lukethomas

I did a similar process when house-shopping. Setup ads for a particular location, specifically targeting people who owned in the area, but who lived out of state.

1. Personal FB ad copy 2. Landing page w/ more information about what we were looking for. 3. Contact form

I received ~5 leads from people willing to sell their house with about $100 in ad spend.

These would be great questions to answer when creating an event invite. Would make a pretty useful chrome extension.

It sounds like the meetings are compressed into the other two days of the week, which also sounds quite miserable.

I'd love to see an app that analyzes the internal meetings that happen inside a company and flags the repeat offenders. I've always found that a small percentage of people hold the most meetings. It also can be a bit awkward to reject their meeting invites constantly.

Leaders should remind people about the time-cost of meetings (here's a calculator to help: https://hbr.org/2016/01/estimate-the-cost-of-a-meeting-with-...). There are meetings that can be beneficial for alignment, but then there are the reoccurring ones where people just want to know what you're working on.

Anyways, I'm working on a tool to help cut down on the "what's going on" meetings: https://www.fridayfeedback.com

7 hours and 15 minutes on average (according to Fitbit)

I built this (fridayfeedback.com) to help leaders understand what's going on w/ their teams. Most customers are remote teams/organizations. I've also managed remote teams before so can understand where you're coming from.

A common theme with the self-driving car discussion is the potential to reshape cities. While I'm sure this will happen, I'd love to see thoughts/ideas on the impact in suburban & more remote areas.

For example, will people be willing to commute longer distances? Will smaller cities outside larger metropolitan areas become more popular?

They offer free lunches.

Folklore told here in Maine said that lobsters were so abundant they would walk up on the beaches. It was considered to be "trash" food and they fed it to prisoners.

http://www.history.com/news/a-taste-of-lobster-history

Yup - in addition, many take the winter off. It's hard work during the peak times of year, but I'd compare it to the schedule of a school teacher (~3 month break).

I live in Maine.

So far this year in Maine, the price is about 2x what it normally goes for. Locals say it's because there's such strong overseas demand (China, etc). The average price of a lobster roll I'd say is around $18.

Contrary to what the article says "it's not making anybody rich" I can tell you the lobstermen who typically sell lobster for $2/lb off the dock are very happy with $4/lb. A friend on a very good day will catch 2,000 pounds, so the extra margin this year is welcomed.

For me (https://fridayfeedback.com) it's been a mixture of outreach (sales), writing in-depth guides about topics that are interesting to the target market (managers). I've tested some ads, but no dice yet.

Can also just add a field to signup "how did you hear about us?"

same - would love top books by month/year.

Remote work.

It's not anonymous in any way right now. All responses have names attached to them. Anonymous feedback is a great way to start an internal witch-hunt, especially with smaller teams. With that being said, there's some value w/ anonymous surveys.

By introducing a cadence (weekly/bi-weekly) it helps surface small issues before they become big ones. Most of the time feedback is overly critical is because it's been bottled up for weeks/months.

Seems like the major benefits are:

1. 140 char tweets aren't indexed very well by search engines. Writing blog posts or 400+ char tweets? Way better. More indexable content. More user growth. Wall street is satisfied for a few months.

2. The notion of expressing yourself (or whatever you want to call blogging) is easy to explain (WordPress, Tumblr, Medium). I'd argue that it's much easier to explain blogging than Twitter. By introducing something less ambiguous it should help user growth.

As much as I would hate 10k char tweets, I can see why they are doing this.

Minor changes to the current product won't drive the growth they and Wall Street are looking for.

Where I work (www.crystalknows.com) is based out of Nashville. I'm remote in Portland, ME (tons of good beer & restaurants) and I pay $1200/mo for a mortgage on a 2bedroom condo on the ocean. Just moved from Boston, and I'm saving a ton on living expenses. SF is the last place on earth I would move to.

This is purely a guess, but I'd imagine they boost posts (aka pay to display a post to more people), and show them to people who already like the page to collect initial CTR/Like/Share stats.

Then take the winner of that test and post to the rest of the people who like the page, where "organic reach" takes over.

Thanks for the feedback. Will change. Email luke [at] crystalknows.com w/ the email you signed up with and I'll approve the request.

You present good points.

Our goal at Crystal isn't to game the system when communicating with others, but to help you be more aware of these personality differences (and show them at the right time with tools).

For example, my dad is extremely task oriented and logical. I'm the exact opposite. When I listen to him talk about something for an hour in extreme detail, understanding his personality helps me be a little more empathetic, as I know it's naturally something he's going to do.

We're a 4 person company. They definitely didn't ask us to sponsor it (or I would have heard about it).

I work at Crystal. We didn't pay for this.

As a former homeschooler, "socialization" problems can exist, but can also easily be overcome. The x-factor is parental involvement.

For example, in elementary school, I would go to local public school for art and phys-ed classes in addition to coursework at home. I knew most of the kids at school, but I would spend half as much time sitting at a desk, leaving the afternoons to explore/learn whatever I wanted.

In high school, I would spend mornings taking classes at home, then go to the local university and earn dual-credits (high school + college), then go to a vocational technical school for the afternoon, and then go to sports practice at the local public high school. While peers would waste hours in study hall, I was spending my time at the local bookstore reading and learning how to code.

I'm one of 4 kids, and every one of us will have graduated high school with 20+ college credits. I also fully plan on homeschooling my kids in the future.

Being data-driven is detrimental when it replaces common-sense (talking to users, collecting feedback, improving based on feedback).

Before the internet (and being able to track every single action), successful companies were built. It can be done. Using data to drive decisions has some value, but it's not the end-all solution, it's merely a piece of the puzzle.

I'm in the same spot with my app (digitaldetachapp.com).

I found an awesome developer overseas, but I'm at a point where I'm not sure how much money I want to put into it. I've decided to slowly keep improving based on customer feedback (I'm self-funding this). It's a great learning experience at the very least.

Here's what I suggest:

1) Fix the bugs and 2.) Consider charging more (I'd probably triple the price if I was you)

It seems like you're delivering quite a bit of value. Don't be afraid to charge more.

For the first version, it only allows calling/texting - however, I'm going to have WhatsApp whitelisted because I know it's a popular messenger replacement :)

In the future, I'd love to give people different "packages" (ie. - Uber, Lyft, Instacard, etc) as not all apps are distracting.

Up until 6 months ago, I used a flip-phone because I didn't want the distractions that I noticed with friends (constantly checking Facebook, Twitter, etc.)

I finally gave in when I moved and would constantly get lost (I needed maps).

I really like this article, but I see opportunity in short digital breaks. The truth is that the majority of people won't delete infinity apps. They don't have the self-control to do it.

That's why I'm building an app (Android-only) to temporarily disable distracting apps.

You can check it out, I'd love feedback -> http://www.digitaldetoxapp.com

It seems clear to me that this is a step towards a bigger vision (example: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/05/us-airbnb-dinner-i...)

I just saw the event they had, and while extremely awkward and painful to watch, they continually eluded to a broader concept bigger than "renting rooms."

I use Optimizely on a daily basis, and this is hands-down the worst update they've made so far.

Keep the table results at the top. I've mentioned this several times, but apparently an enterprise customer's feedback doesn't matter.

I stopped giving money to these people, instead offering to buy them food.

I prefer to know exactly what the money is being spent on. I'm happy to help them, but I don't want to fund an addiction.