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I quit my job, and am building Tindie fulltime

208 points by emilepetrone 14y ago

emilepetrone 14y ago
Some data: -1 developer (me) -$646 transacted in July -Over $1800 transacted last month -Shipped to 20 countries & every continent except Antartica -Avg 30k visitors a month the last 2 months
- brandnewlow 14y ago
  Congratulations. That sounds like a solid start. What were your first steps in getting your marketplace flow going?
  - emilepetrone 14y ago
    Initially just threw it up on /r/Arduino as a question. http://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/rxyjb/would_you_support_an_arduino_marketplace_or_am_i/ http://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/rxyjb/would_you_sup...
- orangethirty 14y ago
  That's a pretty good visit/buy ratio. What are your future plans?
  - emilepetrone 14y ago
    It is definitely moving in the right direction. Guess you'll have to wait and see!
    - orangethirty 14y ago
      Do keep us posted. Your startup is one I actively track, due to its origins and niche.
- notatoad 14y ago
  If you're taking 5%, that means a gross revenue of $90 for the month of August? Seems a little early to be quitting your day job.
  - RobAley 14y ago
    For many projects, if you wait until you're profitable before you jump in full time, you may never take that step. Some projects just need full-time attention to get them to the point where they pay your mortgage. Presumably (or rather, hopefully!) Emile has looked at the current revenue growth and (with the attention he can give it full-time) projected the revenue he thinks it will generate in X months, X months being the end of whatever runway bootstap/funding money he has, and has concluded that at that point he will be able to pay his wages. Statistically speaking he will fail, and I'm sure he has already thought of that and has a plan B in mind incase that happens. (Thats my devils advocate speaking, its a good idea and I have no other information about Emile, so he may very well beat the odds and I hope he does).
    - emilepetrone 14y ago
      Thanks Rob! I figured it is growing, and should grow quicker if I am working on it fulltime. If I kept at a job, that growth would be slower, a competitor might emerge- who knows. Only thing that is certain is the data- site is cranking so time to kick it into the next gear
  - emilepetrone 14y ago
    Fortunately, that isn't the only revenue source. More information coming in the weeks/months ahead.
- connortomas 14y ago
  Emile, first: this looks great, and congratulations! As somebody working on an online marketplace-style project in my spare time, I'd be interested to know: do you feel as though two months of sales data is enough to work out whether your growth is sustainable? Was there a specific "Eureka!" moment at which you realised it would be worth taking this full-time? Do you have a good way to predict sales growth over the next few months?
  - emilepetrone 14y ago
    Sure it isn't much data, but to fully pursue it, I knew I needed more time than a few hours outside of work. So either I'd not perform at work or on tindie. I don't think that is fair to the people I worked with, and I couldn't just leave the site to chance. I do not have a good way to predict sales - just hard work and bust my butt to make it happen. I dont think theres any real secret to that, but I am working building this into a company and not a 'startup'
- nakodari 14y ago
  Great start! You are only going to gain some more traction from here. Please work on improving the "Terms" section of your site. If you want more buyers and sellers, you need to prepare a good Terms of Service.
  - emilepetrone 14y ago
    On the todo! Thanks for the reminder!
- yitchelle 14y ago
  Awesome start for a soloprenuer! A quick question if I may. What was your strategy in generating this much traffic?
  - emilepetrone 14y ago
    Seed everything. Initially posted the question of the site on Reddit, then landing page for people to signup, then seed the store with gadgets - before the site was finished. On day 1 I had products for sale. Each step, just seed it and then open it up.
- brador 14y ago
  That Twitter Bottstrap forum, is that custom built or a theme? How do you handle shipping internationally while keeping costs down? Good luck with the site, it has potential and gets a thumbs up from me.
  - emilepetrone 14y ago
    PYBBM The sellers handle shipping so that is something I do not need to worry about (fortunately because shipping is a massive headache)
vasco 14y ago
Down for me at least. Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Ftindie.com%2Fblog%2Fi-have-some-news%2F http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  Yep, on it. Getting slammed by Hacker News and Reddit..double wammy
dangrossman 14y ago
