Co-founder Creative Market (acq. Autodesk). Voice of the user.Passionate about making products people love.
“OMG, you know the guy who started Reddit?!” My sister-in-law — a freshman at the University of Maryland — was starstruck, and immediately took to Facebook to tell her friends she was in the same room with Alexis Ohanian. Her roommate responded right away “Where are you?? I’m coming NOW!” Everywhere Alexis went last night on stop 29 of his 150-stop college book tour,…
“Not everyone’s like you,” he said. “Startups are risky, so not everyone sees that as a viable career path.” But I disagreed - startups aren’t risky. It wasn’t long ago that I was talking to an entrepreneurship professor at the University of Maryland about ways to get more students excited about joining the startup world and following their passions and…
As a YC alum ( COLOURlovers.com , W10), I had a great time seeing some old YC friends and meeting a lot of new faces at the YC Q&A at the Hunch offices in NYC last night ( video here , in case you missed it). There were a lot of really smart people working on some really cool ideas, and almost every potential applicant wanted to know the same thing: Did I have any advice for putting together a…
As a software developer, when you’re first starting out and working on releasing v1.0 of your product, it’s common to think that potential customers might be hesitant to buy it or, worse yet, might choose a competitor over you. You want to give them every reason to buy from you, so one of the first mistakes many developers make when they release v1.0 is they offer free lifetime…
Hello, my name is Aaron Epstein, and this is my new blog where I’ll be sharing the insights I’ve learned about product design, development, and great user experiences as I’ve worked to build both ColorSchemer software and my new startup CHROMAom . I started ColorSchemer in my dorm room in 2000 when I needed an easy way to find colors that matched with client logo colors. When I…