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I don't like the term user either.

I'm not sure customer is the right term for our service. I can understand e-commerce sites using customer but for a service like Twitter? I would think member would fit better.

What does everyone else think?

Hiring good people. Ensuring good communication between people. Getting the team to perform to its potential.

Wow, they could use this for Hawaii. We deal with a lot of the same stuff here.

I agree it's difficult on mobile having to support two platforms with many resolutions.

We have iOS and Android apps but our service is 100% web views from launch -> registration -> usage. We did this since we are still in the prototyping process and are not concerned about optimization/conversion rates.

It's been very useful for us. UX has been terrible but we've been able to gather valuable feedback, make a couple of big changes and a lot of small tweaks.

Now, we are on the cusp on rolling out to making everything native and starting heavier marketing.

Definitely agree. We tested our app and it has some minor issues on the beta but I would hate for users to leave bad reviews due to this.

I don't think it's that Costco has a problem with MBA's. I think if you get on the management track at the company, they will sponsor you through business school.

"Costco does not hire business school graduates—thanks to another idiosyncrasy meant to preserve its distinct company culture. It cultivates employees who work the floor in its warehouses and sponsors them through graduate school."

It seems like they just want people with experience working at its warehouses so they can get a perspective on how the day to day business operates.

Definitely agree with this. Currently, I am running a side project with a friend (which we hope to turn into a company). On our roadmap, we have Product/Market Fit and after that, Product Optimization.

We have released mobile apps for iOS and Android but they are 100% mobile web views. We want to be able to prototype quickly and figure using web views is the best way to do this (no approval waits, cross platform). Registration conversion rates are bad and the UX is what you get with a non-optimized mobile web view.

Despite that, the data we are gathering from initial testing is valuable. We've been able to gather that users find the base product interesting but our engagement at the end of the funnel is not as high as we like.

For us, we consider moving from web to native would be the highest form of optimization but we want to get the product right first.

I agree with this statement. I'm creating a product right now which connects you to people who are friends of your friends. Since we need to have your friend graph, we currently require Facebook connect. We'd like to do without this and will look for ways in the future to do so. For now, Facebook connect is crucial to our product.

Find it interesting that the flight paths naturally show outlines of the continents.

Here's a link to the original Quora thread:

http://www.quora.com/Apple-Inc-2/How-does-Apple-keep-secrets...

Would be interested to know how many people leave work at 5:30 but do extra work after hours.

Samsung has been doing this for a while in their home market of South Korea. I've heard tales of Samsung hiring 1,000 temporary employees with the sole task of blogging or commenting on blogs/social networks about their products.

Most interesting point is that gold is being "consumed" for the first time.

I actually prefer tabs rather than a slide out navigation. Then again, Facebook is so complex and has so many features, it would be interesting to see how they would be able to condense things into 4 or 5 tabs.

We had one video view (embedded in ycombinator.com) and two referrals to our landing page from ycombinator.com as well. No questions.

For a second, I thought airplane cabins... if only...

Around 7 years ago, I went on a vacation to Japan and Korea and I had made more money after I came back from Adsense income. Decided I could do my job from anywhere and moved to Korea and been here since.