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How we rewrote the Kicksend web app in one month: tips & tricks

by skyfallsin on 5/17/12, 11:22 PM with 9 comments

  • by karanmg on 5/17/12, 11:53 PM

    Rewrites can either be awesome or a struggle to complete and release. Looks like you guys did well. How did you run alternate code in parallel in production - I'm concerned about breaking SEO.

  • by guynamedloren on 5/18/12, 3:15 AM

    nice job on the rewrite!

    similar concept: http://boxify.me

    built in 1 morning by 1 person. disclaimer: it was me.

  • by msie on 5/18/12, 12:40 AM

    If switching over involved flipping a switch then you were doing some type of staging. I had the initial impression that you were deploying live.

  • by aaronbrethorst on 5/18/12, 3:20 AM

  • by mattmanser on 5/18/12, 11:06 AM

    Friendly tip. Add a really obvious link to your product on the blog somewhere. Also the kicksend logo should probably not link back to blog.kicksend.com, that's really irritating, why would I ever want to go to the root of your blog?

    It's a conversion barrier to have to transfer to the address bar to figure out who the hell you are.

    After all what's the point in this traffic if you can't capitalize on it.