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Re: The Best $1,000 Projector

Colin Nederkoorn — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 01:48:34 -0000

Thanks for confirming it should work! It may have just been a faulty unit. Swapped it for the HT2050.

Re: The Best $1,000 Projector

Colin Nederkoorn — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 01:47:30 -0000

Hmmm... this was in an office setting and multiple people tried with their MB Pros. It might just be a compatibility issue between a MB Pro and the 1075. MB Pro and HT2050 work great. And other HDMI sources and the 1075 worked fine.

Thanks for confirming!

Re: The Best $1,000 Projector

Colin Nederkoorn — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 01:45:10 -0000

We replaced the the HT1075 with the HT2050 and it works perfectly too. Thanks for testing!

Re: The Best $1,000 Projector

Colin Nederkoorn — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:48:44 -0000

Hey Wirecutter!

One big gotcha on the HD1075 is that it doesn't work for:

- HDMI cable direct out from a Macbook Pro : Doesn't work
- HDMI cable from a Minidisplay port converter out of a Macbook Pro: Doesn't work

However, HDMI cable from Apple TV works just fine.

That's a big issue for people who want to use this with their computer.

Re: There are two types of cities

Colin Nederkoorn — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:03:12 -0000

If the place has the Trailer Park Boys stopping through, it's probably a good town... even if it doesn't have a symphony!

Re: The rise of the minor city

Colin Nederkoorn — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 13:29:19 -0000

Jason, thanks for sharing! I've never been to Asheville, but I've heard about it from multiple people. There's a big difference between a "Large town" (which asheville sounds more like) and a small city.

I think your theory makes a lot of sense. A nice town where the demographic skews older and more established means people are probably less social and there are fewer activities. Austin is an amazing city for culture and nightlife.

What minor city are you in now?

Re: Introducing Goals for iDoneThis

Colin Nederkoorn — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:22:41 -0000

Awesome new approach to "To-dos". I think a big of part of productivity is to feel like you're in control. Typical to-do applications make you feel really good the day you organize your life, and then all of those things are just extra weight on your shoulders.

I love the idea of picking what's important at the beginning of every day.

Re: Ikea standing desk for $489

Colin Nederkoorn — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 02:18:02 -0000

It looks like Ikea pulled all the sit-stand desks in the past day or two. Maybe they'll come back? I dunno.

Re: Concierge onboarding doubled our conversion rate to paid in July

Colin Nederkoorn — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:16:22 -0000

Hey Andrew, I'm happy to share our emails - shoot me a message colin@customer.io

Re: Ikea standing desk for $489

Colin Nederkoorn — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:42:50 -0000

I bought this from a local supplier.

Here's the manufacturer:
http://ergocontractfurnitur...

Here's the local company I purchased from.
http://gfspdx.com/products/...

If you're in Seattle, they might even ship to you since they're in Portland.

Re: Wearing a uniform

Colin Nederkoorn — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:57:07 -0000

Heya aaron, the jeans I usually buy are Gap Straight Jeans in various colors, I like the Mossimo v-necks from Target for about $10 each and the shoes are Vans custom with a color scheme I picked.

Re: Opting out of the razorblade industrial complex

Colin Nederkoorn — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 22:15:52 -0000

Hey Lance, thanks for the comment!

I suspect that for shaving your head, a gillette style razor is probably easier to avoid accidentally cutting yourself. One thing to check out is something like Harry's - harrys.com. I didn't mention them, but I'm a big fan of their company (even though I don't personally use the products).

I usually use amazon to benchmark prices, but ebay in bulk for a mach 3 or whatever is not the current generation would work well.

Re: Verizon made an enemy tonight

Colin Nederkoorn — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:57:58 -0000

Unfortunately you can't do this with the verizon router. I'm pretty sure they wont allow you set up a vpn client on the router. You could plug another router in to the verizon one. Or replace it totally. The stream is now maxed out 1080p with 5.1 sound where available. Pretty sweet.

Re: Verizon made an enemy tonight

Colin Nederkoorn — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:49:08 -0000

Sure! I'll update the doc. The easiest way is to download an OVPN file from this page.

https://www.goldenfrog.com/...

You can upload it to the router and that configures everything except your user name and password.

Re: Verizon made an enemy tonight

Colin Nederkoorn — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:28:12 -0000

My friend was just in Bulgaria traveling and working. He said he was really impressed by the high speed internet availability. Every coffee shop had an excellent connection.

Re: Verizon made an enemy tonight

Colin Nederkoorn — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 22:23:22 -0000

In many ways I wish you didn't have the same experience as me, but at least there's a solution. The super fast advertised speeds are kind of a waste if you're not going to get them on the things that actually can use them :/

Re: Verizon made an enemy tonight

Colin Nederkoorn — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 20:55:40 -0000

Ah. I missed that bit. I don't have triple play so completely replaced the router:

This info tells you how to use an ethernet cable rather than coax for the router.
http://www.dslreports.com/f...

Re: Verizon made an enemy tonight

Colin Nederkoorn — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:46:31 -0000

Hey Chris, I don't have TV service through them. I end up paying more for my internet connection rather than getting the triple play junk. My understanding was that even though it's cheaper for me, they use their subscriber numbers as a bargaining chip in content negotiations. I have no interest in being a bargaining chip and just wanted fast internet anyway.

Re: Verizon made an enemy tonight

Colin Nederkoorn — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:45:00 -0000

Give it a shot with Youtube. I've noticed huge improvements there too.

Re: Verizon made an enemy tonight

Colin Nederkoorn — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:43:50 -0000

You're totally right. I think the limitation is with Mac + Silverlight. On a windows machine or on the dedicated netflix apps you can go faster.

Re: What's your conversion rate from trial to paid

Colin Nederkoorn — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:55:16 -0000

Thanks for the smart feedback guys! The two places we could "do it for them" are integrating our tracking code, and creating a few campaigns (with copywriting).

Writing and committing code to someone else's codebase seems like it could create a situation where people are scared to make changes. I'm on the fence about copywriting.

Thinking about it as "guided set up" is great. Now to get people beyond wanting a demo to the point that they're setting things up :).

Re: What's your conversion rate from trial to paid

Colin Nederkoorn — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:34:54 -0000

Thanks Samuel.

You're right that it's great for pre-market fit companies too. Our first 20 or so customers had the full concierge experience -- mostly because the product was barely usable back then. Over time I scaled back the amount of interaction we were offering to new signups to barely none which is where we are today. We have a lot of work to do on the automated experience, and I hope the learning from this experiment will make that a lot better!

Re: What's your conversion rate from trial to paid

Colin Nederkoorn — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:31:33 -0000

"help them stay committed to the product since they have invested both time and money"

I've been thinking about how financial commitments make people value something more. Many companies give out information for free. "Come get a free ebook on X"! Those free giveaways could have information that would print your business money, but people won't necessarily try and implement it.

On the other hand, if someone put down $100 for the same ebook, then there's a much higher likelihood that a.) They'll value the advice, and b.) They'll take it!

I think there's something to charging for onboarding as a way to weed out unserious companies and to get people who do it more committed to the product long term.

Thanks for sharing what you're doing!

Re: When is it ok to send an email without an unsubscribe link?

Colin Nederkoorn — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:28:00 -0000

Jen, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the feedback.

Re: When is it ok to send an email without an unsubscribe link?

Colin Nederkoorn — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:27:26 -0000

Hey Luiz, Thanks! Glad you thought that slideshare was helpful.