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@staycassiopeia thanks Brandon!

Why a customer considers switching to a new product.

(And why they decide not to)
http://buff.ly/1dSU7Zy

@asmartbear wow. You nailed it in "The unprofitable SaaS business model trap". Well written; well done!

@bmoesta whoa just got a flood of tweets from you all at once; did you mean to do that, or is it a tweet scheduling problem?

Is anyone out there using retargeting ads to ask people why they didn't sign up to your app?

@kdnewton welcome home!

Fascinating: "there’s a long list of vital innovations that have failed to catch on. The puzzle is why" http://buff.ly/18zcS7j

@danmartell my fave: "meanest thing you can do is give good software for free"

@chrisfosterelli sweet!

"Involve [your people] in projects that matter and ignite a fire of urgency about your purpose." - @dhh http://buff.ly/13xRaf7

@brechtify @syewell I recommend WPengine. I've never had a site go down because of traffic. Worth the extra money. http://productpeople.tv/wpengine

Chuck E. Cheese is a Silicon Valley startup http://buff.ly/18yVrnr

“A Product Manager’s Job” by @joshelman https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/63c09a43d0ec

@robwalling @brechtify @syewell site looks down?

@patio11 I think I just liked the idea of a secret backdoor subdomain. ;)

Every web app should have a secret backdoor so that curious industry folks can look without messing analytics.
ie. curious.domain .com

@raspberrysarah when I smile and wink at men they act awkward and run away.

@DCLVentures thanks!

@alvinchoo have you had personal experience with this one?

;)

@evangoldin you know it!

I think it's time for you to immigrate.

@wojp thanks!

Last night: @strikermetal ripped my face off http://instagram.com/p/cCEcI4jocc/

@justjoshinyah yup ;)

Parenthood http://instagram.com/p/cAwb-gDoTk/

Death Irish metal https://vine.co/v/hmLe2Ind9ML

Armstrong Metal Fest http://instagram.com/p/b_8hGMjoUf/

@jacob_weber thanks Jacob!

@TrentWalton thanks man!

@valoni thanks!

Metal Fest https://vine.co/v/hmxBQOqL2np

@drake_baer shoot. Not right now (unless you email me)

@kylefox one thing that impressed me when I spent the day at 37signals: their internal tools were really well crafted.

@micadams sweet! Do you have a launch list going?

Spider-Man parental abuse https://vine.co/v/hmwXKQ5uUxO

@micadams nice! Want to give me a sneak peek?

@LeylandJacob we have the entire team on @sprintly; that's where you get the most value because the whole company can see the dev process.

2 things you learn when you ask people to pay:

1) Whether people will pay
2) Whether you want a biz where those ppl are your customers

@AshleyMJacobsen thanks!

@asmartbear thanks for retweeting me. ;)

I'd love to have you on the @productpeopletv podcast sometime. You interested?

@percyhanna that's a good point. Never thought about it like that. ;) Great visual.

"I actually prefer to pull my phone out of my pocket. It's less awkward than looking up [at Google Glass]" http://buff.ly/18qz0AD

RT @MattGoldman_SD: I just published “How we Went from Zero Audience to Over a Thousand Beta Signups” https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/63fa3e5603b Thanks @aaron…

@patio11 @brennandunn have either of you guys tried Myna yet? https://mynaweb.com/

Maybe "We NEED to do this" is too forceful.

I wonder if "Could we do this?" is better.

"Monetization can’t be an afterthought when it comes to startups" - @petecochrane http://buff.ly/12IUOTC

It seems "the meanest thing you can do on the Internet is to give really good software for free" http://buff.ly/16KGzeE

via @joestump

"Nobody seems to want to make money any more" - @msuster http://buff.ly/12LUNtu

@joelgascoigne @buffer Buffer feature idea:

"Restraint is critical" http://buff.ly/12LOHtc

If you're a fan of Letterman, you've got to hear Alec Baldwin's interview with him here http://buff.ly/1dF8Y9M

@pjrvs wow. I'd be interested to hear how those @getmoreclarity calls work out.