Every time I see someone announce a new startup on HN, and they can't keep a blog online through a little spurt of traffic, it makes me think very poorly of their business. That if they can't configure a web server to not fall over, they can't program a stable, secure app either. My own experience is that even the smallest Linode VPS, with an out-of-the-box WordPress install, serving a blog live from the database without a cache plugin, can handle all the traffic HN throws at even a #1 story on a work day afternoon. All it takes is setting the Apache config such that it won't spawn more processes than there's memory available, or using something lighter weight than Apache in the first place. I know this is a foolish connection to make, that their ability to keep a blog online isn't connected to the things that will actually determine whether the business succeeds or fails, but I can't avoid thinking it nonetheless. To turn this rant into something possibly useful, maybe some advice: it's important to figure out the basics of setting up a web server, not because it's a terrible thing for your blog to go down, but because you're losing out on all the prospective users/customers that come with being linked to and discussed on HN or other sites. Even if they can read a cached blog post, you're probably less likely to get them to go visit the startup you're blogging about during this short moment you have their attention.
- hahla 14y ago
  I agree this is also one of the first things that I thought about as soon as I tried to visit the site. Handling reddit and hackernews front page traffic these days should not be that big for an issue for blogs. One reason this may occur would be that they are on a very cheap shared host? Which would be worrying from the eyes of a user where I can't really trust the longevity of the product where I would take my time to register an account and start up shop.
  - columbo 14y ago
    Not the OP: My personal and business blog is on a cheap host but my product is on linode. I do this for two reasons: #1 - I don't want my blog to have anything to do with my service. I don't want it near my service. I don't want some WP-0-Day-Exploit to impact my application stack. #2 - It is cheap and easy. At least it was when I started it five years go. If I could do it again I'd just use github for blogging/announcements like this. I could pay to manage this myself on another linode vps, but really, for 99.9% of the time it just doesn't matter. With that said, if I was ever to post to HN about my business I'd probably cache the announcement on its own server (just raw html) and have all other links to my blog still remain at -big hosting provider- since 90% will just click on the link and 10% may dig deeper into the blog itself. Personally I don't think it's a big deal that the blog is hosted on some big provider. I'd be more concerned if the service was there as well.
mikepurvis 14y ago
This is really cool. I have a project I'm working on now which I'll be listing on there for sure. Shameless plug—it's a small IR receiver board which provides input switching and volume control to a stereo amplifier. I'm using it to upgrade a 1970s solid-state amp, but the intended user would be a chipamp builder. The MCU is an atmega168/328, so it's completely hackable. The site is down right now, but would there be a way in tindie to get a volume commitment, a la Kickstarter? It would be great to be able to have a chunk of cash upfront, to pay things like setup fees for PCB fab and assembly.
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  Hey Mike, sound great! I'm actually working on that right now. So it should be out in the next few weeks. - emile
adaml_623 14y ago
Looks like it might have legs. I want to be able to limit myself to vendors on my side of the Atlantic. Better filtering please.
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  Great comment. I'll add a filter by country.
ThomPete 14y ago
Great work and don't mind the uptime critique. Anyone who have launched know that shit happens sometimes and that it has nothing to do with whether you have the ability or not. Most people who know how to configure a server only do that (nothing wrong with that btw), you do much more so of course sometimes things fucks up. Congratulations on the great start, will be sure to let my electronic geek friends know.
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  thanks much appreciated!
OzzyB 14y ago
Hi Emile! So I just poked around on your site and see that you started a 99designs campaign to get a "dog mascot" logo... This is the one you should go with -- the ones designed by WorkHorse; I would totally put one of those on my Macbook! The others? Not so much. http://99designs.com/illustrations/contests/illustration-tindie-162449?filter=eliminated&sorting=rating&show=shortlisted http://99designs.com/illustrations/contests/illustration-tin... http://99designs.com/illustrations/contests/illustration-tindie-162449/entries/32 http://99designs.com/illustrations/contests/illustration-tin... You can thank me later :)
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  Thanks! I think you just tipped that one into the lead. You mean the more developed one, not the simple version right?
  - OzzyB 14y ago
