Actually, employees don't give a shit about the companies they work at and they should be treated as such. If it's not their own company all they care about at the end of the day are the money they get (the more, the better), the conditions they get and to complain about every single fucking thing. All this while trying to trick you as much as possible by not being efficient or trying to become better at what they are doing, on their own.
So I'd urge owners of companies to hire and fire people quick. There are rarely good people who stay within a company for more than 2 years and who care about what they do. Those people usually become part of it (partners).
The rest are just there temporary, so treat them as such: shitty replacement parts.
Hey Tyler, I hate to do this to you (and to SnapWidget and others), but there's something cooking.
With the API and feature rich product updates that are coming up, I think we'll hit a cross road. I don't think I have to go into details, you'll figure it out with this sample widget + Editor:
http://blogvio.com/widgets/util/map-with-google-maps/composi...
I just want to let you know that we appreciate you opened up and shared your story. I checked your product and it's cool. Keep up the good work! Don't hate the messenger. :-)
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They released this amazing piece of hardware, and then they can use the same technology to complement it with an app. So you have both worlds happy - with or without a smartphone in the house. ;)
I have created a responsive version of gridster using bootstrap, much like this, for the interested sould. For the interested souls: http://ncthis.github.io/gridster-bootstrap/
Gridster is the most popular and current ruler of the "market." We went back and forth quite a bit with this -- meaning that I had to convince the stakeholders twice before being able to start something in-house :)
The main reason we couldn't use gridster was because it's vertical and we wanted a horizontal grid, and that gridster is not very maintained any more (you can read their README.) There are some notable forks, including one here there was an attempt to make the grid work horizontally, but which seemed far from stable and the complexity of the grister code (I read it all) seemed to much of a hustle to contribute (think estimates, etc.) It was definitely the best decision, in the end our GridList lib ended up way lighter than gridster, and we even have a pretty slick collisions implementation (not at all by the book tho, but covering more cases)
There are more small reasons like responsiveness, resizing based on a 1d index, resizing items, etc.
We've had this same problem at Blogvio. Users asked us why we need access to their entire Dropbox. And indeed we didn't need - but we didn't know better either.
After a bit of research we found out we can have a specific folder set to Blogvio that would sync with the system. And that, combined with something like Zapier is a much better solution that we envisioned first. Learning by mistakes! :-)
Let's see. There's a few somewhat passive channels for us.
We just launched our product Blogvio (http://www.blogvio.com) which is yet break even. Right now we're only partnering with platforms to white label our Editor and widgets, but we'll soon release a pricing plan for all users of the website.
Our 2008 marketplace Flabell (http://www.flabell.com) (flash products... I know) is still going strong, although we too think Flash is dead. People still buy those components, so we still provide support for them. We stopped advertising though a few years back. :-)
Same goes for our Flash Components on ActiveDen, these still sell a couple of hundreds every month. So it's still passive income after 6yrs+. :)
