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Re: Ask HN: How do I beat the solo development blues?

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Post by anamax » Wed, Jun 04, 2008, 7:02 AM UTC

psyklic wrote: post #20

sosueme wrote: post #14

You could work with/for me. Seriously. I am one of those "non coding" founders. I come from the entertainment biz and know first hand that there is a need for web app suite that would help about 1.5 E+3 people each to do what I did for the last 5 years. The tools that exist for what I want to have developed either are no tools at all, something like a business process checklist, or do 30% of what is needed or require…

1.5 e+3 = 1500 people. Is this large enough of a market? It seems like it may not have much growth potential ...

It depends on how much those folks will spend to reduce their pain. And then there's the wannabees who you might get to pay for junior versions.

Re: Ask HN: How do I beat the solo development blues?

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Post by euccastro » Wed, Jun 04, 2008, 7:05 AM UTC

psyklic wrote: post #20

sosueme wrote: post #14

You could work with/for me. Seriously. I am one of those "non coding" founders. I come from the entertainment biz and know first hand that there is a need for web app suite that would help about 1.5 E+3 people each to do what I did for the last 5 years. The tools that exist for what I want to have developed either are no tools at all, something like a business process checklist, or do 30% of what is needed or require…

1.5 e+3 = 1500 people. Is this large enough of a market? It seems like it may not have much growth potential ...

I guess the interesting figure here is the yearly 2 * 3e+9 euros worth of business.

Re: Ask HN: How do I beat the solo development blues?

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Post by wenbert » Wed, Jun 04, 2008, 10:09 AM UTC

I rented a cheap room. Got an internet connection and then invited my friends over. We hack a few hours every night after work. We each have our own projects (outsourced ones or pet projects).

The good thing about this is that we never get bored. and we share our ideas.

Re: Ask HN: How do I beat the solo development blues?

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Post by vikram » Wed, Jun 04, 2008, 10:15 AM UTC

If cakePHP works for you then use that. I'd look to build something that uses something that PHP and cakePHP is good at.

For a while I've been thinking about a wikipedia for apps. Where people contribute code rather than text and help others build applications out of it, by using a plug-n-play sort of functionality.

From the 10 minutes I spent thinking about PHP, it seems to me that the one thing it has going to it is that it makes it easy for your users to upload code onto the site to modify it. E.g. Ning and Jotspot.

So maybe instead of a cpan for cakephp. A cpan for web apps. Where I can go to create a basic application, by choosing modules and plugging then together or adding applications that others have built to my stack.

Re: Ask HN: How do I beat the solo development blues?

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Post by sosueme » Wed, Jun 04, 2008, 1:36 PM UTC

psyklic wrote: post #20

sosueme wrote: post #14

You could work with/for me. Seriously. I am one of those "non coding" founders. I come from the entertainment biz and know first hand that there is a need for web app suite that would help about 1.5 E+3 people each to do what I did for the last 5 years. The tools that exist for what I want to have developed either are no tools at all, something like a business process checklist, or do 30% of what is needed or require…

1.5 e+3 = 1500 people. Is this large enough of a market? It seems like it may not have much growth potential ...

that was me trying to be a smart ass. missed an order of magnitude

the market is about 15000 people

regarding a wannabe / junior version comment I am inclined to think that the tool requires 100% functionality to be useful.