Posted on July 22, 2014, 5:23 pm, by Amy Hoy, under
Customers,
Features,
Getting Shit Done,
Ideology,
Philosophy,
Psychology,
Purpose.
The user is using your app. The user requests a feature. You think: OK, they know what they want and they want this, so I’ll do it. But it’s not that simple. Replace “user” with “player.” The player is playing your game. The player requests a rule change. Well, here we have a conflict, and… Read more »
Posted on June 24, 2014, 10:25 pm, by Amy Hoy, under
Bootstrapping,
Customers,
Getting Shit Done,
Hard Work,
Ideology,
Marketing,
Money,
Optimizing,
Stories.
Just about a year ago, I wrote that Freckle had hit the Plateau of Doom. We were dead in the water at $28,000 a month. We’d grow a little… then shrink a little, grow a little, shrink a little… for months at a time. Why? y=mx+b. Growth (new accounts) is pretty much linear, a reliable… Read more »
