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  • Let’s see how our recent posts on Twitter from Kickofflabs are going… Oh… I see. #dumpsterfire #broken #failwhale

    Twitter error message.
    → 8:59 AM, Mar 6
  • You don’t always need to improve the product. You may need to improve the experience of using the product.

    The “experience” includes the help docs, how to videos, checkout, etc. it’s not limited to feature UX.

    → 8:43 AM, Mar 6
  • Build rails with VSCode?

    TIL you can use actually use VSCode debug tools to step through your apps.

    Very neat.

    blog.testdouble.com/talks/202…

    → 6:27 AM, Mar 6
  • Photo challenge “tile”. Umm it’s behind the beer.

    → 3:18 PM, Mar 5
  • People love looking for blueprints to success in product, business, marketing, etc

    Then they waste time copying the parts that don’t matter like specific UI, headlines, or button color.

    They miss the parts like talking to customers, delivering value, or good stories that made it a success story.

    → 9:02 AM, Mar 4
  • Sharing our new product intro once more with the YouTube link that will cross post better. :)

    youtu.be/0Lz9qU4L5…

    I still love it.

    → 10:26 AM, Mar 3
  • I love the new product intro for KickoffLabs, even if I can’t stand the sound of my voice. :)

    → 10:04 AM, Mar 3
  • Day 3: Lucy likes her #solitude getting back in bed after we’ve all gone to work and school.

    → 8:44 AM, Mar 3
  • For the Micro.blog photo challenge. Starting on day 2 with “weather”. This was #weather I could feel.

    Frozen beard selfie.
    → 6:24 AM, Mar 2
  • Draft script for kickofflabs home page video - feedback welcome

    Ok - I’m more than a couple hours into this. I do product demos all the time, but condensing it down to a single < 5 (and ideally less than 3) minute home page video is time-consuming.

    What do you think about what I have so far?


    KickoffLabs is an amazing audience growth platform that supports you and scales with your company.

    Here are just a few examples of how we help customers every day.

    B to C companies run bonus entry sweepstakes that turn existing customers into influencers with fun giveaways and contest marketing encouraging referrals.

    Startups and established brands build excitement around new product launches with Kickofflabs using viral waitlists where leads move up in line for early access with updated mechanics based on the launch of Robinhood.

    Milestone reward campaigns were made popular by the launch of Harry’s razor. Still, the basic psychology works for growing almost any list where by customers can unlock rewards for reaching referral counts or total points earned through contest actions like following, liking or promoting your content online.

    You can also use KickoffLabs for: Every day lead capture forms with optional coupon or digital download delivery. Learning more about your customers with a voting competition or asking them questions.

    Finally, there campaigns designed for growing specific social channels or verticals, like Kickstarter launches and subscription boxes.

    As a platform, Kickofflabs is flexible for your brand. You can customize the scoring mechanics for referrals, points earned through contest actions, both referrals & points, or no scoring for just basic lead capture.

    We have a library of over 50 contest actions, can track purchases made, and even reward custom events from your site or application, like taking a survey or attending a demo.

    You can run the campaign with our drag-and-drop landing page templates, pop-ups, and page embeds, or even just use our campaign Script or API to turn Any existing form into an engagement opportunity with 100% your own designs… even if it was built on another landing page service!

    In Addition To Platform Flexibility

    Every campaign is mobile responsive. We can store your leads as a lightweight CRM You get insights into how referrals are going and what actions your leads take Leads can be sent emails on signup or scoring milestones We can ensure the leads you collect are valid with multiple levels of automatic fraud detection mechanisms, like ensuring unique IP addresses, captcha, email, and phone number verifications.

    KickoffLabs is supported and scalable. Any good technology will be copied, but our goal is to support you through the process with professional 1:1 onboarding and proven scale to meet the needs of fortune 500 companies if that sounds like something you need.

    Signup for a free account now and kick the tires. We don’t require a credit card to get started. You can also learn more on our site at KickoffLabs.com.

    → 3:19 PM, Mar 1
  • Is demo script writing an all-day event or is that just me?

    → 3:15 PM, Mar 1
  • The last post on “dumb” features was inspired by this read on Duolingo’s growth: www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-duo…

    → 10:36 PM, Feb 28
  • Don’t sleep on “dumb” features if they bring joy. I once presented a reporting tool for the MSFT support community to a VP. A day later, he pulled me aside to talk about the reporting tool. His favorite feature: The “random question” we pulled to the home page. He just kept refreshing it to see more.

