Remember Lenny

Post 3 Mentoring Sessions

rememberlenny — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 13:25:43 +0000

I wrote about how I started mentoring a young man I met on a plane. The mentoring ended after the first session, because the communication between us stopped. I failed to follow up with him and keep him accountable. Last month, I had my computer out on the train ride home. I was work on […]

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End of day reflection

rememberlenny — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 03:05:53 +0000

I circulated my prototype on Reddit’s /r/graffiti today. I didnt get any upvotes, but I believe I got traffic from the site. I wasn’t able to get Google Analytics to register my new site, so I didnt get any hard numbers. Based on my posts in /r/graffiti, I am starting to believe the audience is […]

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I wrote an API

rememberlenny — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:08:30 +0000

Just as Gary and Wayne talked about not building an API, I did it. The API returns a random graffiti image from a database I have: http://publicartfound.herokuapp.com/get_graffiti The API return a JSON object containing a URL to a graffiti image. It looks like this: { data: ""https://s3.amazonaws.com/lkbg-aws-box/10790544143_0b07aab385_o.jpg"" } Although this isnt keep score correctly, the […]

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How should I populate my content?

rememberlenny — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:09:00 +0000

Ive been working through publicartfound and struggling to pinpoint the way I want to display content. I feel like the problem Im trying to solve is not unique, but I can’t seem to find an example that I like. Im manually adding entries into the website, but this is not the scalable option. I dont […]

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Update: publicartfound.com

rememberlenny — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:02:00 +0000

I decided to take my project to the same name as my twitter account. I think this is a good name for what I want to accomplish. I bought publicartfound.com to continue this. Im at 357 github commits and counting. I built out some major features today: The user ‘activity feed’ is up. This is […]

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Analyzing user behavior with Google Analytics

rememberlenny — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 19:47:00 +0000

I ran a brief experiment on my single ‘piece’ page this week. I used the news coverage on the Brooklyn Bridge White Flag incident as a catalyst topic. I created a quick location page for the Brooklyn Bridge, a ‘piece’ page for the White Flag, and a ‘artist’ page for the unknown group. I added […]

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Making sense of email

rememberlenny — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:01:54 +0000

I gathered 28 email addresses today. I primarily used reddits /r/nyc to promote my publicart.io account. Looking at the google analytics traffic, I think that was the most effective tool. I also used the @publicartfound account to tweet out. I think this may have gotten some good followers too. I decided to segment the users […]

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rememberlenny — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:26:36 +0000

How to use IFTTT.com to build a passive stream of twitter followers Made for DadiesDateBabies

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rememberlenny — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:26:36 +0000

How to use IFTTT.com to build a passive stream of twitter followers Made for DadiesDateBabies

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Micro-experiments in shell entities

rememberlenny — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:12:37 +0000

Gary mentioned on Monday that some companies experiment with user interactions by firing up experimental apps. They drive paid traffic to the apps to calculate the user interaction’s success. After the user interaction is well tested, they integrate it into their primary product. I set up a series of IFTTT recipes today. They watch Twitter […]

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