Have you ever read any of the terms of service documents you agree to when you sign up to your favorite web apps? Of course you don’t. Those documents are tens, sometimes hundreds, of pages long. You sign away even your most basic of rights. They’re in legalise. Even if you could read them, it would take you all day! And you’d have to spend countless more hours just trying to understand the Read the article >>
For a company that makes a lot of noise about how the web should be blazing fast, Google has been awfully slow to address performance concerns in one of their flagship apps, Gmail. Sometimes conversations can take up to 20 seconds to load. Searches too. Sometimes they will not load at all and a vague “This conversation could not be loaded” message will appear in your browser. I’ve tried Read the article >>
I’ve written before about how, as Ignighter’s CTO, I log everything I can measure. This allows me to delve deep and gain insights about how folks are using our fledgling site. Since discovering a love of data in my professional life, I’ve cultivated a similar affinity for data around my personal habits. These 6 tools have helped me track financial, fitness, and health trends in my personal Read the article >>
One thing that hasn’t changed during the span of my time at Ignighter is the importance of our in-house analytics. Ever since our first lecture at Techstars 2008, when we were prodded to “obsess over core metrics”, we’ve been obsessed with our usage data. Having the right information on-demand is essential to being nimble in your decision making as a management team “If you aren’t measuring it, Read the article >>
I’ve been thinking how much things have changed lately at Ignighter. We’re starting to get some press, a bunch of daily registrations, and a bunch more messages piping through our once-rinky dating website. It’s beginning to feel like we’re not such a small startup anymore. When milestones like those pass, it really changes the way your team builds software. These days, I’m obsessed with building Read the article >>
I built a thing at startup weekend this past weekend. Here is a trailer that describes what it is:
You can only be as efficient as the tools around you allow you to be. The most recent change to my workstation is a standing desk. Standing 8+ hours / day is a big change. Aside from some exhaustion the first day, most of the changes have been positive so far. Here are some of the benefits: I’m strength training while I’m at work. You know that feeling when you’re exhausted at the end of the Read the article >>
Ignighter is hot off the heels of our Series A and is hiring part-time PHP developers in NYC. We’re a Venture-funded team of 6. We’re young, fun, we’ve got some rapid growth in our target market, but we’ve got a chip on our shoulders and a lot of work to do. We’ve been in the game for a few years, we earned our wings during Techstars Boulder 2008. Do I fit the profile? If you’re young, hungry, Read the article…
I love using tools like the Internet Archive to see what websites looked like years ago. Just for fun, take a trip in internet history with me: Each of these businesses are top 100 sites in the USA and have “grown up” in the past 10 years. Each screenshot is half “retro” and half “current” (either left/right or top/bottom). Click on a screenshot to see the comparison full-screen. Apple: 2000 Read the article >>
One of the amazing things about our human mind is that it enables the capacity of abstract thought. As software developers, we are taught to program computer systems. Doing so, we are learning to disembody ourselves from the physical everyday world of our lives and speak the language of bits and bytes, 0s and 1s. We use our capacity for abstract thought to put ourselves into a world where statements Read the article >>