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This is a great repurposed version of the Hipmunk interface, Surprised no one else has made the connection! FlickMunk won the techcrunch disrupt (hipmunk for movies) - I wonder how many other applications for this interface style will pop up, it's pretty versatile.

Fair enough on KickStarter - I've seen it used in both cases. I think with your resume the community over there would really enjoy it, but fair enough.

Re the design, all I meant by too much work is that I actually needed to look for where to buy. It's obviously a clean set up, there's just not much information that shows up above the fold that makes me want to scroll down (it was the comments in this section and the title of this post that even got me to your page). But yeah - obviously you've thought through it and it's your thing. Good luck with it!

Have you thought about releasing this as a KickStarter project? Might be good from a marketing standpoint?

The design of this page is sort of hard for me to get through - I know you intentionally made it informal, but maybe something to consider.. I'm a huge fan of the products you've designed, but not a fan of this layout for presenting the book. Specifically, it's way too much work to find the area to buy it, and there's no real call to action (or clarity) above the fold when the page first loads. The unicorn insults thing - feels like you stumbled into an inside joke, not an incredible ebook by an awesome designer. Just my $.02, I'm not sure if you were even looking for feedback on that but figured I'd share.

Looking forward to downloading it!

I think what's throwing me (and possibly others) off is the first example on the features page. I know what you're saying, but "dumbed down social media tools" and "here's how you sign up for an account on twitter" are pretty different. I've signed up for a beta invite tho.

Usually the free product gives you a taste of the premium one. It sounds like your idea for a free product is totally different (if I'm understanding your point correctly). Something to consider..

I do like the idea of a codecademy for social media as a way to generate future paid users, you just may need to reconfigure the flow. The social media tutorial piece of this is great for buzz, but ultimately it sounds like your main product is the one for community managers, and those are the people who will bounce the second they think your site is going to teach them how to create a twitter account.

This looks like a really cool product - put one clear call to action at the top, instead of your three sub-points. Look at http://www.mixpanel.com for some inspiration. They have the best landing page I've ever seen (and the funny thing is that it's probably always changing).

Don't spend money. $50k is a hell of a lot of money to spend to build a prototype. Depending on what you're trying to do, it should not cost that much. Just get your minimum viable product built, whether you're building it yourself after spending a few months learning enough code, or if you pay a contractor to do it now (get someone to work for equity or just remove features until it's affordable to have them do it).

One way or another the experience will be valuable (learning to manage/work with engineers is just as valuable as coding IMHO), but again - don't spend that much to do it. You could build the prototype, only to find that it's not a service people are interested in using. That would suck, but not as much as losing your entire savings to learn the same thing.

I think it's useful - all of these sites fall into the social networking space, but they all have different ways of changing these things (and every site is changing them, at that).

Next logical step is tapping into API's for settings API's have control over so you can streamline the settings update (obviously that will never be completely possible for usernames/passwords etc - but the more social apps and customizable settings out there the more of a pain point that will become).

Yeah - another good way to go for this is to find awesome and completed photoshop files and then try to reverse engineer how they were created. Theme and template gardens usually provide the photoshop file, you'd be amazed how much you can learn from digging around in one file (how'd they do that?).

One caveat - knowing how to photoshop is different than knowing how to design. UI/UX is a completely different subject.

Great job guys!

Yep - my favorite is companies who send you one last email (after you've unsubscribed) just to let you know in case there was some huge mistake.

A total pet peeve, but the companies who send these confirmation emails are the same ones who make you jump through ridiculous hoops - with all the trouble they make you go through to unsubscribe, how could it possibly be a mistake?

Funny that their "new" feature doesn't take into effect the new timelines. It won't be hard to integrate, just doesn't seem like they wanted to change it before making the announcement.

Yes, you can try to hack the system- but if they think you're lying or being misleading your chances of playing for them may be gone. This shouldn't be legal in the first place- but doing the second or fake account workaround (or saying you don't have an account when you really do) is risky if they ever find out.

For college athletes sometimes that option isn't there. If you've only got one school interested in you, and they're requiring you to provide it - calling their bluff is a risky move (on the other hand, might be worth pursuing a career in something other than sports if you're only talking to one school).

This is unbelievable. With all of these studies showing up that employers/schools use public social media channels to make a decision on applicants, this is way over the top.

