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It would be worth spending 10 minutes to write up some quick copy to that effect. When I entered my URL, I felt like it went into a black hole as there was no mention of "what happ…

During all the months of work on this, at what point did someone tell you, "I've been looking for something exactly like this." At the risk of straining the analogy, the pizza migh…

I wouldn't claim to be any kind of expert, but the advice you need to hear right now is: start. Write about what matters to you. Don't wait to come up with a coherent thesis or mis…

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The article had a few good insights in the first few paragraphs about the problems they were looking to solve: "pogosticking", structuring of search results, steering users toward …

Such timesink.

There are two approaches that I would consider. The first is simply to ask: does your development work absolutely require large test data, or might it be possible to reduce the siz…

Most long-term predictions tend to be made by people living in pockets where the future has already arrived, but it seems appropriate to recall Gibson's prediction about uneven fut…

Seems like a weird strategy. I admire the focus shown, but what if Thomas Edison had decided after 10 years to rebrand GE as Something Something Light Bulbs, Inc?

The article isn't clear on it, but there have been studies ( http://baymard.com/blog/making-a-slow-site-appear-fast ) that show the perception of fast loading is actually more impo…

There's no such thing as easy money, and I think most people will tell you that going from $0 to $1K MRR (and sustaining it) are a hell of a lot harder than the journey from $1K to…