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Hey everyone, I would like to get some honest feedback on this new product I am working on. When I show it to friends and family, the feedback is obviously biased, therefore I came here.

I would appreciate feedback on three things in particular. 1) How well do you understand the product based on the landingpage? 2) Do you see a need for it, maybe even for yourself? 3) What do you think about the design of the landingpage, what is good, what can be improved?

Thanks in advance to the community for helping out here! Cheers

My nonprofit Invest it! which has helped 1000+ people so far.

Thank you so much, this was really helpful! I appreciate it.

And now they actually did the layoffs - https://www.wsj.com/articles/lyft-plans-to-lay-off-hundreds-...

Just found this article and wanted to share it. Super interesting stuff imho. Especially the linked sheet helped me.

I can simply just agree with this. Keeping a ToDo app as simple as a word doc or sth is sometimes the best way to set good habits.

Also, maybe have an excel file to not loose track of your projects. This article can be helpful as well https://review.firstround.com/ditch-your-to-do-list-and-use-...

I am working on something super basic, that I believe is still worth my time. It is just for me and my friends at the moment. I am creating a new flashcard app (how original :))

It is a combination of Anki, Quizlet and some other bigger apps. Taking their best features and turning it into one free app. I do not like to pay for a flashcard app, but Anki has really bad UX / UI and cloud features. On the other hand, the Quizlet algorithm is not great.

Therefore I am creating my own free app. Let's see where it goes. But one thing is clear. I do not want to make money of education.

I fully agree. Growth can only happen if the context is set right.

I would even argue that is why some bigger firms such as stripe have a rotation model where you can explore new jobs and positions within the company.

Have you told your boss about how you feel?

I would advise to look at your growth numbers and do user interviews. If you grow at least 20 % month over month - do not pivot. Because having a solid growth that is not linear connected to ad spend is something you should keep and rather improve than pivot. If you do not grow anywhere near that speed, a pivot might make sense. But there are so many factors that play into this.

Get Together & The elegant puzzle from stripe press

Maybe not crazy about thinking, but the book 'mindset' from a known stanford prof. helped me massively

Change often comes with movement and with people having to step out of their comfort zone at least once. And generally people dont like that.

Great article!

I believe you can never fully clickbait? There has never been a point in time (to my knowledge) where there was no clickbait.

Back than it was just called 'good writing'

I believe it is simply important that you know the context of the sender of the information and are able enough to validate information that seems sus.

They are just afraid of more hate online

Reddit is the best place outside HN that works similar for a lot of niches. But HN is still the best forum

I would advise to send an email to your boss now with cc'ing another manager about the login to document

I would be interested if there is a correlation between their work performance as a contractor and their secondary contracts.

I would assume there is none too significant, but would be interesting.

Really like the concept of hidden metrics here.

Highly doubt it.

I have worked at two big companies (8k+ and 500k+ Employees) in my life and it is sad, but I can confirm. If you want, you can get by amazingly with very little effort there. As long as you get attention for your work, you will stay. In investment banking (my roommate works there) people call it 'face time'. They stay in the office late to get in facetime. I hate the concept of it, but sadly it is true.

2 ways to succeed at huge companies - do work they can't ignore (at one of the companies I was, I was doing Business Dev work and I outperformed my peers by 200x - I was able to chill a lot visibly after a couple of big deals, but I still succeeded due to performance) - do average or below average work, but communicate it great and get in 'face time' without actually doing something.

I would ask myself if the company you work for will go bust 100% or not.

If it does, than seek an open conversation with the founders.

Also, how big is the company and do you hold shares? All things that play into a decision like that I'd say.

I would love to see Obsidian for teams. There is no knowledge app as elegant as obsidian, it could change team wikis forever.