As promised, we’ve shared a bit more info about last weekend in this recap on Viget.com. Some of the notes include: (1) the core of any software project team is a software developer. Without a developer, you won’t get much software development done. (2) Having an awesome designer on hand is great for results and [...]
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Weekend Recap on Viget February 25, 2011 – 10:25 am
Pointless Weekend = 3 New Pointless Project February 20, 2011 – 11:26 am
We’ll do a more complete recap soon, but to summarize some tweets from the past couple of days: we just wrapped up our first official Pointless Weekend. Inspired by the Rails Rumble (which we often participate in), we formed Viget teams and started work at 6 pm on Thursday, finishing at 6 pm on Saturday. [...]
HeyCraig Operational Again January 12, 2011 – 10:48 am
Hey everyone. We’ve been getting some great emails from folks about how useful they find HeyCraig (thanks!) but recently it was having problems. Sorry about that! We just want to let you know that: We made some updates yesterday to get it working again, which happily included some moderate speed improvements. We’re planning for some [...]
2011 Will Be More Pointless January 3, 2011 – 12:01 pm
Happy New Year! I just got a peek at the new design for this site and it is sweet. We’ll be building it out over the next couple of weeks, so keep an eye out for an all new pointlesscorp.com launching soon. We’re also cooking up some new Pointless Projects to share with everyone, so [...]
SpeakerRate Gets a Blog and an Intern June 7, 2010 – 12:04 pm
If SpeakerRate is the Pointless Product you care about most, you certainly want to keep up on the new SpeakerRate blog. The primary author will be Zach Robbins, our summer intern focusing on product management. We’re working on some exciting ideas, and your input is always welcome!
SpeakerRate Internship Opportunity March 21, 2010 – 9:56 am
We love SpeakerRate and believe it has a ton of potential. That’s why we’re inviting an MBA intern to spend the summer working with us as to take SpeakerRate to the next level. We initially called it a “Product Management” role – which it is – but I prefer the “Future Web Entrepreneur” part of [...]
HeyCraig on Lifehacker August 12, 2009 – 9:45 am
Lifehacker has their eye on Pointless Corp again, this time Adam Pash providing coverage. This week he wrote about HeyCraig, our super simple tool for getting alerts via email when new items go up on Criagslist. To quote Adam: “Simple but useful — just how we like ‘em.” Good thing, since that’s how we like [...]
FeedStitch Featured on Lifehacker June 22, 2009 – 8:05 am
Jason Fitzpatrick has a nice little write-up on Lifehacker called FeedStitch Combines Multiple Feeds Into One. Yep, good title — that’s the idea in a nutshell. Judging by the surge in traffic to the site and the increase in FeedStitch references on Twitter, I’d say a lot of people were paying attention. Thanks for the write-up, [...]
SpeakerRate on ReadWriteWeb February 19, 2009 – 6:34 am
Rick at ReadWriteWeb has a good write-up about SpeakerRate. He sets up the reason why SpeakerRate exists really nicely with this intro: If you’re a speaker, you know that standing in front of a crowd isn’t half as hard as getting critical feedback on your talks. People who disliked it will generally remain silent or [...]
SpeakerRate, Now Open For Rating February 11, 2009 – 11:30 pm
We posted recently about SpeakerRate, our first official Pointless Project. It was behind a private beta wall, and we invited in a small group of folks to provide feedback so we could make it better before releasing it to the world. Their feedback was great, and some of it was “why the wall?” For this [...]