Marketing Lessons from InstaCalc.com
I’m no expert, but creating your own project invariably teaches you a few things about presenting your site. Here are a few lessons that helped me launch InstaCalc, a real-time, shareable calculator.
Get feedback, then release
Don’t push out your initial version to the public right away. Create a version, iterate, create it again, iterate, and create it again. Show your …Crowd Favorites
Math & Numbers
- Mental math shortcuts, adding 1-100
- Understanding exponents and the natural log
- Div, Curl, Flux, Gradient and other Vector Calculus topics
Programming & Web Development
- Site speedups with HTTP caching, gzip compression
- Understanding Rails, Web debugging, and Javascrtipt
- Swap bytes with XOR, byte order, unicode
