Just a question: how did you get those vendors to partner with you. Did you approach them?
Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup
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Re: Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup
#142Would you mind going briefly into what "I learned to code" entailed? Did you identify the languages/technologies you needed to learn at first? How did you go about learning them, etc.? There's a ton of info about learning languages out there but a lot of it tends to be abstract, I'd be very interested in hearing how you learned within the context of actually launching a product.
Sure. I wrote a little bit about it here http://spencerfry.com/why-and-when-to-learn-to-program and I'll write more about that on my blog in the near future. We're using Ruby on Rails as our backend code and mainly picked that because that's what most of my friends were good in and I knew that I could go to them with any questions.
Great work on the look and feel of the portal. Looking forward to read your story on the blog.
Not sure why adsense at my place of work blocks your blog for the reason: Not allowed to browse Anonymizer category.
Re: Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup
#143Small quibble, but I don't like that you mentioned Game of Thrones along with Netflix and Hulu. Those online services don't have Game of Thrones. The only way to watch any HBO show is to have a cable subscription or buy the episodes directly.
Fair point and good catch. We'll swap out Game of Thrones for a different streaming title.
Like Arrested Development!
Re: Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup
#144Nice work! I thought it was pretty obvious what the startup does, thought I might put the headline "Reward Your Employees" left, or top center, where it's likely to be the first thing someone reads, rather than the reasons, which were the first thing my eye gravitated toward.
Re: Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
I respectfully disagree. A title such as "Show HN: My Employee Rewards Site" would have been more applicable. However, I don't begrudge the OP, as he's certainly gaining lots of useful feedback for his site. I just can't help but feel slightly gamed ;)
I agree. Call me crazy, but it just seems intuitive that the title "I learned to code to launch my new startup" should be about, ummm, learning to code. I also think that the blog post would have been much more pertinent to the OP's experiences and conducive to good feedback. Conceivably he chose the title because he wanted feedback on his experiences while learning to code, yet he got feedback about the product in g…
"I learned to code to launch my new startup" .. and here it is. That's implicit to me.