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Long time premium spotify user, but it seems they are more interested in their ad-tech than anything else. They introduce 0 new features or improvements and in fact actually remove things over time. It's amazing to see a product continue to get worse.

Before you could send your friends a message within Spotify to send a song for them to listen while in the application and could even carry on a discussion. It was slick. It was amazing and worked very well. They totally gutted it and made no indication of bringing it back. Now we're stuck with this ridiculous arcane method of sending a link through a text message that now opens up in a browser (sometimes?) instead of the application itself.

Too much work to maintain this beloved feature, better fire all the engineers working on it and hire people to prevent ad-blocking for the non-paying customers.

Saw this article and was familiar with the headaches of esignatures. HelloSign is very pretty but I've been using Adobe Sign for years now. When we had to switch from Business to Enterprise (I don't remember what limitation required the upgrade but it was business critical - edit: ah yes, I remember being able have a clickable link that generated a new one for each person). There was some friction because the support and people working on it seem to be handled by a different group of Adobe. There were two different logins, kinda weird. Couldn't sign up through the site and had to do a manual contract. After dealing with the technical team the migration worked and all is well, very nerve wracking time thinking you lost all your contracts. We had backups but still.

Anyways, one of the biggest issues with other services was the max amount of templates imposed by HelloSign and the rest. It feels very arbitrary yet Adobe can handle this at scale very cost effectively.

The UI needs work and some quality of life changes need to happen. I feel like it's been somewhat abandoned after the acquisition. If I need to edit a template with one tweak I have to completely redo the entire contract/document which is time consuming especially on multi-page contracts with tons of fields of different types.

We're married to it now and it does work but I would love to see enhancements or have Adobe at least get a few new designers and UI/UX people onboard.

Also adding my +1 here. I've been managing upper 5 figures for a few years on some of the most competitive keywords. My process is pretty similar except I basically swear by BMM (broad-match-modified: +car +accident +lawsuit) keywords only and then the ones that perform exceptionally well I might convert or add an exact match but I can typically fly solely by an entire mix of BMM + negative keywords. This keeps it much tighter and less likely to trip up on wasted spend as all search terms will be close.

Bidding strategy is also incredibly important, as good as Google is getting their recommendation on overall strategy isn't great. Manual CPC (enhanced) has yielded much better conversions and cost per conversion compared to any other strategy. Manually adjusting each keyword, admittingly this does take some time but you set an overall max CPC and then increment where needed. Of course, this can be industry-specific and dependent on your goals. There are also a few scripts I run to automate some tedious things but that's less important.

Like ericabiz I also tried hiring on a few consultants hourly and it's been hit or miss but there were some insights I missed, so potentially worth it. Do not outsource to an agency, they are not worth the money. You need to groom your campaigns over-time and be dedicated. Use that extra cash on bidding for the ads themselves not the overhead of an agency.

You don't know what you don't know. Always be A/B testing.

Noticed the same thing, my wife has a few personalities she follows on YouTube and looks forward to skincare product launches and other things being announced. Coincidentally, one of them pushed out their own mystery makeup box and it was a race to purchase one before they "sold out." I see this as just one big marketing ploy to make a bunch of money by selling cheaply made products at high prices because of an image and really pretty branding.

I don't get it, but she enjoys it. As much as I hate to admit, I'm sure I've been sucked into some tech or office product in a similar fashion.

Stripe defines modern looking pages. I've been so pleased using their docs and it's a treat to use their services as they always look incredibly polished. Many companies try to copy their look and it ends up looking like a poor clone purchased from a themeshop and gets lost in the startup ocean but Stripe seems to do design in a very precise way. I can't really explain how they do it but major props to their design team for keeping consistent quality.

This is a big part of it, which true some people get burned and lose money. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't do it. In fact, I'd argue it's slightly healthy to have a little bit of skin in the game to understand how these things work. If you're into numbers, it's nothing more than a game or say fantasy football and you can cheer for your favorite players (companies).

