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As one of the early event organizers to use imhello just want to say we love you guys, and still want to have you back -- until I read this I thought you'd fallen off the face of the Earth. You guys helped us with badges at out City Hall event (where Tim O'Reilly spoke) and also with an event at Twilio HQ. I'm really happy to hear you're back, and my one piece of advice is that once you have that initial traction and…
Wait... rural Missouri? I'm originally from Joplin (SW Mo). Glad to see you made the jump.
This makes me feel even more confident about my recent decision of ditching bloated and too ambitious "next big thing" ideas in favor of small, practical ideas that help people's lives somehow. And the latter ones are much easier to iterate through than the former, especially when you convince yourself that many of your "silly" small ideas may actually be pretty interesting if well executed. Thanks for sharing your s…
Is yours the product used at SHDHs? I (and others) were very impressed with it :)
Nope: https://github.com/novas0x2a/devhouse
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 pas…
``We didn't really have anything to sell until "we rewrote everything [and] made it configurable".
Would you say you could have sold without a rewrite? Did you try and sell before that and fail when the buyer started their due diligence?
You are on the right track. Badges was not your thing. Coding great apps is. So glad you are back on track, not giving up. Maybe this time around build a badge app - in other words, find a need and build great software to address it. And ask to be paid :)
After signup, there is a syntax issue: To try our initial beta on Feb 31, invite 2 friends that live nearby: Feb. 31 doesn't exist. :) Also, the watermarks don't show up in Firefox; I almost assumed I needed to know the "secret codes" to get an invite.
"Feb. 31 doesn't exist." Maybe they are using MySQL? http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html#1_14
Can't exactly remember what it was about but I think some banks or other banking applications are acting like there is a 31st or 30th February for some kind of calculation. (Rather off-topic but if I ever 'share' this with the whole world, it seemed like now is the time!)
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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 pas…
Sorry, this is very snarky, but seriously (over)paraphrasing: ``We didn't really have anything to sell until "we rewrote everything [and] made it configurable". Would you say you could have sold without a rewrite? Did you try and sell before that and fail when the buyer started their due diligence?
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"Feb. 31 doesn't exist." Maybe they are using MySQL? http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html#1_14
One of my previous jobs was coding software for banks that handles financial transactions. And I am not entirely sure any more if it was Feb 30th or 31st but one day the product manager came to my office and asked me to change the validation routine in the library that handles the date-related calculations and consider Feb 31st as a valid date. Can't exactly remember what it was about but I think some banks or other…