Usually they call it a convenience fee or something like that, basically recognizing that certainty and not having to talk with people are worth a lot to many people.
I won't report bugs in paid software/services because it's not my job, I'm not paid for it, I'm user of the service, not free workforce so they can reduce amount of QA staff or skip it completely. Give me a discount and then maybe, just maybe I'll think twice about reporting something.
Bugs renders your soft unusable? Fine, there is plenty of competition out there who will do it right.
A clickable link with a form (partially pre-filled) and a big banner that says if the bug is verified I get 10-25% off something AND a followup email (reiterating the offer) + tracking link, would motivate most people I know.
I've worked with people who uttered this phrase many times. You really should put this on your CV because it's an incredibly helpful indicator of character trait.
I tell my customers that they should spend 1hr per month “improving the vendor”.
See, if you rely on a vendor, then you need them to survive. It’s a parasite-host relationship. You need to tell them what you need, and oftentimes they will bend the roadmap in favour of the most demanded features. Alternatives:
- They choose their most amusing feature,
- They choose the most lucrative feature among the new possible markets while ignoring all bugs, which is the most rational way to address bugs unfortunately,
- You don’t tell them, they don’t improve, they die / they triple the price of the product by lack of audience, and you have to migrate your data to another product.
Nice, I hope you are spending 1h per month for each customer as well advising them how the can get the most out of your service and/or improve their integration - otherwise it would seem like you are expecting unpaid work from your customers, which is ridiculous.
I hired a house cleaner. I didn't tell them what to do because figuring that out is their job. They didn't do the things I wanted and they even missed some spots on what they did do. I didn't tell them about that either. It's they're job. So I fired them and switched to another. Repeat. Maybe eventually one of them will figure it out.
You hired a house cleaner, you told him everything he needs to know, he did a good job. Next time unfortunately he arrives with broken vacuum cleaner, he has another one, smaller, less powerful takes him longer to do the job but it's still done, not spotless but it's fine, he is a nice guy, has good attitude.
Another time and he arrives with faulty steam cleaner, again , work is done but takes longer, not ideal outcome. This is happening again and again, he even asks you sometimes to wiggle the cord, push some buttons and try to troubleshot, you know, improving the vendor and stuff.
You are joking but there is something unsettling to me in how this guy builds his own image. I mean, everyone, especially in professional environment presents some kind of persona instead of authentic "self", he seems to be deliberately constructing his own based of bunch of videogames - I suppose there is nothing wrong with that but still, taking into account type of business he and his company is involved in - it feels wrong to some degree.
Very weird article, so he watched like 10 clips and invested 10 minutes and then proceeds to write "what happened when offline person tried tiktok" - how is this even serious? On the other hand 1st paragraph of the article brags about his anti social media stance and how he turned it into sort of side-hustle so probably this article is carefully crafted to be clickbait and at same time not taint anti-social-media-person image.
I feel much more time and effort was put into arranging words(2290 words per `wc -w`) than collecting data or asking actual addicted users
Also I don't agree with people being more tolerant towards individuals who ditched social media. In my social circle, you either can't convince people not to use facebook to send you messages or convincing them will be short-lived. You will look weird and closer people(i.e. friends) will directly ask what's wrong with you
I think they don't care at all, this is just signalling, different camp has the power to rule the country now and suddenly all of them are changing their minds
> Nothing like this will be added to the product. Money comes from scraping content and thus content will be scrapped regardless any non-scrapping hints and we will be actively working on countering anti-scraping measures.
Changing baby diapers everyday for a year and knowing the process and at the same time looking at the video of state of the art robot moving parts between shelves I'm pretty sure that this solution is in a Sci-Fi (or Sci-Fi-horror) realm for a long long time.
That is valuable as well, in some places car mechanics could be eager to let's say make repairs more costly than needed
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