Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

We developed a friendship as part of our Board service and a recent blog post of his made me think I wanted to learn a bit more about his Instacart experience. Nilam Ganenthiran : The story of me joining Instacart in 2013, is actually rooted in an epic bad decision. We believe there are multiple ways to deliver great software to users.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

With AI integrated into your editorial workflow, you can automatically generate SEO briefs, draft outlines, or repurpose blog posts into LinkedIn updates—all using structured prompts and a few clicks inside the apps your team already uses, like Google Docs or Notion. When a new user signed up, they were tagged by language in ActiveCampaign.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

In-product demo : Quick cuts through the user interface (UI) show exactly how the feature works, helping users visualize themselves using it. No vague promises—only a specific benefit for the user. Bright, on-brand visuals : The colorful gradient and UI overlays reinforce Canva's identity and grab attention in the feed.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. That means both out-of-the-box functionality for fast onboarding, and a simple user experience once you've boarded on. Assessing the best sales pipeline software is, in many ways, just another way of assessing the best CRMs.

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

Drawing on insights from experts across various fields, these stories highlight the diverse paths to professional transformation. What made this journey impactful wasn’t just the tech—it was the alignment of personal experience, deep empathy for the end-user, and the courage to start over with purpose. I soaked it all in.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Instead of creating a social media strategy that drives users off the app and onto your website (which most platforms penalize brands for), TikTok lets brands upload their product catalog and tag products in their posts. But on TikTok, videos are short—users decide whether to watch your video within the first few seconds. Take a look.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

They track sprints (those short, focused bursts of work), user stories (the often-optimistic tales of what users want), individual tasks, and the inevitable bugs that pop up like unwelcome party guests. Software development: Agile boards Agile boards are designed to visualize the beautiful chaos of building software.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

Read user reviews and test free trials. Find actual users who use the software. Paid CRMs range from $5 to $100+ per user per month, depending on the app and features you choose. They'll tell you the truth about what it's actually like to use day-to-day. Additionally, most CRMs offer free trials or demos.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 29, 2025

On top of all that, Canva has a solid free plan, an affordable paid plan for solo users, and a great team plan with collaboration features for businesses. While splitting different features out into somewhat separate apps can be annoying, it does make Pixlr very user-friendly. Still, for all that, Canva isn't the only design app.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Here's why: Zendesk for Service is better suited for customer support teams that require a user-friendly ticketing solution. user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month* user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month* user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month*

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. That way, every piece of feedback is looped into your product development cycle, aligning product features more closely with user needs. New to Zapier? Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 16, 2025

Every year, Zapier users automate billions of tasks, including more than 250 million AI tasks. If you're selected as a winner, you'll win $5,000, and other prizes, including us spotlighting your story. Check out last year’s winning workflows → zapier.com/blog/zappy-awards-winners-2024 Community recognition.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 6, 2025

Most users now browse on their phones, so your site needs to look good and work well on mobile devices. For the About Us page: Share your story and what sets you apart? Add blog posts, new products, or service updates regularly. Focus on simplicity and clarity. Also, make sure your site is mobile-friendly.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Organic reach is the number of unique users who see your social media content without paid promotion. This includes views from users who already follow you, as well as those who don't. "One day, I wrote a short story of a failed SMS campaign and what we took away from it.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Stay on top of your transactional emails If you use forms to process key actions (think customer orders or password reset requests), your users expect to hear from you immediately. That way, your messages always match the moment.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

If you're delivering software, include user stories , wireframes, and functional specifications that leave little room for interpretation. The WBS divides the overall project scope into manageable, bite-sized steps, providing a hierarchical view of the entire project.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Zapier Interfaces , a no-code app builder, has a simple project plan template that lets you store data, create an interface for users to interact with, and set up workflows to automate the plan. But drafting your own is a different story. A project plan ensures you won't need a towel. What does a project plan look like?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Here are some you'll encounter: Social media posts: This is the freeform text, images, or videos you find in status updates, tweets, or shared stories. Websites: The core content on web pages, like the text of articles, blog posts, product descriptions, and user comments.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

In Airtable, users can store virtually any kind of data in each record, relate data across tables, customize displays, and automate data management, among other options. Whether your device has the juice to handle all that potential is a whole other story.)

