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Buffer ( http://bufferapp.com ) - Anywhere in the world (we're a distributed team of 11 people across the US, UK, Hong Kong and Sydney). I'd love for you to come join Buffer for th…

I would guess you've been through it many times or are lucky enough to have a great intuition with this. I've personally not been so lucky. I can say that in my experience reading …

Hey Charlie! We've been back and forth on this in the lifetime of the startup, but we're now doing all metrics ourselves, so it is internally built. I built an early version of the…

This is neat. It's a key problem we've spent a lot of time thinking about (that posting the same thing in the exact same way to different networks is not the right thing to do). Go…

Indeed, that's exactly right! I think for us, as soon as we saw that people were sticking around we knew we had to switch to "do a better job marketing". With retention, that was v…

Thanks! That means a lot, really appreciate you mentioning it.

What an awesome question Adam. Just had a look at our cohort analysis. Happy to let you know that 16% of the December 2010 cohort (those 100 people) are still using Buffer today (2…

In the whole first month of Buffer, we had less than 100 signups. For comparison, we now have 560,000 users (2.5 years later). We now sign up 100 people within a couple hours. It a…

Buffer ( http://bufferapp.com ) - Anywhere in the world (we're a distributed team of 10 people in the US, UK, Hong Kong and Sydney). I'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fu…

I think this a great point. If you're in the habit of writing a TLDR for articles, maybe you can try writing the TLDR and then afterwards removing the 4 letters "TLDR" and leaving …

For the MVP of Buffer, I implemented PayPal (no Stripe back then), but I avoided all the IPN hassles. The IPN is the part that would auto-upgrade people once they paid. The way I d…

we're looking primarily for full-time help but definitely drop me a note anyway :-) joel@bufferapp.com

That's great advice Dharmesh, I think I can be much more specific there. Thanks for the heads up. For anyone reading who's interested, I think this might be the best example of how…

Buffer ( http://bufferapp.com ) - Anywhere in the world (we're a distributed team) I hope you are having a fantastic day. Happy new year :-) I'd love for you to come join Buffer fo…

I know there are a lot of people who are very successful in those late quiet hours, rather than the early morning quiet hours. Tim Ferriss is a key person who comes to mind. Howeve…

Thanks. Indeed, we're a different company, and still going strong independently :-)

Buffer ( http://bufferapp.com ) - San Francisco Hope you are having a fantastic weekend. I'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We're a small team of 7, we have ove…

I'd be curious about the decision between freemium (free plan) vs free trial - what was the process for choosing to use freemium? That's something I talk about with lots of founder…

Hey. I definitely encourage you to try Circular. If you want to try Buffer too, then if it helps then I'm happy to let you know we're funded and profitable, 7 in the team. Let me k…

Thanks for the kind words Roland, awesome to see you here. Yep, you're right - I think what Julien is doing is really great. I've been in touch with him via email too, been great t…

I agree perhaps it's too much. Interestingly, it looks rather nice, clean and readable (IMO) without everything else (here's a screenshot: http://joelg.cc/KJp5/o ). Unfortunately, …

San Francisco, CA - JavaScript Engineers, PHP/MongoDB Engineers, Devops We're looking for awesome engineers at Buffer ( http://bufferapp.com ). We're a team of 7, about to open an …