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>"We make analyzing a rental property so easy Grandma can do it!"
There are lots of grandmas who are engineers, scientists, doctors, and inventors. There are plenty of ways to land that message without carrying forward the spirit of 1950s Madison Ave. Plus, that copy doesn't tell anything about the product, it's fluff.
"Analyze deal potential without leaving Zillow"
"Automatically analyze rental properties as you browse"
"View critical deal metrics as you browse"
etc
The article is saying that Zapier is ripe to be unbundled.
Meaning it does many different things across many verticals, and that some of them are big enough that a company could be created around building a more specialized / better version of zapier just for a specific vertical.
You might enjoy this video, Stanley Tang of DoorDash talking about how they got their first few orders... masterclass in 'minimum amount of initial work to validate a concept'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQOC-qy-GDY
Thank you for your amazing work!
It would be great to document that supported subset for Bodymovin to AVD — the Lottie supported features[1] matrix is awesome, and it would really create a ton of value to also document AVD support for Bodymovin in the same way. It's so black box right now, troubleshooting involves tweaking path nesting, exporting, diff xml, tweak, export, repeat.
[1] http://airbnb.io/lottie/supported-features.html
I would recommend filling in real address details in Mailchimp. After I entered my email and was taken to the confirmation page I immediately regretted it when I saw the "1234 B St LA, California 90210" address. Not a good signal for legitimacy.
TropicalMBA for startup business talk. Nathan Barry Show and Kalzumeus for inspiring, actionable content. Seth Godin's Startup School series is pretty timeless as well.
Great write-up, really piqued my interest in Rockefeller. Any good reads you can recommend?
I've been working in the motion design industry (vfx/animation for broadcast and commercials) for 12 years.
I'm excited by the convergence of our industries. The existing talent in the motion industry will need some guidance - right now motion graphics often revolve around "concepts powered by wizz-bang-wow!", and will need to become much more intention-driven to have successful user experiences.
More and more motion companies are branching out in some form or another to the "digital" world - apps, digital content (pre-rolls, short-form video ads), etc. I think companies that can "realize" the priority of user interaction and implement that in their offerings will be in a great position as companies like apple/google/facebook look for their help.
AE has a pretty powerful javascript-based scripting language that can write exporters like this very easily. I regularly write exporters for passing timing/transform matrices back and forth within our 2D/3D pipeline.
Like russell_h said, the email includes just a teaser snippet so you have to click through - and I've never encountered the BWoD (Blurry Wall of Death) after clicking through.
I rarely initialize my use of Quora by visiting the website - I have found immense value in the digest emails they send. They are a mix of things they know I'm explicitly interested in, and generally "interesting" things (presumably defined by popularity). Probably 90% of the time after receive a digest email, I open at least 2 or 3 of the links within.
I have tried visiting the site directly and am rarely able to find content as stimulating as the links they send in the digest emails.
But that defeats the point - the point is that it's nice to be able to just click "install" from a browser page, and it ends up on my phone.
>I also really enjoy the fact that I can install Play Store apps directly from my desktop web browser.
Totally agree. Very similar to the Amazon "Whispersync" for kindle. I loved stumbling on an app online that looked interesting, click install, and next time I take out my phone it's just there ready for me.
I recently switched to a iPhone 5S from many consecutive android phones, and this is definitely on my list of things I miss.
That's awesome, sounds like a fantastic company culture. Thanks for the info.
I'm interested to know where ideas like this originate within the company. Outreach like this is great for their brand within the dev world, though this may be more altruistic than CTF (semi-recruitment tool). There's no question that both initiatives are clever enough to make one wonder how they come to life internally. Love the idea(s)!
SEEKING FREELANCERS - Los Angeles, CA or REMOTE
We are a production/motion house in L.A. expanding into digital. Would love to have people in-house, but we are open to anything.
In the near term we are ramping up for a job that needs designers as well as front & back-end devs. Starts ASAP, so please get in touch if you are keen. See specifics below.
We're also looking to build relationships with more freelance designers, front-end / back-end developers, and iOS devs and designers for future projects.
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BACK-END:
Primarily we are looking for:
+PHP developers
We are also open to:
+RoR developers
+Python web developers
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FRONT-END:
+html5
+css
+javascript
+responsive layouts
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DESIGN:
+great design fundamentals
+eye for UX and user-conscious design
+modern style
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The near term project front-end will be a fun and challenging non-app site. Lots of big video and opportunities to play with some contemporary skillsets.
EMAIL:
chris (at) kingandcountry.tv
Thanks!
Love it. A company I used to work with had something like this and hooked it up to a dashboard widget - knowing "occupancy status" was just an F12 away! The bathroom was on the far end of the floor and it was such a waste of time to walk all the way over there to find it occupied. Such a great fix.
_Mona Lisa Overdrive_ and _Neuromancer_ are the book titles, "zaibatsu" are a feature within the plot.
Is there a canonical source for tracking the price of BTC? Would be nice to set up an alert for large downward swings to take advantage of lows without having to watch the ticker all day.
http://bitcoinity.org/markets seems handy for this.
The rewards bullet point says you can still get a shirt if you want. Hope is not lost!
I wonder if they have any plans to add support for other 3D filetypes (.ma, fbx, obj, etc)? It would be great to use this with more organic VFX-type models where some of the intricate detail updates are hard to discern at first glance.
Blue sky thinking, it would even be awesome to have something like this as a plugin in Maya where we could load in a previous version of the model and onion-skin between them with a slider like in the demo.
Going to check out the links in the article. Very cool!
It's important to note that this article and survey were written and executed by Survata, under no guidance from Yahoo, and that the results are not the "Yahoo sanctioned" winner of all the logos. I think at initial glance this isn't obvious.
But that's advertising in a nutshell right? They're not using disinformation, they're simply setting a tone for how they wan't their company to be viewed. Coca-Cola makes sugar water, Kleenex makes tissue. But you don't push many units by downplaying your product.
I think the video does a great job of making them seem to take their product seriously. If enough people walk away with a similar impression, it will allow the company to expand within the market and be taken seriously in their new endeavors as well.
>great content, syndicated effectively.
Great comment. What do you think are some of the most effective ways to syndicate? Successful channels, platforms, etc?