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What I did at first is I bought stuff from competitors or similar products. It was easier for me since I considered it market research in my head :) But now of course it's a lot ea…

Sorry about that, I think I fixed it. My english is not as good as it should indeed. You can see I "translated" valorizing straight from French there...

Great presentation! Some exciting new stuff in Eventmachine.

1. I did everything myself, except reviewing 2. Sorry the old page is gone, it was a very crappy 2 colors page w/ a box in the middle w/ bullet points. My idea was, if I get decent…

Of course I was not working full time on this. Most publishers give an advance of $6K when writing a full book, which can take a year or so. Nice article about this: http://beginni…

No I'm not worried. I'm just trusting people buying the book like they are trusting me by buying it. I hate penalizing everyone for what some people might do. Also, it's a pretty s…

Thx a lot! I'm also surprised by the low quality of most products on ClickBank & other sites. That's why I'm talking openly about it, I'm sure most geeks here could do way better t…

Based on other similar package/eBooks around at that time and the price it cost me to run AdWords for 1 day. The initial market research w/ AdWords can also help choosing a price. …

Aww yes I need to learn LaTex :/

1. I've been interested in language and VMs about 1 year ago, built http://code.macournoyer.com/tinyrb/ and a couple other languages. 2. No, it all started w/ a passion for languag…

I've heard ppl selling a lot more then I did in a lot less time. Self-publishing is probably less glamourous, but surely more profitable.

That's why it's important to sell more than just an ebook. I included 2 full languages you can use in OSS, http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/ started from the Ruby language…

ClickBank is ok, a little better the e-junkie, but e-junkie has digital delivery built-in, but still... we're very far from the nice UIs we usually take for granted in our communit…

5 so fare fyi.

It started as an experiment to apply what is described in the 4 Hour Work Week book, Muse Project chapter. I've learned about marketing and ebook publishing mostly by looking at ho…

http://www.rubyinside.com/how-to-create-your-own-programming...

Yes exactly! It works for everything you want to sell online.

Writing took about 2 months IIRC. But the learning took >1 year :p

e-junkie is OK, but the UI is horrible, it's all in flash. I went w/ e-junkie at 1st because of the coupon code that gave me 120 days for free & because they handle all the digital…

Yes yes of course! Don't try this unless you can land other stuff. I've been snowboarding for 15 years and still land on my butt most of the time, but I know how to avoid breaking …

Yes we tried XMPP at first but was way to complex for our needs. We use Orbited for comet. The backend chat server is custom and based on RabbitMQ. See our protocol on https://talk…