Comments on: 326: TZ Discussion – Turning that Frown Upside Down

By: Michael Rakita

Michael Rakita — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 03:42:20 +0000

Hey Justin, 15% open rate for a widget on a landing page is huge! The engagement rate for a regular pop-up/slide-out for cold audience coming from Google ads is usually <5% for B2B and <2% for B2C sites. And it's really hard to get people to watch the whole video if it's longer than a minute. So Speak is doing great!

By: Danilo Celic

Danilo Celic — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 20:03:56 +0000

Another good discussion and round of updates on your projects, thanks guys!!

@Justin: for testing on Android, maybe get a cheap Android tablet, such as the Amazon Fire tablet could be a good option, you can get them for as low as $50. This is assuming that you can sideload applications, or you can root the device.

One suggestion with regard to the open rate of 15%. My gut would say that that is a fairly good open rate. Maybe you can ask Rob Waling what the usual rate was for Drip. Also, maybe don’t have the call to action button the same or very similar to the colored blocks in the clip art, it may not standout

@Jason: AWS also has Lambda@Edge that sounds somewhat similar to the Cloudflare Workers service that Justin mentioned.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 18:19:03 +0000

@Abe: You re record the movement track (in theory you would have to remake a video if the same thing happend) so in this case it’s actually less work.

@Mark Yeah I think I’ll use that.

@udi Thanks man!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 02:21:50 +0000

BlogCast sounds free of spam connotations.

By: Udi

Udi — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 19:18:44 +0000

Wow, Speak looks (and sounds) amazing! well done Justin.

By: Abe

Abe — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 17:13:13 +0000

Speak’s looking good, Justin! Please listen to Jason and focus on the hard work of building your customer base. It’s damn feature rich enough to make money; pave that runway! One question about Speak – how do you handle versioning? Say for example a banner or button is moved to a completely new location in the layout.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 13:25:34 +0000

@Joe LOL Thanks I’ll check it out…. 😉

@Mark ok ok how about BlogCast?

@Ignazio Oh yeah I remember that one.

By: Ignacio

Ignacio — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 06:30:59 +0000

Speak reminds me of what https://asciinema.org/ does, it records events/actions instead of video so its lightweight

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 06:02:01 +0000

@Justin, Noooooooooo! Not splog! That word is taken and you don't want it!

By: Joe Stech

Joe Stech — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 03:25:41 +0000

Nice work guys, great discussion.

Julia (the language) is hot. It’s gaining popularity in the data science field, although the package ecosystem doesn’t have the maturity yet to be mainstream. I’d definitely use it if I needed to build an extremely performant computational system that didn’t rely on too many existing packages, especially if the system needed matrix operations (I think Julia has a bunch of native GPU stuff).

Justin, if you’re interested in reading a little about proofs you might find proofs by induction relatable, since they have a close relationship to recursion.

Have a great week everyone!