ananddass

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by ananddass 10y ago
Disclosure: I am on the B.D & partnerships team on Postmates. We haven't shifted focus away from restaurants. We have about 3000 Plus partners today of which a majority are restaurants. We've always done more than restaurants.
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The Power of Core Values(medium.com)
6 points by ananddass 11y ago|0 comments
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by ananddass 11y ago
It really depends on the order distribution of distances for a specific store but on average its ~7 minutes from pickup to dropoff. Regarding difference in temperature, the coffee travels in insulated bags and so we aren't seeing signi
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by ananddass 11y ago
Actually, Postmates & Starbucks have been working on this partnership for a while now. We began operationally testing this in the last couple of months. As with all tests, there were kinks that needed to be worked out and new problems t
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by ananddass 11y ago
We were optimizing for speed so didn't really shoot for optimizing costs as much. It cost us about $6.61 in material costs and $5.25 in laser cutting time.
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Mastering Coffee Delivery, One Tray at a Time(medium.com)
47 points by ananddass 11y ago|11 comments
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Government shutdown: a brief history(infowetrust.com)
1 points by ananddass 13y ago|0 comments
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Photo-sharing Fatigue (daslee.me)
2 points by ananddass 13y ago|1 comments
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What’s Missing in Android Intents(blog.inkmobility.com)
12 points by ananddass 13y ago|6 comments
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What iOS Can Learn from Unix(blog.inkmobility.com)
52 points by ananddass 13y ago|58 comments
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Join Ink's iOS engineering team (YC S12)(inkmobility.com)
1 points by ananddass 13y ago
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by ananddass 13y ago
Microsoft needs systemic changes. There may some truth in the fact that ballmer is to blame. But a new ceo will face the same challenges. Markets are irrational.
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by ananddass 13y ago
You may want to check out what Jobs had to say about this. See quote from 7:12PDT : http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006442-56.html The goal was to understand, if we are there yet with respect to the readiness of iPad s
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by ananddass 13y ago
It is true that app quality has a lot to do with the experiment. I was surprised by how many of the problems could be solved if the apps upped their game. Hardware limitations were secondary only to the software experience.
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by ananddass 13y ago
That would be a good analysis to do as a next step. The new Microsoft ads make it a point of highlighting that differentiation.
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Experiment: To work primarily on an iPad for a week(blog.inkmobility.com)
52 points by ananddass 13y ago|59 comments
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by ananddass 13y ago
aaah Ok. Its easy to buy something but hard the switching effort and learning effort is higher so retention is lower. Interesting.
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by ananddass 13y ago
So one of the things interviewees mentioned is that there was a difference between "micro moments" and "full blown work". Writing a paper is full blown work that they know they cant do on a mobile device. But they expect
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by ananddass 13y ago
Yikes. Fixed the fonts to make it more readable.
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by ananddass 13y ago
Curious as to why would engagement and retention be low? As regard's pay per download models...looks like "Attach" business model's are becoming more popular. "Attach" means charging for something outside of th
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by ananddass 13y ago
Sorry, I should have added more references in that connected the dots better. A lot of capital and talent is flowing into solving the problem. Thus, we are likely to see some big shifts. --$4 billion invested into "business/offic
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by ananddass 13y ago
Yes. The keyboard problem is a big one. It was so painful that I had to buy a bluetooth keyboard just to work with my iPad. That's a hard one to solve until apple comes up with something better user input device. (e.g. thalmic labs,
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IOS productivity app market on the cusp of change?(blog.inkmobility.com)
43 points by ananddass 13y ago|45 comments
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Zencoder and Filepicker.io — Look ma, no backend uploading and encoding(blog.zencoder.com)
9 points by ananddass 14y ago|0 comments
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by ananddass 14y ago
That is precisely the issue-where are our resources best spent?
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by ananddass 14y ago
Fair point Chris. User testing has been changed to usability testing throughout the article. Referenced your comment on HN Unfortunately, I couldn’t change the title as it would break the url which has been reblogged and distributed.
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by ananddass 14y ago
It makes sense to pass files by reference rather than by value. This integration example would allow you to send files as urls via the SMS protocol instead of sending blobs of data. Mobile network bandwidth is certainly a constraint in the
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Handling Errors in Javascript APIs(blog.programmableweb.com)
19 points by ananddass 14y ago|1 comments
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by ananddass 14y ago
Jordan and team are good friends of ours (Filepicker.io team). We are trying to solve similar problems but approaching it from different directions. Its going to be an interesting future. :-)
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by ananddass 14y ago
Any thoughts on the boundaries of A/B testing pricing? It can be construed as very sketchy if you show one set of visitors a certain price and some other another price point.

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