News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Half a Decade After Demo Day by billclerico on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @04:15PM (#8199527)
We weren't able to navigate it, unfortunately. So we took what we had built (a payments platform & risk engine) and applied it to a new usecase.

It feels like frequency of use is a key indicator of product success. The most successful products get used very regularly.

Re:Half a Decade After Demo Day by nostrademons on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @05:40PM (#8199975)
Google uses this as a key litmus test for which businesses it wants to enter - the media's reported on Larry's "toothbrush test", where he's only interested in products that get used at least twice a day.

This is also behind the increasing focus on traffic & turn-by-turn navigation in Google Maps, and the acquisition of Waze. Google Maps as web-based satellite mapping software gets used only once or twice per year, when you go on a trip to an unfamiliar location. Google Maps as a local business directory gets used once or twice per week, when you're looking for restaurants or coffee shops to meet at. Google Maps as a traffic-avoidance system gets used once or twice per day, to figure out the best route around jams.