The Exchanges

Every argument clarity score on this site is built from rows on this page. Each question and answer was assessed with names hidden, the host's own answers included, on four things from 1 to 5: directness (does it answer the question asked), coherence (do the ideas follow), precision (concrete details and clear references), compression (says a lot per word). The weighted mix (30/30/25/15) is the exchange score. A person's published score averages their exchange scores on raw tape only, at least 8 of them, shrunk toward the cohort mean. Full method →

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q And you say on your homepage, 13 years in business, six hundred million world or sixty million worldwide app downloads, five hundred million in revenue generated for clients and unlimited potential. Tell us the story. Tell us the story. Well, first off, give us a sense of size. When a customer pays you, what are they typically paying you? What's the average job size?

A So our project definitely range in size, but they tend to be anywhere from a couple 100,000 dollars. We have some projects close to a million dollars in size. So it really depends. We typically put a full team on a project, really thinking about the nuts and bolts of how to build a product. And so that includes design. It includes product management. It includes, uh, obviously development and engineering. Oftentimes it includes a backend system as well. And so, uh, we really think of ourselves as product as a service. So lots of times companies have a core business and they know they need technology as part of that business, but they're not really a technology company. So they'll come to us and we'll help them figure out, you know, how do you build a tech business? Uh, especially if you're a retailer or a finance company, or you're operating in some other business other than technology, it can often be a challenge to figure out all these things.

AI assessment note: “they tend to be anywhere from a couple 100,000 dollars.”

Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q Very cool. And I always love asking this because it's usually embarrassing. What was your first year revenue back in 2003?

A Oh, it was embarrassing. I definitely lost money. I think, I think we made like 15 K or, or 15, 20 K. I mean, I was really living off my savings, uh, and trying to figure out exactly what we would do, and I was building little bits of software. I was, uh, building kind of recurring revenue and some of our own products, uh, but really figuring out how do you, how do you bootstrap a business? How do you start it? We've never taken funding, uh, and we've tried to really figure out how do you build things the right way, quote unquote, Um, you know, the hard way of rolling up your sleeves, but making software better. There's so much, uh, kind of poorly engineered, poorly designed software. We really wanted to rethink that entire process.

AI assessment note: “I think we made like 15 K or, or 15, 20 K.”

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