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prateekdayal
17y ago
Its true in Bangalore too but there are always sessions where you can talk about your service or general ideas. The intention is surely not to piss off the other barcampers. May be the idea is not specific to barcamp but in general can be u
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How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
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18y ago
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18y ago
Once you raise capital, it may not be possible to do the startup because you can't find the right marketing guy at this budget. There will always be obstacles. Just release something people can start using and then invest resources in whate
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18y ago
This is Prateek from Muziboo.com, listed as one of the competitors who doesn't get it :) While Zed has excellent points, here are somethings I find kinda moot "Even if these companies open things up for musicians to sell their music, you’d
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18y ago
I have learnt that there are a lot of bootstrappers and its not that hard to make a profitable business :)
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prateekdayal
18y ago
If 37 signals had not written SVN blog and released rails, do you think as many people would have come? I would put that also into the "marketing" category
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18y ago
> Possibly use a shared deluxe to host site on 1.2TB bandwidth a month, then all the storage and streaming of audio files from S3. If you mean some kind of shared hosting, I would strongly advice against it. If you are looking at 50k -
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18y ago
As others have said, normal users don't mind this. However this works best in applications which have an inherent benefit in connecting to a lot of people. So while this may work very well for linkedin and facebook, it may not work too well
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18y ago
I will tell you what I have learnt in one year of running http://www.muziboo.com 1. Start small but do those small things right. Think of how new people will come to your site. If you are a content site, the chances are SEO, so think of i
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18y ago
I felt that What is ScribbleWiki and "Simple Wiki...." say pretty much the same thing. You may wanna look into that. Also in general its a good idea to keep all three boxes Red, Yellow and Green header one of the same dimensions (height is
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18y ago
Did you say 'music'? Would you be willing to work on a music startup we run? http://www.muziboo.com
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Is google opensocial so open afterall?
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18y ago
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18y ago
I got some minimal feedback for my site http://Muziboo.com ... i think may be because I am a passive reader of the community ...
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18y ago
I have found for my kind of business (www.Muziboo.com in music space) that widgets that users put on their blogs drives good traffic back to the website. In some ways widgets is like WOM .. if your friend puts one, you get a feeling that he
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18y ago
Oh .. Thanks for the feedback I am not sure why you are not able to play. Do you have flash > 8.0 ... Please do ping me at prateek AT muziboo.com and I would try my best to help you out
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Feedback on My Online Music Community
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18y ago
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18y ago
Online music is what I listen to mostly these days as my browser is always on. I love listening to some of these tracks in particular http://muziboo.com/song/list/nitindubey23?order=2 Anyone into Indian music here? :) Disclaimer: Link fro
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Ask YC: The art of invitation design?
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18y ago
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19y ago
I started working on http://muziboo.com last year and then worked with my job for about 4 months. Quit my job and did it along with consulting for another 3 months and fulltime now. At one point, it gets very tough to switch your brains :