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You’re reading Sweat the Product. Collections of untold stories from entrepreneurs and product people. Interview by Spencer Fry. On October 11, 2014. First things first, take me through the early days of you starting SeatGeek and how you guys came up with the idea. I started SeatGeek with Russ. Whom I went to Dartmouth with. We'd done a small start-up there together that we sold when we left. So we enjoyed the experience and we knew that we wanted to do something together afterwards. He told us, "Listen,...

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Jack Groetzinger is writing on the Svbtle. May 16, 2012. Why Doesn’t Amazon’s Price Sort Work? Pretend you’re in the market for a new iPod. You go to Amazon and type in a search. Then, you sort the results by price, low-to-high. For infrequent Amazon users, the results may be surprising [1]. Why would Amazon fail badly at something that seems so simple? Continue reading →.

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The Fastest Way to Get a Site Online

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Jack Groetzinger is writing on the Svbtle. July 29, 2012. The Fastest Way to Get a Site Online. I am a big fan of Sinatra. I love the framework for its simple elegance, but I. Love it because it’s Rack-compatible, and thus can be easily deployed to Heroku. Both Sinatra and Heroku are geared towards facilitating utter, brain-dead web development simplicity. Pairing them together is the fastest way I’ve found to get a website online. The Heroku docs for deploying a Sinatra app. So I made my Sinku. And crea...

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Gmail as a Facade

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Jack Groetzinger is writing on the Svbtle. September 4, 2012. Gmail as a Facade. When you create a new account, Gmail is blazingly fast. For most users, it stays that way forever. But for a minority of heavy users, Gmail gradually degrades towards slower. And more painful speeds. Eventually doing simple tasks like sending an email or archiving a chain is downright glacial. Until a few weeks ago, glacial Gmail was part of my life. The fact that you can mod it with Boomerang. Created a new Gmail account.

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A/B Testing

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Jack Groetzinger is writing on the Svbtle. February 18, 2013. We launched SeatGeek in 2009 at TechCrunch 50 (now renamed Disrupt ). The elevator pitch was Farecast for sports and concert tickets. The site forecasted if ticket prices for an event would rise or fall so that a buyer could time her purchase optimally. It was painful. It still is. I just forced myself to watch the video again and my chest now aches. Afterwards, trying to ease my embarrassment, I wrote a comment. He responded three days later:.

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The Value of Time

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Jack Groetzinger is writing on the Svbtle. July 17, 2012. The Value of Time. That are even better at it than us. But recently I’ve been rethinking our approach. Once he recovers, suppose Bob has to travel across Manhattan for a meeting. He can get there by taking the subway for a modest $2 or by taking a cab for $27; the latter would save him thirty minutes of time. The frugal bootstrapper in me wants Bob to take the subway. But if Bob does that, he is effectively robbing. They should respond with a numb...

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Beyond Flat

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Jack Groetzinger is writing on the Svbtle. September 3, 2013. It seems mobile UIs are converging. Next month, millions of iPhone users will download a flatter version of iOS. One that doesn’t mimic real-life objects. Skeuomorphism used to be a huge red line that divided iOS and Android design [1]. Now iOS will be flatter, like Android. So it might seem like a great iOS design will work on Android too. If only it were so easy! We’re currently building an Android app to accompany SeatGeek’s iOS app. Like A...