"I don’t need every customer. I’m primarily in the business of selling a product for money. How much effort do I really want to devote to satisfying people who are unable or extremely unlikely to pay for anything?" -- Marco Arment, on Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation
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Design by Committee Video: Hilarious but true
A very clever and funny video depicting the oh-so-common design process that involves a lot of people, a.k.a Design by Committee. Background: Design by Committee usually consists of a designer and a group of people (usually clients) who seemingly do not communicate with each other. This process is usually accompanied by a flurry of additional features that were never mentioned in the requirements gathering phase, and it goes on throughout the life cycle of the design phase. This process usually happens because ... read more