Considering how apparent it was that Steve’s health was gravely bad and rapidly deteriorating, we all in the back of our minds knew the time we had him in this world was limited and precious. So it comes as a complete shock to me how upset i actually am by Steve’s passing. Even though most of us never knew him, we all feel as if we did know him very well; his inventions, complete labours of love,…
Today I read via Hacker News the experiences of Tobin Harris from Engine Room Apps during their effort to recruit an iOS developer without using recruitment consultants . Tobin found that after paying £200 to post a job advert on CWJobs , his advert was almost instantly cloned by recruitment consultants with Engine Room’s details stripped out. Soon after he became inundated with calls from…
We’re coming! We’re just dealing with some banking red tape. Thanks for your patience!
Sir D.G blogged about how once women pass a certain threshold of sexual attractiveness, the amount of men hitting on them drop off exponentially. The rationale being the perceived attractiveness cause the majority of men to believe that they’re out of their league. As a corollary D.G extrapolates the same phenomenon afflicts corporate titans, i.e. those so far up the food chain that no one…
If you haven’t heard of Twilio , they’re a cool startup in San Francisco that are revolutionising the VOIP game. In simple terms, they offer scalable VOIP platform, with pay as you go pricing, all exposed via a HTTP REST API and competitively priced. Shrewple itself uses Twilio for all of its telephony needs. I had the idea for Shrewple about four or five years ago when I first started…
The time is almost here. Send an email to me if you’re down! stevie <–at–> shrewple <–dot–> com
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Startup focused? Don’t support IE : After reading that playnice.ly discovered that only 2% of their visitors are IE users. Like Shrewple they are startup focused, this put me at ease making the decision to put Internet Explorer support on the back burner. This allowed me to use CSS3 features that sped up implementation of this design, with minimal superfluous markup and assets, leaving me more…
After I applied to Y Combinator I thought to myself, when doing a startup it’s probably best to get something up online ASAP, hence this blog. After I registered the domain name I realised that shrewple.com was a GoDaddy holding page, horrible! I quickly went to Tumblr , started a new blog, set up the subdomain CNAME entries, and threw together a custom theme in couple hours. Still, the A…
Hi, my name is Stevie Graham. I’m an entrepreneur based in London, England and I would like to tell you about Shrewple. Many internet bootstrapped entrepreneurs have trouble monetizing the freemium business model satisfactorily. Also the very nature of a bootstrapped entrepreneur means that his resources are constrained, and can easily become dominated by support requests from customers.…
Stay tuned… It’s coming.
This was my original idea for Shrewple. I’ve opted for a slightly different approach/idea after I decided that trying to build a marketplace is too capital intensive for a bootstrapped startup. The current idea is even better!