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Entries from April 2007

Welcome, August

April 25th, 2007 · 4 Comments

I’m happy to announce that August Trometer is joining Recursive Function as a web developer. He’ll be spending most of his time working with me on software development. He hasn’t been here more than 20 hours yet and he’s already knee-deep in PHP code.
August was most recently working on his own creating cool [...]

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Tags: Business

Does your product pass the subway test?

April 10th, 2007 · 22 Comments

A few days ago a friend of mine posted his thoughts about 37signals and Basecamp, their flagship product. He mentions that users he’d signed up on his Basecamp account didn’t end up using it, and speculates that it’s because the application isn’t user-friendly. As evident from the comments, a number of other readers [...]

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Tags: Business

New office space

April 6th, 2007 · 4 Comments

I’m finally in some new office space, located just south of Castleton mall here in Indianapolis.
I’ve been working on this for the last couple months and it feels so good to finally get settled in. I’ll write more about the process later, but for now you’ll have to settle for pictures:

My desk, in desperate [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous

How much does it cost to build a web app?

April 2nd, 2007 · 3 Comments

I didn’t get a chance to go to SXSW, so have been happy to see slides that have come from some of the presentations. One of the more interesting ones was Barenaked App: The figures behind web apps. It’s an essential read for anyone who’s interested in building a web-based application for a [...]

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Tags: Business