I had a startup called lowpenny.com that was very similar to CarWoo (before CarWoo) except we charged the auto dealers to use our system instead of charging users which is what CarWoo did.
The process of buying a car needs to be disrupted but the solution is not apparent to me. Would love to know why CarWoo is calling it quits.
Ian, Braintree is inexpensive, I would recommend you bite the bullet and integrate with them from the start. If a customer is willing to invest their data with you or rely on your services then you should reciprocate and show your dedication by paying the monthly fee + transactions. Set it up and then focus on covering those costs by acquiring customers.
I don't consider Braintree to be inexpensive at all. But that's subjective, so let's get the facts out there. The monthly minimum I had to pay (minimum of fees) was $100, plus a $75 monthly fee. This is pretty expensive to me.
It would not surprise me if there was a correlation between the two. I was a professional recording musician (saxophone) before I was a professional programmer. Writing music can be like programming, however I don't think playing a written piece is similar at all. Lots of electronic musicians are programmers however. Joel Zimmerman (Deadmau5) was a web developer who initially created a house track to ridicule that genre of music and then discovered he had a talent when the song became popular in Europe. He still writes code that creates his music.
Depends on your product. A 37signals strategy would be to bootstrap it and charge for your product (works well with b2b). Or do what Facebook initially did which was start with no monetization strategy and scale it. I would say if you have a great idea in mind that you feel can drive millions of users to use your web-app, do not charge for it and raise money.
Yeah it looks like the people who actually posted analytics data in that post are backing up the claim that 1024x768 is no longer the gold standard even though it is still perceived that way..
I wouldn't be disregarding 20% of my users in a hurry.
I design more than I do backend stuff these days, and I don't think I'd even want to be designing much wider than 950px. More space can quickly mean more info and thus a more confused message for visitors.
Metaconginiton or as the author calls it, "thinking about thinking" sounds like intelligence to me.
Self-control is mentally controlling yourself. It takes an active, thinking, controlled mind to put off what is self-indulgence now for one's own greater good. This may be subjective but I find that most intelligent people are self-controlled by definition.
Metaconginiton or as the author calls it, "thinking about thinking" sounds like intelligence to me
It's usually used to refer to something more akin to self-awareness than raw horsepower. Noticing that you didn't understand a paragraph that you just read is something that some people have to learn later in life than others, for example. It may have to do with intelligence, but also probably motivation and cognitive skills.
The process of buying a car needs to be disrupted but the solution is not apparent to me. Would love to know why CarWoo is calling it quits.