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Sachin Agarwal
sachin.posterous.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Sachin Agarwal, an early Posterous team member, blogged about Apple, startups, investors, and web technology.
What HN saysHN links it for his takes on Apple's product decisions and his post on how IE6 slowed the web's progress.
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- 1If you can't buy your investor a beer, don't take their money1 people · 133 points · first shared 2010 · 57 comments on HN
- 2Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)1 people · 114 points · first shared 2010 · 95 comments on HN
- 3Why Apple built Final Cut Pro X1 people · 105 points · first shared 2011 · 68 comments on HN
- 4To compete with Google, Apple has to make Mobile Me free1 people · 99 points · first shared 2010 · 63 comments on HN
- 5Apple built Keynote because Steve Jobs hates PowerPoint1 people · 92 points · first shared 2011 · 57 comments on HN
- 6Email needs to be realtime1 people · 81 points · first shared 2010 · 52 comments on HN
- 7The web sucks. Browsers need to innovate1 people · 76 points · first shared 2010 · 68 comments on HN
- 8Writing Rails code makes me miss writing in Objective-C. Or C. Or Java. Or...1 people · 59 points · first shared 2010 · 101 comments on HN
- 9A product is not just about features. It's about experience.1 people · 54 points · first shared 2010 · 38 comments on HN
- 10Sachin Agarwal: My Memories of Apple1 people · 52 points · first shared 2011 · 15 comments on HN
- 11Make a great product, gain a user. Have great support, earn a fan1 people · 49 points · first shared 2010 · 9 comments on HN
- 12Turn a user into a passionate customer before making them sign up1 people · 44 points · first shared 2009 · 5 comments on HN
- 13The Finder is dead.1 people · 39 points · first shared 2010 · 63 comments on HN
- 14Health insurance options for startups1 people · 37 points · first shared 2010 · 64 comments on HN
- 15Accounts get in the way of startups working together1 people · 36 points · first shared 2010 · 10 comments on HN
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jarek · 2013-02-16
Out of curiosity, where will you be moving the blog hosted at http://sachin.posterous.com/?
a4agarwal · 2010-09-29
The exact quote was, "Until you use an iPhone, a Mac, drive a BMW or Audi, you don't even realize how great the experience can be"
I never said that you can't use Windows, an Android, or drive another car. But at some point you need to use the top end product to really appreciate what's out there. If you spend your whole life on Windows/BlackBerry/Toyota, you might not understand what a great product is.
Before the iPhone came out, no one knew how great a phone could be. Even I didn't. The iPhone made me understand how you can take an existing feature set, and dramatically change a product through the experience.
You're going with a blanket, "German cars suck"? Really? I'd bet German cars have more fanatics than Japanese cars do. German cars delight people.
Lexus may outsell BMW, but that doesn't make it a better car. To me, a Lexus is just a high end Honda. It gets me from point A to point B, with a bit more luxury. One of Lexus's problems is that they don't have a vision, a passion. They just pump out what people will buy:
http://sachin.posterous.com/the-problem-with-lexus-is-while-they-creat…
And yes, BMW sucks at interface design. Where they excel is in building the ultimate driving machine. I'm all for BMW outsourcing their tech:
http://sachin.posterous.com/stick-to-what-youre-good-at-for-bmw-thats-…
adrianhoward · 2012-06-13
Maybe I misunderstand what getsatisfaction is.... could I go there are report a bug on hacker news for example even if hacker news have not joined getsatisfaction?
Yup - you misunderstand, and yes you could just report something for a company that's not joined getsatisfaction. A chunk of people see this as a bad thing - see http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else and http://sachin.posterous.com/get-satisfactioncom-is-blackmail-37signals for example.
subbu · 2010-04-29
Sachin Agarwal of Posterous explains reason#6 much better with a good example. Link here http://sachin.posterous.com/ie6-caused-the-web-to-mature-slower-than-i…