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nate
7,926karma·1,070submissions·October 10, 2006
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YC alum. Founded Inkling and Draft. Ran Highrise. Founding engineer at Census (acquired by Fivetran)
https://ninjasandrobots.com
I'm working on https://allihat.com, https://pageforth.com, and more. If I can be helpful at all with anything, please hit me up on X (@natekontny) or email me anytime (nate.kontny+hn@gmail.com).
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Author here. No, not at all. Well not the first two problems. The extra chrome is just when google is hosting it, and the blank pages only occurred in testing from the CDN.
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Hey! Thanks for the comment, but I'm not quite sure what you mean. Yep, Rockstar is a bunch of developers helping other businesses make software. I wrote the article because there's a lot of…
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Yeah, it's not easy to test AMP unless you're doing things like bringing in traffic from Adwords where you can split the traffic up. I do a bunch of testing with that Adwords traffic.
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I did actually split test. I had traffic going to both types of our landing pages. I didn't like the AMP results but there wasn't enough traffic yet to draw the conclusion, so I just put all…
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That's really interesting. I wonder if @yegg knows about this. Might be another nice marketing topic he can explore.
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Ah, yeah, that's true too. Wasn't critical for us on this landing page stuff. But yes, that's another reason blogs and news sites are AMPing their stuff.
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Right. Absolutely. People should just follow some of these restrictions to get speed without AMP. I went down this AMP path though because of yes the Icon. Google was testing the Icon in Paid Ads I ha…
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This is ridiculous how excited I am about this :) Oy it's been a rough year. On top of all things, cat was in ER again today. At least Jean-Luc is coming back.
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Thanks for sharing this here! My team has been awesome. I've worked in a ton of places before and the thing I'm proudest about is the group that was put together here. Out of this world. If …
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This has been a tough year over here with a lot of un-fun life events. So this morning when trying to get out for a run I was looking for this one and only long sleeve workout shirt I have. And I coul…