37signals Is Selling Sortfolio. What Happened

http://mixergy.com/jason-fried-sortfolio-interview/

by romansanchez • 15 years ago

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smackfu2• 15 years ago

Is this what things have come to? "Tweet to watch this video"

romansanchez2• 15 years ago

You probably missed the "No thanks, just show me the video".

andymoe3• 15 years ago

Agreed, and I saw the "No thanks, just show me the video" message too. This is still annoying.

At times there is also a large popup nag to sign up for the newsletter or something like that on the site (I was already signed up because I like the content btw)

I really like what Andrew does and I feel like these kinds of aggressive moves might have some negative effects on the brand.

Meetup.com does similar annoying things with a nag screen to tweet about a meetup you singed up for or are attenting and there are no profile settings to make them go away so they come back whenever you switch browsers or reset safari etc.

Anyway, know your audience and stay classy please.

AndrewWarner6• 15 years ago

I'm using software that launched here on Hacker News.

Where possible, I want to be your beta tester.

So, how can TweetPerView be improved?

Apocryphon• 15 years ago

Looks like things aren't... getting real.

citricsquid• 15 years ago

I remember a couple of months back when someone posted this (tweetperview) as their new startup and everyone agreed it was a terrible idea, then they added the "no thanks" part. Still sucks, but you used to have to tweet.

news.yc post I mentioned: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281881

a.w (mixergy) replied too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2284013

AndrewWarner6• 15 years ago

Yeah! Thanks for remembering.

I really like the guy who made this.

betageek• 15 years ago

My experience of Sortfolio, tested paid listing for a few months - 0 leads, just lots of outsourcers looking for work, would be interested if anyone had a good experience

RRiccio4• 15 years ago

I've been working on my new startup with a local designer I found on Sortfolio.

I think it's a great tool to find top quality local designers, because in general someone who's listed there is not the typical low-quality outsource design firm.

atacrawl• 15 years ago

I was hired at my current job because my boss found me on Sortfolio. As far as freelance work goes, the best I've had is one near-miss.

RRiccio4• 15 years ago

By the way, where have they listed it for sale? (I haven't heard the interview yet.)

romansanchez2• 15 years ago

They wrote a blog post on SVN http://goo.gl/muMHE

RRiccio4• 15 years ago

Thanks.

run4yourlives3• 15 years ago

Am I the only one that can't stand this video garbage? The internet is one of the few areas where the written word communicates substance over style. Please, let's not lose this.

Unless the concept lends itself to video, don't use it.

vaporstun• 15 years ago

Or at least include a transcript at the bottom so people can parse out the useful info without sitting through the video or trying to skip through and (likely) skipping right past the relevant nuggets.

jeremymcanally• 15 years ago

Mixergy always has transcripts; this one just isn't ready yet.

run4yourlives3• 15 years ago

Even transcripts are a problem for me though. A written piece flows like a book, a transcript doesn't. It's like reading a play.

strooltz• 15 years ago

Mixergy also has audio versions of their shows - we stream it over the office sound system every morning...

Link for the latest -http://s3.amazonaws.com/Mixergy/Audio/Jason-Fried-(Sortfolio...

RRiccio4• 15 years ago

Yes, I only listen to the audio versions of Andrew's interviews.

I add them to iTunes and then listed when I'm on the bus or walking to some place.

Since I don't have much time to watch/listen online, it helps me make my commuting time much more productive.

jcampbell1• 15 years ago

With HTML5, it is possible to speed up the playback, which can make video tolerable. Unfortunatly, the wistia player is flash only. Once you get used to hearing pitch corrected audio at 1.5x-2x, watching videos can be tolerable.

mikecolella• 15 years ago

http://www.enounce.com/ works for this.

AndrewWarner6• 15 years ago

You can also download the MP3 of each interview and use your iPhone/Android/whatever's speed options.

csavage• 15 years ago

Wistia does support HTML5, it's just that the current implementation of tweetperview is not capturing the HTML5 version of the video. The video is currently being loading in an iFrame by tweetperview.

We'll reach out to those guys and see what we can do.

stevenj• 15 years ago

Wow, that was a good interview. I haven't seen Jason talk so openly about things before. He was really relaxed in the video. I came away very impressed with him.

He seems like a great guy.

jasonfried• 15 years ago

Andrew is easy to talk to which makes it fun to open up. I think he's one of the best interviewers out there.

AndrewWarner6• 15 years ago

Thanks Jason!

auston• 15 years ago

Agreed.

I'd love to start a discussion here about LTV! So, AFAIK:

LTV is simple: customer revenue per month * months with your company

Segmenting beyond that - it is not very possible because google analytics hides your per visitor data. If products like clicky/google analytics would dump out full data sets, this kind of software would be very easy to create.

Otherwise, you need an end-to-end solution. Meaning from visitor to customer tracking.

Does anyone know something I don't about segmenting customers LTV?

nvictor• 15 years ago

it's the infinite scroll. no one likes them.

37signals Is Selling Sortfolio. What Happened

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