what is the biggest change you see in people's mindsets after reading hooked or attending one of your workshops? By people I mean founders or other product people
One of my favorite things to see after a workshop or hear someone tell me after they've read the book is that now they understand what's missing in their product. Finally, they know what to do next!
At my last company, we constantly struggled with the question "what should we build? What features matter?" With Hooked, I wanted to make a guide book to help product makers prioritize based on the psychological principles of what drives user engagement.
Note - there were plenty of other amazing talks at the summit. But I could only pick a few to mention here in order to condense the post into something that fit around the framework of the Hooked Model.
This is advice aimed at people with a business background that still think they need a "tech guy" to get anywhere with their startup idea. Show this to all your friends bugging you to quit your job to work for equity (aka free) at their "great" (and unproven) idea.
I have a Prime, and I remember going through all the available apps ~6 months ago and uninstalling them all.
They were either bad apps in general or were potentially nice phone-sized apps with no optimisation done for tablets. When I say optimisation I'm referring to both the UI layout and the general rendering performance. For some reason (I'm not an android dev) certain apps have performance issues that scale with your pixel count (I guess they are hand-rendering things themselves and simply Doing It Wrong) and make them unusable.
I can't remember which though, so I'll install your top two when I get home (~8-10hrs) and report back.
Thanks! Looking forward to hear your results. If any of them works well on your Prime, could you email me some screenshots? thomas at kjemperud dot net
Gah! So, I tried your top three and im sorry to report it's a trifecta of failure: Hacker News Beta renders really s
owly, Hacker News Android performs well but doesn't support landscape (it stays in profile) and Hacker News Droid performs Ok, rotates in landscape but without a useful or optimised layout, and as you state doesn't let you log in.
It's true that I haven't used all of the apps for a long period of time. Hacker News Droid is the one I've been using the most, but sadly it hasn't stayed up to date compared with some of the competition. By the way, I just added Hacker News Android to the comparison. It is really beautiful and functional, and seems like a great choice if you're running ICS or above. It might also be slightly unstable though, and I had to log in before it would load the front page. Still, it's worth a look :)
