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37signals Is Selling Sortfolio. What Happened
- smackfu 15y agoIs this what things have come to? "Tweet to watch this video"
- romansanchez 15y agoYou probably missed the "No thanks, just show me the video".
- andymoe 15y agoAgreed, and I saw the "No thanks, just show me the video" message too. This is still annoying. At times there is also a large popup nag to sign up for the newsletter or something like that on the site (I was already signed up because I like the content btw) I really like what Andrew does and I feel like these kinds of aggressive moves might have some negative effects on the brand. Meetup.com does similar annoying things with a nag screen to tweet about a meetup you singed up for or are attenting and there are no profile settings to make them go away so they come back whenever you switch browsers or reset safari etc. Anyway, know your audience and stay classy please.
- AndrewWarner 15y agoI'm using software that launched here on Hacker News. Where possible, I want to be your beta tester. So, how can TweetPerView be improved?
- swies 15y agoHave it just be a caption under the video asking users to tweet if they like it. Maybe even have it slide down into view after the video, or 5 minutes into it, or right after the best part of the video. Blocking the video with the prompt strikes me as hamfisted. Particularly for a technical audience that's aware of how these sharing mechanisms work.
- awj 15y agoI'm not sure the original idea (hold a video hostage in exchange for tweets) can be improved. It's rather user-hostile. What might be worthwhile is the social-media-isize your video feature. An easy-to-use tool for embedding twitter/facebook/linkedin/whatever posting inside the video sounds relatively useful. Maybe have this stuff pop up when the user pauses the video, or when it ends. Demanding that people do your advertising for you is a death sentence for using social media. You want to enable them to advertise for you, forcing it just fosters ill will.
- smackfu 15y agoEspecially when you combine it with how people following a link on HN are expecting an article, not a video. So having to watch the video itself is the first barrier, and the tweeting ends up as the second barrier.
- jordanlyall 15y agoI’m the creator of TweetPerView. I give Andrew a ton of respect here. He really means it when he says he’s here to help ambitious entrepreneurs. He’s done a few tests on older shows, but really put it on the line by implementing TPV on a brand new interview - with Jason Fried, no less! The idea behind the whole project is to help grow an audience and engage viewers. We'll see what happens. Thanks Andrew.
- andymoe 15y agoI have ton's of respect for Andrew as well and that's why I had to comment about how your tool made me feel when I went to watch the video. I don't think it's a bad idea but I don't like how in your face it is and now we are talking about your tool instead of his interview and I'm not sure I would call that a win for Andrew or even for your tool.
- recurser 15y agoA more user-friendly approach would be to do something similar to what soundcloud does with comments - I think the ability for people to leave inline comments within a video would rock. You could still tie this in with tweets, with a link to jump straight to the part of the video being commented on. You'd also be adding more value by actually encouraging discussion on the content, like a disqus for video.
- andymoe 15y agoHow about a "Don't ever show me this again." option? I really resent being nagged like that right up front. At that point I don't even know if the video is something I want to share since I have not seen it yet. Or what about something less intrusive that shows up next to the video or slides down like a google video ad after I have been watching for a few minutes. At that point I'm already engaged and more likely to say, "Hey, this is really good - let me tweet it." Maybe you get more traction with the tool that way. I'm not really sure.
- Apocryphon 15y agoLooks like things aren't... getting real.
- citricsquid 15y agoI remember a couple of months back when someone posted this (tweetperview) as their new startup and everyone agreed it was a terrible idea, then they added the "no thanks" part. Still sucks, but you used to have to tweet. news.yc post I mentioned: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281881 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281881 a.w (mixergy) replied too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2284013 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2284013
- AndrewWarner 15y agoYeah! Thanks for remembering. I really like the guy who made this.
- betageek 15y agoMy experience of Sortfolio, tested paid listing for a few months - 0 leads, just lots of outsourcers looking for work, would be interested if anyone had a good experience
- RRiccio 15y agoI've been working on my new startup with a local designer I found on Sortfolio. I think it's a great tool to find top quality local designers, because in general someone who's listed there is not the typical low-quality outsource design firm.
- atacrawl 15y agoI was hired at my current job because my boss found me on Sortfolio. As far as freelance work goes, the best I've had is one near-miss.
- RRiccio 15y agoBy the way, where have they listed it for sale? (I haven't heard the interview yet.)
- romansanchez 15y agoThey wrote a blog post on SVN http://goo.gl/muMHE http://goo.gl/muMHE
- RRiccio 15y agoThanks.
- run4yourlives 15y agoAm I the only one that can't stand this video garbage? The internet is one of the few areas where the written word communicates substance over style. Please, let's not lose this. Unless the concept lends itself to video, don't use it.
- vaporstun 15y agoOr at least include a transcript at the bottom so people can parse out the useful info without sitting through the video or trying to skip through and (likely) skipping right past the relevant nuggets.
- jeremymcanally 15y agoMixergy always has transcripts; this one just isn't ready yet.
- AndrewWarner 15y agoIt takes a couple of days for the transcript to be up, but I always have one. (Unless the interviewee specifically asks me not to because he/she doesn't want what he says to be google-able.
- run4yourlives 15y agoEven transcripts are a problem for me though. A written piece flows like a book, a transcript doesn't. It's like reading a play.
- AndrewWarner 15y agoI'm trying to hire a writer to help pull out the key points for you. Hit me up by email if you want to tell me what your ideal version would be.
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- stevenj 15y agoWow, that was a good interview. I haven't seen Jason talk so openly about things before. He was really relaxed in the video. I came away very impressed with him. He seems like a great guy.
- jasonfried 15y agoAndrew is easy to talk to which makes it fun to open up. I think he's one of the best interviewers out there.
- AndrewWarner 15y agoThanks Jason!
- auston 15y agoAgreed. I'd love to start a discussion here about LTV! So, AFAIK: LTV is simple: customer revenue per month * months with your company Segmenting beyond that - it is not very possible because google analytics hides your per visitor data. If products like clicky/google analytics would dump out full data sets, this kind of software would be very easy to create. Otherwise, you need an end-to-end solution. Meaning from visitor to customer tracking. Does anyone know something I don't about segmenting customers LTV?
- nvictor 15y agoit's the infinite scroll. no one likes them.