siddharthdeswal

What kind of healthcare facilities do you get from the government?

You're as wise as your username.

To add to your points, money used to invest in experiences with loved ones will certainly add to happiness.

Or working in a coal mine with over 90% men?

Is working in a company with 70%+ men really a bad thing, or are you just leaning on existing cultural biases?

I suspect there's a huge amount of halo effect happening in this discussion. Company makes good product, company gets funded,company hires good designers, company spends a lot on marketing... people go "wow, amazing design!". Other designers write blogs about it, analyzing and glorifying minute details.

Another company makes good product, no funding, unknown, no brand, hires good designers... no one cares.

So, what do people here think of the design of https://draftsend.com/? (I have no affiliation)

Can someone break it down into the absolutely incredible design that it is?

Rant over, here are my points:

- Lots of good designers out there, creating well-thought, delightful experiences.

- Lots of good marketers and copy-writers out there, creating smart, thoughtful copy that makes sense to their target audience.

- Someone asked, "what are other websites that are in the same league as Stripe's?". Oh, tons of them. See the websites of advertising agencies, design agencies, go look up "beautiful websites list" on a search engine of your choice. And, I'm sure everyone here realizes there's no objective measure of "same league as Stripe", or even Stripe's league.

And finally: Stripe's design isn't great design. It's design that a certain people like. If you're saying it's great, then define for whom.

This article started that rumour due to an error: https://elpais.com/tecnologia/2012/07/03/actualidad/13413401...

Towards the end, they have clarification that states: "Technological development is mainly done at the WhatsApp headquarters in Mountain View and not in Russia as the information suggests. There the company maintains a 'small technical team'."

Most people in their twenties haven't thought of answers to your questions, and don't have the kind of plans that financial advice presupposes.

> I don't care what the copywriter wants, I care about what I want. I don't care about your sales or conversion rates, I'm solving my problems.

Isn't that exactly what she's saying? Seems like you're not an outlier after all.

I could agree with you even more than what I already do.

My social life is on WhatsApp groups. No one in my social circle uses Facebook Messenger for anything relevant. The number of friends' photos has steadily gone down over the years. I've switched off FB but come back when am bored and want to spend time looking at cat photos and BuzzFeed. Facebook not existing in the world would impact me minimally.

Google, and even Microsoft, on the other hand, damn if they stopped existing... I'd be fairly distressed I suppose.

> I think marketing has ruined pretty much everything.

Actually, in this case, it was technological advancement coupled with those companies' desire to make profits that 'ruined pretty much everything'. Marketing had nothing to do with it.

In fact, do us a favour and re-read your post, then tell us what parts were ruined by marketing?

Yes, your "Terrible Ten" is better than five.

Google quickly came up with this: https://academic.oup.com/antitrust/article/1/1/162/274807/Is...

But there's so much more that says more competition is good for an economy.

Why do you think it would work for enterprises?

I'd contend they're a top booking site because of the wide variety of hotels available, not because of the CRO. I'd look for the team that goes and signs hotels up to the platform, they seem to be doing a really good job in all territories.

I'm a "product marketer", and this was difficult for me to understand. I don't know what this is for (after reading your opening comment), and I can't figure out what should I be doing. If you receive similar feedback from other marketers, maybe consider making it easier to understand?

So yeah, I knew someone who worked at a place like this in their previous job. For him, it was just a job that paid really well. He frequently made more than Rs. 1 lakh per month, which is kind of a big deal in India when you're just a year or so out of an average, run of the mill college.

Generally, these 'call centres' train employees to think that Americans are really stupid people who can be scared & fooled easily. Given the commissions he made, they were damn good at it, specially with the older people who would pay fairly large amounts every month or so to keep their computers virus free.

He never thought he was in some scammy company though. For him, the callers were 'virus' hit users who were calling to get their computers repaired, and these guys just had to make quick, easy, FUD driven upsells.

Oh, and these guys are unhappiest when they are made the manager, who get a very small commission from their team's upsells. I guess this meant that no one was looking for 'career growth'.

What were Yahoo's core strengths that MM should have focused on?

You're right, everyone figured out it was a very basic intro.

My point is it's so basic that it isn't useful.

Here's how in-depth this link is, presented in (hopefully) easier to understand context for most people here:

"The Web App Development Guide for Marketers"

1) Get a database because they are the where all your data will be saved. "You should have a db if you have nothing else."

- MySQL book link

- Relational databases video

- more intro-to-databases links

2) "Fancy having a frontend?" A frontend is needed because your users will want to use your awesome app

- HTML link

- CSS link

3) Do's and Don'ts

- Have forms and buttons

- Don't make the forms too long. Here's some research to show long forms lead to lesser people submitting them.

... and so on and so forth.

Where can we try it out?

Timeout when checking vwo.com

That's the entire problem unfortunately. The "Customer Success Manager" role has been redefined to focus on upsells and cross-sells, instead of letting those two numbers result as a consequence of the customer actually being successful with the product.

Just like omnichannel, chat apps need to be 'omnichat', i.e. be present on mobiles and desktop.

Venmo.com is working for me.

We've just started using Google auth. So far seems to work pretty well.

In cases like yours, it's wise to start by asking "Just to be clear, may I understand what's your budget for this position/role?"

Most recruiters immediately get the hint and you can gracefully exit if they're expecting to pay far below your current comp.

Edited answer to be less preachy.

They won't be annoyed if the updates are valuable enough. They're more likely to appreciate and be happy about them.

Are you a paying user of Basecamp or any of its direct competitors? Jira wouldn't be a competitor.

For the products that are regularly used by me or my team, I love reading about new features. In fact I've subscribed to the product update emails of our most important software.

This because often, new features means increased efficiency or new capabilities for the team and I. And I love it when that happens.

If they've developed a feature that I wanted for sometime or solves a current problem, I'm almost certain to rate them highly.

No, you won't go elsewhere. If you or your team is using the tool and managing projects + clients on it, then you're deriving value out of it. In most cases you'll appreciate the new features and if you see something new every other week then you'll be impressed at the speed at which they're adding features.

Your increased efficiency is worth far more than the 5 seconds and $10. You can argue that you're not the target customer of the tool. In that case your comment is meaningless.

Also, don't mind me saying this, but your comment reeks of classic HN bullshit where anything deemed 'marketing/advertising' is made to seem like it's bad.

Thanks for doing this. Dropped an email.