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Thanks! to be clear I believe accessibility is hugely important but also that such accessibility is beneficial to everyone. I am super excited to allow videos to have transcripts for example. I think the lack of investment in accessibility is a miss for everyone, not just those that require it.

(Seems like we have some short term basic tech stuff to improve too!)

Haha, thanks. I remember coming up with the userfox name pretty much solely because I really like foxes and we had an awesome logo :)

It’s worth noting Journeys can be much more than just videos - interactive slides and charts for example.

You make a good point about people being too laissez-faire but what we know is: a) people already do a ton of research before being compelled to talk to a human - Journey allows companies to slide into that research process without being annoying

b) we fundamentally believe you’ll get more sales if you empower people to think for themselves rather than forcing them on to a call. Lead submission forms convert at approx 1.5% —- there must be more users out there that are intrigued but not yet willing to talk to a sales person (and btw we don’t cannibalise those that want calls, if anything we make it easier to coordinate since we embed meeting booking right there)

… and yeah our UI is a bit Turbotax right now and that isn’t the desired first impression, we want people to think we are Nethack (well actually a more accessible and beautiful video game) or something equally fun and interactive.

One of the fun but hard things about building this product is we have to dogfood aggressively - but then we are only as good as our product, not our sales slides. Which is how it should be! But it makes you have to be very intellectually honest about where you’re at today…

Lots to do…

thank you! it’s been a while (lyime and i were both in YC S11) — looking forward to your feedback.

Terminal49 looks fascinating!!

hah! i was wondering why their site had been down all the time it was on the frontpage.

actually quite affordable considering it's merino. not comparable to regular cotton shirts.

i wouldn't call it basic - the materials and fixings are very very very expensive, and the actual patterns of the clothes are ungodly complex. cobrax buttons are ~$5 each for example.

> An orange notebook, filled with intricate time lines for “The Peripheral,” was decorated with a sticker bearing the logo of the niche techwear brand Outlier—a black swan.

Outlier makes amazing clothing: https://outlier.nyc

why would you buy this over a 4runner or tacoma for a large farm property? (or the new defender)

i am curious and kind of skeptical that electric vehicles will ever get the longevity of combustion engine toyotas and such, given the nascent battery technology. am i wrong? will a Model S outlast a Subaru?

the boards and caps are nothing compared to artisan keycaps.

i have traded countless things to acquire keycaps that would sell for $250+ each. one keycap! brobot caps are especially rare and i frequently see people buying them for $500 each

i actually think artisans make sense to be so expensive since there is a level of artistry and rarity that most boards do not have. some of the rare korean boards are super rare too though and easily sell for $1000.

(sent from a Lyn Whale with GMK Olivia!)

I see this get discussed all the time and have always meant to flag it.

I have spent a lot of time deep in ad tech and a ton of time specifically thinking about identity resolution for ads - i have never seen a DSP make a conscious effort to do "target every cookie that belongs to a specific IP address" as a default rule (or even an option) but I see DSPs automatically opting in to the Liveramp cross device map - is this what causes this behaviour? I am even skeptical that Liveramp can robustly provide this data at scale and fast enough, so I wonder if its almost alway coincidence?

Aside from having to use Google Apps for work, I do not use any Google services - that url you posted shows totally blank for me -, but I would be very surprised if Google uses their DNS to reconcile "passive" activity back to an individual user. that really seems quite over the line in terms of intrusiveness - is it confirmed they do do that with their DNS?

edit: to answer my own question, it looks like OP is misinformed, here is the (very explicit) privacy policy about their DNS service: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy

note that in the (wonderful) GDPR world, its very hard for Google to do a sleight of hand with this stuff and actually be doing anything mischievous.

I adore Mode - i find it the best SQL editor and dashboard by a huge margin. I mostly just use it as a SQL editor and then there’s an amazing ability to turn that SQL into exceptionally useful dashboards.

open source is basically dead courtesy of SaaS. people would much rather pay a few bucks than self-host. hell, there are entire successful companies that 'just' host open source software and wrap it up in a SaaS experience.

Go tell a marketer that if they use Segment they can onboard new marketing tools and it'll 'just work' without any engineering time, and they'll shit a brick. (the data warehouse part is imho folly.)

I'm a massive fan (and user!) of Segment. I think it could be revolutionary. I do worry a lot about how they tell the world about what they _are_ though, it's an inherently complex and technical product - and often the buyers of this software may not be technical enough to appreciate the sophistication of this product. In my experience Segment is confusing to explain until you actually use it, then you love it.

you should integrate with commatocolumn.com! ;)

this sounds very inline with what my growth team is building at adroll.

would love to chat: plc@adroll.com

I would have admitted that just like I admitted to knowing people there.

i chatted with these guys and one of my good friends works there and can assure you your impression is mistaken. udacity will be a big company with a product that works and a healthy business model.

I have such fond memories of World of Warcraft when it was in private beta, public beta, launch, and then up to the first expansion.

It sounds strange but some of my dearest friends and fondest memories of being a teenager was via World of Warcraft.

The "incrementally even more convenient than piracy" for Spotify (and also iTunes Rentals on Apple TV) has really surprised me.

I used to use oink/what.cd to download all my music, but now that I use Spotify I never stray from it. A friend emailed me J.Coles newest album in MP3 but I opted to just wait until it was on Spotify for the sake of simplicity and accessibility.

Similarly with movies, whereas I would once always simply torrent them, sitting in front of my TV and just renting them for $4 feels so much cheaper than battling an advertising laced torrent site and figuring out how to stream it from laptop to TV.

Pirating stuff was much easier than buying CDs or DVDs, but purchasing stuff online has became even easier than piracy.

tangentially related to blog post but very relevant to cat shit – i recently bought a "top opening" cat litter box[1], and its incredible that they are not the norm.

my biggest problem with cat litter is not the shit, but having cat litter be tracked across the bathroom - this is almost entirely solved with a top opening box. additionally, my dog is unable to eat the shit.

[1]: https://www.clevercatinnovations.com/top_entry_litterbox_abo...

good attorneys are actually doing all the things discussed in this article for the O1

Forgive my ignorance, but this guy must have specifically typed in the 3.75x multiplier before his ride was ordered. How can you complain about such things when you so implicitly agreed to it?

this comment is unreal

> Heroin, coke, and alcohol. Quickest way to overdose

Is there something specific about this combination or do you simply mean generally with Class A drugs?

> I'm beginning to think the business is marketing, not technology.

Correct.

> This 7-work week is actually based on calculation: 5 days * 10 hours per day + 5 hours on weekends (to check email). All companies I worked required 10 hours per day. 9 to 5 is not looked nice unless you don't login in the evening and "do some emails".

I cannot believe you think this is the norm for tech companies.

Weird. It really seems like the management team is incredible. A CEO with multiple wins under his belt (and whom the founding team has worked with in the past) and who has raised almost $100M for the company? The brilliant inventor that invented the Rift – and John freaking Carmack? and Marc Andreessen on the board?

And their investors are Kickstarter, Spark and a16z. Isn't literally the ideal thing to prove the concept with the crowds, then take money from a vc with a proven record of successes, and then take more money from another vc with a proven record? (I wonder if they had any other term sheets for their b)