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Justin and Jason discuss the events of Microconf 2011 during the drive back home to Los Angeles. This is part two of two episodes.
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It doesn’t really matter often, but there are problems with
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For reference Douglas Crockford mentions this in a talk he gave at Google. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook#t=30m42s (starting at 30:42 a minute or so). I do disagree with many points he makes – why not different coding styles? – but this one seams to be true.
Just-in-time Expertise is great tagline!
I saw in AnyFu.com that you wrote “Just-in-time technology expertise” -> do you really want to narrow it to technology only? it can be used for other subjects too.
@Niklas Oh darn, I was hoping there was no practical reason whatsoever. Really don’t like the look of the opening brace at the end of a line.
@TechZing Is the Twitter handle really @anyfu? It says Karem Fuentes.
Guys I’m concerned about anyfu time and energy requirements as related your existing projects.
@Justin – You’ve recently refocused on Pluggio and have had great returns. Why not keep driving that? You’ve said that you prefer to start things and get them to the point where you have to focus on the “business stuff” but I think that’s counterproductive in the long run. I think that putting your efforts into making a successful thing even more successful will reap more rewards than having many small things. Rob Walling is the exception, not the rule.
@Jason – You’ve expressed a lot of frustration and disappointment about frustrating and disappointing possible users of AppIgnite. You’ve also acknowledged multiple times that you say yes too much and take on more than you can handle. Does anyfu *really* help that? It’s yet another project to stretch you in another direction. I know that new things are quite exciting and we want to dive into them right away but this just ends people up with more lose knots. I think you said that you’d use AppIgnite to do a lot of the anyfu work and that would save time on anyfu, however it certainly won’t help AI get developed, even if you put your learnings back into it. The thing is that you don’t have the time *to* put your learnngs back into it. Finally, developing the technology behind fu is the easy part; the hard part is to build an actual business. This is completely non-trivial and when the opposite is true it’s again the exception and not the norm. I certainly wouldn’t profess to know your overall objectives; I only know what I hear. But in the podcasts you are always saying how stretched you are and how you couldn’t do AI because of xyz last weekend, but you are presenting conflicting priorities because the podcast gets longer and longer, more guests equals more administrative time spent, more contracts equals more work time, etc. My feeling is that if the contract work and the podcast are your main focuses then drop AI as a discussion point because to keep talking about it just exacerbates the problem you’ve stated numerous times, that people are getting frustrated by lack of a product. If your contract work and AI are your main focuses then perhaps drop or reduce the podcast. If all are your main focuses then I think you have to be realistic with yourself and the listeners about what can be expected. All I’m saying is that with a zillion things going on it might be more productive to pick a few of them and do them more deeply than picking more and only getting small slices done.
FYI – @anyfu on twitter is not you guys.
@Udi Mosayev – That’s a good point and worth thinking about. The reason I put “technology” before “expertise” in the tag line is that I wanted to make the site more focused – at least to start off. But maybe it’s just more cumbersome to say it that way and the focus will be implied when the initial set of expert we have are all experts in technology. We’ll talk about this on this weekend’s show. Thanks for bringing it up.
@Mikael Green – You’re right it is taken. I put the landing page up at 2:30 AM while on vacation in Norway and I was just assuming that @anyfu would be available when I created the HTML page. Unfortunately, it’s not so we’ll just need to come up with something else or maybe ask the guy who registered it if he would mind letting us have it since he isn’t even using it.
@Matt – That’s a very fair criticism and I’m conflicted about it as well. The short answer is that I can see AnyFu generating real revenue much sooner than Appignite and understandably the wife is really pushing for that. Also, I see AnyFu as a great use case / showcase for Appignite, where 80-90% of version one is entirely generated. Finally, I guess I just really believe Justin and I can make it work and I think we can get an MVP up without too much trouble to see if it’s worth pushing it further. This will be a great topic for this weekend’s show, so thanks for bringing it up and putting so much thought into your comment.
@Niklas – Cool, I’m going to watch the video. I’ll be interested to hear what Justin thinks about it too.
Hey guys… just wanted to tell you again, that the podcast has been (and continues to be) a source of inspiration for me to work on my startup
@James Robert – Thanks for that. It’s always great to hear when people are finding value from what we’re doing. Good luck with your startup.
Jason – I just came across http://www.printfriendly.com – for optimizing the print out of web pages. If yre still printing stuff out for bedtime, maybe it can help.
With services where you are essentially taking money from someone for someone else you do need to be aware of fraud, money laundering e.t.c. Paypal have actually launched a product to pay many people. This way you would get your cut and the actual service provider would get their money all for one fee, rather than the receive and send you would have to do if you keep the payment for a while.
I can’t remember what this product it called now though! I think it might be https://www.x.com/community/ppx/adaptive_payments where the chained payments would be you and the eventual recipient. However there is definitely a way to do this maintaining fraud protection, using one transaction and getting multiple people paid
Stew
Or it could be https://www.x.com/community/ppx/mass_pay