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Ognjen Regoje
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I make things that run on the web (mostly).
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February 18, 2023

Users are prudent

Believing the misconception that a customer has decided not to use your product because they're lazy is only hurting you. (245)

January 22, 2023

Software that abstracts away a skill

Removing the need to know the underlying concepts and making familiarity with the software a desirable skill in itself (579)

July 31, 2021

Don't scan your face to buy glasses

Cubitts, a glasses retailer, announced that they’re going to be using iPhone’s camera to scan faces to assist in buying glasses. I’m interested of the privacy implications of th... (1709)

June 24, 2021

Why customer service gets worse as a startup grows

I really like the book The Innovators Dilemma by Clayton Christensen. It talks about how over time companies move into higher revenue segments, effectively abandoning the lower ... (1269)

June 15, 2021

nit: About your demo video

A couple of things about what a demo video on the homepage should be like, in my opinion: Reduce pointeless animations A lot of videos go overboard on animations and tra... (140)

June 14, 2021

Happens to the best of us

(e: 2021-08) I’ve just realized that this is actually “Error’d”.Even the best of us test in prod(30.09.2021) Ipay88(14.09.2021) Google’s CSS breaking because of a long name(10.0... (381)

May 15, 2021

Collecting user feedback using only your analytics

In the early stages, or for a side project, it’s not worth building an entire system in order to track user feedback. Instead, it can be done quite well by capturing the feedbac... (173)

March 08, 2021

SPAs and PWAs should duplicate the store and the routes

For the sake of being DRY we've made single-page applications and progressive web apps too DRY. In order to offer a better user experience we need to stop considering the client-side and server side store and routes as logically related. (927)

March 06, 2021

Concept: Tinder interface for restaurants

The Tinder interface is great for making a quick judgement for a low impact decision. A while back I built several prototypes that use that interface and realized that it works ... (262)

2020

June 20, 2020

Zoom doesn't deserve more chances

Update: Feb 2021China-Based Executive at U.S. Telecommunications Company Charged with Disrupting Video Meetings Commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre I wonder who that could b... (674)

June 06, 2020

Redesigning Selangkah.my

As the Corona lockdown measures relaxed Selangor quite quickly introduced Selangkah: a web app that captures users’ details when they visit a store. It was later followed by KLS... (716)

May 16, 2020

Challenges in implementing ant colony optimization

Here are the more technical details of ACO implementation are discussed. The reasoning behind it and the conclusion are in a separate post.ImplementationI started off with an ex... (1795)

May 07, 2020

How Supplybunny handled a 10x spike in traffic

The beginning of the MCO was quite stressful but I’m happy about a small victory shown in this screenshot:Supplybunny site was live and taking orders the entire time, handling p... (280)