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They're taken advantage of when it comes down to deciding a salary. It's a situation where an H1B has to take the lowball offer, or leave it and be completely screwed.

Also, first check "our" the video. Should be "Out."

Pretty great article.I'm always so leery of outsourcing work, no one can do it as good as I can! Maybe I need to change that.

This is an impressive undertaking, but good lord, what an unfortunate name.

Good point about who we're targeting. So far in our experimentation and keeping the task list as rigidly controlled as we can, we've begun to notice interesting metrics... Metrics that can definitely be useful. We're very excited to use this daily and see our results a year from now.

The analytics are dependent on the input from the user of the task app, but I see where you're coming from. The analytics would definitely be highlighted as our selling point.

I'd like to have a service that notifies me of deadlines. I input a description of the task and the date, all my tasks are then ordered by how close the deadline is. I can also set intervals for me to be reminded about the deadline.

I can share this information with someone like my boss. She can view what I'm working on and add tasks to it if need be, and every time she adds a task I get a notification asking me to accept the task. In addition to being able to accept the task, I have the ability to propose an alternative date too.

Simple.

You can also make the screenshots smaller if you look at the sidebar on the left.

I agree with everything you're saying. It's driving me up a wall.

You're welcome! Articles like yours encourage me to learn to code and become a more well rounded marketer.

Austin is a town I want to live in some day! I'm emailing you now.

"I believe great marketers are like methodical scientists. They can put aside their own biases and test their hypothesis and analyze the data. Beyond that, they can look at the data in front of them, identify what they need to know more about, and discover things they did not expect. Through this they can affect change that improves the entire organization."

GREAT quote. Bravo. Way to put into words what I struggle to say. Thanks.

ENTIRELY dependent on company culture and this goes back to the lack of performance measurement for marketers. Everyone involved in the process is looking over their shoulders. If a company values marketing and gives their marketers "free reign" as it were, all is right in the world. When marketers are micromanaged, that Game of Thrones comparison is spot on.

The passive aggressiveness in the industry is suffocating.

You're right! I actually checked before submitting that comment, I should have said, "I wish you guys were hiring IN CHICAGO."

Twilio! Why are you so cool?

You're entirely right, the good sales person and the good marketer spark the conversation and keep it going. They shouldn't be the dominant voice. See my reply below as it pertains to this.

Sidenote: I love Twilio as a company and have ever since you guys sponsored a Startup Weekend in Chicago about 3 years ago. I wish y'all were hiring.

Yeah, it's tough for marketers in a different sense. Good marketing it pervasive, but no in your face and blatant. When a marketer is doing a good job, that "work" is not readily apparent because it could have been as simple as having the right conversation at the right time.

My daily struggle is to quantify my accomplishments, it really is too easy to dismiss the "marketing guy".

That was a great little read. Whenever I try to explain to my developer friends why my job is important, I'm usually shrugged off rudely. This guy gets it, experience is the only way to learn WHY marketing is so essential.

My humble request to developers: Stop being dismissive of marketers, they are an essential part of the equation.

"...smart people I consider to be excellent writers—are unironically using the word “SPOTLIGHT” as a verb in an Hacker News thread."

The article SHOULD be titled "Now is the worst time to get locked into a two year contract".

Blatant crap IMO.

After finding Codiqa as the top post earlier and it blowing me away, this app to create an app seems to be subpar.

Congrats guys! I wholeheartedly believe in bootstrapping over funding. Keep that company to yourselves. I played around with Codiqa on the jquerymobile site and what you've put together is truly impressive. I've worked with startups in the past and I haven't seen any as well put together.

Need a marketing person? Give me a call.