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Registration Open for Ignite RailsConf
(igniterailsconf.com)
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Practical advice for growing (not building) an online community
(twistedmind.com)
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19y ago
Seaside (because I want to implement some heavy desktop-like capabilities)
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drop19
19y ago
Baltimore, 2, 29 & 30
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19y ago
Work like hell on the idea and see if people want what I'm making. Re-apply in the fall if I still need the help.
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drop19
19y ago
I pay it out of pocket along with some life and disability insurance; I think it's worth the peace of mind to enhance creativity and not worry about "what ifs".
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19y ago
You might have to hack your own alternative -- and believe it or not there is a lot of hope for you; I've had a lot of success here in Baltimore by making things, telling everyone I know about them, and also letting everyone in my network k
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20y ago
Absolutely it is; I spent a long time this year working with a small real estate company that uses very primitive software and analog techniques to track very complex business processes. Existing software that would help them is too cumber
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20y ago
I'm only thinking in terms of what's possible. Can I build something like that without continuations? What's what I'm wondering.
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20y ago
Gang, I submitted a YC funding idea for a new app that would be highly interactive and ideal to put on the web. The closest thing I've seen to what I'm trying to do is DabbleDB; I won't be competing with it, but my idea is 'of a piece' wit
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Should I even attempt something of this complexity in Rails?
(dabbledb.com)
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20y ago
We should all be planning to fly under big companies anyway and not targeting these kinds of large organizations at first.
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20y ago
Building small apps like this is a great learning experience -- I'd love to read more about what you learned by doing it, and what kind of traffic you are seeing
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20y ago
This seems like too big of a distraction; file it away on your to do list until it matters.
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20y ago
I work with people who mostly do not have a startup mindset, or even a work-for-yourself mindset, and I think my creativity had been suffering until I took it upon myself to be proactive. In my experience so far, anything you can do to spen
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Maybe there's a whole category of apps to be built like this: they don't make money themselves, but they educate the creators and connect them to things that will make money (he mentioned three new opportunties). Also, this shows an impress
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Face to face trumps twitter, blogs, podcasting, social news...
(headrush.typepad.com)
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20y ago
It seems like if you are building to flip you might get lucky, and at certain times (like 7 years ago) that's easier than others. But "build to last"/"build to work" are on the same side of the coin as "make something people want": the odd
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20y ago
This shows the value of human relationships in startups -- the people who are most successful spend time cultivating them, and take a long-term approach to investing their time in them (I may not back this person today but I want to keep up
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20y ago
fonts are fine (that's an easy change for browser users to make because we have shortcuts), but visited links should be darker (more of a pain to change for just one site)
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20y ago
I love it, it reminds me of Guy Kawasaki's article about avoid stupid things that slow users down.. http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/01/the_top_ten_stu.html very refreshing to not have to type extra crap in.
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20y ago
Amichail, there is a site that was a proto-version of what you're describing called The Business Experiment. It seems to be down right now, but here's an article about it: http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2005/0
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I have to say this matches my experience with any shared host for a serious web app. TextDrive is super helpful with customer service but not being able to get root on your server cuts off a lot of solutions. So my advice to anyone hosting
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I've actually never read anyone discussing the elasticity of demand for web services. Here's a thank-you to my econ teacher in college! Sobering quote: "The biggest gap in any venture is that between a service that is free and one that cos
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well, all I can tell you is that from looking at the logs, there are a lot of people out there who are searching for someone with common interests that they must not be finding through normal channels. I'm especially seeing it with people
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I joined the entrepeneur meetup group and have been to one meeting; it was 3 people who were in business to cater to small businesses (like accountants and marketing people), and everyone else was technical, so it was a good experience for
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thanks for pointing this out! It turned out to be a bug in the way I was indexing; I had a memory leak. How embarassing! Based on the feedack I've received, I changed the questions to be more general. I just realized I need to change the
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This has been a really interesting 17 hours. I've only posted here and startupping.com and I've received a lot of traffic (a lot for me anyway). One thing I did not anticipate was all of the international visitors. So far there's Sweden,
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interesting! I never thought of coding it up a la a dating site. I wonder what sort of algorithm would work best for that. I don't want it become like eHarmony! I could add such a questionnaire as an optional part of the process.
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I thought so, because you might want to look for someone who's not as good at something as you are. That's something to consider though; if that ends up giving too many garbage results I can always remove it from the index.
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