    → 10:34 PM, Feb 28
  • It’s been “Video Week” for me at KickoffLabs. In addition to updating tutorials I’m bringing back a popular “contest review” feature.

    I’m planning on doing a series of these. Let me know what you think.

    m.youtube.com/watch

    → 1:02 PM, Feb 28
  • You can only do so much to stop your customers from shooting themselves in the foot. Sometimes you just have to admit they must like it.

    → 9:58 AM, Feb 28
  • This is one of the biggest entrenched incumbent gifts to startups and competitors of all time.

    “Hey - we’re going to make you do a bunch of work to keep using a service that could have just kept working. There’s um, No need to look around at alternatives.”

    Google analytics saying you have to migrate to a new service by July 1st.
    → 9:30 AM, Feb 28
  • Do you need it to look a certain way or do you need results?

    → 8:23 AM, Feb 28
  • Do you need another feature or do you need better docs and training on existing ones?

    → 8:19 AM, Feb 28
  • At least this one wasn’t ME on TikTok.

    www.tiktok.com/@kickoffl…

    → 11:32 AM, Feb 27
  • I just posted a video on TikTok for Kickofflabs. God help me.

    → 11:27 AM, Feb 27
  • It’s always good to know a feature is well used even if you find out by fucking it up first.

    → 5:59 AM, Feb 27
  • Some thoughts on a modern Windows PC

    Got a windows laptop as a gaming/school PC for my oldest. First time in windows seriously for years for me. I have some thoughts.

    I got well reviewed medium/high end hardware and I like the aesthetics. Asus Rog 14

    14” is a great size for what my son needs and it’s not a monster at under 4lbs.

    The trackpad experience is trash compared to MacBooks that cost less. It feels terrible and even with the touch sensitivity turned way down I can’t scroll without two finger right clicking.

    The fact a touchpad has a right click is just evil since you can’t physically see/feel it.

    Logging into windows defaults to using your Microsoft account. Ok… but it takes 5 seconds to load the login and another 5-10 to verify you. Does this stuff not come up in performance testing as lag?

    The parental experience is also rubbish. Can’t share a Game Pass account with your family. Each one is told they have to buy their own games. Kids accidentally bought Minecraft for a 3rd time. Maybe that’s the point? It’s not even a higher priced option to share GamePass.

    Found a hack that said you can log into the windows store with the main account under your kids log-in.

    Lost an hour with that edge case. When I go to log in to the store it asks for my “security pin”. It says my pin is wrong. Go back and forth for a while until you realize it wants your kids security pin… but it’s clearly asking for yours. The kids pin worked… while it asked for mine. No one has really tested this experience.

    The screen on this thing is great.

    Windows 11 has a pleasant look, but OMG some of the icons look like they were ripped straight fro95 and scream like Mick Jagger asking you to start him up.

    The Steam game store doesn’t make it obvious, but you can share your game library with up to 5 people! Sweet. Just have to “enable steam guard”. Log into other accounts first and request access. Can’t just give access to an email address.

    Windows mail claims it connects to iCloud email. It does not.

    I like the keyboard on this better than some Mac keyboards.

    The fan noise could drown out Mick Jagger.

    Tried to buy Kerbal Space Program 2 through their choice of online store.. XSolla. Was getting an error message. Contacted support. They claimed I had issued a chargeback on their service for $5.57 four years ago and therefore block me (and my IP address now) from buying anything. They would unblock me if I emailed them that bank statement from 4 years ago and told my bank the 5.57 was not fraud. Thanks, but no thanks. Steam to the rescue again. People want apple to open up more app stores… wait till they get that experience.

    I would totally miss iMessages.

    Now that the basic setup is done it seems to be running smoothly and the gaming is much more diverse than on a Mac.

    I just hope I don’t have to enter my password 100 more times in the next week for more tech support.

    → 6:36 AM, Feb 26
  • I saw the question posted so I have to answer.

    There is no such thing as a “lightweight” Wordpress theme.

    → 6:07 AM, Feb 26
  • The kids and I will sometimes do a “build challenge” in Minecraft where we all do a part of a scene with walls so we can’t see what each other is doing until the reveal. Todays challenge: A bridge.

    → 9:32 PM, Feb 25
  • So this… exists.

    Bigfoot petting a raccoon.
    → 5:53 PM, Feb 22
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