I thought I'd post a short update given what we've recently learned
about the judging process. Apparently, if there was some kind of
critical error while judging Duo, this would've been caught by the
judging process (either by eliminating one judge as an outlier, or by
assigning a new judge if th
I thought I'd post a short update given what we've recently learned
about the judging process. Apparently, if there was some kind of
critical error while judging Duo, this would've been caught by the
judging process (either by eliminating one judge as an outlier, or by
assigning a new judge if th
omg- yes. the aha and the pacing! I've never paced so much in my life.
I was waking up going, Shit. I have another idea. And then, like you
said, all the elaborate and wonderful implications of the idea made me
get out of bed, write furiously in my notebook and pace in circles,
and across my apar
You were in my top 50
Which means that the winners must be f**king hot, corporately biased
or someone somewhere has made a mistake.
Did someone say we find out on Monday?
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Duo is a winner for us, and the judging process a loser.
I too, had just a single server hit and I am 95% sure the (single)
judge
didn't bother to explore the menus leading to most of the
functionality.
Brutally, the strategy should have been to go for a slick UI
experience,
nice icons, something
I was sure Duo would be one of the top apps!
Keep up the good work. Duo looks awesome.
-mac
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Quite surprised that Duo didn't win too...
May be there was a problem with Duo's presentation to judges?
On 10 май, 09:53, Shooter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Really awesome demo. The hardwork shows. I think either the app
> crashed or something during the demo or it was too complicated for the
Really awesome demo. The hardwork shows. I think either the app
crashed or something during the demo or it was too complicated for the
judge to try out all the features on their own.
Keep up the hardwork and do market this thing.
Cheers,
Shooter.
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Its a big surprise to me that Duo didnt win!
Now I would really love to know the judging criterias!
For me, Duo is a winner!
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Just wanted to add that Duo looked great. I hope at least you guys
move forward with it, I am pretty shocked you didn't come out on top.
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Surprise to me too.
Maybe a crash at the start of your app, that's the thing I can only
imagine of at this time.
Like I said in response to your debut announcement, I am still
interested in joining your team for future adventure.
On May 10, 10:05 am, "[nirajswami]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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I remembered when I first saw Duo, it really impressed me in several
ways.In a competition like this, judges are from all over the
world with very different cultural background.Some will certainly
tend to be stricter than others.If Duo happened to be put in the
one of the unlucky batc
OMG!!! Duo didn't win
it's unbelievable!!! Duo is the best I've seen so far...
so unless the top 100, top 50 are far exceeding what Duo does... which is
quite frankly, impossible...
we'll see on monday who are the winners... so sad...
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Great stuff Michael!
NCAA coach Bobby Knight said "Many have the will to win, few have the
will to do the work to win"... Duo definitely reflects the latter...
and I am sure it'll be a success in the long run... good luck!
I look forward to using it in the future and spreading the good word
it d
Thanks to everyone for your support, and I'm happy some of you enjoyed
reading the postmortem. After we released the video last week, the
response we received was so positive that we were very hopeful. We
only posted the video in this forum and it trickled out to all sorts
of interesting places.
It is hard to believe such a good application failed...
You are still the winner in my heart!
On 5月10日, 上午2时42分, Michael Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Duo didn't make it into the top 100 (let alone the top 50), which has
> been very hard for me (I hate losing!) but since people here expr
On May 9, 1:42 pm, Michael Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Duo didn't make it into the top 100 (let alone the top 50).
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Hands down the best demo I have seen. This would be the second (mine,
weruat.com being the first) application I am planning on putting on my
phone (when they come out).
On May 9, 2:48 pm, Michael Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> WHAT WENT RIGHT
> We built on top of some existing technologies
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On May 9, 1:42 pm, Michael Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Duo didn't make it into the top 100 (let alone the top 50).
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> Duo didn't make it into the top 100 (let alone the top 50).
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On May 9, 1:42 pm, Michael Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Duo didn't make it into the top 100 (let alone the top 50).
Looks like my post got lost.
How do you know that your app made it into the top 100? I can't seem
to find anything that shows me. Please let me know. Thanks
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On May 9, 1:42 pm, Michael Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Duo didn't make it into the top 100 (let alone the top 50).
How do you know whether an app made it into the top 100? I didn't see
any information on that. Could have missed it, I suppose. Please let
me know.
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Hi Michael,
Ditto on my many thanks for your postmortem analysis. It takes spirit,
guts, & true belief in your project to both get this far and to then
open up to everyone for comments.
After reviewing some of the winners & losers, I'm also surprised at
some who have won & lost. I'll send you m
I'm too surprised Duo didn't win.
Actually I'm interested to know what a criterion of judging for
learning the reason I've failed.
And like Duo, I hope more to succeed in the business world.
andy
On May 9, 2:34 pm, nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wow Michael, thanks for the detailed report. I
Thanks for posting this, I hope others do post similarly useful post-
mortems.
On May 9, 11:48 am, Michael Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Thanks for reading and I hope other people post their post-mortems,
> too. See you on the other platforms!
> Michael
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Wow Michael, thanks for the detailed report. I wish you luck with
future development.
I have say though that I'm really surprised Duo didn't win. I think
the general consensus was that this was one of the most complete and
polished applications submitted to the challenge (that we knew of).
I'm
"As a result of our early prototyping and brainstorming, I
experienced one of those "aha" moments where you end up pacing around
the room excitedly, thinking non-stop about all the implications of an
idea."
haha, this made me laugth. Good to know that I'm not the only one who
paces around in cir
WHAT WENT RIGHT
We built on top of some existing technologies to try and get a leg up
on the competition. Our tile renderer uses the well known Mappy
library, our chat system is built on top of IRC, and our backend is
built on Amazon's scalable EC2 service. This strategy was very
successful. We
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