Whatsapp is great and the numbers speak for themselves, but I think that promoting the $0 marketing spend brings a wrong notion to consumer facing startups. Usually it's ok to spend here and there to get your initial user base or to learn about your product/market fit. Otherwise you're just relying on blind luck.
App Store app management (approval, updates, etc.) is a pain in the ass.
If you're building a social app then nowadays you almost MUST have both iOS & Android out of the box otherwise you're hurting any potential network effect.
That depends on who your opponent is. Against inexperienced players, projecting confidence can sometimes make them miss the fact that you made a mistake. However, against strong experienced players they will almost always notice and take advantage of mistakes, confidence and psychology will not factor into it.
Notice, for example, how the top AI players are now pretty much unbeatable by humans. They don't make use of any psychological tricks but play purely rationally -- read up about min-max and decision/game theory for a general framework for how such AI is written.
Yes, obviously you need to be smart to play chess. But on the professional level they are all very smart and capable people. So it's not only about being smart but also understanding who you're facing and how you can crash his mind.
Actually I did and still am.
And I have a 9 years old kid studying & playing 4 times a week.
I also met a few professional chess players in my life and talked to them about chess.
That's interesting. In contrast, some people, for example, me, tend toward overconfidence in chess.
Specifically, I'm more likely to lose the first (speed-chess) game of the day, especially if I have not played for a few days, than to lose subsequent games because until I have the cold water of reality splashed in my face, I tend not to put in enough mental effort!
Feeling confident, in other words, makes me relax, which is great at a party, but exactly the wrong thing when I am playing chess (or doing math or debugging a program).
(Specifically, I use the fear of losing or anger at just having lost a game to create enough tension for me to play chess well. By "tension" I refer to activation of my sympathetic nervous system, i.e., what is informally referred to as "adrenalin".)
When I am carrying enough tension to play chess to my potential, I tend to get pessimistic -- with the result that I resign a game every now and then that I should have continued, but that effect is very small compared to the (opposite) effect of my underestimating the amount of mental effort required to win.
I'd be interesting in hearing more about how chess is for you (or your 9-yo kid).
The title is misleading - instead of showing examples of websites using Webbify you're requiring us to login with Facebook without understanding why and what exactly will we get out of it.
You should show some live examples and add a non facebook way to login (even better, require login only after the user has set his first website and just before he needs to save it)
it's true but you also need to be careful from the "friendly-but-not-investing-angel" syndrome.
This guy becomes someone who gives you good advices and connects you to other angels, but since you're so much fixed in his mind on the "help-me-I'm-clueless" position, he will never invest, and it will send a bad signal to his fellow angels.
so, do ask for advice, but don't make yourself look too desperate and unconfident.
Agree. However, a good side effect of being out there, talking to angels etc., is that you build up a gut feeling, so you learn whether conversations are going somewhere or not. Hopefully, over time, you won't stay clueless ;)
Not at all, but I won't be doing it I guess. If you'd like to pick this up, logic is out there. It has a bit of manual work for getting SKU numbers of products but I'm pretty sure it is doable.
