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Re: Feedback Reply Notification

Brian McManus — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:12:00 -0000

Cool! Glad you noticed it and I hope you find it useful. I've had several users request this and it's something I've been wanting myself for awhile. Couldn't sleep last night so I just whipped it up and threw it out there!

Re: Feedback Reply Notification

sevatt — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:18:25 -0000

I noticed the "Feedback Reply Notification" today as I was about to submit some feedback. It made me question, "Is this new or have I been missing this?" Good job!

Re: Mixergy lets you learn from other entrepreneurs

Brian McManus — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:01:19 -0000

That's great Andrew, I'm glad you've found launchly useful!

Re: Pairing costs more money…

Brian McManus — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:00:20 -0000

Hmm, interesting idea but that would definitely make pairing slower than working solo! The other problem is I'm the only Ruby developer I know where I live haha.

Re: Pairing costs more money…

cjkihlbom — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:09:50 -0000

One great way to pair when you're the only employee is to find a friend in the same situation, and trade your time with each other. Pair together on your project for a week (or a day even) and then spend the same amount of time pairing on your friend's project.

Re: Mixergy lets you learn from other entrepreneurs

Andrew Warner — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:05:37 -0000

Thanks for the compliment. And thanks for great feedback I've been getting through Launchly.com. I'm making changes based on the input I'm getting there.

Re: BizConf – A Retrospective

Brian McManus — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:28:04 -0000

Yah I would highly recommend you do everything in your power to make it next year! The connections alone are worth the price of admission. Not to mention the freebies from the sponsors basically pay for the ticket if you use them (which I do)!

Re: BizConf – A Retrospective

Mike Ruby — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:08:27 -0000

Amazing! Yeah I was getting the same from Rails conf. This year due to launching out as an entrepreneur I couldn't have even if I wanted to (although it seems like it would have been a good idea regardless of my situation).

If it happens again next year, I'm in for sure!

Re: Launchly update teaser 4

Brian McManus — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:13:36 -0000

Thanks for the kind words Jacob! I agree that at the very least it would be nice if there was an SSO mechanism so that I could tie Disqus comments to a local user to harvest karma that way. I think an SSO solution would be fairly generally useful but a lot of the other stuff is, as you said, probably very limited in audience given their targeting of blogs.

I'm pretty happy with the new comment system anyways and I think having our own will give us the flexibility we need to meet your guys' needs! The feedback system is pretty much done now and I think we'll probably release that by itself early while we continue trying to nail down the community system. Hopefully with the community's feedback we'll get things to where they need to be to promote quality feedback for all of our launches.

Re: Launchly update teaser 4

jacobrothstein — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:16:06 -0000

Looks awesome!

Can't wait to see the details of the karma/reputation system; they're really behaviorally motivating when done right (hn, stack overflow).

It would be really neat if one of the third party comment systems (disqus, intensedebate) supported some sort of single-sign-on mechanism (https://uservoice.com/faq#sso), an easy comment access api and had a superset of features you might want (attachments, moderation, etc) with a nice set of defaults. Maybe that's too much to ask, though, if 99% of their demographic doesn't have those needs.

Keep up the awesome, Launchly!

Re: Your startup is NOT Field of Dreams

Bette — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:32:02 -0000

Lifes lessons!!