Nice article. I think its important to combine both qualitative and quantitative data when analyzing the reaction of your readers. Google Analytics is a great tool for interpreting user data into insights, but often times its better to talk to your audience directly to find out what they really think.
Machine Learning by Andrew Ng on Coursera is the best MOOC I've taken so far. It has great explanations on complex topics, fun activities, and a really well put together curriculum on machine learning.
Interesting idea. So it's essentially a marketplace for connecting business owners with a side project to marketers? What makes it different from a freelance platform?
The app is basically a place for developers and sales to get together and help each other out. Developers are constantly working on side projects, it's just how we operate. Constantly creating and building cool things we want to see in the world. These side projects too often get put on the shelf, never used. This is what I call the github graveyard.
This app isn't so much to "find someone to do a job for me", "find the perfect co-founder", or to "build a company" like so many apps out there already do. The goal of this app is to bring to life the projects on the shelf. To revive the github graveyard, and maybe make some extra cash while you do it.
There are so many great ideas just sitting, unused because developers simply don't have the time/motivation to go out and sell the thing. After all, we have side projects for the love of building. Not the love of selling and marketing.
From a sales perspective, you get access to great products with sales potential.
From the dev perspective, it gives your project a chance to live while granting them the luxury of being able to focus on building (not sales).
Both parties have an opportunity to make a good chunk of change on the side.
"91% of customers want to hear from the companies they do business with." sounds like a bit of an exaggeration, but I agree - email marketing is still a powerful tool for engaging audiences. Looking forward to seeing how it evolves in the next couple of years.