    Well, I think the one that's a little more detailed works better and is more "roboty" and has more charm/character etc. The other minimal versions are nice too -- perhaps you could use a less detailed version for small 16px icon sizes etc. i.e no bolts. But, hey as long as its one of them! And congrats on your bold move & initial success :)
  - trafficlight 14y ago
    #32 is great. It would also be easy to remove details and still retain the feel.
FixThisPOSSite 14y ago
Suggestion: Capitalize your company name in all communications. Making it lower-case shows disrespect for your own enterprise, and causes your brand to disappear amongst all the other non-proper nouns in text.
hugs 14y ago
Very thrilled about this! As a Tindie seller [1], I've had an excellent experience so far. Congrats, emile! I put this in an email to Emile earlier, but would like to say it here, too... I think Tindie is perfect for people like me. I don't have the time (yet!) to dedicate a huge effort putting my projects up on Kickstarter. But by putting the project up on Tindie, and having a cap on my inventory, I can organically improve the project within my personal time constraints. I fully expect to ramp up inventory over time, but it's nice I can start at one or two items... and grow at a pace I'm comfortable with. Thank you so much for creating the site! [1]: https://tindie.com/hugs/robot-that-plays-angry-birds/ https://tindie.com/hugs/robot-that-plays-angry-birds/
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  Thanks Jason!
alecthomas 14y ago
Congratulations. You should now update your HN profile with pride, to read "Founder @ Tindie" rather than "Engineer @ UrbanAirship" :)
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  Oops fixed!
aimatt 14y ago
Please, oh please, list the price in the list pages.
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  I had it up there for a while, however it cuts down on pageviews. I think people will see the price and not try to click the link to learn more about it & the value/ why it is that price.
- aimatt 14y ago
  Fair enough.
Kilimanjaro 14y ago
That's a million dollar domain you got there. Tindie, really catchy. I wish you the best.
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  Thanks! Best $8 I've ever spent!
  - Kilimanjaro 14y ago
    Btw, start expanding your business to everything home made, so you can compete with sites like etsy, in billion dollar markets. Aim for the moon!
CanadaKaz 14y ago
Good luck!
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  Thank you!
topbanana 14y ago
Hi. This is a site I would use personally, if you could provide a meaningful view for a European, filtering out items that sellers aren't prepared to post to me. (Postage within Europe is quite cheap).
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  On the top of my todo.. should be out in the next 24 hours
wizard_2 14y ago
This is awesome! I think I know where I can offload my assembled older projects when I'm done with them. =) One note: When singing up you should redirect away from the registration page.
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  Sounds good! Will do!
grumps 14y ago
Seeing that I'm much more of a "builder" then I'm a creator, I really have to admire someone who drops there job, to do something full time that hasn't proven a source of income yet. Personally I love the idea of the site. I'm not sure it has anything that I would buy yet, but I'm still a huge fan of it. I keep looking for something I'd want off there. That being said, I'm not sure what the market is, out there for these kinds of things.
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  Thanks- yeah that is part of the gamble. Timing is never something people know until you are in it.
brianmwang 14y ago
Congratulations on the jump, Emile :)
noonespecial 14y ago
That's awesome. Tindie was one of those things that I found so cool that I was actually a bit perturbed to find out that it was just someone's side project. Some ideas just deserve more. Best of luck.
noirman 14y ago
Congratulation, Emile!
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  Thanks!
imknight 14y ago
congra, proudn00b !
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  Thanks!
jmsduran 14y ago
Very interesting site. Keep up the good work!
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  much appreciated!
laserDinosaur 14y ago
Tindie is one of the few websites I've seen on HN that actually got me excited. Great idea, great execution. Best of luck!
itmag 14y ago
Does the site have some kind of "request commission" feature? Ie I can send out a request for a specific gadget I need made and people can bid on the project.
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  On the way...
yllus 14y ago
I upvoted purely because of what a great website Tindie is. Congratulations on the decision and best of luck!
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  Thanks!
jdanoz 14y ago
how are you managing the titles for the requests? I think you are saving items in one table with unique id, but the url is with text/title. Are you looking over a full-text indexed column for every request for an individual item?

