I love Stripe and have been a happy customer for years. But to piggyback off of this comment, one thing I've always wanted from them is plug-and-play subscription management, similar to Memberful[0].
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> Thinking there were technical difficulties, some employees logged-off and were never able to return to the meeting. [...] Others tried in vain to join the webinar and got a message saying it was full, likely because Bird's webinar license didn't accommodate enough attendees.
> For the next five minutes, employees stared at a sparse slide with a dark grey background that said only "COVID-19." [...] A robotic-sounding, disembodied voice came on the line. The woman began by acknowledging "this is a suboptimal way to deliver this message."
> As the voice on the line was speaking, employees stared at their computer and began to take in the news that they were losing their jobs. Then their screens suddenly went dark and their company issued MacBooks restarted. By 10:40 a.m, everyone was locked out, just as employees were frantically trying to exchange personal numbers and emails on Slack and take screenshots of their contacts.
> It did not help that many managers were included in the layoffs and had no idea who on their team had been cut. Some resorted to messaging their reports on LinkedIn to see if they still worked at the company.
> [The person who gave the announcement] was not VanderZanden or a top executive. "It was a cowardly move," said a Bird manager. "Travis did not want to deliver the news."
> Workers were told they would be receiving three months of healthcare benefits but when they looked into it, they discovered the company is actually only providing coverage until April 30th.
I'm thinking of switching to Gatsby so I can have more fun with these kinds of things. I write electronic music in my spare time, so adding a few sound effects sounds like an ideal afternoon! :)
Although anecdotally, I've helped a few older, technophobic people learn how to use websites/phones, and the majority of them know exactly what to do when presented with a switch, but they don't realize that they can click a checkbox. To them, it just looks like a square and they ignore it. (Take this with a grain of salt, my sample size is <10.)
And unrelated to birds, but hearing about how animals "design and engineer" their living spaces reminds me of the pufferfish, which creates beautiful geometric artwork in the sand as a mating ritual. The fish is only about 4 inches long, but the artwork is over 6 feet in diameter. Picture [1] and article [2].
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KbtoO6CpQo
This is fascinating. I had trouble understanding the FDA's article until I slowed down and imagined a newscaster reading it. (It's still really hard to skim, though. Weird phrasing.)
It's still good to be cautious though. The negatives: air travel could be disrupted while you're here, there's asymptomatic transmission, you need to pass through a busy airport in a country with unknown infection routes, and (most importantly) the virus is much more dangerous for your parents. If I was in your shoes, I'd probably cancel and plan a trip to see everyone in a few months.
> My charge for typical business or civil work is $450.00 per hour.
To one that said:
> I am a relative newcomer to the world of turtles.
...in two clicks. I love this site.
Also learned a recipe for a quick and easy blackberry cobbler[0].
1. The simpler UI is much easier to explain to clients. No training needed.
2. The simpler UI also helps me keep track of my _own_ metrics faster – I can do a 1 minute check at the end of the week instead of clicking through layers of dashboards and setting up custom reports.
3. Now I don't need to show an annoying cookie popup across all of my sites; I also like that it respects my users' privacy.
4. My sites load a bit faster (GA had a larger filesize). This is supposed to help with conversion.
5. Having support, if I need it, is nice. Going with a smaller company is almost an _easier_ sell to my clients because they know they have the option to get help when they need it.
Also, it doesn't matter to everyone, but I like to support indie businesses when I can. Analytics are important, but they're not mission-critical (like payment processing or something), so I'm fine with working with a smaller company in this area.
Congrats OP!
I'm an intermediate-level developer (3 years of React experience, 5 of general web dev) so I certainly don't know as much as some of you. Please let me know if you find any mistakes — I'd love to learn more.
1. Buy as much nice stuff as you can – it's okay if you go into debt because it'll persuade you to work harder!
2. Since you're so busy, accept that you don't have time to exercise. You can get around to it in the future (once you're rich!)
3. Stay up as late as you can. After all, you can sleep when you're dead. Caffeine is your friend.
4. Be too lazy to make todo lists or mark anything on your calendar.
5. At least once per week, compare yourself to everyone else. It's the only way to judge how you're doing.
6. Do everything yourself. You don't need to hire that tax accountant. You don't need to ask for help.
7. Sell your time to [Company Name Here]. Yeah, they're hard to work for, but they might make you rich.
1. I don't need to remember a password to sign in
2. My real email is never shared with the service I'm signing up for
3. I had a new account in like 3 seconds without providing any personal information
If any Apple employees are reading this, you guys did a great job!
Let's say you're building a web app for a SaaS business. Wouldn't it be more important to make your code refactorable and develop features quickly? If you spend lots of time on [Feature X]'s performance and customers turn out to _not use_ [Feature X], you've just wasted your time and money — basically your runway, your livelihood. Basically, if a feature isn't worth making, is it worth making well? :)
Maybe this is good advice if you're working on a different type of project though.
I know this'll be an unpopular suggestion (and it's not something I necessarily want), but the elephant in the room is _selling_ Firefox: I would be happy to pay for their browser provided it was more polished than the competition. I would even pay a yearly fee. (Again, not ideal, but I'm just brainstorming.)
Or maybe find a way to sell an "enterprise" Firefox to nontechnical companies who are privacy-oriented? I'm not sure how realistic this is.
The only other way they're going to be able to do this is to find something as creative as reCAPTCHA's business model [0]. With so many users, maybe there's an idea there.
[0] https://digital.hbs.edu/platform-digit/submission/recaptcha-...
Great job on the simple license, too. I wish more fonts had a license like this.
To me, Pittsburgh’s air quality seems comparable to other cities.
About Dribbble – a Pro plan might help you get featured more often, but I'm not sure. I think it's basically a numbers game.
I know that the average person isn’t concerned with these things, but I spend almost all of my day in a browser, and I want it to look as good (or better) than the competition.