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Typo aside, that does not materially affect the point. “Management” in this case appears to be every other team at the company ...

> What's wrong with the UX of IRC? One sentence later: > ...we scrapped it because only our software developer used it and other people in the company preferred something else (the…

I run a popular weekly newsletter that makes fun of the tech industry. Think: The Onion meets TechCrunch. Newsletters can generally charge a much higher CPM than a social media acc…

Hey, that's my newsletter! Glad you're a fan, and always excited to see my extremely lo-tech baby get love on HN. I'll send you some swag - reply to any of the emails. Proud you're…

"...aged for 12 years in Mezcal barrels to give it a smoggy aroma and a robust gunpowder-magnesium chloride finish." That is legitimately brilliant.

+1 on your point about marketing. I also deeply undervalued how much goes into a great/thoughtful marketing plan, all the way from choosing the broad messaging and distribution cha…

I run a weekly humorous newsletter about the tech industry/tech jobs called TechLoaf ( https://www.techloaf.io/ ). After experimenting, A/B/C/D/E testing, etc I found that using th…

Absolutely. Beyond the “obvious” stuff like getting an early look at what people in the heart of the tech universe are working on, I’ve found the community to be very supportive an…

I realize this would probably be a last resort, but I’ve heard success stories of companies rallying their user bases to personally email the App Store on behalf of the company (“h…

They’re one and the same for us; our core product is a weekly newsletter.

Thank you! Nice to see a few early supporters on here :)

Exactly, we have the luxury of being able to show a single, clear example of essentially the entire product. I realize that most SaaS companies probably don’t have that luxury, as …

A couple for you that I found invaluable as I taught myself programming: 1. Team Treehouse. They now have a huge library covering just about anything he could imagine wanting to le…

Bradfield is an excellent resource and Oz and his team are fantastic. The only caveat would be that a lot of Bradfield’s curriculum assumes that students have some programming back…

You should come write for us :)

For what it’s worth, we’ve had a lot of success with a strategy not mentioned here: hosting a site that’s intentionally mysterious, if not slightly provocative. About 35% of all vi…