208 points by emilepetrone 14y ago

Some data: -1 developer (me) -$646 transacted in July -Over $1800 transacted last month -Shipped to 20 countries & every continent except Antartica -Avg 30k visitors a month the last 2 months

brandnewlow 14y ago
Congratulations. That sounds like a solid start. What were your first steps in getting your marketplace flow going?
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  Initially just threw it up on /r/Arduino as a question. http://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/rxyjb/would_you_support_an_arduino_marketplace_or_am_i/ http://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/rxyjb/would_you_sup...
orangethirty 14y ago
That's a pretty good visit/buy ratio. What are your future plans?
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  It is definitely moving in the right direction. Guess you'll have to wait and see!
  - orangethirty 14y ago
    Do keep us posted. Your startup is one I actively track, due to its origins and niche.
notatoad 14y ago
If you're taking 5%, that means a gross revenue of $90 for the month of August? Seems a little early to be quitting your day job.
- RobAley 14y ago
  For many projects, if you wait until you're profitable before you jump in full time, you may never take that step. Some projects just need full-time attention to get them to the point where they pay your mortgage. Presumably (or rather, hopefully!) Emile has looked at the current revenue growth and (with the attention he can give it full-time) projected the revenue he thinks it will generate in X months, X months being the end of whatever runway bootstap/funding money he has, and has concluded that at that point he will be able to pay his wages. Statistically speaking he will fail, and I'm sure he has already thought of that and has a plan B in mind incase that happens. (Thats my devils advocate speaking, its a good idea and I have no other information about Emile, so he may very well beat the odds and I hope he does).
  - emilepetrone 14y ago
    Thanks Rob! I figured it is growing, and should grow quicker if I am working on it fulltime. If I kept at a job, that growth would be slower, a competitor might emerge- who knows. Only thing that is certain is the data- site is cranking so time to kick it into the next gear
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  Fortunately, that isn't the only revenue source. More information coming in the weeks/months ahead.
connortomas 14y ago
Emile, first: this looks great, and congratulations! As somebody working on an online marketplace-style project in my spare time, I'd be interested to know: do you feel as though two months of sales data is enough to work out whether your growth is sustainable? Was there a specific "Eureka!" moment at which you realised it would be worth taking this full-time? Do you have a good way to predict sales growth over the next few months?
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  Sure it isn't much data, but to fully pursue it, I knew I needed more time than a few hours outside of work. So either I'd not perform at work or on tindie. I don't think that is fair to the people I worked with, and I couldn't just leave the site to chance. I do not have a good way to predict sales - just hard work and bust my butt to make it happen. I dont think theres any real secret to that, but I am working building this into a company and not a 'startup'
nakodari 14y ago
Great start! You are only going to gain some more traction from here. Please work on improving the "Terms" section of your site. If you want more buyers and sellers, you need to prepare a good Terms of Service.
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  On the todo! Thanks for the reminder!
yitchelle 14y ago
Awesome start for a soloprenuer! A quick question if I may. What was your strategy in generating this much traffic?
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  Seed everything. Initially posted the question of the site on Reddit, then landing page for people to signup, then seed the store with gadgets - before the site was finished. On day 1 I had products for sale. Each step, just seed it and then open it up.
brador 14y ago
That Twitter Bottstrap forum, is that custom built or a theme? How do you handle shipping internationally while keeping costs down? Good luck with the site, it has potential and gets a thumbs up from me.
- emilepetrone 14y ago
  PYBBM The sellers handle shipping so that is something I do not need to worry about (fortunately because shipping is a massive headache)

vasco 14y ago

Down for me at least. Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Ftindie.com%2Fblog%2Fi-have-some-news%2F http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...

