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Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#11

Post by sirraj » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 12:38 PM UTC

That is beautiful site design, and I'm thinking this is an April Fool's day joke!

Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#12

Post by vaksel » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 12:41 PM UTC

i like the "help us get featured on X"....at a glance it looks like you already were

Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#13

Post by heymatty » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 12:43 PM UTC

olalonde wrote: post #3

Out of curiosity, why do you use both Redis and MongoDB?

We use Redis and MongoDB for two different purposes.

Redis is used for our messaging queue (resque), sessions and caching. MongoDB is used to store our user data. Redis could be used to store our user data as well but we feel that MongoDB is a lot easier to work with because of its query language.

MongoDB fits better to store our user data and Redis fits better for our messaging queue, sessions and caching. We have yet completed migrating from MySQL to MongoDB which is why I've listed both in my post.

Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#14

Post by heymatty » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 12:46 PM UTC

code wrote: post #10

Who did the screenplay and video work for the demo?

http://epipheostudios.com

Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#15

Post by heymatty » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 12:46 PM UTC

sirraj wrote: post #11

That is beautiful site design, and I'm thinking this is an April Fool's day joke!

It's not :)

Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#16

Post by timmyd » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 12:50 PM UTC

heymatty wrote: post #14

code wrote: post #10

Who did the screenplay and video work for the demo?

http://epipheostudios.com

expensive ? seems it would be to get them to produce a video ? are you able to share the cost ?

Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#17

Post by heymatty » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 12:57 PM UTC

timmyd wrote: post #16

heymatty wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://epipheostudios.com

expensive ? seems it would be to get them to produce a video ? are you able to share the cost ?

I'd rather not say here, but it's a bit on the pricy side but totally worth it.

Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#18

Post by pbhjpbhj » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 12:59 PM UTC

bmelton wrote: post #9

Since nobody else has said it, I'll take it!

Don't you mean taketake it? \groan\

I'd of had it, even just for the domain name. I can understand giving it away but not giving it away to just anyone with no commitment to continue the project.

Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#19

Post by rmontanaro » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 1:03 PM UTC

gregschlom wrote: post #2

Clickable link to the site: http://taketake.com/ Looks nice, btw.

Loved the clickable link. I'm such a procrastinator.

Re: Ask HN: I'm giving away my startup taketake.com for free - who wants it?

#20

Post by jakkinabox » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 1:04 PM UTC

When I go to peoples websites I always ask my self "Would I use this?". At first I was like "nah" but by the end of the video I was "hmm yeah let me sign up!".

It's a shame you're giving this away.