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PickFu (https://www.pickfu.com) | Product Marketing Manager | 100% Remote (Americas +/- 3 hours) | Full-time

PickFu is a consumer research platform that helps companies and entrepreneurs make better-informed decisions about their products, designs, marketing, and more. Businesses across such industries as e-commerce, mobile gaming, and publishing use PickFu to gather consumer insights quickly and at a fraction of the cost of traditional market research surveys. https://www.pickfu.com/about

We are looking for an experienced marketing professional to lead our product marketing function, develop and execute strategy, and lead PickFu into the next phase of growth. You will be joining a team that believes in honest tactics, high standards, and data-driven decision making. We value quality, integrity, and people over a quick profit. We pride ourselves on excellent customer service and a product that can sell itself—and need you to get the word out there. This role will report directly to our co-founders.

Apply here: https://www.pickfu.com/jobs

Donkhouse.com

Awesome! Happy updown.io customer here. We use it for https://www.pickfu.com Always happy to support fellow entrepreneurs.

Anecdotally, I'm noticing that friends that used to wear the fitbit and apply social pressure (through the fitbit app) to keep wearing it, have stopped. Also noticing a lot more people with smartwatches, including Apple iWatch. Without the social pressure, there doesn't seem to be much lock-in. Mine died and haven't felt the urge to replace it.

We kinda whipped up something for our own purposes (logging any data using google spreadsheets). It's called Sheetstorm and basically you just post data using the API and it'll automatically create a new sheet or append it to an existing one.

It's handy for logging and analyzing arbitrary stats.

https://www.sheetstorm.io/

Was this the Mahalo office?

A service I run, PickFu, is popular with entrepreneurs and product designers for quick feedback on ideas and designs.

http://www.pickfu.com

It's more of a polling service that gives you a kind of instant focus group. You ask a question, we'll give you the answers.

The problem I have with desktop email clients now is the lack of rapportive and boomerang.

Many entrepreneurs use our PickFu service to split test taglines as they iterate on variations.

http://www.pickfu.com

I ran a quick poll on PickFu and got a pretty split response across t0 50 responders.

http://www.pickfu.com/B7VOBA

Nice service and API (plus love that you're bootstrapped). Any chance you'll be doing DVD burning in the future?

Just a point of feedback: I was scanning up and down the page looking for a full-size screenshot or tour before I randomly hovered over the thumbnails and saw that they're clickable. Looks cool though. Would this function as light weight customer service tool, i.e. replacing ZenDesk or Desk.com?

Great looking service and easy to use. Do you monetize just with the ads?

I use news:yc too and I miss the collapsed comments. It was way easier to skip over irrelevant discussion threads when you can browse just top level comments.

The more public you are with your business, the better you need to execute to maintain your advantage.

Awesome! Can't wait to give it a spin.

Will there be support for location-aware searches so we can index/search by geo lat/long?

My business partner and I have been running Menuism (http://www.menuism.com) since 2006. It's bootstrapped and profitable. We also run The Wedding Lens (http://www.theweddinglens.com) and PickFu (http://pickfu.com).

For this series of redesigns, I think it'd be helpful to include a screenshot of the current design both for easier side by side comparison and for posterity.

Looks like they aren't transferrable[1]:

"Tickets may only be used by original purchaser. Tickets may not be resold. The resale of a ticket will render the ticket null and void without any responsibility to Google."

[1] https://developers.google.com/events/io/ticket-terms

In the description he says the ticket is in his name.

I hope they revoke this guy's ticket: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Google-IO-2012-GA-Adult-Ticket-/2307...

Here's some guesswork on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Twitter-Inc-company/How-much-did-Twitte...

Also, don't pop up iOS notifications. 2 year olds can't read them and they're hard to dismiss.

Or maybe because of the new Google Maps pricing? http://code.google.com/apis/maps/faq.html#usage_pricing

It's great except for 2 annoyances: (1) the d-pad just doesn't feel natural to me still, (2) the constant crashing of the app and google TV when connections don't establish correctly. That being said, I use both the iPhone and android tablet versions all the time.

Great video. Got me thinking about new ways to use S3.

Wow, we were thinking about integrating with IndexTank. Glad we didn't.

Distraction free mode on Sublime Text 2 is pretty awesome.