The sad reality is, even after reading this article most folks will resolve to once again, blaming others for the things they don't have. It's not that most people don't know they should work harder to strive for their own, but rather it's a lot easier to blame someone else, and humans are naturally lazy. Most people know, but don't act, imho.
I wonder how many technologies out there exist, which would allow us to go far beyond our current state of the world, but we simply don't know about them. In a such an interconnected world, it sure feels that innovations are not very well combined to move us forward. Good article, btw.
Actually, it seems there is no explanation as to what happens if you choose to opt out. I imagine they are required o ask you by law, but that's why they are trying hard not to make it very obvious.
One thing that is very good about this design and Instacart should adopt are the promoted/discounted items on the top. If Instacart tracked my most recurring purchases, and occasionally gave me this banner-like ads to recommend a discounted product, I'd click on it. I like how Doritos, for example, really stand out in this image.
That said, you know how clients sometimes say "Make everything bold so that everything stand out!" Well, that's exactly what you did. because you cluttered the entire interface with similar 'bold' content, everything now is a blur. It's virtually impossible for my eyes to focus.
All-in-all, decent attempt, but in my opinion, you did not succeed.
This sounds like a really neat service. Just about a year ago a friend and I wanted to do a filtering app for our own use, but didn't seem to find any straight-forward resources to apply filters w/out doing too much development on our own. This is awesome; we may actually considering doing the old app again, thanks to these guys.
Let me get this right, for less technical folks. Are you proposing that and developer would be able to create pieces of App.net and your system would basically integrate the two?
I can't figure out from the article, do you gets goods that are worth around $35, but chosen by someone else, or do you just get 'something' chosen by someone else. I mean, can I get a piece of lettuce in the mail, having paid so much money?
jQM app looked slicker, but you can easily fix that with some css customization to Bootstrap. I've been using B myself and am very happy with it; meanwhile, I haven't heard anyone actually say good things about jQM, it seems to always be a struggle. Good job!
You mean, like it should be available online, most of the time, it should have a login button, and then some content, and then maybe have content from more than yourself...
Yeah, every site kind of has to be like pinterest.
"After RIM lost a long and brutal patent battle with NTP in early 2006, he says, lawyers came to dominate the culture. ... instead of daring to be bold, he says, employees worked in fear because, 'if something goes wrong, someone has to get fired.'" - Doesn't sound very pleasant at all!
That's cool. I am curious to see what Grubwithus is going long-term. Right now it's dining with strangers, but maybe in a few years it could be like flash-mob; hangout with strangers!
Yeah man. Tests take forever to develop. It's a lot easier to test manually, upon release. Sure, something is usually broken, but the time saved on rigorous testing is worth it.
The point is that under a subscription model these developers would be able to provide you with ongoing updates and quality service, w/out having to surrender to Google.
Oh, and for all the SaaS-for-desktop-haters, Adobe has recently launched Creative Cloud where anyone could pay $40/month to access any of the Creative Suit softwares. It works great and it 120% worth the money. No reason great companies (like Sparrow) couldn't get together to be a part of a 3rd party store like that (oh! a free startup idea). Alternatively, Apple could simply enable monthly subscriptions.
I think you're right. It's really bazaar why Google hasnt implemented those features into Gmail, but if they were seamlessly integrated into Sparrow, I'd pay.
Paid upgrades are allright, but if they had a subscription model, that'd be even better. Imagine if you could just pay $5/month for Sparrow? If you live inside your email, that's $60/year well spent and for the developers it's a significant boost in $ generated.