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jimgreer
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Email queue/customer service tools?
My startup, Kongregate, is currently just using gmail to handle customer service requests. We've automated things a bit with various filters plus structured pages for our top reque…
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Comment #284377
Male enhancement! Seriously it was the same thing ivankirigin said - what's the worst that can happen?
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Comment #284177
We actually did the same thing for Kongregate. Except we gave out an invite code to everyone who asked - usually same day. So the artificial scarcity was... artificial. But if we'd…
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Comment #269807
Is anyone here using New Relic RPM? The demo looks slick. We're currently doing things a little more adhoc for Kongregate. Just using pl_analyze - http://rails-analyzer.rubyforge.o…
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Comment #266873
Yes. And vans are more commodious (and therefore better) than cars.
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Comment #266812
Actually one of the most interesting things at RailsConf was MagLev, which applies the GemStone object persistence engine to Ruby. Apparently there are some pretty big Smalltalk ap…
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Comment #259337
There's this one too - http://hoptoadapp.com/welcome . Haven't tried either one yet.
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Comment #251872
I missed this too - I think putting a little play arrow next to the "+" is in order. Other than that, I love it.
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Comment #251866
As the company grows, the extra friction on communications between the two locations becomes more of a problem. My company, Kongregate, has 10 people in San Francisco and 5 in Port…
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Comment #244828
(shameless plug) - If you are an achievement addict try it on my site - http://www.kongregate.com/games/Scarybug/chronotron
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Comment #243939
This could do for games what Dreamweaver and FrontPage did for web authoring - sweet!
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Comment #243915
I hate to be the naysayer on this, but I disagree. An ugly MySpace page is interesting because your friends are on it. A bad game your friend made is still just a bad game. People …
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Comment #243861
Looks pretty cool, and the physics are a nice touch. Honestly though, I'm pretty skeptical about people being able to create much of a variety of games unless they can do basic scr…