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by karterk 15y ago
If it's write heavy, more than the app server, it will be the DB that will be more important to you. If it's purely I/O bound, node.js might work out fairly well for you. Perhaps you could hook it up with mongodb and it will be pretty. :)
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by karterk 15y ago
There is no right answer here. It really depends on what kind of purpose your backend serves. Is it processor bound or I/O bound? How frequently is your app going to hit the backend? How fast do you expect to grow?
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by karterk 15y ago
My advice here is not to plan for premature optimizing and scaling. Between Python, NodeJS and Erlang you have three options to choose from. However, trying to choose between them should basically come down to your personal comfort level an
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by karterk 15y ago
The way I go about this is to first record whatever idea I get onto a document that I keep. From my past experience, I tend to sometimes get very excited about ideas, and that usually stops me from thinking through properly about its viabil
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by karterk 15y ago
From my experience, using the webview in iOS becomes painful quickly.. It would be better if you slowly started learning objective-c, because that gives you more options once you become a little familiar with how things work... And, just cu
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by karterk 15y ago
Scribble - http://scribble.wreally.com For those who have a habit of saving .txt files to their desktop as reminders, notes, thoughts and random ideas. It's also on the Chrome webstore, and it has found it's own little fan club there :)
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by karterk 15y ago
He is trying to pitch SASS to the design community - and most designers use OS X or Windows.
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by karterk 15y ago
You should definitely drop by here to keep us updated on how things go! All the best.
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by karterk 15y ago
Python (though not by any means a functional language), offers many functional programming constructs like map, filter, zip etc. If you want to transition slowly into "thinking" in a functional language, I suggest you can get started on tha
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by karterk 15y ago
Go for Google charts, it's really awesome. http://code.google.com/apis/chart/
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by karterk 15y ago
You might want to read this article first: http://www.shubharamani.com/wordpress/?p=31 It summarizes some of the challenges you will face as you go about building your vision into an actual product. The hardest part is getting started, an
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by karterk 15y ago
I remember it going viral! Curious to find out how it's doing now in terms of traffic.
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by karterk 15y ago
Thanks for your suggestion! There is a snag in Google maps which causes grey areas to start appearing outside the boundaries of the world map (on top and bottom). Which kinda sucks because it makes the map look ugly. That's why I had to set
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by karterk 15y ago
About the idea 4 (World map live postcard). I made something similar here: http://iambored.wreally.com/ It's a real time map showing who is currently viewing that page (you need HTML5 geolocation api). However it never took off because fo
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by karterk 15y ago
Don't be embarrassed, great job on going ahead and shipping it! Some suggestions: 1. Make the call of action buttons larger. E.g. "subscribe now", "try for 30 days" etc. They should be larger. 2. I see that your layout is single column with
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by karterk 15y ago
If you are looking at purely exposing data RESTfully don't go with a heavy weight framework like Django or Rails. I would suggest going with either Sinatra or NodeJS (check out http://expressjs.com which is a very light weight, Sinatra li
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by karterk 15y ago
Ok, it's interesting that just an hour of submitting to such directories can bring in such decent traffic! > I also contacted lots of people on Twitter and asked if they’d give my app a try. How do you do that? In past, when I have trie
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by karterk 15y ago
Thanks for sharing this experience with us. 1. When you mentioned about 1 or 2 users signing up randomly - what's your overall inbound traffic to your app like? 2. I am guessing you did not particularly do any paid advertising, except for s
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by karterk 15y ago
> 1 - Javascript is not fundamentally easier to code in than Java. I wouldn't make that statement with Ruby for example, but I've done lots of all 3. A lot of people coming from front-end development on the web prefer JavaScript over Ja
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by karterk 15y ago
3 dollars per month? I suggest you to hike up that price.. I know it sounds like people would be more willing to pay if the price is lower, but I can tell you that at 3 USD, you will never be able to grow your business or market it effectiv
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by karterk 15y ago
> On the other hand, the Bangalore Craigslist is offering $3.00/hr for PHP work Not many use craigslist in Bangalore, that's why.
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The cult of the NDA(frozennorth.org)
2 points by karterk 15y ago|0 comments
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Is Your Startup Solving a Worthwhile Problem? (mohansawhney.com)
2 points by karterk 15y ago|1 comments
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What’s your goof up strategy?(frelay.com)
1 points by karterk 15y ago|0 comments
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by karterk 15y ago
Some thoughts: 1. The vertical navigation is a complete fail.. I almost missed it and have to tilt my head to read the links 2. Instead of having a video (it's also not apparent that I need to click on the black box to play the video), have
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by karterk 15y ago
Clickable: http://www.pegby.com
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by karterk 15y ago
As mentioned by others already, the slicehost articles are great for installing and setting up a server (they have detailed guides for Ubuntu, centos, debian, etc.) A few things to be aware of: 1. Security. I can't stress this enough, as pe
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SMS API for international numbers
1 points by karterk 15y ago|0 comments
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by karterk 15y ago
Coming soon page could be valuable if they contain enough information on what the product is about so that interested people could join. This will be a much more valuable list than when people blindly join in due to hype.
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What a road seller taught me about selling(frelay.com)
35 points by karterk 15y ago|3 comments

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