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by marram 17y ago
We use Google App Engine because we lack serious sys-admin skills, and GAE abstracts all that away from us. Also, the datastore was much easier for us to understand and hack than relational databases. For project hosting, we use hosted-proj
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by marram 17y ago
Sponty actually does this. When you change the details, it emails everyone. On an iPhone, email is just as good as SMS. People compulsively check their email on their iPhones.
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by marram 17y ago
"""I am not convinced that very many people care about discovering new events in the first place, at least not events that don't have an immediate impact on one's social status.""" My definition of an event is: A social gathering of my frie
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by marram 17y ago
We have a json API that we're using to implement an iPhone version. Open up Charles (an HTTP proxy/monitor) when using Sponty, the web interface almost directly uses the API as well.
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by marram 17y ago
I would crowd source it.
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by marram 17y ago
Try: http://www.thesponty.com
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by marram 17y ago
Have you see http://www.thesponty.com ? (disclaimer: I'm co-founder) It's has elements of Twitter, but is built specifically for casual social events. Sponty gives users a way to broadcast their social intentions, like "Lunch in Harvard S
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by marram 17y ago
Funny, I just talked to Mike Hirshland thinking he was a fellow hacker. They're sharing office space with the company we rent our office space from!
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by marram 17y ago
Why does knowing friends' past events cross a moral boundary?!
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by marram 17y ago
Technically, the simplest way to do this is via polling+ajax. In our project we implement this as follows: Every n minutes, the clients polls for updates. It sends along a marker token. The token is either a timestamp it has previously rec
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by marram 17y ago
You guys must not be in North America, because it is 4:25 p.m here.
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by marram 17y ago
... and meetup is still alive and kicking.
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by marram 17y ago
So we're bootstrapping, also in Boston, and also use GAE. We've been able to manage to stay afloat by keeping day jobs. One of us works full-time and the other part-time, while working on the startup all nights and all weekends. Obviously,
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by marram 17y ago
We've had a home-brewed solution for a while. PendingNotification(s) that get processed by a cron task that runs every minute. The PendingNotification has all the data the cron task needs to execute it. Actually, for a while, GAE didn't eve
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by marram 17y ago
Why don't you hire interns? Or a marketing pro to moonlight in exchange for equity?
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by marram 17y ago
For sure. We tried putting flyers for our website all over campuses in the Boston area. We also setup tables and had Ferrero Rocher chocolates with our cards and url stock onto them. The conversion rate from posters was zero. The conversion
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by marram 17y ago
Good start. Here is some feedback: 1. What does "Flexible learning environment" mean? I don't think this phrase adds any value. 2. "Learn from people you know and trust": Not sure if the people I currently know possess the best knowledge. I
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by marram 17y ago
I like Python on Google App Engine + Prototype.js
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by marram 17y ago
I like WebOb+Google App Engine.
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by marram 17y ago
Working fulltime at a startup (unpaid), consulting three days a week for another (paid).
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by marram 17y ago
At Sponty: Python + Google App Engine + prototype.js at consulting gig: Flex, Java, PHP and some Django.
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Looking for a marketing intern for an internship at Sponty(sponty.tumblr.com)
1 points by marram 17y ago|0 comments
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Xerox launches solid-ink printing (VentureBeat)(venturebeat.com)
1 points by marram 17y ago|0 comments
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by marram 18y ago
We've implemented cron on GAE by using silent ajax calls from clients to kick start things. Works pretty well ... as long as at least one page is open in a browser somewhere.
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by marram 18y ago
What is html encryption anyways? obfuscation?
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by marram 18y ago
I tried it, and the robot called my phone. It came from a +46 number. Sweden? nice. The robot voice was very hard to understand though. You really should record the voice yourself or get a friend to do it. Also, I needed to press 1 to activ
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by marram 18y ago
The purple logo on the blue background is a bit hard on the eyes. Maybe a softer purple?
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by marram 18y ago
We are two cofounders. We both had full time jobs. We worked nights and weekends for a year and got something out the door. Now that it is going well, I made a deal with my employer to switch to part-time. I consolidated my fixed costs (aka
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by marram 18y ago
Looks pretty cool. Does it hook into Facebook?
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by marram 18y ago
Here is another option: Quit your fulltime job and get a part-time gig. Reduce your expenses so that you can scrape by on the part time salary. Crank out the code until you have customers/user base, then go for funding. This is what we've o

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