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Railyo - job board for Rails freelancers
- rk0567 14y agoany_feedback?
- dustincoates 14y agoI'd suggest taking a few minutes (tops) to tweak the confirmation email. Either the sender, the subject, or the body (or all) should specify it's coming from Railyo. In gmail, the sender is showing as "bots"--I came close to deleting it.
- rk0567 14y agoOh!! probably that's the reason why most of my manual invitation - received no replies / signups. Thank you :) I'll fix that soon.
- ambujkumar1988 14y agolooks good, I'm going to have one account here. Keep up good work.
- caioariede 14y agoIf you are a Django developer, there is a similar approach: http://djangogigs.com/ http://djangogigs.com/
- yixizhang 14y agoIs that I'm the only one think the site itself proves Rails isn't the silver bullet to solve all web application requirement out there? You guys could have done a way better job.
- rk0567 14y agoOh! anyway, I thought it's just an MVP to test the idea that whether a private job board for rails can work or not? (the developer/designer of Railyo)
- hox 14y agoIt's a job board. Who ever said Rails was a magical silver bullet? Spread your anger and animosity elsewhere.
- pekk 14y agoRails isn't a silver bullet, but this doesn't show that it is any worse than anything else
- orangethirty 14y agoI got your cold email the other day. About the 3rd cold email I've gotten from an HN user. I was happy. Anyhow, your email copy is not very good. Work on it. I also replied to the email and you never answered? If you contact me then reply. You lost your chance, because I know a lot of Rails developers.
- bdclimber14 14y agoI tried to register 4+ times with a password that included special characters, but each time it said my password didn't match. Once I changed it to an insecure password, it went through. I could have been bad typing on my part 4 times, but... you may want to test this. Also - It doesn't appear that the profile visibility dropdown gets repopulated after form submission failure with the previously selected option.
- rk0567 14y agoI'll check out the password thing, and the profile visibility dropdown error - I got it. I'll fix it. Thank You :)
- philwelch 14y agoForget the special characters and get more entropy from the sheer length of the password. Now if they restrict that, you have a problem. (Also use a decent password manager that can remember randomly-generated 30-40 character strings for you.)
- bdclimber14 14y agoHaving started a job board before (orangeslyce.com), one recommendation I have is to pre-seed the board with jobs to help get over the chicken/egg problem. You can hustle analog and get some posts or even copy quality postings off other sites. Sure they won't be paying customers, but it's kindling for the fire and gives the appearance of social proof.
- rk0567 14y agoBut it's a private job board - so developers can't see any job offers until they are signed up :) Anyway - it's really a problem - until know - there is only one job offer - from the launch (around two weeks).
- theflubba 14y agorails -g scaffold developer name:string desc:text post to hacker news
- rk0567 14y ago:) why things has to be complicated. If `rails -g scaffold * ` solves a problem then what's wrong with it ?
- nthj 14y agoThis dismissal of technical problems by fellow hackers always confuses me. As a 20-something I'm all too tempted to routinely adopt the "oh, psh, that's easy" bravado, but as I always tell my junior devs, "if you think it's easy, you don't understand the problem yet"
- pekk 14y agoYou have a good point, but some problems really are easy. That doesn't mean they aren't worth doing. Actually, things which are easy to do mean less time and cost to develop, which is a big upside if you are trying to get something done. Which hopefully most of us are doing, most of the time?
- troels 14y agoNo search? Browsing through page upon page is going to get tired soon.
- rk0567 14y agoNumber of Developers were low, so I left that out. I'll soon add search feature, possibly integrated with Google Map. Thank You :)
- jkaykin 14y agoIs Railyo open source?
- dhirajbajaj 14y agofew things i could have done differently: > importing developer data from linked-in/github instead of form filling. > Showing some jobs as it will make me sign up to the site. How do i know how many jobs are there??
- rk0567 14y agoyeah, signing up with github could be more faster and easy! but jobs preview requires some job submissions! (one is not enough :))
- schockt 14y agoCrashed, when I clicked on the hompepage URL of this developer: http://railyo.com/developers/53 http://railyo.com/developers/53 And btw your app runs in development environment!
- rk0567 14y agoI added the `http://` http://` to the developer's url and it's fine! About Development Environment - yeah, it's displaying error messages instead of error page. I'm using Capistrano for deployment! May be I had previously enabled error reporting during testing and forgot to turn it off in production environment. I'm checking into that.
- rk0567 14y agoit's running in production mode only - verified the log file using "tail -f log/production.log", but I'm not sure what is causing this behavior. (error messages)