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jimgreer

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About jimgreer

Former game developer, current Rails developer, founder & CEO of Kongregate, a web games community.

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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…