Robinhood presents a nice way of making it easy to get into the stock market with a pretty interface and without going through a cumbersome broker and paying fees for things you don't understand. Do seek professional help if you are looking for 401k and retirement guidance.

If anything, RH is sophisticated gambling.

Yeah, most of these firms use pretty bad metric comparisons for their marketing efforts to inflate how much better it is when in reality it's par for the course with Ally and others. Now that doesn't mean it's bad. Having used it there aren't that many challenges (I'd argue less because information is clear and the interface is nice to work with) and it's all bonds and the risk is low. Unless you have an argument bonds are risky compared to cash sitting against inflation. It's still all SIPC insured.

> Smart Saver’s built-in portfolio is the Betterment Portfolio Strategy’s allocation at 0% stocks, 100% bonds.

The one big downside could be is if you need cash _now_ it can take a few days (5?) before being able to use it.

That's pretty standard for a lot of these new-tech-wave style brokerage psuedo-banks. Betterment, Wealthfront, etc which also have a form of savings accounts (don't believe they offer checking accounts like rh is doing here) are SIPC only as well.

Echoing this. Heroku is still such a treat, super reliable, and communicates when issues arise. I've even gotten support via reddit from them. I do like seeing things like this though in the event Heroku goes away. Being able to spin up a clone quickly with another service is good to have in the back pocket.

Looking forward to completing this year! Normally I'd grab ruby or js, but been filling gaps using C lately and tempted to keep pushing that.

This makes total sense too. I was so hesitant to use something besides Sublime forever, then I tested out Atom and it was slow (this has probably since been improved) and didn't offer much more so the trade off wasn't worth it for looking pretty. Bounced around a few others and then thought I'll try out the VSCode thing, hooked right away and it seems to keep getting better.

Looking at the MK series now, this seems fantastic. The suggestion of putting together the printer with a kit seems like a great time. Thanks for the advice!

This is rad. It's an early monday morning and I'm listening to what would be late night wave anime radio in Japan. Really cool idea and solid execution.

Yelp is incredibly annoying as a business owner. After signing up to setup basic NAP consistency, they will automatically flag it as some sort of tag often incorrectly and then continue to call and email you asking to spend advertising dollars on their site for months. Even after asking them to no longer do so.

I'm glad google reviews and others have taken their place.

Confused why this is posted again, it's been submitted many times. (Maybe there was a big release? Just looks like updated docs). Having said that, I've used this for a number of projects and enjoyed it much more than heavier solutions.

There is no js so you just write your own in and it's really easy to mold to your own liking. It was "just" enough and produced polished looking crud apps. Mostly search and form stuff with tables but users have enjoyed it so I give the author credit. I also had to spend way more time working on the backend and this did not get in the way.

Having worked with a number of attorneys, this would be fantastic to disrupt the status quo. Plenty of competitors acquire clients almost solely by having a huge budget for putting these all around the city. I'd prefer a more research driven approach. Seems unlikely now that I looked it up, most recent state was Alaska (by state referendum) in 1998.

I have a newer MBP (with touchbar, ugh) and I'm quite jealous of this form factor and setup. I probably could perform most of my work on this just as well and it would have been heck of a lot cheaper.

Agreed, just add a few more steps to do joins as that's probably one of the most common requests that people need to do. Even providing a few basic inner or left joins could be enough.

Outline link: https://outline.com/893xwr

The Economist is another website that seems to have been plagued by GDPR and other current web publishing trends.

This looks fantastic, Heroku definitely could use some competition. I love them but the only other option is using some insane AWS stuff with nonsensical icons and naming. Hope this takes off and adds a nice CI.

PostgreSQL has been such a joy to use for both hobby and professional projects. It's so reliable. I wonder when Heroku will support 11 and I'm curious if upgrading from 10 to 11 with heroku using the simple pg_upgrade would break anything. If it's just a pure performance increase, I'm looking forward to doing it to a few production applications.

Did this awhile ago, simply contact support or DM https://twitter.com/spotifycares?lang=en and they will easily migrate all your stuff.

