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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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Thank you. I'll definitely consider all of this feedback for sure. You are right, people really do like to make decisions about this stuff. I'll see what I can do. But do I like Future Bold in caps. J…
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Yuck, sorry about that wrapping problem. I'd like to fix that. Could you send me that document (or something similar) that I could use to test with? I'm at nate@cityposh.com
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Thanks!
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That's true. But the flow I use to write doesn't require any kind of real time collaborative writing. I don't want someone writing on top of what I'm writing. I just want me there, and then you can wo…
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Yes, i know :( ... I'll get those styled soon. Thank you very much for this feedback.
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Thank you! I've got some pretty cool ideas - at least they sound cool in my head :) - on what can come next. I'm insanely excited for a feature I'll probably put out later this week or next.
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Thanks! I sure hope that's a path this can go down.
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Thank you very much for this. Yes, I need a lot of work on smaller view ports. Definitely on the todo list.
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Is this feed available as a twitter account or an rss feed? Or just something you're curating for the app.
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Yeah, me too man. There's also some frustration over here about what do these analytics actually mean. Like I have so much data coming at me from everywhere now, what exactly is it telling me. One nea…
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That's awesome. I'll check them out. That's funny you mention the can't stop talking about them. I keep asking anyone who'll listen to me about cohort analysis :) to see if they want to geek out with …
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"Dammit Jim, Im a Doctor Not A Miracle Worker!" Me too! It's in the plans if I get around to it. Didn't have time to get it done for v0.0.1 but yeah, I want them too.
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Thanks for all this. I need to spend some time parsing it. One thing that CohortMe is doing that keeps the thing from being unwieldy is that I only go back 12 periods. So only 12 weeks, or 12 days or …
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Yep, and it's a great tool. But I was in a situation where I already have an app with data that hasn't been using Mixpanel. In fact I've got a bunch of apps like that. And I was irritated that there w…
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Yeah, it's great feedback. Noted. I'll start exploring this soon.
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This is tremendous feedback. I'm insanely appreciative of that. Great insight I'll chew on. Want to email me for an invite? nate.kontny gmail.
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Thank you very much! At the moment I'd like to keep it at just a single flat fee: $10 for a review. (It's only $5 right now for people beta testing) No matter what the size. So if you have a short doc…
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Very true. Thanks for the feedback. I'll see how I can correct that.
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Oh man, really? Sorry about that. It's just been very exciting to work on this. And that Bijan quote came from the very first user test I did on this with a complete stranger. I've had a lot of stumbl…
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Thanks! Well so the inspiration for this came from just trying to get my wife to proof read my blog posts. Even a 600 word post ends up becoming a pain. I'd end up sending her a google doc, or email o…
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Love this guy. He's even got a song about Malcolm Gladwell and the 10,000 hours stuff (that I wrote about a bit ago.)
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Ah yeah, that's a great example. In fact, if I remember right, Gmail has always been a lot more friendly with getting mail out of gmail than services like hotmail and yahoo mail have (doesn't Yahoo st…
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Zappos is a great example of doing this kind of thing. From anecdotes, it sounds like if you call Zappos to order something that they don't have in stock, they'll help you find a competitor that has i…
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Very true. And vice versa is actually a pretty neat idea. Youngme Moon who I mention in the article has a book called Different which I highly recommend. She's got a bit in there about differentiating…
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But I do mention that the idea predates me. I mention that I got it from wanting something out of Famspam.
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Thanks for the comments guys. Actually, that's a big point of what I'm writing here. These ideas just keep getting copied and morphed into something else. It's ok to copy. It's ok to try and make it y…