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Looked neat, but scrolling down crashed Firefox before I could check out more on the page. It escalated to Windows blocking gpu access :/ (Never seen that one before)
There is an mp4 video embedded immediately underneath the header section, so maybe that's what caused the issue for you?
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Haha! I understand what you mean. It's a long story, but the gist of it is that I had been more of a hobby-grade developer, on and off, and had a few side projects that I would occasionally boot up and play with. You could say that I was technical enough to be dangerous, but before PriceTable I did not have any "real-life" experience (or the depth and breadth of knowledge) that comes with building and maintaining a S…
Also a hobby dev who learned Rails. What was the switch to Elixir like in terms of learning curve and community support?
There were other challenges too. Rails is a pretty mature ecosystem, and there are libraries and guides and examples for almost anything you can imagine. With Elixir/Phoenix, I ended up having to learn many concepts and system design principles and then implement them myself. For example, at the time I was working on the billing modules, the only Stripe library for Elixir was in a limbo, so I developed my own integration. With Ruby you'd literally install the official Stripe Ruby library and go wild.
Stuff like that wasn't necessarily a bad thing, mind you. I feel like a lot of things I took for granted in Rails (a lot of the "magic"), I had to actually learn with Elixir, and it made me a better engineer.
Elixir and Phoenix documentation is fantastic, and the community is both extremely friendly and very knowledgeable. There's an Elixir Slack that gets a fair amount of traffic, and both Jose Valim (Elixir creator) and Chris McCord (Phoenix creator) are very active both there and on the Elixir forums.
If you're interested in making the switch, I'd love to help. Shoot me an email at ege@pricetable.io!
Hi, If you ever want to talk about how you build and deploy your app along with your tech stack in detail let me know. I've love to have you on the https://runninginproduction.com podcast. There's 14 Phoenix episodes at https://runninginproduction.com/tags/phoenix but the more the merrier since every story is unique. If you wanted to come on the show click the "become a guest" button on the top right to get the ball…
I have been part of a startup working on 401k industry, and everything there is custom and time consuming. I helped build a very user-friendly tool to build 401K proposals, and I can see how your tool can be very very useful.
You need to onboard a sales/marketing person. Someone with a few years experience in business software sales. Will the sales increase be enough to pay for the new person is not a given but you have probably reached a point that for growth you need marketing. No matter how good a software is and how much the end user likes it you will need a sales guy to get it pass the purchase department.
Somebody spending 4 hours a week on skillful promotion could make a lot of difference here, at a rather moderate expense.
You need to onboard a sales/marketing person. Someone with a few years experience in business software sales. Will the sales increase be enough to pay for the new person is not a given but you have probably reached a point that for growth you need marketing. No matter how good a software is and how much the end user likes it you will need a sales guy to get it pass the purchase department.
A part-time marketing contract is a pretty common thing. Somebody spending 4 hours a week on skillful promotion could make a lot of difference here, at a rather moderate expense.
Hi, If you ever want to talk about how you build and deploy your app along with your tech stack in detail let me know. I've love to have you on the https://runninginproduction.com podcast. There's 14 Phoenix episodes at https://runninginproduction.com/tags/phoenix but the more the merrier since every story is unique. If you wanted to come on the show click the "become a guest" button on the top right to get the ball…
Thanks Nick. Saw your email and will respond tomorrow. Had not heard about your podcast so I appreciate you sharing it!
For an idea of what would be like, check out my interview with Arvid Kahl or Julien Klapetch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj2hfq5GZ8Q&list=PLFhQVxlaKQ...
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A part-time marketing contract is a pretty common thing. Somebody spending 4 hours a week on skillful promotion could make a lot of difference here, at a rather moderate expense.
Any tips for finding such a person if you don't know anyone in your circles?