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

I wanted to spend the rest of the blog post telling you why we decided to fund the company, how we settled on the final product design and our unique way of launching the app. We will port it to Android ASAP after our first rev of proper user feedback. Yes, we’ve only launched on iOS for now. So Why Did We Invest? is non trivial.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. Also, lost of people leaving comments on websites and having a dialog with other users.

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Revolution

MARCH 28, 2023

Why it will revolutionize the way we shop, browse, and learn Source: openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins The electrifying launch and global adoption of ChatGPT has been amazing to witness. Moderation will also be essential — dangerous plugins exposing users to scams or misinformation are a huge risk for this new ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. If you like the quick summary notes, please check out Adam’s blog on tech, entrepreneurship & VC as a thank you. an opt-out method) or through an opt-in method like Hunch, which stores users’ taste profiles.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

I just had to tell this story. I don’t own dogs so I wasn’t already a user. I told her the story of Aaron, the company, the reviews, etc. We got along and shared stories about the startup market. The photo in this blog (like many of mine) came from 500px. That’s a fact. The Background.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

From leaping funnel stages with decision makers to creating mass quantities of compelling content, the branded podcast is following the growth path of the inbound blog toward a table-stakes position in an organization’s GTM strategy. Podcasts have a lot of upside for marketers. What are branded podcasts?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. We gave users the choice to upgrade or keep with the classic UI. Years later 10% of users were still on classic. Go figure.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. We gave users the choice to upgrade or keep with the classic UI. Years later 10% of users were still on classic. Go figure.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

It was a fun show today, especially Jason’s story at the very end of the episode! Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Blogging has gone through many iterations. I was an early user of Blogger.com. I use Wordpress for this blog and it’s great. It sucked. It still does.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Most cloud services offer flexibility to scale up and down in terms of storage capacity and users, eliminating entrepreneurs’ risk of overcommitting before the time is right, yet enabling growth without delays. Know how your costs will rise as you add users. This accessibility lowers the risk of missing a deadline or missing a sale.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

So the moral of this story is to resist the temptation of 10 million cells. Here are my suggestions for user-friendly database solutions: Zapier Tables : Built for automation-first workflows, Zapier Tables lets you store, organize, and automate your data. Your Zaps will thank you for it. (If

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

More than ever, people are watching videos, consuming stories, reading posts and scrolling newsfeeds. Build a content website or add a blog. Use this story, and the many others out there, to inspire you to build an engaged and active community of your own. Increase organic traffic using Pinterest. Using apps like Vyper.ai

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

Can you share those stories and the lessons for entrepreneurs? Dean Kamen, who invented the Segway, was so concerned about protecting his intellectual property that his team conducted multiple cycles of experimentation based exclusively on internal feedback, not user feedback.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

Should I, as the author of over 9,000 blog posts that have been used to train these large language models, be entitled to some of the revenue they will make? I think we will see mainstream decentralized applications emerge in 2024 as we now have inexpensive and fast transactions and simpler user interfaces. Let’s start with litigation.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Tige and I discuss an excellent blog post written by the CEO of Hulu (Jason Kilar) on the future of advertising. When a deal is good or when a story is special, “social&# is what spreads it. One thing that is abundantly clear is that we are consuming media in new, and changing, ways.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

“We’re not creating our own score, but rather it is a direct correlation to your actual score being improved over time, which a user can see in our app.”. The users would be paying a charge anyway, but a percentage goes to us, rather than the companies,” Broughton told TechCrunch. “The Image Credits: Altro.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

Welcome to Social Media Week --the one week out of the year where we get to tweet and blog about social media! Now a story breaks and before you can say "ESPN" it's all over Twitter. Bootstrapping a community from zero users. Hopefully, you can find a way in to some of these events as most are sold out. Try the waitlists.

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