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How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code

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Re: How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code

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The exaggerations in titles are really starting to bother me. Yes, you started with 300 lines of code... But then you modified it several times for different conferences, and enhanced it a lot when you really become popular. Only after that did you sell it.

and evangelized the hell out of it, too, which isn't exactly easy work.

i mean, its still a good story. but the tl;dr title isn't accurate.

Re: How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code

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Re: How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code

#14

The exaggerations in titles are really starting to bother me. Yes, you started with 300 lines of code... But then you modified it several times for different conferences, and enhanced it a lot when you really become popular. Only after that did you sell it.

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Re: How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code

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post #11

The exaggerations in titles are really starting to bother me. Yes, you started with 300 lines of code... But then you modified it several times for different conferences, and enhanced it a lot when you really become popular. Only after that did you sell it.

and evangelized the hell out of it, too, which isn't exactly easy work. i mean, its still a good story. but the tl;dr title isn't accurate.

Titles aren't meant to be a tl;dr

Re: How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code

#16

The exaggerations in titles are really starting to bother me. Yes, you started with 300 lines of code... But then you modified it several times for different conferences, and enhanced it a lot when you really become popular. Only after that did you sell it.

The actual number lines actually hovered around that until we sold. It was fork soup because we hardcoded everything for each event (I love git so much for making that so easy). For every event, we always seen it as just one more event for promotion so we didn't want to make everything configurable. Simple and easy to test basically.

Towards the very end we rewrote everything, made it configurable, integrated all past features, and made a UI designer for designing labels (instead of hardcoding the layouts) and then we sold.

Re: How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code

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Great work. I keep remembering that in my little community a business that just sold for >$100 million started out making steak fingers and selling them to restaurants. Steak fingers. $100 million. nothing is impossible.

Whats the name of this business?

Re: How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code

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The exaggerations in titles are really starting to bother me. Yes, you started with 300 lines of code... But then you modified it several times for different conferences, and enhanced it a lot when you really become popular. Only after that did you sell it.

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Re: How we fed ourselves for a year & sold a startup...with only 300 lines of code

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post #14

The exaggerations in titles are really starting to bother me. Yes, you started with 300 lines of code... But then you modified it several times for different conferences, and enhanced it a lot when you really become popular. Only after that did you sell it.

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