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- Medium - @fishman
- 2015.07.28 - Thoughts on Dishero
- 2016.06.16 - My Cofounder Said “I love what we’re doing” And We Shut Down Our Startup
- 2016.07.16 - How to Shut Down a Startup in 36 Hours
- 2016.08.09 - Imagine Yesterday
- "You can analyze successes of others all day long, but the reality is — there are no recipes for these things."
- "before smiling will have any impact, you must have something interesting to say. (...) You may A/B test “Buy” vs. “Buy Now” on your checkout button. However, if your customers aren’t interested in your product — it won’t matter. You may optimize the size and the location of your share button. However, if you do not have shareable content — it won’t matter. On the flip side, if you do have shareable content — people will find a way to share it. Growth hacking and A/B testing are important only once you have a large user-base, where every percentage point uptick in conversion results in a significant impact. And then, only then, size and colors of the buttons start to matter. As well as timing of the push notifications. (...) Your time is better spent building a hit product, that customers use and tell their friends about."
- Main idea: Don't pre-optimize / over-engineer.
- "if you have 10 daily active users today, and your engagement grows daily by 1%, you’ll have 14,276 DAU in two years."
- Main idea: Small optimizations that lead to 1% growth per day aren't going to lead to huge numbers of users.
Success recipes: There are none. All we know is the four required ingredients:
- Hard work
- Conviction
- Patience
- A bit of luck
- "I once attended a conference where a prominent speaker explained the meteoric success of WhatsApp. He attributed it to the human psychology, yearning for communication, the intimate nature of messaging, and the timing of push notifications. The claim seems quite plausible on its face. However, here is what the speaker was forgetting in his analysis: 1) There’re scores of other messaging apps with a similar feature set, 2) SMS existed a decade beforehand, 3) On the day WhatsApp was just born, we all were already sending billions of intimate SMS messages every single day. It was painful to see him reducing WhatsApp to a red notification indicator. The speaker then explained how infinite scroll, with its easiness and addictiveness, was instrumental to Facebook and Instagram’s successes. Again, such a gross oversimplification of these services."
- "I’m not saying album covers or packaging aren’t important or easy to design. Nor I am saying that studying others’ work isn’t inspiring or necessarily a waste of time. My main point is — none of it will actually help you to compose a timeless piece. There are no recipes for that."
- 2016.08.11 - Song References
- This is just a list of song references in the "Imagine Yesterday" article.
- 2016.08.29 - A Post About Post-Post-Mortem
- 2016.08.31 - How NOT to Raise Money
- 2016.09.01 - Raising Money — Where to Start?
- 2013.09.13 - Camera-Killing Smartphones And Their Killer Cameras
- 2016.10.28 - The Deciding Deep Dive
- 2016.11.16 - App development, bug reporting, and more in this GeekSpeak podcast with Bugsee
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