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by dmils4 13y ago
The video actually threw me off. My cursor was right there, very confused for a sec - imo it's not separated enough from the rest of the experience for it to be entirely helpful, felt like more of a distraction. Just my $.02, cool site outs
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by dmils4 14y ago
I run a price comparison site for textbooks, SlugBooks. There are two simple factors which impact slow adoption of digital books: 1) college bookstores. It's a distribution issue. Students are used to walking into the bookstore to buy somet
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by dmils4 14y ago
Wrote this case study for Usabilla's blog. Hopefully it provides some design inspiration if you've been thinking of doing a reskin. We had a lot of fun with ours.
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Case Study: How SlugBooks Rebranded Through Emotional Design(blog.usabilla.com)
1 points by dmils4 14y ago|1 comments
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by dmils4 14y ago
http://www.dribbble.com - best site for this hands down.
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Show HN: CrunchBase advanced search(svgrid.com)
5 points by dmils4 14y ago|0 comments
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by dmils4 14y ago
Pretty nuts - the former manager of CollegeBookRenter.com, a textbook selling website, is being accused of counterfeit textbooks.
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Jones, others, face copyright infringement lawsuit from 2 leading publishers(murrayledger.com)
1 points by dmils4 14y ago|1 comments
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by dmils4 14y ago
few takeaways (having just gone thru the same experience of launching our first app in July) 1) don't assume that because you're bootstrapping, you "have to charge something for the app". View free/paid as two different marketing channels (
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How College Bookstores are Killing College Bookstores(tnr.com)
3 points by dmils4 14y ago|0 comments
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by dmils4 14y ago
Here's just one of them Northwest Missouri State (scroll to the bottom) - http://www.nwmissouri.edu/admissions/laptop/index.htm Note that their stats about how rentals save students $1160 a year are sort of BS. On books where renting save
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by dmils4 14y ago
The link is just http://www.slugbooks.com - cheers.
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by dmils4 14y ago
Typically there are 1-2 copies on reserve at the library, but you can only check them out for a couple hours at the time. With a class of 50+ students that's not a workable solution for most. And most don't even try anyway..
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by dmils4 14y ago
Some universities take it a step further and include the cost of textbooks in tuition. Be glad that isn't happening globally. That's the worst case scenario here - students are just billed for course materials without having any say in the
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by dmils4 14y ago
Hey, thanks for this. There are corner cases where custom editions make sense, but overall they cause far more harm than good. -The biggest issue is that custom editions segment the global secondary market for a given textbook into slivers
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by dmils4 14y ago
Yep, kayak for textbooks. You can either search by book or search by school/course. If you really want to get angry, look up MATH 203 at Medgar Evers College in NY. A textbook with a list price of $174 is being sold for $330 new, $240 used
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by dmils4 14y ago
Custom editions and packaged access codes are the last futile attempt that publishers bookstores and professors have against cheaper Internet alternatives. The one thing your writeup didn't touch upon is digital textbooks- which the publish
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Florida Student Punished for Making Online Course Selection Easier(mashable.com)
1 points by dmils4 14y ago|1 comments
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by dmils4 14y ago
Kyro - I think it's ridiculous that people are so possessive of free design concepts, but one cool blog post to take a look at is Metalab's theoretical redesign of the Zappos homepage few year's back: http://metalabdesign.com/zappos/ They
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by dmils4 14y ago
This reminds me of how Facebook was having issues with apps sending message spam within Facebook, so they prevented apps from initiating messages and instead forced apps to spam outside of Facebook (by just asking for and using your email).
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by dmils4 14y ago
Important to note that unlike Apple's eBook offering, Amazon's diverse market selection makes their situation tough to compare. Amazon does provide digital books, but also sells physical versions and facilitates marketplace transactions of
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The Ebook Wars: Amazon At Fault or Publishers(gigaom.com)
2 points by dmils4 14y ago|1 comments
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by dmils4 14y ago
Have you seen InstantWatcher ( http://www.instantwatcher.com )? Probably the best use of the Netflix API I've seen - accounts for the search areas where Netflix lacks, without losing discoverability. Your project is obviously much closer to
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by dmils4 14y ago
oh. That makes more sense. Honestly - it seems like there's not really a premium for non-eng roles, so that might be why the threads haven't really arrived (I haven't noticed them either). Not to say any given startup can't use a rockstar m
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by dmils4 14y ago
In my own experience (as a non-eng)- if you want to get a job at a startup outside of the engineering roles, you need to be a lot more proactive. That means emailing companies that you find interesting, and telling them why you find them in
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by dmils4 14y ago
Hey - cool first version (the design is incredibly polished for a first version!). There are a few sites out there doing this (but in the mobile space) - Quixey's probably the biggest, but some other directories/review sites that might be w
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by dmils4 14y ago
Make a few mockups dude! Even if you can't code, use microsoft paint or whatever program you have - it'll help you clarify your own ideas of how the product will work, but more than that, it'll give the people here something more actionable
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So you want to crowdsource your design project? Don't. Use Dribbble instead.(someentrepreneur.tumblr.com)
2 points by dmils4 14y ago|0 comments
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by dmils4 14y ago
This is a total guess - but if you've been at G for 5 years, Startup #2 sounds like a smoother transition. It's a larger organization, it will probably operate more like what you're used to. It sounds like both of these are good opportuniti
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by dmils4 14y ago
This article mentions nothing about pinterest (or how it changed your homepage). I see the design similarities, but the link title here has little relevance to the content.

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