Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle • Hacker News Board

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by izaidi » Mon, Jul 21, 2008, 4:47 AM UTC

louislouis wrote: post #51

yago wrote: post #13

looks awesome. two questions: 1) which technologies was used? 2) how do you handle high loads?

1) php,mysql,js,flash 2) Not very well. My server is dying. I'm about to upgrade but I'll have to take the site down for the nameservers to propogate to the new ips. Anyone know how long this takes? I considered using amazon for scaling but the article below this one says amazon is down, hehe.

I'm not an expert on this stuff but if you're just changing the IPs and not the actual NS records for the domain, the changes will be pretty much instantaneous, depending on how quickly your DNS service registers updates. I use DNS Made Easy and they usually take about ten or twenty minutes to accept a changed IP; once it goes into their records it's reflected everywhere immediately.

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by froo » Mon, Jul 21, 2008, 5:21 AM UTC

louislouis wrote: post #51

yago wrote: post #13

looks awesome. two questions: 1) which technologies was used? 2) how do you handle high loads?

1) php,mysql,js,flash 2) Not very well. My server is dying. I'm about to upgrade but I'll have to take the site down for the nameservers to propogate to the new ips. Anyone know how long this takes? I considered using amazon for scaling but the article below this one says amazon is down, hehe.

re: nameservers, it depends, most newer systems have it updating within about 4 hours, that being said, some ISP's DNS cached can be borked, so it can take up to 24-48 hours.

You should really leave up your old site in parallel with the new one while you're moving it, I'd say go for a period of 7 days just to be on the safe side.

Hope this helps your needs.

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by izaidi » Mon, Jul 21, 2008, 5:24 AM UTC

ivankirigin wrote: post #56

danielha wrote: post #7

Damn that turtle is bad ass.

Seriously. Tipsy might have to run and hide to get a redesign again. http://tipjoy.com/static/images/logo2.png

At least Tipsy seems trustworthy. I'd give him my money voluntarily; Angry Mohawk Turtle would take it from me at gunpoint, then kill me anyway.

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by wenbert » Mon, Jul 21, 2008, 5:30 AM UTC

this is awesome! ^_^

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by curiousgeorge » Mon, Jul 21, 2008, 6:51 AM UTC

I really, really like the simplicity of the interface. The slow-typing/auto-complete was irritating until I realized why it was taking so long, and then I liked it for finding new music.

This is much better than Baidu's MP3 search. You should run this in China and make some serious cash.

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by johnyzee » Mon, Jul 21, 2008, 8:27 AM UTC

plaggypig wrote: post #16

It's pretty good - one of the better music index services I've used. Others here have commented on a few small issues but overall it seems well executed. However, is this really a viable business? I assume you intend it to be, based upon your description of it being a startup, but please correct me if I'm mistaken. Otherwise, I'm afraid I'm going to have to piss on your parade a little bit. I have considered developi…

Hopefully these initiatives will be the 'death by a 1000 cuts' of the RIAA.

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by axod » Mon, Jul 21, 2008, 8:28 AM UTC

Slow enough to be useless here. A search took a few minutes :/

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by thomasswift » Mon, Jul 21, 2008, 9:05 AM UTC

lacker wrote: post #57

louislouis wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The playlist can be viewed with right-click mouse button. Just added that to the site text :)

Would be nice if this worked on macs with no right click.

control click will act as right click

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by arthurk » Mon, Jul 21, 2008, 10:29 AM UTC

First off, I probably wouldn't have tried the service without such a badass turtle on the frontpage. Good artwork.

1. There's no indication of what the service does — "The Music Search Engine" is written too small and in a horrible font.

2. After entering my favourite artist and waiting nearly 1 minute there's still nothing happening. MAKE IT FASTER.

3. The font in the footer also looks horrible (Mac user).

4. I _hate_ it when someone changes the default right-click menu.

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by agentbleu » Mon, Jul 21, 2008, 11:12 AM UTC

louislouis great start.

I'm some competition...lol

http://www.myplaylist.biz/

I would recommend Linode for hosting/scaling. you need controls, SEO advice, legal statement - have a read of this: http://thenextweb.org/2008/01/30/the-music-wars-continue-war...

Good luck with the app, it looks great.