MrAlmostWrong

I'm of the opinion that you should focus on building an audience but it depends on the type of audience.

Whenever I'm working on a new brand I think about the problem that the audience has and that's what I want to create an audience around.

When you create an audience around a problem then when you have the solution (your business) the audience fuels it.

However, too many people take the advice of building an audience before a business to mean that they need to build an audience around their personal brand/persona and that's why you end up with the things in the author's post.

While building a personal brand can be very helpful for clout and opportunities, it's never a surefire way to generate success for a business because who is your audience at that point?

Does this include recently released 2.2 stuff?

> More than once I had been confusingly introduced as a founder or CEO of the company. That, in part, was how I ultimately was able to sneak into the Andreessen Horowitz corporate apartments and stayed there rent-free for sixteen months. I currently have twelve monogrammed a16z robes in my collection, and possibly was involved in mistakenly giving the greenlight to a Zenefits employee who came by asking if they could get an additional key to the stairwell for a… meeting.

This seems unethical.

I think he could've done a little bit better job of tying the Parcells story with his actual point unless I was reading it wrong. For a while I really thought he meant people don't care when things go wrong and I kept saying "the hell they don't, that's when they care the most!"

But then it turns and he's saying nobody cares about the story of why things are going wrong. That makes more sense.

I live in Playa del Rey now and absolutely detest thinking about taking a cab home. I almost have to ensure I mention a nice tip so the cabbie doesn't roll his eyes.

Usually I just say that I'll give turn by turn directions instead of just saying where I'm going.

I agree with the other replies in that I don't think the quality of Reddit has necessarily gone down, you just have to look in the right places. You probably can't get the deep discussions that you initially could, but on the other side of the coin you also can't get the vast amount of new content that you might've never come across.

You certainly do need to hide away from the top level stuff and find the sub-reddits which you can tolerate. For example, the sports reddits are awesome forums for me to visit, but the design and web design ones rarely grab my attention.

With a community of any size that can grow infinitely it is going to be tough to maintain quality. With that being said I created a site that tries something a bit different where you can only follow 150 people and the content you see are the links and posts those 150 people comment on.

This doesn't limit the amount of content you can see because the 150 people in your network will be following their own set of people and so forth so the good content should spread naturally throughout the site. In essence I guess you could think of it as a mix between HN and Twitter where you get to curate the content based on who you follow.

It's called Dunbargo if anyone is interested in checking it out: https://dunbargo.com

There are two restrictions that might not sit well with the HN crowd, but things I put in place to manage quality:

1. You have to connect to LinkedIn just so the site can get your real name. 2. The people you invite you are stuck with forever. This means you can't just toss around your invites without any thought, but instead have to consider if the person you are going to invite will actively do a good job contributing to your stream.

These guidelines make it so the site isn't for everybody, but then again I'm not trying to create a place for everybody.

While I can see why Meerkat providing the option not to save as a feature it is also its greatest frustration. My success rate of actually viewing a Meerkat stream before it gets taken offline is maybe 20%.

As I saw on Twitter the other day, Meerkat is great at letting you know you are too late to view a Meerkat stream.

I was wondering why there was even a loading image in the first place. Not like this is a web app. It's a simple content site so I just expect the next page to load.

If anything the spinner makes it seem like the page loads even slower.

Looking at the source the site uses WordPress. Couldn't you just slap in a plugin like WP Super Cache and have everything cached up and loaded up instantly?

While I can't speak on how the designer of this particular piece created the shapes you see, in Sketch I would create a shape (the flower petal) and then do "rotate copies". Do that a couple of times with the different size shapes and give each layer a different opacity (ability to see through the shape). Making it a black background with high opacity and layering them on top of each other provides for the cool effects.

Then place a rectangle background with a gradient on it that transitions from purple to green like in the graphic.

I'm curious about autoresponders. The landing page says that you can setup an initial autoresponder which is great, but to get the most out of email marketing you need to setup a series of autoresponders to guide customers through things.

