Alex Dong

"I’m guessing if you talked to folks at Blogger or WordPress (see disclosure), they’d say the numbers are bigger than ever, which makes it a difficult case to say classic blogging is gone.I think what’s changed is that “blogging as we knew it” is no longer the easiest way to express oneself online, so it is not the choice for the most casual users. You have to be a bit more dedicated to blog than to tweet or post on [Facebook] now and then. Maybe that means the active blogging user base is only tens of millions of people, globally, instead of hundreds of millions for these other services." - Alex Dong from Bookmarklet

"It’s interesting to note that you can apply the distinction to whole products or to individual features. It helps me to have these pictures because they affect how I estimate the work. Icebergs are notoriously difficult to estimate. You have to really understand how the code is factored into different concerns in order to guess at how long each piece will take to build. Layer cakes are much easier because you can roughly estimate them by looking at the surface area of the UI." - Alex Dong from Bookmarklet

"We all know that much of early-stage technology startup success comes from execution and often what you’re working on today will be rolled out more seriously over the next several months. So I recommend that companies talk in detail about the puck at their feet but avoid talking about where the puck is going. While all your competitors are trying to copy your model, you’re already on to the next thing on your engineering team." - Alex Dong from Bookmarklet

Re. Puck. Totally. It's really clear that people want a way to search links they shared on twitter, and people want to better bookmarking tool. "The idea is having his own mind". - Alex Dong

For a MVP product, do we need a reset password feature? "Wrong question". Features can be different sizes with more or less complexity, but quality of experience should be constant across all features. That constant quality of experience is what gives your customers trust. It demonstrates to them that whatever you build, you build well. - Alex Dong from Bookmarklet

在于讨论动态语言使用过程中，关于质量控制的必要性，以及其引发的性价比方面的争议。 - Alex Dong