emilepetrone 14y ago
Yep, on it. Getting slammed by Hacker News and Reddit..double wammy

dangrossman 14y ago

Every time I see someone announce a new startup on HN, and they can't keep a blog online through a little spurt of traffic, it makes me think very poorly of their business. That if they can't configure a web server to not fall over, they can't program a stable, secure app either. My own experience is that even the smallest Linode VPS, with an out-of-the-box WordPress install, serving a blog live from the database without a cache plugin, can handle all the traffic HN throws at even a #1 story on a work day afternoon. All it takes is setting the Apache config such that it won't spawn more processes than there's memory available, or using something lighter weight than Apache in the first place. I know this is a foolish connection to make, that their ability to keep a blog online isn't connected to the things that will actually determine whether the business succeeds or fails, but I can't avoid thinking it nonetheless. To turn this rant into something possibly useful, maybe some advice: it's important to figure out the basics of setting up a web server, not because it's a terrible thing for your blog to go down, but because you're losing out on all the prospective users/customers that come with being linked to and discussed on HN or other sites. Even if they can read a cached blog post, you're probably less likely to get them to go visit the startup you're blogging about during this short moment you have their attention.

hahla 14y ago
I agree this is also one of the first things that I thought about as soon as I tried to visit the site. Handling reddit and hackernews front page traffic these days should not be that big for an issue for blogs. One reason this may occur would be that they are on a very cheap shared host? Which would be worrying from the eyes of a user where I can't really trust the longevity of the product where I would take my time to register an account and start up shop.
- columbo 14y ago
  Not the OP: My personal and business blog is on a cheap host but my product is on linode. I do this for two reasons: #1 - I don't want my blog to have anything to do with my service. I don't want it near my service. I don't want some WP-0-Day-Exploit to impact my application stack. #2 - It is cheap and easy. At least it was when I started it five years go. If I could do it again I'd just use github for blogging/announcements like this. I could pay to manage this myself on another linode vps, but really, for 99.9% of the time it just doesn't matter. With that said, if I was ever to post to HN about my business I'd probably cache the announcement on its own server (just raw html) and have all other links to my blog still remain at -big hosting provider- since 90% will just click on the link and 10% may dig deeper into the blog itself. Personally I don't think it's a big deal that the blog is hosted on some big provider. I'd be more concerned if the service was there as well.

mikepurvis 14y ago

This is really cool. I have a project I'm working on now which I'll be listing on there for sure. Shameless plug—it's a small IR receiver board which provides input switching and volume control to a stereo amplifier. I'm using it to upgrade a 1970s solid-state amp, but the intended user would be a chipamp builder. The MCU is an atmega168/328, so it's completely hackable. The site is down right now, but would there be a way in tindie to get a volume commitment, a la Kickstarter? It would be great to be able to have a chunk of cash upfront, to pay things like setup fees for PCB fab and assembly.

emilepetrone 14y ago
Hey Mike, sound great! I'm actually working on that right now. So it should be out in the next few weeks. - emile

adaml_623 14y ago

Looks like it might have legs. I want to be able to limit myself to vendors on my side of the Atlantic. Better filtering please.

emilepetrone 14y ago
Great comment. I'll add a filter by country.

ThomPete 14y ago

Great work and don't mind the uptime critique. Anyone who have launched know that shit happens sometimes and that it has nothing to do with whether you have the ability or not. Most people who know how to configure a server only do that (nothing wrong with that btw), you do much more so of course sometimes things fucks up. Congratulations on the great start, will be sure to let my electronic geek friends know.

emilepetrone 14y ago
thanks much appreciated!

OzzyB 14y ago

Hi Emile! So I just poked around on your site and see that you started a 99designs campaign to get a "dog mascot" logo... This is the one you should go with -- the ones designed by WorkHorse; I would totally put one of those on my Macbook! The others? Not so much. http://99designs.com/illustrations/contests/illustration-tindie-162449?filter=eliminated&sorting=rating&show=shortlisted http://99designs.com/illustrations/contests/illustration-tin... http://99designs.com/illustrations/contests/illustration-tindie-162449/entries/32 http://99designs.com/illustrations/contests/illustration-tin... You can thank me later :)

emilepetrone 14y ago
Thanks! I think you just tipped that one into the lead. You mean the more developed one, not the simple version right?
- OzzyB 14y ago
  Well, I think the one that's a little more detailed works better and is more "roboty" and has more charm/character etc. The other minimal versions are nice too -- perhaps you could use a less detailed version for small 16px icon sizes etc. i.e no bolts. But, hey as long as its one of them! And congrats on your bold move & initial success :)
- trafficlight 14y ago
  #32 is great. It would also be easy to remove details and still retain the feel.

