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hooliganpete

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    Comment #11445142

    Thanks for the reply and apologies for the delay in mine. Busy trying to cobble together my MVP :) You layout a glorious strategy for proving/disproving a hypothesis. As Steve Blan…

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    Comment #11445112

    Solid rubric.

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    Ask HN: How many startups fail because their MVP is too minimal?

    In my own product development I get so caught up in figuring out the least amount of stuff to build to test my value proposition that I often forget, building an MVP is just one st…

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    Comment #11342490

    hah fun read. #3 is a stretch - the car will obviously drop me in the most convenient location possible and then circle the block or go park itself. I'd love to see driverless cars…

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    Comment #11334892

    Nice overview of the process! Had an "Oatmeal-esque" feel to the animations. On a more serious note, who's tired of big organizations pretending to be Agile while demanding all the…

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    Comment #11334866

    The toughest part will be getting your foot in the door at a new firm since your resume will read as a demotion. That said, while more difficult to describe on your resume, it's al…

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    Comment #11276750

    It's already been mentioned but giving them the discount (provided you don't immediately need the revenue) in exchange for a 24 mo contract seems ideal. I believe the longest you c…

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    Ask HN: Does anyone have any data on effectiveness of onboarding screens?

    Specifically, do you read onboarding screens or do you swipe through quickly to get to the actual app?

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    Comment #11257343

    Do it! Uni is the perfect time to do this, most of all because you will never have as much free time as you in college. In terms of finding clients, start calling potentials - gene…

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    Comment #11251116

    Gone are the days of billionaires buying sports teams, buying newspapers and blogs still seems to be in but not quite as hot as space exploration. With SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, …

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    Comment #11251039

    How about technical interviews for non-technical roles. Any advice?

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    Ask HN: Pros and cons of Facebook login for an iOS app?

    I searched through the first few pages of posts on the topic and didn't see what I was hoping for so feel free to point me in the right direction. Basically, I'm looking for the tr…

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    Comment #11235833

    I like that idea, good incentive to check before you post.

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    Comment #11235825

    You could try browsing sites like UpWork to check out available projects - maybe these requirement more commitment than you'd like but you'd get an idea of what's available/what ot…

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    Ask HN: Any success or failure stories with Instagram advertising?

    Hey folks, my team is considering an Instagram advertising campaign to bolster initial adopters of our app. Any recommendations on how to maximize installs from an Instagram campai…

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    Ask HN: How secure is AirDrop?

    I've read about Apple's encryption of AirDrop but to establish the initial pairing, AirDrop broadcasts a key and sends that to receiving devices. Couldn't this be sniffed pretty ea…

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    Comment #11215198

    Will you use Heap for a website or mobile app? Seems most of their client base are web-first.

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    Ask HN: Developers and designers, describe your ideal Product Manager

    Come on be serious, who actually wants to work with someone who's job it is to determine your direction? Ok ok, I'll go easy on PMs BUT I'd love to hear what the PM do's and don'ts…

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    Comment #11210569

    The simpler tools definitely encourage adoption. On a larger project I work on, we use Rally - most abominable platform I've had the displeasure of using - solely because the proje…

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    Ask HN: What are people's preferred project management tools?

    I'm loving the simplicity of Quip and the more visual card-based flow of Trello. Any other winners out there people love?

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    Comment #11203953

    Yeah I agree with specifying which are more meaningful for the app/product. For my larger team we've done just that but the GA specialist is pretty gung-ho about tracking everythin…

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    Comment #11203938

    I'll check it out, thanks for the recommendation.

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    Ask HN: What are best practices for implementing app analytics?

    I'm building two apps currently. The first is iOS and we're being very precise about what we track with Google Analytics so we can determine precise ratios/rates of change etc. We'…