Bridge to a wish http://instagram.com/p/b4bpLcjofu/

@medium these "Read" and "Recs" summary stats seem wrong in my account.

"Right now, influence is best achieved through writing" http://buff.ly/193myq7

@kylefox drinking coffee and pooping mostly.

@dustin this should work.

Sales or Die - great post from @spencerfry
http://buff.ly/10ZxEra

@iChris yup, for dev work in a team, I haven't found anything better than @sprintly

@jasonfried is this the guy you grew up with? The one that plays AC/DC on the violin?

@temafrank shhhh. Don't tell anyone it's fake! ;)

@IanGertler I'd say your #1 challenge will be sales related (not feature related).

Getting people to switch is hard. Value must be > pain.

@IanGertler I haven't. 37signals has us locked in with Basecamp + Highrise + Campfire (in the suite). Switching costs too high.

Someone just asked me what our top 3 "indispensable" SaaS apps are. Probably these:
1. Google Apps
2. http://Desk.com
3. @sprintly

@brettg98 for me as a product manager? @sprintly for sure. For us as a company our top 3 are probably:
1. Google Apps
2. Desk
3. Sprintly

@scottharveyco Here's the list off the top of my head:
1. @sprintly
2. KISSmetrics
3. Basecamp
4. Highrise
5. Campfire
6. @buffer

@stevetsuida in my case it's beer + coffee.

@jackdempsey it depends. I get @sprintly summaries at the end of every day, and those are helpful

But a weekly analytics report would be A+

Hardest part about selling software for people that like to develop software:

Technical challenge ≠ more sales

@AshleyMJacobsen ;)

@joestump I wanted to start a podcast called Startup Rainbow along these very lines.

@JohnKamal thanks John!

I use a lot of SaaS apps.

The #1 thing I want from most of them are useful summary reports sent to my inbox.

Soda pop sales are falling world wide. http://buff.ly/1blOQwP

@BenIllustrator thanks for sharing my post Ben!

@heycuchi #2? ;)

@LeifJohnson when you're looking to buy something, ads make sense. This is where Google rules. On Facebook, you're not searching to buy.

@kevinhorek when you're looking to buy something, ads make sense.

This is where Google rules. On Facebook, you're not searching to buy.

@spencerfry can you DM me your email address? I'd like to talk to you about doing an interview on Product People.

Two differences between Facebook and Google:
1. People don't mind seeing ads on Google
2. Google makes money (see #1)

@nathanbarry yes, I was glad to see you switch to portrait with Authority. ;)

@pjrvs me too.

@nathanbarry so many of those templates are landscape (which I find terrible for the iPad). Did anyone else complain about landscape?

@thomasfuchs Cloud-to-butt https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt

@medium any plans on adding referral data to your stats dashboard?

@kdnewton haha

@hoydb thank you!

@adampatterson we're rocking Maiden in our basement right now!

"Exceptional companies drive revenue through higher prices" http://buff.ly/1dAL7YU

cc @patio11

@jasonfried did you discover that through some #jtbd interviews?

@noahhlo has your experience with prices ending in "9" been different than these studies at MIT? http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1023581927405

@iChris yup. It was something @rrhoover ran by us while we were preparing to release last week's @StartupEdition.

Cool: @umanoapp hired a professional, and recorded an audio version of my blog post: http://buff.ly/1dAxNnx

Great idea @startupedition!

@hover I believe @jmetzendorf said "creppy upselling" which is the practice of getting people to buy crêpes with their domain order. ;)

@ChelseAdams thanks Chelsea!

This study examined why some ideas go viral. They found: the brain makes an instant (millisecond) judgment call. http://buff.ly/18YYbd4

@joseloya thanks!

@98c thanks for sharing it William!

@Malarkey I'm in!

@AshleyMJacobsen haha. Most of it. ;)

@loshopgirl thanks for sharing my post!