Hopefully this ends fast.

Do it anyway.

1) Creating the app is half the battle - executing on distribution is the main thing you'll have to fight.

2) You don't know what their end game for the app is - they might be creating it with a totally different function in mind. So even though up front you may think they've created something identical to what you are, that might not be true.

3) The fact that there's another app out there that does what you are planning on doing further validates that you have a great idea.

4) Don't be concerned with competitors. Phil Libin from Evernote said it best - on the list of top threats to your app's ability to succeed, a competitor's success doesn't even register.

You're describing basecamp, verbatim. Check it out http://www.basecamp.com

There's a need for a website like this - meetup is the closest thing I've found, otherwise you just kind of have to be in the know. Find one person who's well known in the circle you're trying to find conferences for, then email them or google them to see other places they've spoken. All you really need is that one insider to find out everything that's worth going to.

But outside of that advice, someone needs to build this!

linkedin works pretty well = search for the skill set you need, and it will show you connections that are close to you - then you can get a reference from your direct connections who know them. That's been the most effective way I've found.

http://www.crunchbase.com <-- your first and last destination. :0)

Move on. It's a numbers game. There are enough other companies out there that will see your passion as an asset.

Understand things from their point of view: they're a popular company in a popular area. They probably have so many resumes being sent in that it's tough to manage the flow, and at junior positions like interns, it's difficult to differentiate candidates. One core differentiator at pre-entry level positions is ability to learn - and that's something that isn't too easy to pick up on in a resume.

Their loss is another company's gain.

If you're meant to end up working there - you'll end up there. Sometimes it's out of your hands, but there are enough awesome startups in New York that you'll get picked up somewhere fast.

And if you don't get the job, once you're tremendously successful a few years from now - you can always send Dennis and Naveen an email letting them know they missed out :)

I think I understand why this was downvoted - didn't know this wasn't ok. Now I know.

Only reason I mentioned this is that it brought the essence of the article out in one sentence (tl;dr).

Please either delete my comment, let me delete my original comment, or stop downvoting me. What's the point in downvoting someone repeatedly? I'm not sure how the system works on your end (or if you can see how many others have downvoted), but seems pretty harsh to keep doing this when there was an honest mistake. Thanks.

QuickbooksOnline has done an amazing job innovating over the past few years - it's the best product in its class now, easily. Yes, there are certain things it still can't do - and that makes it very frusturating, but I don't see a reason to use any other service.

I think the main flaw with this idea is that everyone wants to make accounting "simple." Unless you are going to focus on a specific niche, I think you're not going to solve the problem.

It sounds like you want to solve the problem of visualizing accounting data better than any other product or service. Why not build an app that works with the quickbooks API (Bill.com is the most notable app out there that sync's with QB). Just an idea..

well said.

Oh - I saw this posted the other day. Prefacing my answer - I don't understand the goal of your site, so I'm not sure how much I can help. I'd recommend that if you want people filling out your survey on your website, you'll need a much better interface. The site just doesn't look too professional or trustworthy. Sites like surveymonkey and wufoo can get you some nicer looking forms.

There's enough on linkedin to give you most of the information you'd need to graphically show hiring trends - many profiles are public, you'd get more than enough info to see what people are doing (profiles typically have college, grad year, and positions they've held).

I think the best way to solve this is to have a toggle that removes all the archived messages. That's actually one piece of Facebook system that is awesome - there's no history at the bottom of every message that just gets longer and longer, because every message is a part of the history.

Gmail has an alright workaround - they manage to hide the content they view is copied from a previous message.

I don't know if explicitly breaking the thread would do anything - usually when a thread gets too long, I just change the subject line, problem solved.

You could try http://www.gopollgo.com

You haven't been too specific about what you're trying to do, so there's not much else anyone can do to help without more information.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

"Many graphic designers have been replaced by Photoshop"

The writer lost all of his credibility once he dropped that line.

details, details.

This is cool.

Are you caching the data? It would be cool to see a graphical interface of this over time. The guys at insidefacebook have done a nice iteration of this idea on the analytics of facebook apps and pages (http://pagedata.appdata.com)

It would also be cool if you could somehow integrate Compete and Quantcast into here too (not that any of those three are terribly accurate - but would be fun to look at).