So am I able to do that?

Also, can I have multiple lists or do I need a separate account for each list?

Yikes, bad time for the cache plugin to fail on me!

If you check the bottom of the site there is an email address that you contact to get invited into the slack. It belongs to http://oatv.com/ so I would assume that is who is behind this.

Master iOS Design is a free resource that covers the theories and principles of design and then how they are actually applied in design. First couple of sections should be valuable to anybody interested in design:

https://www.drawar.com/ios/course/design

I created an iOS design course because I noticed that a lot of iOS tutorials simply do not do a decent job of covering the actual design of an iOS app or design at all. Instead of just writing a book I wanted to do something that would be more interactive and could include videos, animated gifs, and eventually section discussions.

I also hate info products where I pay upfront only to find out I didn’t get the value that I thought I would so I made this course pay what you value. You can go through the course without any restrictions and if you find any value in it, you can pay. Pretty simple.

Anyways, I still have a lot of work to do on it, but it was time to finally get it out in the open. I hope you enjoy it and find some value in it and if you have any feedback I would love to hear it (new videos are being made since I say “um” way too much).

To be a fly on the wall to watch the internal witch hunt to find this person. Call out the hounds!

Sadly none of this sounds surprising. Maybe I'm just jaded from years of working for others or maybe I'm noticing more and more of these stories lately. Shame.

Cool, a male only product.

I know more women that wear watches than men, but let's go with something that is gigantic and only men would wear. Seems to be a sound strategy.

The product for YouTube and Airbnb is the community, not the actual code. Although for YouTube they might want to keep some of the video processing stuff to themselves. As for Airbnb a clone wouldn't take it down because the community is the product. Same can be said of Craigslist.

So I've seen this article in 3 places today.

* ConversionXL * Medium * and now Soshitech

I love Rdio. Bought my finacée, my brother, my mother, and my father subscriptions.

Might want to bump the contrast up a bit. A tad difficult to read any of the text. Best of luck with the project.

Thanks for the reply.

Does anyone happen to know the percentage of women that work @Github?

You should check out the Serif readability myth:

http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-serif-readability...

Makes sense. Thanks for the reply.

"You can use either your PayPal account or your credit card to make your payment. All payments are handled through PayPal and are completely secure."

Very curious to know why you would choose PayPal as your payment processor considering the alternatives out there.

This is why I'm really interested to see where things are headed (co-founder of 9rules here). It is easy to get great people together when the reason for joining is set behind an idea that everyone can share. In this case it was to bring great content back to the web. However, once money starts to enter the equation it changes the mindset of things a bit. Instead of writing because you are passionate to share your thoughts, you begin to start thinking about what you can write about that will get you the most views/money.

I hope this doesn't happen to svbtle because some good content is coming from it, but as you said it is a difficult balance that will need to be achieved moving forward.

I don't think there is any profiting going on at the moment, but svbtle wouldn't exist without the great contributor in the network. Because of this it will be interesting to see where Dustin takes things and how he handles the situation. I'm sure a lot of the writers in svbtle wanted to be part of a great group that just wanted to bring great content to the forefront of the web. That changes slightly when money is involved because now some writers will be wondering how much they can make off a post and whether they should write about what is hot or just the random stuff they are used to.

I'm curious as to why they put this under the Basecamp brand. While it can be used by teams, it sort of gets lost on the homepage and its target market probably won't even discover it. Why not make it a separate product that can handle its own marketing and brand without trying to be interchanged with Basecamp?

Ha, I was just thinking this the other week and now seeing it on Github makes me want to find another font to use everywhere. Probably won't happen.

I think what's getting people upset is that they are called 'motivating' posters. I would hang these up in my office for two reason:

1) They look nice and nothing wrong with having a nice looking off space. 2) They serve as reminders. Sure we all 'know' these sayings and try to apply them in everything that we do, but that doesn't mean we forget sometimes and stray off the beaten path. Just like saying we could all have someone tell us "do unto others..." every once in a while.