38 Quotes by Marco Arment

Making a product better often requires removing features.

People will pay for something they like because they want to ensure its future.

Charge for something and make more than you spend.

Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

Instapaper is much bigger today than I could have predicted in 2008, and it has simply grown far beyond what one person can do. To really shine, it needs a full-time staff of at least a few people.

One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.

People want to download publications quickly and read them without cruft. Publications that started in print carry too much baggage and usually have awful apps. 'The Magazine' was designed from the start to be streamlined, natively digital, and respectful of readers' time and attention.

Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as they are viewing it only to them. If you subscribe to a paid site, you can save the content. I'm not really touching the money.