf 15y ago
All depends on what you consider a designer. In many ways, I think product guy should know design--the full circle of it. I continue to see startups that hire designers who believe design is a PSD sent to the team to be converted and brough
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by zaidf 15y ago
This makes no sense. A proper product lifecycle begins with design! I agree. This is the fundamental reason why companies like Apple are so successful. I don't think citing the most extreme example helps your previous argument. It'd b
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by zaidf 15y ago
Yeah, I guess it is google's attempt to make a go at twitter AND facebook. Unfortunately they are very likely to fail at both.
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by zaidf 15y ago
I actually dislike that about Google+. In the process of accommodating strangers, they have completely gone away from the concept of friending. May be this is why my Google+ stream is a lot more similar to my twitter than fb.
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by zaidf 15y ago
for instance, you can post to the union of a set of friend lists with specific people excluded. Yup, I use this feature increasingly. I especially like the "Only Me" feature to share stuff I don't necessarily want to share with any of my
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by zaidf 15y ago
They utilize buttons with three different colors: green, blue and red. The stream is a lot more cluttered than Facebook. As an example, this is what I see next to a name in the stream: Fname Lname - 4:17 PM - Mobile - Public Compared
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by zaidf 15y ago
Google Plus's UI is still way behind Facebook. It would be a lot easier for Facebook to fix their holes with privacy(essentially copying Plus's Circles) than for Google to become more like Facebook. We needed someone to put pressure on face
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by zaidf 15y ago
Yup, plus don't forget that the risk posed by having bad engineers isn't nearly the same as bad doctors. So to the extent that the control on doctors results in fewer bad ones, I am ok with it. With engineers you can have one making 50K an

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