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philvb

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About philvb

Co-founder & CPO, Dopt. www.dopt.com

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    Comment #36854597

    All 3 founders worked remotely at larger companies during the pandemic and when we started the company in late '21 we knew we wanted to be hybrid, so it was made top down from the …

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    Comment #36853996

    For cookies: we're using Posthog for tracking and it's helpful for us to understand how people use our website and product. Hybrid vs remote is sometimes polarizing, but hybrid has…

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    Comment #36851717

    You really need both: solid, intuitive product design and good new user onboarding. Even with a great product, new uses will still need help discovering and understanding how to ge…

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    Comment #36851650

    Tours aren't always bad, but they're often just poorly implemented, with too many steps that don't mean anything to the user. Onboarding that's contextual, like embedded tips, or r…

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    Comment #34540193

    thanks for the feedback, we're going to make some improvements to our website over the next month!

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    Comment #34540186

    thanks for the feedback on the website! we're going to be making some changes over the next month, so we'll make this more clear. glad you think this is a great solution. it sounds…

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    Comment #15591251

    Yes, completely agree that each dataset requires decisions to be made that can't be automated, but there are huge opportunities for tools to assist users in understanding what clea…

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    Comment #5520354

    This looks interesting, but what are the advantages of this over Vega, which is free? https://github.com/trifacta/vega