Here is an interesting experiment - create a "nice" looking rectangle of one solid color. See how long you can go before someone "maliciously" puts a red dot in the middle of your perfectly OCD constructed rectangle. Human nature + anonymity...
You and I are both in the HN bubble. We expect Google to kill products and Google doesn't expect us to "become part of the community." We are not the market. However, the general consumer, the one this is aimed at, loves Google. Their experience is with the search box and maybe Gmail both of which serve consumer needs perfectly. Consumers don't remember or know Reader and every other app Google killed so their reaction to this product will be different.
I think you are right when it comes to a product like Google docs - it's complicated enough that a consumer would look to the early adopters. However, this Helpouts product is simple enough for a consumer to understand that they dont need to ask their technically minded friends whether they should use it. All Google has to do to bring the users in is include a link to it on the search results page. "Were you looking advice on yoga? Click here to talk to a real person."
If Google is sensible then it'll exclude "us" from being early adopters.
In the early days of Google+ trying to find anyone on the newly formed social network that wasn't part of the tech community was impossible.
If we become the early adopters then all this will be good for is advice for setting up a VPS and debugging javascript. I doubt they're trying to create the world's largest IT support system.
Spot on analogy with Google+. Wasn't it true for Wave as well? The top comment is comparing the service to a friendlier Stack Exchange / IRC...yours is a good counter argument.
Both Ableton and Reason are over $400 and tons of musicians still choose those over Logic. For many, price is not the only consideration when picking a DAW and there are plenty of developers selling mere VSTs, not even DAWs, at $200/pop.
How many emails to asdasdasd@example.com or sdfsdf@gmail.com are you willing to pay for (the nickels add up)? What if someone uses my email address to sign up for your service?
DivvyShot, acquired by Facebook, had a very similar product.
I'm starting to think this is a pretty good strategy - recreate apps that have been recently acquired and sell them to a competitor of the original acquirer.
When giving out your email to a website, change the email slightly using a + sign like this: "<youremail>+<website>@domain.com". The email will still get to you but when they share it with affiliates you'll at least know who shared it.
Pretty sure most email services support this as the syntax is part of RFC 822. The problem is when certain websites ignorant of this standard, choosing not to validate email addresses with a "+" character.
We might be talking about two different thing. OP was referring to a feature of gmail that recognizes anything before a + as your username and still delivers the email to you, regardless of what's after the +. A common use of that feature is to put a note to yourself about where you used that email, like so michaelapproved+hackernewskolya@gmail.com. So, when you see a message to that address, you'll know where the person got your email from. I don't believe all email services/servers behave this way.
What you might be referring to is the syntax of the email address. Yes, it is syntactically correct to use a + in an email and not all email services/servers and web forms properly recognize that it is correct to use the plus.
If an employer is smart they'll calculate the hours wasted interviewing candidates * avg hourly pay and likely realize that this cost is far greater than the $15K fee they'd pay a recruiter. Not to mention the delays in your projects as a result of your best engineers being distracted with interviewing candidates.
Even if your recruiter suggested some potentially strong candidate, you still have to interview them to be sure they are a good fit and to be sure they actually have the skills they claim. I'm not sure how this saves you time in that respect.
The Red Herring magazine and brand was bought years ago. The brand was whored out to promote Dasar conferences. If you want some sad entertainment, read through any Valleywag/Gawker articles about working at Red Herring. Sad thing is all the stories are easily verifiable - just talk to any ex-employee.
It's a clean sentence but doesn't make more sense. The screenshots fill in the blanks for me, as in it looks like you rebuilt Google Alerts with additional features for finding that content again later (tagging, notes).
If we were talking face to face and you said "This is the easiest way to find quality content" I'd follow it up with "what kind of content?" and "what problems do I have now in finding content?". I'd say "What problem of mine are you solving?" And the answer to that last question should be your tagline.
I changed the tag line into "Easiest way to find quality content". Does it make more sense ?
Not really. This is the tag line I saw, and all it did was confuse me. To be proper English it needs "the" at the beginning, but it still wouldn't really mean much. "Find", "quality", and "content" are very vague terms; what does it actually do? How can it be easier than Google (for specifics) or Hacker News (for broad news)?
The second tag line, "See the web the way you want it", is similarly confusing. I already do see the web the way I want it.
Some other things I noticed: The tour's quickly fading screenshots make it hard to follow, the "login" button on the tour page is different, the "Notifications" slide seems empty, the "any device" slide's images didn't load for me, and "Home" and "Tour" have horizontal scrollbars (my browser window is about 1030px wide).
