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For those of you who answered yes - could you elaborate more? And also shed some light to new founders on what to look out for, questions to ask, red flags to look out for, and adv…

how do I integrate your service into my app? do I have to use API calls & is there an admin panel that's exposed?

OP what is your startup? curious!

do you have examples?

where did you get your stats from?

Wow! Your app looks impressive.. I think your team stands a good chance of being invited for an interview. How long have you been hacking on it?

that's a good suggestion.. will look into it. am just worried that it won't give me a deep enough understanding/customisation compared to Opsworks..

thanks! it looks like a good guide to getting started with Opsworks and Chef

Hi, I'm a new Rails developer, who came from an iOS background. I have a couple of test Rails applications that I deployed on Heroku and AWS using Elastic Beanstalk. However, I wan…

We are trying to create a mobile-first (tablet and iPhone) solution to managing sales pipelines for small/medium companies. This is because we personally found salesforce too bloat…

I'm hoping to get a rough survey of the sentiments by most developers regarding their employment. I know the dream of most hackers is to work in large tech companies like Google an…

Startups are overrated. Start a service-based business. Start alone. For the first 3 - 6 months, focus on building a portfolio of good work and references. For the next 6 - 12 mont…

What is your company called? Have a URL? Just curious..

And come back as interim CEO?

nice to hear that rdouble! how did you get hired, and were you hacking on your own projects/code before that?

Hey tptacek, I read some of your previous posts regarding consulting and I must say they were very useful. Do you have any tips for myself who is running a 18-month old consulting …

We didn't really manage it well, and it was not sustainable beyond a year. I remember feeling stressed out and exhausted all the time, having to manage client expectations and stil…

Yes, totally agree with this. Consulting kinda softens the blow of your product taking time to gain traction. For startups, there is calendar time and labor time. Certain things, l…

My team and I also tried this same approach for my mobile education startup - but differently. The issue with working one week on, and three weeks off is that the client is willing…

Check out http://www.getappninja.com/ which currently features an iOS for Absolute Beginners video screencast series that takes you from zero knowledge to building a Zombie Pet gam…

Very nice. I totally agree. The reason why I picked up programming in the first place is not to become an 'uber geek', but simply to build cool things. Apparently this same sentime…

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