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Location: USA Remote: No preference Willing to relocate: Yes, to any major US city Technologies: JS, Linux, AWS, blockchain, Three.js (see resume) Resume: https://docs.google.com/d…

(Note: I emailed dang about this first, and he suggested an Ask HN. For openness and simplicity, I'll simply paste that email here with an additional note below.) Hi. I hope this e…

ZZ Top figured this out a long time ago.

Lebron James. I thought for sure he was gonna crash and burn after the absolutely insane hype.

On the first point, Amazon should strictly prohibit gifting free Vine items to others. It is inherently antithetical. On the second point, no. I don't think it's possible to give f…

"non-guitarist Mom of skeptical daughter who didn't want or ask for Thingamagig but 'hey it's free'" is not our market, though. Thus, it is not a valid read on "market reception". …

Early reviews are critical to a product's trajectory. Of course I'm going to get upset about Vine giving my free guitar product to non-guitarists who turn around and leave poor rev…

This blog post was about Amazon Vine. Not Thingamagig.

I have made dozens of improvements to Thingamagig based on valid user feedback. On the first, am I supposed to improve based on something the user's kids said without trying the pr…

I thought about this and it's a good point. Maybe there is a carve-out for folks who can't review on their own - like elder care products or kids toys. But this is not that.

Is "susie" not anonymized enough for you? I blacked out her email address. There's no picture.

July 21st was when I had the "ok I have to pursue this for real" moment and it's been 24/7 coding and tinkering since then. I really need to go for a walk or something.

Give thingamagig a shot. I think you'll find that voice-control is faaaaaar from a gimmick. I have kicked my feet up and lost hours jamming along from track to track. The frictionl…

I thought about this too. Multiple choice A, B, C, etc... just play the chord. :) But that's pretty challenging from an engineering standpoint and Alexa skills can't be controlled …

(I asked him to email me, he did, now I've removed the address for spam reasons.)