… getting the Startup Bug. It’s currently 1AM PST (as of the beginning of the writing of this post). It’s also about 30hrs till our self imposed goal of releasing what we expect to be a viral facebook app, and, eventually, a platform outside of facebook. It’s also bed-time, to get those […]

Our buddy Siqi, coder of Facebook Mafia, and RoR developer with our friends at Powerset, wrote a comment to Aaron’s last post. This stirred me to write my own (software developer’s) analysis of designing and writing software and picking the “right” features.
In The Republic Plato reminds us that “Necessity is the mother of invention.” […]

Sometimes, when browsing relatively new web sites, I wonder who’s been doing this and who hasn’t. Who actually walks through the experience that their web site creates? Who discovers that their core features are hard to get to, or that they have features that are stupid that nobody wants? Then, of course, you get into the question of the features that were thought of as stupid that became standard… Like seatbelts. But I digress.

I guess we need a checklist for Web features. Here’s how I imagine it:

1: Is this feature stupid?

So, as of my latest perusal of facebook’s usage statistics (as per Zuckerberg’s f8 speech), the number of daily returning users is “24 million and growing, 24 million and growing…” < If you read that last phrase out loud, it may have sounded like something Zuckerberg said in his f8 speech. Indeed, it may […]

Taking advantage of many web-startup events taking place around San
Francisco, a conversation that I’ve heard more than once a conversation that
goes something like
“So what’s your startup?”
“… I have an idea but I really do not talk about it, keeping it stealth.”
The first fear that that a founder of a startup has to get over is: […]