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Our product team struggles to clearly define and communicate product requirements as they change. This trickles down into unclear specifications for our engineering team.

We've used Confluence to try and gather requirements and track changes with limited success.

Anyone have any useful tools, processes or tips that they can share? How do your teams collaborate on functional specs? Do you write use cases "As a, I want, so that?"

Thanks!

My team and I have been working very hard to make our office workspace a great experience from door to door, so that people love their work environment. A shitty commute can be just as much of a negative as slow internet or annoying interruptions.

This has become even more clear as we've been talking with HR directors and visiting lots of careers pages as we've been bringing on beta customers for our side project: http://www.floorplan.io

As I write this, there are 34 job listings on Hacker News. Only 7 of those mention a location in the title of the post.

Of the remaining 27, three don't list an office location in the job description. (Teespring, Flexport, and Metricwire - they say Canada, but I would argue that's a little vague)

Why do you think this is? Are HN companies assuming readers are in SF (~2/3rds of the jobs are, but are the readers?) Or are company growth / cool technology more important?

Just a casual observation.

Reference: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MOr-wZK2zMUS-c5jlRuIS8j5MAYh8xBcyTuOiF6I9uM/edit?usp=sharing

I have a pet project I've worked on for a while and would love some thoughts about validating how to find customers.

The site is a directory of alumni products and businesses.

We have launched private sites for small liberal arts colleges harvesting launch data from publicly available sources, and advertising to alums. We have some decent traction of traffic, email list signups and user submitted alumni businesses / authors.

Many colleges are proud of, and feature these types of listings in their alumni magazines and websites. A handful have un-maintained sites with some of this data.

I'm interested in anyone's thoughts about how to - Sortfolio Model - Free listings, pay for premium. - Ads (same businesses that would advertise in an alumni magazine) - Sell to college advancement / alumni offices. (Most that we've talked to aren't interested in profiting off of their alums, and definitely don't have the resources to build and maintain this themselves)

What could we offer the universities as our potential customer? Research of their alums? Just hosting of the site?

Any thoughts or ideas are appreciated!

Thanks!

Long time lurker. I need to buy a new wireless router for my new apartment.

We have Meraki's at my office and they are pretty awesome. But, to my knowledge, they don't have one at a low enough price to make it worth it for home use.

Is there a cool wireless router for home use that I should know about?

Thanks!