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by thenduks 13y ago
Bugrocket broke even during the beta period - about 3 months. CourseCraft isn't SaaS, more like a marketplace, so some months it makes a lot more (from transaction fees) than it costs and sometimes less, but overall/on average it
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by thenduks 13y ago
I made Bugrocket ( https://bugrocket.com ) in my spare time intending to convince everyone at work we should drop Bugzilla and use it instead (it worked :)). My latest project is CourseCraft ( https://coursecraft.net ) a
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by thenduks 13y ago
The CC-required-for-trial thing is a form of 'negative option billing' and, IMO, it would be best not to do it. Many companies have stopped (a high profile example: 37signals no longer requires credit cards to signup for Basecamp)
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by thenduks 13y ago
Bugrocket ( https://bugrocket.com , since March 2011, bug tracking for small dev teams) is subscription-based and grows slowly, currently around $500/month in revenue. CourseCraft ( https://coursecraft.net , since
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by thenduks 14y ago
The books that don't claim to teach you in 24 hours/21 days/etc are the 'teach yourself in 10 years' books :)
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by thenduks 14y ago
The app handles full screen mode (3rd of 4 screenshots on the app store).
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Show HN: jQuery-TourBus - a web app tour plugin (weekend project)(ryanfunduk.com)
3 points by thenduks 14y ago|0 comments
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by thenduks 14y ago
It does seem to be what they are saying but, unfortunately, no :( Random request routing is also present on Cedar [1]. The difference is that, on Cedar, you can easily run multi-threaded or even multi-process apps (the latter being harder
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by thenduks 14y ago
Well, thanks a lot for your thoughts/insight on the subject. We discussed/thought/slept on it at length and still think the price is right. The biggest single piece that convinces us is that the people we're aiming at are hobbyists. They ar
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by thenduks 14y ago
Hi there thanks for commenting! I think there's a bit of a disconnect between the stuff you mention here and what our target market is going to use/need. We're aiming squarely at hobbyists/independent people who want to share/sell their kno
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by thenduks 14y ago
I think you're right, there's no reason not to explain our fee on the frontpage, and just link right there to the help page that goes into detail ( update: added :) ). I'll also definitely add a csv export to the participants list, and do y
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by thenduks 14y ago
Hey, yea the example course is important, and in the works, as I mentioned to some other people. About the editor, it was definitely one of the harder parts of the app, and to be honest it's not exactly iBooks Author :) We based the capabil
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by thenduks 14y ago
On 'mastering via teaching', this is exactly what we're talking about! The formal sites look great, but it can be a bit intimidating to a hobbyist with a blog who wants to teach knitting. On the homepage. You're right. We need a 'this is wh
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by thenduks 14y ago
Sara (my wife) is very happy to hear you like the look/feel! :) Right now we're working on a 'how to make a coursecraft course' course, and a video is definitely on our xmas list, although it's a much bigger undertaking. Thanks!
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by thenduks 14y ago
Haha thanks, I agree! There are some existing solutions out there (udemy, coursera, etc) but they seem to cover a different use-case and market (coursecraft being much more informal/hobbyist type stuff). I'm hoping it's just a matter of get
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by thenduks 14y ago
Interesting. I haven't used wordpress much myself, but you're right it's likely pretty well understood by most. I'll look into it.
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by thenduks 14y ago
We flip-flopped between those two ourselves. Consider it considered :)
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by thenduks 14y ago
You know, we had some internal struggles with that. We originally were going for a bunch of scheduling vs manual publishing options and it got really complicated. Can you clarify what about it is unintuitive to you? Should there maybe be a
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by thenduks 14y ago
Hey thanks for the notes! Our cut is 5% (like kickstarter), it's on the 'getting paid' faq page which we should make more prominent (it will be a big button on the confirm-your-email page). Public no-login sample course is on the way! Acces
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by thenduks 14y ago
This is absolutely something we're working on right now. Both a 'how to make a coursecraft course' course, and a landing page video are the first things on our mind. Thanks!
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Show HN: An e-course creator for hobbyists my wife and I built(coursecraft.net)
62 points by thenduks 14y ago|26 comments
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by thenduks 14y ago
Why do they have to participate in our society in order to be protected from torture/murder/slavery/etc? The point of this article is that they have their own society and should not be made our playthings. I'm also not sure why they would
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by thenduks 15y ago
I'm not sure why that's relevant. Should we not try to improve things just because it's 'always been like this'?
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by thenduks 15y ago
Hi Robert, thanks for your comments! I think you're right that most conferences just aren't the place for me. Fortunately I can often watch the talks afterwards, so I should probably just focus on doing other things. It's a shame, though, b
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by thenduks 15y ago
Hi there, you definitely hit the nail on the head - at least as far as what I was trying to say. My post was hyperbolic and ranty - mostly on purpose - and I think for some people that didn't help get across my point as they latched onto
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by thenduks 15y ago
Hi. I have to say, I am all about moderation. It's absolutely not my intention to say "no alcohol, ever." I just think it should be distanced from the official material/tone of conferences. The article was meant to get people talking, and i
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by thenduks 15y ago
Hmm, I don't care if people stop drinking. I care that it's such a huge part of the atmosphere and identity of so many events. This part: For conferences: don't plan elaborate drinking parties and put them on the itinerary. Some people who
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by thenduks 15y ago
Hi, I'm sorry you got that from the article. I knew it was going to be an issue (which is where the disclaimer came from) and it definitely felt like a losing battle in a way, and that people were going to see me drawing a comparison no mat
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by thenduks 15y ago
My actionable suggestions are to distance the event itself from the open bar that occurs afterwards. I definitely don't think people shouldn't drink in general. I also don't think I was comparing it to creating a hostile environment where w
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Our Culture of Exclusion (or, why I'm not at JSConf this year)(ryanfunduk.com)
130 points by thenduks 15y ago|91 comments

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