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From facepalm to facelift using feedback from Hacker News 30 May 2013 | 01:14 pm
About an year ago we'd shown Bubbles on Hacker News. Facepalm. If you look at the thread above you'll clearly see how unprepared we were. Slammed from left, right to center. We realized that I'd show...
How we made a sixty second animation for Bubbles. 4 Mar 2013 | 06:54 pm
It is exactly sixty seconds: One of the feedbacks we got from HN on day - 1 was that our service did not have a quick demonstration video: '... this is a visual product, that's a critical miss.' In...
We've adopted a new logo @bubbles, yay! 29 Oct 2012 | 07:26 pm
Okay. Given that ours is a service that sits somewhere in between an email, creative messaging and real-time chat, we've decided a new logo for @bubbles. Here it is: How does it look? Please do shar...
Setting up SPDY Protocol over NginX for your Rails App. 30 Aug 2012 | 04:41 pm
Many of us have heard of SPDY - the newest protocol from Google to serve secured content faster. Not heard of it? Here is a nice white paper from Google and a wiki to start with. Detailed protocol spe...
Native Proficiency in English is Very Desirable For Your Global Story. 3 Aug 2012 | 09:59 am
This is strictly my opinion, not backed up by any research, but if you are building a product for global audience your English skills matter. Natives in English speaking countries would not buy unless...
Convert now, monetize later. Will it work? 13 Jul 2012 | 03:48 am
Yo! @bubbles is seeing a cool rate of sign-up since we first showed our app on Hacker News. Even LifeHacker came in and reviewed bubbles nicely, something that I wasn't expecting given the readiness o...
Authentic Virtual Letters 2 Jun 2012 | 01:05 pm
@bubbles is all about authentic virtual letters, i.e. letters that look and feel like ordinary mail. By 'ordinary' I mean physical mail and not email. The experience that we're trying to pull off here...
That Super Awesome Feeling 4 May 2012 | 06:33 pm
Well, what would you feel on the "-26th day" of your official opening? Especially, when you have a news like this: ======================================================================== Fri, May ...
Recent Updates to @bubbles 26 Apr 2012 | 10:58 pm
The end of 2011 and beginning of 2012 have been particularly busy here as we've made substantial progress on the core @bubbles experience. Here are a couple of updates: Performance We made some great...
Introducing @bubbles 2 Apr 2012 | 04:28 pm
Hello world! Says @bubbles, our nimble little startup, to everyone reading this post. We are a tiny team of two hackers, Arvind and Navneet, re-thinking on letter-writing from ground up. We've always...
