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16 links, first saved December 28, 2007, latest July 17, 2011.
- The Slicehost Story
Slicehost—a scrappy web company bootstrapped with $20,000—cashed out for big bucks in 2008. How did they do it? More importantly, was it worth it?
- "Smart" pasting at The New Yorker site
Interesting: When you copy text from a New Yorker article and paste it somewhere else, it automatically includes a “Read more: URL” at end of paste. Copied this: Then pasted it…
- QUOTE: I don't care how good you are at programming
I don’t care how good you are at programming, finding bugs, whatever. If you’re rude, or if you speak poorly to people who don’t understand your… quirks…. you will wind up being…
- PHOTO: Where do you turn when you need "Happy Birthday
Where do you turn when you need “Happy Birthday, Sam” spelled out on a red velvet cake in binary? Well, Tipsy Cake, of course. We can’t thank them enough for complying with our…
- Getting Real and Design
I’ve only known one method for approaching a Design project. There are many variations out there, but it can essentially be broken down into 4 steps: Discover, Plan,…
- Showing the difference between a 19" and 22" suitcase
What size rolling luggage to buy? Shopping at Amazon, it feels like a shot in the dark. Lots of closeups of handles and wheels, but what’s the difference between a 19” or 22” bag?…
- Using the EC2 environment for fewer moving parts
One highlight of Amazon’s EC2 is having a wide range of generally available services to help reduce moving parts. We store part of our cluster configuration in S3. The server…
- Are you sure you want to be in San Francisco?
Techies, VCs, and the press are always swooning over the glory of the Bay area. This is where all the excitement, the money, and the people are, they say. And that’s true to the…
- A peek at In/Out, an internal app at 37signals
For about the last year we’ve been using an internal app we developed called In/Out. This tool grew out of our need to keep track of what people are doing right now, plus the last…
- Question your work
A slide from my South by Southwest presentation: These are questions we ask each other before, during, and sometimes after we work on something. That something can be as small as…
- Fire the workaholics
Jason Calacanis wants you to save money for your startup, so he has come up with 17 tips on how. The intention is good. Working lean is great and means you probably won’t need…
- [Designed] Staircase bookshelf, ice hotel, walkstation, cupcakes, etc.
Polaroid frame A prototype for a digital picture frame that makes sure the familiar look of a Polaroid photo lives on. Staircase bookshelf A “secret staircase” made of English…
- The New Backpack's First 24 Hours
Yesterday’s big Backpack update was a huge success. It was the best day in Backpack’s history — even better than the last big update in July ‘07 and add anywhere in Oct ‘07. We…
- Ask 37signals: Why did you restart Highrise?
Johni Brown asks: Can you describe initial direction you took when developing Highrise, before you started over? How did it differ from today’s Highrise? What aspect of it were…
- Jason Fried discusses Highrise, red flag words, opinionated companies, and benevolent dictators
Jason Fried was recently interviewed on John Jantsch’s Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. We spent a fair amount of time discussing the workings of their newest offering, a CRM app…
- SEED almost sold out
Along with Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners and Carlos Segura of Segura Inc. and T.26, we’re again presenting a one-day conference on design, entrepreneurship and inspiration on…