Wait, I'm confused - I'd at least expect you to mention something about us getting into the PR circle jerk as part of the program? Is that not part of it?
The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
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Andreessen Horowitz will match your $50 with another $50.
I'll match the $50 in development services from AbtainLabs.com as long as Ruby on Rails is used. Small sites could actually host on Heroku for free.
Are there any good "State Engine" packages for use with Ruby on Rails? I have been working in Javascript for the Windows 8 UI (and probably PhoneGap to make a quick Android port), but if it would help get the product done to go another direction, I am willing to consider.
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#173this could have been so much more fun at $42 instead of $37 or $50... #justsayin
I would like to see it at $1337
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#176It does seem like cost are negligible today, but on deeper analysis theres a lot of costs beyond simply hosting. Just from memory for my startup (Authy.com), initial costs were: Domain: $1000+ Design: $3000 Video: $3000 Hosting: $400 Depending on your skills this initial costs will vary. An although I agree you don't need external investment to cover them, you should at least plan to invest $10,000US to cover your in…
A lot of the things that you seem to think of as mandatory are not. Domain: or get something longer for $9. E.g., authyapp.com or getauthy.com Design: http://themeforest.net/ $15-$25, or DIY (depends on how much design matters for your niche--for Pinboard it clearly doesn't) Video: You don't need no stinkin' video Hosting: Maciej is recommending http://prgmr.com/xen/ for $32 (but can you actually run a modern app sta…
> can you actually run a modern app stack on just 128 MB of RAM
Depends on what you call modern.
I think fitting nginx / embedded lua / redis should be possible (considering your dataset fits into 32 megs).
Actually, that sounds like an interesting challenge!
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#177I don't understand all this angel investment speak but the thing I am curios the most is simple. I apply I make it "big" Does pin board owns any of my company because they invested $37 a month and provided exposure? I really don't understand who doesn't have $37 a month to be self-funded but I'm interested on exposure.
I believe it is a one-time $37 investment, not monthly.
If I understood the discussion elsewhere in this thread, he states that the investment is a form that gets converted to $37 worth of shares at the next fundraising valuation.
So if you raised venture capital at a million dollars valuation, he would own $37 worth of shares, which later if the company was sold for a billion would give the investor a cool $37,000.
Basically he is trying to make a point rather than make big profits.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
MySQL and Ruby could be made to work. (on 128mb of ram)...concurrency would be awful though. I was trying to be lean. Ruby users are quiche eaters anyway. Real programmers write their code in Fortran and persist to a hierarchical database on a mainframe.
Real programmers use a magnetic needle and a steady hand.
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#180Is $37 an ode to 37 signals?
The funding amount is paid out in dollar bills: 37 singles.