Greater Dan Or Equal To

I've soured on Open Source

Look, I get the noble intentions that originally spawned the movement, but y'all, capitalism is winning, and Open Source isn't changing that fact by an appreciable margin.

Potentially Bad Advice

Don't do your own research, check other people's work.

Like a lot of things, the phrase "do your own research" started off life with good intentions.

Current Events

Twitter is dead (it just doesn't know it yet)

On October 27, 2022, Elon Musk completed his purchase of Twitter. One week later, on November 4, 2022, he laid off approximately 50% of employees, killing the company. You can

Catastrophic Wealth

Sometimes I worry about becoming rich.

SAAS Business

Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas

I'm evaluating new SaaS business ideas, and I wanted to share a little bit about exactly how I'm evaluating them.

The Least Dangerous Game: How (And Why) To Hunt Miners In Eve Echoes

Eve Echoes is the mobile version of the MMORPG Eve Online. In it, you play as a Capsuleer, a cloned human that can pilot space ships all around a giant

Programming

Code That Writes Code

Microsoft trained an Open AI Model to write Python code from comments. It's pretty impressive.

SAAS Business

Heya!

If you know of or use Honeybadger to track your bugs, you'll appreciate this. The fine folks at Honeybadger Industries just blew up the campaign emailing industry.

Programming

Kicking the "For Loop" Habit

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."

Getting Started

What Happens When You Don't Pick Your Users

On the most-recent episode of The Art Of Product Podcast, Derrick Reimer and Ben Orenstein chat with Rahul Vohra, co-founder and CEO of Superhuman - the fastest email experience ever

Trial to Paid Conversion

You Probably Have Too Many Free Trials

You've run the numbers. Plenty of people are hitting your marketing site, plenty of people are signing up for free trials. The problem is conversion - maybe 3% of your trial users convert to paying user. Maybe less. You probably have too many free trials.

The Slippery Slope of In-Product Messaging

Matthew Ström, design lead at Bit.ly, is also picking up the torch and warning about in-product messaging (aka what a lot of people think about when they thing about user onboarding).

SAAS Business

If You Don't Respect Your Users, You Don't Deserve Their Respect

It's easy to get lost in metrics. You've got A/B tests, time series tests, keyword tests, every kind of test you can think of. You're measuring engagement, clickthrough, funnel progress, time-on-site, everything. But do you really know who your customers actually are? Do you really care?

SAAS Business

"Status as a Service" by Eugene Wei

This is a tremendous (both in size and quality) article by Eugene Wei about the whys and hows of social networks. Even if you don't identify as someone who engages regularly in the status game, you'll likely learn a lot about those who do, and probably find that you engage more than you think.

Getting Started

Ah, that fresh site smell.

In this age of Twitter, Facebook, Medium, and podcasts, who blogs anymore?

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