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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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Why not let users use email certificates if they want? That's what I've got going on in Tgethr. Let users decide if extra trouble of setting up an email cert is worth it (it's not that bad), and now a…
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A cross post of my comment on the OP's blog: Great list and advice. A couple things I'd add: 10. As a mashup of points 3 and 6, Start Talking to Yourself. Pretend you are on stage at a conference givi…
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Joe, my point wasn't that people are literally applying the term DRY to their human to human communications. My point was that they unintentionally do it. I'll see time and time again a blogger or wri…
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:) Nice, I'll consider that one.
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Yes, it was for a veggie bowl. But i didn't bring the example up originally because I think the veggie bowl changed. This example was about 6 years ago when I believe those peppers and onions weren't …
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That's funny. I was checking out Cialdini's site in particular when I saw a mention about the Dentists named Dennis thing, which made me look up the original research it came from and inspired this wh…
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Ahh yeah. And Apple too. It's just a little prettier than GoDaddy :) After you configure your $3000 laptop it's do you want this for $25, or how about this for $50 kind of stuff.
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For the folks thinking about the "they just don't want the hassle of changing the order"/cash versus credit card thing, I could have also shared a very similar example at Chipotle. Same girl, Stephani…
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What exactly are they optimizing or testing for here? Just number of searches, or clicks on that feature. Have they eliminated that people might be clicking on all these odd ball changes because its n…
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Worked well on Safari. But this was funny: "Chrome Frame
Minimal effort for bringing IE6, 7 and 8 up to the latest HTML5 technologies" I loaded it up in IE8 and chose not to use the chrome frame. The …
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Rider! :)
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Also Trivial for anyone who doesn't speak English :) But I hope the point hasn't been missed.