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Yea I really enjoyed that too. Now, if only I lived somewhere other than San Diego where I actually needed a thermostat ;-)

This is amazing. You have saved me countless seconds of frustration :-)

Right?? You would think taxi drivers wouldn't be blind to the possibility of disruption. Look at the music industry and many others. I can't wait for all remaining crap services to be forcefully improved.

No way, man. Sure luck plays a role on some level, but I can tell you I spent seven plus years trying to get apps off the ground. And it wasn't until I started putting in the hard work that things began to turn around. Plain and simple. Drop the excuses!

I think the bigger worry should be regarding whether or not you're writing something people will buy.

The reason so many things suck these days is that people worry about edge cases, and build in rules/sucky experiences to protect against them.

Thank you so much for sharing :-) Great inspiration for my own little project!

This makes me want to finally get one :-) If only I didn't live in San Diego haha

It is so incredibly infuriating...and by the people who are supposed to be looking out for us.

"My favorite example of this sort of insanity is the office in which each time any developer deployed to production, the speaker system automatically played 6 seconds of their favorite song across the entire office. You could actually watch productivity go out the window as dozens of developers fell out of the zone."

And yet, it's a developers dream to set something like that up. Or a nerf gun that fires when you deploy. Hah!

Very self-harming...

"This was one feature we really wanted and implementing this was painful as hell. I can’t believe it’s now just a boolean value away." - So awesome yet so frustrating! haha

Good design...it opens up so many doors.

CSS galleries, Dribbble postings, trust, sharing on social media, being followed by designers/developers/marketers, etc.

Great design is truly appreciated and breaks down massive barriers when someone first comes to your sites.

It also happens to be a great traffic generator - so don't neglect it!

I run http://hookfeed.com and http://minimalytics.com. And I'm writing http://howtobuildarocketship.com

This is so true: "But since we're still in the early days of Cloud adoption and since it usually takes 5-10 years to build a large SaaS company, you also need lots of patience."

It all goes soooo much slower than expected.

We've also been distracted many times by this: "Similarly, if one user requests a new feature or a change in the product that's no reason to do it, unless you think it makes sense for a large part of your target group."

And we've also failed to plan, but a certain level is indeed necessary (once you hit a certain point). A defined roadmap is very necessary, albeit not always desired... "Become clear on what you want to achieve in 2014 and what this means for your product roadmap, your marketing plan and your financial plan."

Spot on article. Thank you so much :-)