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When Users Miss the Front Door (And What to Do About It)(medium.com)
1 points by lgilchrist 12y ago|0 comments
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by lgilchrist 13y ago
What's your product and who is your target user? Where do they spend their time? LinkedIn, Reddit, and HN won't help if you're trying to reach, for example, teenage girls. I collected some thoughts on this that you might fin
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by lgilchrist 13y ago
Avi Flombaum gave an excellent talk on this a few months ago. He dove into the six different types of technical interviews (cultural fit, brain teasers, whiteboard coding, cs trivia, code questions, and pairing) and how to prepare for each
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by lgilchrist 14y ago
More design pattern inspiration: http://littlebigdetails.com/ http://mobile-patterns.com/ Also, Smashing Mag has occasional great articles on design patterns and ux.
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by lgilchrist 14y ago
That's a fair point. I left it out of the blog post b/c it's a more complex issue that probably merits its own post. It seems there's only 2 ways to go when hosting an event -- open the floodgates or actively manage the attendee list. Becau
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by lgilchrist 14y ago
sure, having four devs organize this event would have been nice for credibility, but they wouldn't have necessarily throw a better hackathon just by being devs. there's a learning curve to throwing good hackathons, just like with anything e
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by lgilchrist 14y ago
What I'm saying is that it wasn't ideal and we'll try to do it better next time around.
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by lgilchrist 14y ago
That's not entirely accurate. We needed to control the number of attendees to accomodate the venue's space constraints. We set aside 100 tickets, 50 male and 50 female. The male tickets sold out first, then the women's. We then opened up th
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by lgilchrist 14y ago
That's an interesting point, and one I hadn't thought of. I'd argue that it probably depends on the nature of the event and what you're looking to get out of it. (e.g. if you're coming to a hackathon without a team, it's probably in your b
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How We Got 50 Women to Our Hackathon (And You Can, Too)(lgilchrist.com)
107 points by lgilchrist 14y ago|109 comments