I wanted to give a quick shout out to the community team here at Backcountry.com that just launched gear videos. You can upload videos of gear in actions for everyone else to see. This was a huge effort that was completed largely by our programming intern Ross who worked on this effort while also working [...]
Today we launched a new site search design on Backcountry.com and Dogfunk.com. We added a ton of functionality, huge product images and a few helpful tools to bring our community content into search. I’m super stoked about the launch because it’s easily the biggest functionality addition I’ve worked on since I got here.
Just a reminder [...]
A new video explaining the features of our new knicker offering.
Check out Cutter Bike Gear at Real Cyclist.
I had been meaning to post this sooner, but I’ve been super busy getting at work and getting ready for the wedding. Anyway, here it is now, rock.
So on two Wednesdays ago an email went out from HR to the entire company. They needed someone to fill in on a Wasatch Back Relay team. I [...]
Extreme!
PARK CITY, UTAH (May 21, 2009) — Starting today, there’s HuckNroll.com, a store dedicated to dirt riders and our take-your-personal-best-and-shove-it-up-your-ass, meat-hucking, scab-picking habit known as mountain biking.
HuckNroll.com is an online mountain bike shop. You heard right. Online. And we wouldn’t be putting it lightly to say that the bike industry didn’t want us. The consensus [...]
Yesterday afternoon I got the pranking bug pretty bad. One of my coworkers had left the office for the afternoon to work from home, but she didn’t take her computer with her. Mike and I saw this as the perfect opportunity to “upgrade” her system to something a little more rapid prototype friendly. The results [...]
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Jared Spool wrote an excellent evaluation of the Amazon review process. Here’s an excerpt:
Amazon had reviews from the very first day. It’s always been a feature that customers love. (Many non-customers talk about how they check out the reviews on Amazon first, then buy the product someplace else.)
Initially, the review system was purely chronological. The [...]
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