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First: thanks a lot for coming with all this.

Now, some comments around navigation:

* Keep the left menu open for the section I'm currently viewing so I can easily go to the next subsection.

* Without JavaScript the drop down menu doesn't work.

* It would be nice to be able to have all items in navigation always displayed.

Edited for list presentation.

They talk about Continuous Integration and how its speed is really important; I can vouch for that. We spent months making Circle (https://circleci.com) the fastest CI around, because our customers really needed it. Between parallelism and low-level tweaks we've reduced 90 minutes builds to 10 minutes, and the difference to productivity is unreal.

I'm sure this is partially by design, but it's not apparent that this is actually the front cover of the book, and the most noticeable thing about the page, aside from the credits and such, is the "Buy It Now" button. This might spike your bounces.

(I have no relationship with thoughtbot and not sure if any of them post here. Just thought it was a URL worth posting.)

For anyone who might've missed it, the content index is on the left side. From the pages I've read so far, it seems that there's some useful information in there.

If they care enough to read their traffic / referrer logs, they'll be here soon enough.

Hello :)

Good point - it took me a while to realize that the book was also free online. I must say that I just spent over an hour reading through almost all of it (skipped a few sections) - good advice on running a SaaS business, and I didn't mind that it was partially an advertisement for their consulting services. Good read.

This is an amazing share filled with great content that took a ton of time to put together. It's being offered to you for free. This is the only thing you can think to say?

It's not the only thing, no, but I gather that the idea is for people to a) read the book; and b) be able to do it for free online, so the appearance of design flaws on the page that obscure both of those options might be a concern.

I was visiting from a phone and mistook it for a "buy this book" landing page until I saw his comment.

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