jason_shah
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Comment · 11 years ago
This is very clever.
Comment · 11 years ago
Has anyone else seen forays into data science in the work place based on passive information, e.g. the calendar?
Comment · 11 years ago
This seems good. I like that this has the potential to expand the total pool of donated items and help reallocate resources to people who need them, while also helping people clear out their homes too.
Comment · 11 years ago
Personally I'm really excited about Composer. So many implications...
- What does this mean for Evernote? - Can Dropbox pull off a new product without prior traction? Mailbox seems to have generally worked out OK, but what's happened to Carousel? - Will messaging inside of Dropbox a valuable angle on collaboration and if so, will anything happen between Dropbox and Slack? - What will this mean for Dropbox's relationship with Microsoft? - Who will Dropbox acquire next? They have files, mail, notes...seems like a modern Exchange.
Comment · 12 years ago
Author here. Curious what others have learned from the latest iOS8 apps!
Comment · 12 years ago
Not only is Product Hunt important because of the visibility it provides to new products (and entrepreneurs), but also because it's arguably the most dense collection of high quality discussions about product development decisions. Notably, Ryan and his team have managed to accomplish this without being unnecessarily exclusive.
This is tremendously valuable for the technology community.
Comment · 13 years ago
Free shipping on both products puts it at $13.24 on Google [1] and $16.17 on Amazon [2]. But yes, my post could have been much more objective and scientific.
[1] Google https://www.dropbox.com/s/vbnpel7w2mscpv2/google_express_pro... [2] Amazon https://www.dropbox.com/s/gh0rcveo1sqtmgw/amazon_prime_produ...
Comment · 13 years ago
Some of these UX moves, to be fair, have been used by an increasing number of mobile and messaging apps. MessageMe is just one example of comprehensive implementation alongside effective design.
Comment · 13 years ago
According to Foursquare's co-founder Dennis Crowley, as quoted by TechCrunch, the service saw 5 million checkins per day as of Feb. 2013. But that was the same as per-day checkins as the previous year. Flat growth to me, especially in their space.
The rest, and a fairly critical piece of my statement, about checkins moving to Facebook and Path I admit wholeheartedly was anecdotal and speculative.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/foursquares-new-series-d-ro...
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/16/interview-dennis-crowley-of...
Comment · 13 years ago
Admittedly I don't check in often. I use Path / Facebook for this now.
Trey Titone suggested in the comments on the post that if Foursquare could do frictionless sharing with the app running in the background, maybe they could get more checkin data. But I think the battery constraints / privacy concerns are too high, at least in the next 18-24 months, for people to opt in for this without getting much product value.
Battery life will get better, apps will be more battery-efficient, and privacy concerns tend to fade away. But frictionless checkins don't seem highly compelling to me from the user point-of-view for people to make the necessary sacrifices that adoption would demand.