trevett

Thanks. I'll try to contact you through your website.

bizybee | Remote or Bay Area | Marketing / Growth | https://bizybee.app

bizybee makes it easy to text local businesses.

We are early-stage and interested in working with someone to help define and execute our growth strategy.

Really like the concept--I think you're on to something in creating a unified UI for all these similar services.

But..getting into the beta was a giant PITA.

1. Enter email

2. Check email

3. Download client

4. Go back to email, copy code

5. Paste code

6. Go back to email, click sign in link

7. Browser asks if it's ok to open Yack

8. Create profile in Yack (at this point I bounced)

Honestly, just let me download the beta directly, open it and have it Just Work. This is a new product and people will be skeptical. Friction is therefore your enemy.

Would it be possible to skip profile creation as well?

I'm curious why you think Instagram has failed in this space. Do you have some metrics showing Instagram Checkout to be a flop? It may be too early to call.

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Need some Android UI development work and a beautiful landing page for an app we are building. Email in profile.

In my FAANG experience, the people with deep technical expertise can simply say "no" to most of the corporate b.s. The environment you are in now may be too distracting a place to build that expertise however. A startup or smaller engineering org may be a better fit.

It was my understanding that new yachts depreciate ~20% in the first year after purchase.