AshMokhberi

We are quickly running out of .com and other TLD's that are clearly represent what we do. Many web/mobile apps are now resorting to somenameapp.com as a way to use a TLD for their given choice of name. having a TLD means it's easier for a start. But also when running a TLD you can stipulate the rules for purchase and use. Allowing us to prevent domain hogging, and keep the space clean for applications only.

Sorry if this is not how you do polls on HN I couldn't figure it out.

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I think the point he is trying to make is that, having a point of view that runs through your company, helps influence and define the positions that you take, when you are dealing with the questions you mentioned.

Everything starts to revolve around your companies point of view instead of around what you think most people want. I think he makes a great point, and relates directly to this awesome talk by simon sineck http://bit.ly/eLt15m.

People develop personal relationships with a point of view, thus helping you develop a brand not just a product. And not only a brand but one that stands for something and has values.

I think this is the most important thing you should be thinking about when approaching product design, customer service and financial responsibility.

Although I'm not one hundred percent certain what you mean by financial responsibility. I'm assuming your referring to corporate social responsibility, I'm not so sure that this has much place in a startup.

I would love it you could expand on this.

haha, nice idea though

Cheers, will look into that.

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Great post. Don't just ship early, promote early.

I have the same issue when publishing blog posts. I disagree that you should always ship without delay. Using your blog posts as an example, I often do the same and put off publishing. Not for the reason that it could be better or it's perfect. Mainly for the reason that I want to make sure it expresses my thoughts/ideas/opinions correctly. I think this also applies to startups, sometimes the things you ship are an expression of something about your business. It is important to take the time to express your business in the way you intend. An author will still take time to edit and reword a book. The shipping part just means don't let it get to the point where you don't do anything with it. Not that you should never hesitate.

I agree with main point that shipping is the most important thing you can do. And you should always ship what you have done. In the case for startups it can easily be referred to as shipping in stages. Not delaying shipping because your product isn't fully built, and then shipping the rest in small chunks over time. You shouldn't have a fear that causes you to wait until your product is complete and perfect to ship.

But just shipping isn't the correct solution either. It's a case of balance, you have to find the right one. There is no hard answer to what that is, it's down to you. But as the post says don't let that stop you from shipping anything at all.

I doubt that the intention of the post was to suggest you should just ship anything. But that is a prime example of sometimes taking the time to express yourself correctly. If the author didn't just click the ship button, and took a little bit of extra time he may have expressed that part the way he intended.

I spotted issues with the signup process yesterday, the guys have done a good job of chatting to me on twitter to try and resolve the issue, so thumbs up.

On a separate note, I agree with the comments about the per day pricing. It is a little confusing and I would rather just see a monthly subscription cost, with a few plan variants based on # of projects and users. Your making me think to hard about paying for something when I have to start calculating how much it will cost me. You should definitely consider simplifying it.

I disagree with the comments around pricing though. I think that estimated cost is well worth not having hassle, and when you consider it to the cost of say your mobile phone bill. Just ask which do you use the most, more importantly which one is making you the money in the first place.

If I'm honest I think the pricing is a on the low side, However I wouldn't limit the free plan to "open-source" projects either. Depending on how you are quantifying open source. If you require a public github repo then I would potentially suggest it's a bad thing. People need chance to use your IDE for a project to see if they are willing to pay. Allowing only say one or two projects makes more sense I think.

Thank you very much for offering. I would really appreciate it, if it will not consume too much of your time.

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Thanks very much in advance.

Sorry if it spoilt the experience. I will try to pay more attention next time.

Thanks for pointing it out. :)

Thanks I'm glad you appreciated it. It is likely that I will make the same/similar mistakes again, no one can prevent it. I think understanding what mistakes you are likely to make, allows you to watch out for them. While you will still make them, you will be quicker to try and remedy the situation.

You have some very good points, which I'm in agreement with. It's impossible to analyse the defining points of failure and come out with the correct answers. But trying to understand what was not working well cumulatively, is a better way of understanding how one problem can stem into many more. Should I have broken the idea down soon enough and got something visible out there, potentially non of the other issues would have arisen or not been so relevant. The same goes for any of the other points I mention.

Thanks, that is exactly what I was trying to get at in the post, doing a "bad job" is not doing "bad" at all.

I agree it is over generalisation, but I feel in my case it was a main causation. He did under stand what my expectations where. However it was more that most of the time he had to work to support his family. He was not in a 9-5 job, he was doing freelance. So its not like he had a defined amount of time he could work. Clients work always came first and consumed most of the time.

haha, tumblr is always doing that :)

Good post, It is true that most of the influential people on twitter either have some software tweeting for them, or are paying someone to sit down all day and do it. The later is obviously much less cost effective. But I think you hit a good point that tweeting often is not enough. It's a the kind of spray gun attack we have come to frown upon by email marketers. Tweeting something important to your followers and keeping it simple, is far more effective than just tweeting. It only becomes really powerful when you combine the two.

Great work, love the app, Congrats on launching in time.