Adeo Ressi’s (The Founder Institute) 10 Rules for Smart Startup Success – Passion, Simplicity, One Revenue Source, Large Market….
Yummly opens up its recipe API to food app developers — Tech News and Analysis
Initially customers most likely will use the Yummly API to provide more generic recipe content and search in their sites and apps. One of Yummly’s early API testers, search engine DuckDuckGo, uses the API to answer specific recipe queries, basically extending Yummly’s search portal onto its own site.
But developers will eventually be able to tap into Yummly’s technology to make their recipe and cooking services smarter. For instance recipe aggregation apps such as Evernote, Paprika and BigOven store recipes scrapped from all over the web, most of them drawn from the same sites Yummly categorizes. Those companies could use Yummly’s API to organize their customers personal recipe boxes into much more useful categories.
Yummly opens up its recipe API to food app developers — Tech News and Analysis.
Cutting to the core – The Story of Christoph Niemann’s Petting Zoo App : The New Yorker
After all the slicing away, you may realize, now that you can clearly see the idea, that it’s actually not very good.
That’s the hardest part: letting go of an idea that, having spent a number of passionate nights with, you have fallen in love with. Even with a certain amount of routine, this letting go sadly doesn’t become easier. The natural instinct then is to rely on what you know is working. It’s unfair, but this is the surest path to boring and predictable results.
The painful and inevitable struggle remains to create in a childlike and openhearted manner, but to be un-wistful and cruel when judging one’s creation.
The Story of Christoph Niemann’s Petting Zoo App : The New Yorker.
Wise words from my accountant
“People act crazy when there is too little money and they act crazy when there is a lot of it or the promise of it.”
Looker – a new SAAS tool for looking at SQL data to really make decisions
I’ve been talking to a potential client about how one could look at data across an organization to make informed decisions and track progress. One step to this may involve consolidating services and a big overhaul of systems but Looker might be an answer that would let us avoid or lessen that effort. The ability to play with data without the need for a programmer is really appealing. We all talk about making product decisions off of data but I’ve rarely seen it as a driver in real-life experience so the idea of being able to have greater flexibility and ease to play with data and make decisions from it would be great.
Looker launches out of stealth with $2M to make manual SQL queries a thing of the past.