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Re: I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

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Post by tommyvyo »

patio11 wrote: post #111
larrys wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should add to your marketing more info about how you are good in handling traffic and most importantly why. In a way that will make sense with both tech and non tech types. (Non tech has no idea what aws is or a cdn is for example). I've looked at your site a few times (even right now) and that isn't the thing that stuck in my mind from your marketing. The takeaway for me was "expert at WP" not necessarily "exper…

We're (literally) working on a website refresh right now, which hits that and other points. Sample factoid: One of the customers was on 20/20 recently and sustained 2,500 requests per second for 15 minutes. Boring technical details: Varnish caching, automatic load balancing, redundant servers (beefy physical hardware to avoid poor disk performance on virtualized systems), "Death to KeepAlive", etc. (Ooh, it is live n…

"Digg-Proof"...? That should have come down.. like... a year ago.

Re: I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

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Post by goldmab »

there wrote: post #121
marknutter wrote: post #22

Kudos to you for following your dream, but I do have to say I'm fully against making it easier for people to move that which should stay on the web to native apps. We have web browsers for a reason.

i don't think his intention is to move content, but rather just to make that content more easily accessible and visible to mobile users. the problem with mobile websites is that they have to compete with the app store. if an iphone user wants a train schedule, are they more likely to open up a browser and search google for "train schedule iphone" and scroll around clicking on random sites? or would they just open the…

When I want to look at the train schedule, I just touch the bookmark on my home screen, which takes me to the web page with the schedule.

Re: I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

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Post by brianobush »

davidkellis wrote: post #19

Why did you choose to form an LLC instead of a C-Corporation?

from my personal history, LLCs are just easy, but provide many of the same protections that a c-corp do but with less hassle. The only problem is growth and # of founders; it is harder to provide stock options and gets complicated during tax season when you have more than a couple founders.

Re: I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

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Post by JulianMiller520 »

magsafe wrote: post #117
gozman wrote: post #113

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Sorry Magsafe, you need to have JSON API installed. This is written on the site.

My point was the app should never crash, for whatever reason. You need to handle failures gracefully.

(read as: this toaster didn't fail gracefully when i tossed it in the tub)

Re: I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

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Post by theDaveB »

Nice idea but you have some competition. Won't mention sites on here, played with a identical solution a few weeks ago. Also found somewhere that is doing a WP app for a one off charge of $17, you download source code, edit it, compile it and submit it to the app store.

Dave

Re: I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

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Post by justincormack »

djb_hackernews wrote: post #100
jeffcouturier wrote: post #43

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Unless the app auto-updates its content to be sure it is always in sync with the website, having native app speed and offline use grows increasingly less desirable the farther out you get from the date the app was created. For Wordpress sites one would expect new content daily. If Appifier pulls content and makes it all available offline that's great, until/unless the site being "appified" has new content. Will the a…

You should check out the site when its back up, obviously the app auto updates when new content is published. It works because you have to install a plugin in your WP blog, which presumably has WP publish/edit hooks etc which notifies an Appifier service, which then pushes to the apps, making sure all content is up to date and available offline. It's a pretty popular, if not the only, design for content surfacing app…

It is actually not obvious. Now the site is back up I can't find anything that explains how updates are handled, or how offline works. For all I can tell the plugin might just be to build the app... I hope you are right as that is more useful. Some explanation would be good...

Re: I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

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Post by patio11 »

larrys wrote: post #127
patio11 wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're (literally) working on a website refresh right now, which hits that and other points. Sample factoid: One of the customers was on 20/20 recently and sustained 2,500 requests per second for 15 minutes. Boring technical details: Varnish caching, automatic load balancing, redundant servers (beefy physical hardware to avoid poor disk performance on virtualized systems), "Death to KeepAlive", etc. (Ooh, it is live n…

That's great. I actually read the whole page. I would add an additional bullet to the home page adapting a key statement from that page where they said "sit back and be happy you're not having to do all this yourself." Why our engine never stops ----------------------------- (Hey, why are we so fast, secure and scalable?) Sit back and be happy that you're not having to do all this yourself Linked to the "our-infrastr…

Thanks for the suggestions. We're still in the process of updating things, but we'll make "Compelling for non-technical users who just want things to not break, comprehensive for technical people who want to understand we're not snow-jobbing them." a priority.

Re: I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

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Post by gesman »

WPtouch == 90% bang for $0 bucks + 1 minute time investment. TheAppifier's nativization of blogs has its niche: - for blogs that has large, religious, passionate following. - for marketing departments who love to announce "immediate availability of mobile app".

It does not add any "native" functionality though - just save people from typing URL in mobile browsers. True/false?

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