FixThisPOSSite 14y ago

Suggestion: Capitalize your company name in all communications. Making it lower-case shows disrespect for your own enterprise, and causes your brand to disappear amongst all the other non-proper nouns in text.

hugs 14y ago

Very thrilled about this! As a Tindie seller [1], I've had an excellent experience so far. Congrats, emile! I put this in an email to Emile earlier, but would like to say it here, too... I think Tindie is perfect for people like me. I don't have the time (yet!) to dedicate a huge effort putting my projects up on Kickstarter. But by putting the project up on Tindie, and having a cap on my inventory, I can organically improve the project within my personal time constraints. I fully expect to ramp up inventory over time, but it's nice I can start at one or two items... and grow at a pace I'm comfortable with. Thank you so much for creating the site! [1]: https://tindie.com/hugs/robot-that-plays-angry-birds/ https://tindie.com/hugs/robot-that-plays-angry-birds/

emilepetrone 14y ago
Thanks Jason!

alecthomas 14y ago

Congratulations. You should now update your HN profile with pride, to read "Founder @ Tindie" rather than "Engineer @ UrbanAirship" :)

emilepetrone 14y ago
Oops fixed!

aimatt 14y ago

Please, oh please, list the price in the list pages.

emilepetrone 14y ago
I had it up there for a while, however it cuts down on pageviews. I think people will see the price and not try to click the link to learn more about it & the value/ why it is that price.
aimatt 14y ago
Fair enough.

Kilimanjaro 14y ago

That's a million dollar domain you got there. Tindie, really catchy. I wish you the best.

emilepetrone 14y ago
Thanks! Best $8 I've ever spent!
- Kilimanjaro 14y ago
  Btw, start expanding your business to everything home made, so you can compete with sites like etsy, in billion dollar markets. Aim for the moon!

CanadaKaz 14y ago

Good luck!

emilepetrone 14y ago
Thank you!

topbanana 14y ago

Hi. This is a site I would use personally, if you could provide a meaningful view for a European, filtering out items that sellers aren't prepared to post to me. (Postage within Europe is quite cheap).

emilepetrone 14y ago
On the top of my todo.. should be out in the next 24 hours

wizard_2 14y ago

This is awesome! I think I know where I can offload my assembled older projects when I'm done with them. =) One note: When singing up you should redirect away from the registration page.

emilepetrone 14y ago
Sounds good! Will do!

grumps 14y ago

Seeing that I'm much more of a "builder" then I'm a creator, I really have to admire someone who drops there job, to do something full time that hasn't proven a source of income yet. Personally I love the idea of the site. I'm not sure it has anything that I would buy yet, but I'm still a huge fan of it. I keep looking for something I'd want off there. That being said, I'm not sure what the market is, out there for these kinds of things.

emilepetrone 14y ago
Thanks- yeah that is part of the gamble. Timing is never something people know until you are in it.

brianmwang 14y ago

Congratulations on the jump, Emile :)

noonespecial 14y ago

That's awesome. Tindie was one of those things that I found so cool that I was actually a bit perturbed to find out that it was just someone's side project. Some ideas just deserve more. Best of luck.

noirman 14y ago

Congratulation, Emile!

emilepetrone 14y ago
Thanks!

imknight 14y ago

congra, proudn00b !

emilepetrone 14y ago
Thanks!

jmsduran 14y ago

Very interesting site. Keep up the good work!

emilepetrone 14y ago
much appreciated!

laserDinosaur 14y ago

Tindie is one of the few websites I've seen on HN that actually got me excited. Great idea, great execution. Best of luck!

itmag 14y ago

Does the site have some kind of "request commission" feature? Ie I can send out a request for a specific gadget I need made and people can bid on the project.

emilepetrone 14y ago
On the way...

yllus 14y ago

I upvoted purely because of what a great website Tindie is. Congratulations on the decision and best of luck!

emilepetrone 14y ago
Thanks!

jdanoz 14y ago

how are you managing the titles for the requests? I think you are saving items in one table with unique id, but the url is with text/title. Are you looking over a full-text indexed column for every request for an individual item?