That's fair. Might have to send you an email and provide more detail. Appreciate the responses!

Currently employed at a small company and I've been doing a mixture of side projects throughout the years as well. I don't picture myself leaving anytime soon but you never know what the future holds with startups.

I've considered doing something like this to fill in gaps of knowledge and really strengthen my programming ability in the event I need to shoot out some resumes but unsure how the tuition payback works if I finish the course but retain my current job?

I have a number of domains with Namecheap and these comments are worrying me. Thinking about moving over but is there an easy way to port all records? Some of domains have multiple txt and mx records associated with them and a bunch of other values that would be a pain to manually rezone.

Development tools held me back and why I don't use Mozilla. Using Chrome dev tools on a daily basis keeps me stuck. Also having different profiles for work and personal is super useful (different bookmarks, logins, history that syncs) it's really slick. Does Brave offer this along with 1Password integration?

Referring the VoIP providers that are pushing out the anti-deskphone philosophy.

I would love more of a blend of phone.com/ringcentral + using the designers of Dialpad. Their interface seems a lot nicer. With the more traditional ones it's nice that you can call them and they'll ship you ready to ring phones that connect to the cloud based PBX. This is huge and needed but Dialpad does not do this. Just look at their docs, you have to specify an IP and quite a bit more configurations unlike the shipped ready phones, but I have a feeling this is because of their licensing terms.

Being able to move around or take your deskphone with you home, to a coffee shop, anywhere that has an internet connection is quite useful. Again, talking about a physical deskphone that connects via wifi or ethernet. I'm aware using a cellphone with an app easily does this but often that's harder to sell to some more traditional folks.

Agree that this market is gold and this would be a really fun project to piece together, though the type that I want to exist might not be doable for $10k.

Huh, this makes a lot of sense and the timing of this comment is interesting. I work with a small commercial office building and they want to setup VoIP instead of using their PDX machine for phones because it’s quite expensive. Looked a lot of places but the big pain is having physical phones. Most tech companies just want you to have an app on your phone but a lot people still prefer an actual phone on their desk. This is why Dialpad wouldn’t work (also expensive) but is more complex than phone.com which will send you phones preconfigured.

Still trying to figure out the best route since so many of these places have poor UIs or don’t support physical phones and fax very well. I can’t imagine I’m the only one running into these problems so their is an opportunity here.

I was too, basically the article is saying to lift. Which I do agree with but if you're suggesting TRT (testosterone replacement therapy), something that has definitely become popular and is being advertised heavily - I'd caution that it's not for everyone and there have been plenty of lawsuits filed already and problems allegedly associated with it. I guess like everything, check with your doctor which the article does suggest. At least 9 products have been named in the litigation. Fortestam, AndroGel, Axiron, Androderm, etc.

One of the many lawyers working on these cases: https://outline.com/YEpTGg

The MDL source: http://www.ilnd.uscourts.gov/mdl-details.aspx?UGlDS1bLxpRHyf...

You do have to wonder about guys like Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is 71 (ridiculous) and is in better shape than most. I can't imagine how much work he has to put into to keeping that up. Supplements can only do so much.

Right tool, right job, etc. I built and run an internal tool for a company that went from a very dated coldfusion setup, to a cloud crm (expensive), to now simply using the rails application I built for them with fantastic sorting, searching, mass updates, login features, and export capabilities, you name it. It's has over 1M db records and is plenty fast for any mix of criteria.

Really cheap to run, low-low-low maintenance. I don't even need to touch it except if there are some security bugs that need to be patched and heroku handles backups automatically. In the event heroku has problems I run my own cron-job that does backups of the psql database and the application itself is put under version control.

I'm not sure there is another framework I could have pieced together such a smooth application with anything else in the amount of time and resources I had available plus without having to worry about it ever breaking because of some weird bug. Stability is very important for many businesses.

Once in a blue moon a new feature is requested and doesn't take long to make some changes. Now, would I use rails to fire up a basic website like I did in the past? No. I'd grab a static-gen like Jekyll and maybe some PHP to handle mail if needed.