First Round
How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit
20+ min · · Superhuman founder and CEO Rahul Vohra walks us through the framework his startup used to make product/market fit more actionable, detailing the survey and four-step process that were key to measuring… · Shared by 1093, including Teresa Torres, Leo Polovets, Satya Patel, Ben Tossell, Niti Shree, Peter Hogenkamp, Marty Cagan, David Cancel, Bryan Harris, Thomas Power, Max Stoiber, Howard L Morgan, Tiago Forte, Charlene Li (she/her), Gianluca Diegoli, Peter Kazanjy, Mark Kaigwa, hiten.eth, Bill Trenchard, TK Kader
medium.com
What seven years at Airbnb taught me about building a company
13+ min · · In 2012, shortly after Airbnb acquired our startup, I overheard one of the co-founders (Joe Gebbia) giving guidance to a designer tasked… · Shared by 482, including Dominik Grolimund, Matt, Sachin Rekhi, Thomas Kaul, Leo Polovets, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Walid Ark, Tendayi Viki, hiten.eth, ErmanTaylan.eth, Matti Heubner
MIT Technology Review
We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next
9 min · · Our study of 25 years of artificial-intelligence research suggests the era of deep learning is coming to an end. · Shared by 284, including Garde Lecumberri, Alex Barrera, Luciano Floridi @lucianofloridi@mastodon.world, Gerd Leonhard, Kaggle, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Adrian Swinscoe, Josep M. Ganyet, Howard Getson, Herbert Bay, Kirk Borne, Mike Quindazzi, Thomas Power, Dominik Grolimund, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Bob E. Hayes, Ian M Calvert, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Chris Messina, Amber Mac
A List Apart
The Psychology of Design
20+ min · · Jon Yablonski explains three key theories of psychology that designers can use to build more intuitive, human-centered products. · Shared by 278, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Ceferino Díaz, Victor Tolosa, Christian P. Stobbe, Gabrielle Mendoza, Liv 😷, Ines Bieler, David Hellmann, Oscar MacDonald, Tanner Chapman, Michael Duergner, Dominik Grolimund, Simone Corsi 💻🚀, Benoist Lawniczak, Mike Taylor, Michelle Boisson, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Charles Baldwin, Sérgio Vieira, Niklaus Gerber
Zack Kanter
What is Amazon?
20+ min · · What exactly is Amazon? This is the question that has consumed me for the last ten years. I have sold to and bought from Amazon in about as many ways as one person can; I built an auto parts brand … · Shared by 171, including Alain, hiten.eth, Mark Kaigwa, kp, Abel Caballero Díaz, Josh Kopelman, Tiago Forte, Taylor Pearson, Patrick OShaughnessy, Ricky Yean, David Perell, Leo Polovets, Anand Sanwal, mdy, Phin Barnes, David Nagel, Arti Villa, Casey Winters
TechSpot
Machine-learning algorithm beats 20 lawyers in NDA legal analysis
3 min · · Most of the jobs that get displaced by computers or robots are menial labor that requires little or no education. However, now that machine learning algorithms are becoming more sophisticated, even highly educated positions could be replaced by automation. · Shared by 93, including Oliver Ewinger, Jorge Alcaín Pro, Niklaus Gerber, Yvette Dubel, Ste Davies, Massimiliano Aroffo, Britney Muller 🇺🇦
UX Collective
Gamification: A guide for designers to a misunderstood concept
7 min · · How to build a gamification system the right way and how Fitbit, Waze, and Duolingo use it to enhance their products. · Shared by 90, including Fabricio Teixeira, Esther Schindler, Martina Bürge, Bernhard Huessy, Nick Floro, Justin Mifsud, Mike Taylor, Charles Baldwin, Massimiliano Aroffo, Jelan Ong, Stephanie A Kowalski
medium.com
Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories
20+ min · · A new take on the age-old question: Should you rewrite from scratch, or is that “the worst strategic mistake you can make”? · Shared by 80, including DHH, Massimiliano Aroffo, Emerson Macedo, Oscar MacDonald, Scott Brinker, Kane Mar, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Clemens, Jorge David
Fast Company
Beyond Gmail: The new race to reinvent your inbox
7 min · · Meet three up-and-coming apps that promise to make email more modern, efficient, and effective.
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robwalling.com
Why You Should Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding
8 min · · Photo by DeclanTM This article is #7 in a series about startup marketing. The first 6 (not required before you read this one) are available here: part 1, part 2, · Shared by 57
Bloomberg
Terms of Service Violation
· Your usage has been flagged as a violation of our terms of service. For inquiries related to this message please contact support. For sales inquiries, please visit… · Shared by 55, including William El Kaim, jérémie Flück, Marko Saric, Thomas Power, Anthony Hamelle, Nicolas Granatino🌻, zeynep tufekci
WIRED
Google's Human-Sounding Phone Bot Comes to the Pixel
5 min · · The bot, which speaks with uncanny speech disfluencies like "um" and "umm-hmm," will be made available on the company’s Pixel smartphones before the end of the year, in New York, Atlanta, Phoenix, and… · Shared by 48, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Vincent Terrasi, Julian de Keijzer, Chris Messina
qifi.org
pure JS WiFi QR Code Generator
1 min · · About Ever wanted to create a cool QR code for your guests? But never wanted to type in your WiFi credentials into a form that submits them to a remote webserver to render the QR code? QiFi for the… · Shared by 46, including masone, Marcos, Elijah Manor, jessewilson, Craig Mod, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Fabrizio Bianchi, Mike Ivars, Ouriel @Zengo, Jeff Atwood
BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed In 2020
9 min · · How we will continue to transform our business · Shared by 35, including Konrad Weber, Marc Garriga, Richard MacManus, Florian Jungnikl-Gossy 🦋, Tendayi Viki, Board of Innovation, Thomas Knüwer, luis antónio santos
The Nation
‘The Great Hack’ Is Just Silicon Snake Oil
4 min · · Is Cambridge Analytica a magician of media manipulation—or the Theranos of political data? · Shared by 33, including douglas rushkoff, Nir Eyal, Carl Morris, Thomas Knüwer, Adrienne Fichter, Erick Mazer Yamashita
Real Life
Bundling and Unbundling — Real Life
8 min · · No goods or services are stand-alone · Shared by 29, including Mike Davidson, Kat, Sarah E. Brown, Fabricio Teixeira