I'll go first :)
Unknown: what differentiates new members who actively start using WIP and participate in the community, and members who join but never seem to get the hang of it.
How to find out: talk to early new members, track how active they are, and try to understand their differences
When I do know: I can help more members to be successful in adopting WIP (if it's something I can control), and/or target my marketing towards people who are the right fit for WIP join (if it's something I cannot control)
Biggest unknown: How hire managers decide which job boards to post to.
How to find out: Ask them. Reach out to a few through LinkedIn/etc and set up calls. Incentivise with gift certificate or something if needed.
When I do know: Decide on next steps to get more hire managers to post on Startup Jobs
Unknown: What makes for the most interesting startups for our audience
How to find out: Look at metrics. See which startups get most engagement
When I do know: Focus our site/newsletter/etc on those startups instead. Increase signal to noise ratio. Increases engagement. Which makes BetaList more valuable to qualifying startups, and advertisers.
I joined very recently and plan to stay very active and engaged :)
My first impression of WIP was through a post on HackerNews about a year (or two?) ago. A successful startup posted their story, and mentioned that they couldn't have done it without the supportive community on WIP.chat. I'm all about supportive communities, so I immediately bookmarked the site and kind of forgot about it for a while.
Fast forward to life in quarantine. I have a ton of extra free time on my hands, so now I'm finally going after the businesses that I've been wanting to create. I remembered WIP.chat from the HackerNews post and immediately signed up. Isolation has been tough, so having like-minded people talking about entrepreneurship has been really helpful.
Yes, Zapier integration would be very useful for a bunch of things. Definitely want to add this at some point.
RSS would be quicker to implement. But there's a bunch of different ways to implement it. And people might have different preferences depending on the integration they want to build.
I'll give this some thought the coming days. Feel free to ping me in a week to check the status.
Yeah hiding sensitive stuff like API credentials is tricky. The simplest solution is to only work on stuff where the likelihood of exposing such things is low. (i.e. nothing involving API usage, production data, etc)
I use Custom hotkeys to change screens on the fly. So if I am looking at something that shouldn't be shown, I hide my screen temporarily.
And when its about using that sensitive bit in code, put that into a flat file somewhere and just read from it in code while you work on it on-stream. Easy fix! :)
Love the light setup. Do you do any Twitch streaming as well?
Not at the moment, but I'd love to get into it. Having a stream where people can follow my coding process sounds like fun, but I'd have to figure out how to hide sensitive information
Yeah hiding sensitive stuff like API credentials is tricky. The simplest solution is to only work on stuff where the likelihood of exposing such things is low. (i.e. nothing involving API usage, production data, etc)
I use Custom hotkeys to change screens on the fly. So if I am looking at something that shouldn't be shown, I hide my screen temporarily.
And when its about using that sensitive bit in code, put that into a flat file somewhere and just read from it in code while you work on it on-stream. Easy fix! :)
That desk needs more stickers!
Absolutely. C’MON MARC SEND ME THOSE STICKERS! 😈
Hotel room in Eindhoven
Marcccc.. 😮 You always bring your iMac wherever you go? #SendMeThatSticker!
Haha. That's a good doggo. What's her/his name?
Gary :D