austinchang

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by austinchang 9y ago
i agree with you here but sounds like you are mostly talking about "Early Adopters"? Power users of a product who get deep recurring value from your product are get to analyze. they may be mostly earlier adopters at first but hope
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by austinchang 9y ago
sure. happy to chat. ping me at austin [@] initialized [.] com
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by austinchang 9y ago
thanks for the comment. agree that chasing after the "wrong" customers is a whole pitfall unto it's own. Nothing here says you need to chose your user based on existing top of funnel. Often times those are earlier adopters wh
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by austinchang 9y ago
completely agree. most "Critical User Journey" articles are written by UX or product designers. this article was meant to be an introduction to show how any product, startup, or company can use User Journeys as a framework for pro
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by austinchang 9y ago
thanks andrew. glad that you thought it was valuable. you summed it up quite well. it is very easy to lose sight of what your users go through for the first time every day when you are the one adding to the system to extend or expand it.
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by austinchang 15y ago
Sorry everyone for the sudden notice. This has been wrecking us for some time and we went back and forth about how to handle this timeframe. Having a long graceful transition period for our users would have been great but for reasons that
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by austinchang 15y ago
Company name: Fridge (YC s10) Company size: 5 Company URL: http://www.frid.ge Position: Web Development, Sever-side development Contact email: intern@frid.ge Skills needed: PHP, MySQL and/or CSS/XHTML, jQuery
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by austinchang 16y ago
yeah! great job guys... keep it up
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Tech Start-Up Bliss: Dogpatch Labs(thestreet.com)
16 points by austinchang 16y ago|2 comments
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by austinchang 16y ago
thanks for the tips! we are in the middle of updating our "getting started" flow which isn't as optimized as it should be. this and a full featured native experience is coming in the next few weeks!
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A Y Combinator point of view and helpful resources(keepitfresh.frid.ge)
47 points by austinchang 16y ago|2 comments
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by austinchang 16y ago
Public groups or events on FB could work but they suffer two things: - people not invited, not involved, or random people start to get messages about the event and it becomes noise and adds to the clutter. Interactions around specific and e
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by austinchang 16y ago
Here is the direct Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt493X2IPCc
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by austinchang 16y ago
Fridge lets you connect with friends, family, strangers you just met, co-workers, soon to be acquaintances, etc... around specific events, relationships, or groups. Don't have to add anyone as friends or worry about privacy or permissions.
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by austinchang 16y ago
Learning simple logic gates in LOGO making the turtle go around a path... do kids still do that today or is it much fancier?
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Simple social networks in less than 90 seconds (video: Fridge & Grumo Media)(keepitfresh.frid.ge)
27 points by austinchang 16y ago|11 comments
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by austinchang 16y ago
things starting/stopping - groups, interests, friends is actually a good thing and what keeps things interesting. things coming and going should be a feature not a flaw of the way people interact online...
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by austinchang 16y ago
Yeah… we completely agree. The idea of a "personal network" is definitely right but the real problem is that not everyone fits the same mold of "friends". much less a subset of 50 people? do you give your cousin the cliff over your cowor
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by austinchang 16y ago
The idea of a personal network is a good one but the problem is that there isn't just 1 personal network but clusters of networks. how do you address the different type of interaction in a limited network of only 50?
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by austinchang 16y ago
definitely... in the middle of a large rewrite to address server side things as well as front facing speed/usability issues. after the dust settles and we get the fridge humming we should be able to have some meaningful data... not sure the
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by austinchang 16y ago
not quite. (and definitely welcome the discussion) all Fridges will always be accessible to only those in the group. if you aren't in the group you don't have access to it. we are already seeing users create Fridges for larger and more "
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by austinchang 16y ago
the social graph we are building are around specific context, relationships, events, and interests that you actually care about versus linear connections that linger in a 1 to 1 friend based social graph. single Fridges might be single ser
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by austinchang 16y ago
thanks! working on a faster/less janky version to be released anyday...
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by austinchang 16y ago
at the moment we only "link" groups when there are common users in both. we are finding that as more and more groups are formed (around interests, events, organizations) more and more overlap occurs. while this isn't terribly valuable righ
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by austinchang 16y ago
argh... sorry about that! we had a bug we introduced recently that we thought fixed that... email repairman@frid.ge with you account and we can fix it?
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Fridge (YC S10) on the BBC - Pared down, cut down social networking(news.bbc.co.uk)
45 points by austinchang 16y ago|22 comments
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by austinchang 16y ago
The Fridge was a late applicant in the S2010 round. we missed the normal deadline and submitted a few weeks before the late deadline. we also revised and updated our applications almost up to the day we were emailed we got an interview...
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by austinchang 16y ago
actually it wasn't ever broken. while we are revamping our architecture the urls/params are exposed however you can only see profiles of people who are in your group (which you can do on the site directly by clicking on their names) We res
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by austinchang 16y ago
yes! but for now we are focusing on personal and private relationships. user and interest based discovery is something we are definitely going to add in...
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by austinchang 16y ago
those are your group setting options. in the group itself you can post, upload photos, parse youtube/vimeo video urls, post flash embeds, and more to a very specific group of people. create multiple of these side by side to have personal c

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