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LEGO is an adjective. Never call it Legos.

Hi folks, I posted this > 4 months ago, but we've been through a couple of pivots since then. I'm really happy where it's landed now and think the response has been much better thi…

Yep absolutely. You bucket users on your end and just pass through the user Id and the segment name. Then mirror the segment as call groups on our end e.g. segment='high value'

You can also use Smidge without sending us any PII, but obviously segmentation will be limited. Also in the next couple of weeks, with just a user id, you will be able to place a c…

Yeah I can understand that. This early version requires calls be routed via a server, but being webrtc it can be P2P. We'd like to provide recording and transcription in the near f…

Sorry, we are still working on the landing page. We don't show the user anything until you call them (so as to not interfere with drift/intercom etc). When you call them the curren…

(Shameless plug) https://smidge.app We had this problem with our product (BugHerd) and built a solution for it. Our success rate was ~1% and we thought we could do better. We creat…

Hi folks, my name is Alan, I’m the founder of Smidge (previously founded BugHerd, Usabilityhub/Fivesecondtest and ahem RightGIF) https://smidge.app As a founder, I’ve always found …

I know GIFs are not exactly an "important social good", but I do like the idea of keeping RightGIF independent. We definitely want to integrate with Teams of course, so there will …

Thank you! My hope is to be able to support as many platforms as we can, or even open up the API in way that allows users to roll their own.

Yeah, privacy for us has always been #1. It means we will need to monetise, but all indications are that teams are willing to pay a small amount for that privacy. We have the benef…

LOL... I forgot it even existed. It was a hackathon project that never made it past being a hackathon project :) I'm glad someone remembers it though!

Hi folks, I'm Alan, one of the founders of RightGIF. We originally built RightGIF as an alternative to Giphy in our own Slack teams. It quickly took off and became one of the top "…

As majority owners, we certainly could have continued to run the company indefinitely as a "lifestyle business" (and there's not much anyone could have done about it). But my belie…

Errr... no... just no.

Digital Agencies get the most value (because they tend to have more projects on the go), but any web team wanting feedback from stakeholders will enjoy it.

It was a pivot that failed. Even though we were growing quickly, the data showed that we'd landed on a local maxima with the original product. Our churn rate was around 3%/mth and …

Surprisingly accurate :)

Thanks for sticking around :) I know it's frustrating to see so little action over such a long period of time. We're slowly rolling out a bunch of stuff which we really should've a…

(founder here) Definitely not dead! Far from it! Profitable and still growing. September was our largest single month growth since April 2014 and we'll easily beat that this month.…

Anything that makes it more convenient for people to get from A to B in a _car_ will, of course, create more traffic. Convenience increases usage. Uber/Lyft may make it unnecessary…

Fun puzzle, but I had the same problem. Example: https://imgur.com/a/t4T5l The solution is valid, but the expected result has the two dots in a different position. EDIT: I just rea…

Work with other startup founders, mentor students, assist at an accelerator, teach a course at your local university. In my experience, sharing the (limited) knowledge I have gaine…