hooliganpete

In my own product development I get so caught up in figuring out the least amount of stuff to build to test my value proposition that I often forget, building an MVP is just one strategy. Does anyone know how common it is to fail because of building too little? Any examples?

Specifically, do you read onboarding screens or do you swipe through quickly to get to the actual app?

I searched through the first few pages of posts on the topic and didn't see what I was hoping for so feel free to point me in the right direction. Basically, I'm looking for the trade offs of using FB login from a development perspective and any learnings about tradeoffs from a user perspective. Thanks HN!

Hey folks, my team is considering an Instagram advertising campaign to bolster initial adopters of our app. Any recommendations on how to maximize installs from an Instagram campaign? Any horror stories? Any tips appreciated.

I've read about Apple's encryption of AirDrop but to establish the initial pairing, AirDrop broadcasts a key and sends that to receiving devices. Couldn't this be sniffed pretty easily?

Come on be serious, who actually wants to work with someone who's job it is to determine your direction? Ok ok, I'll go easy on PMs BUT I'd love to hear what the PM do's and don'ts are from the perspective of those actually responsible for the brick laying that turns vision into reality.

I'm loving the simplicity of Quip and the more visual card-based flow of Trello. Any other winners out there people love?

I'm building two apps currently. The first is iOS and we're being very precise about what we track with Google Analytics so we can determine precise ratios/rates of change etc. We're a team of three. For the second product (iOS, Android, Windows), we're slapping tracking on EVERYTHING, with a few specific metrics in mind and figuring the rest out later. That team is 25 including a GA implementation specialist. I see arguments for both methods but which is the better practice?

I've heard of devs writing abstraction layers that when combined with bluetooth profiles can pull iMessage texts from iOS to Windows 10. Has anyone played around with this before? How much work are we talking?

Many of us are all too familiar with the exorbitant rents in the Bay. Given where commercial real estate is today, is there any reason to think things will change in the near term? Is San Francisco worth the price -- trophy amounts upward of $100/sqf -- or are we deluding ourselves into thinking establishing teams in tech mecca is worth the cost?