Maybe instead of begging you could try to find someone that needs it willing to fund development?
A number of users have contributed to the campaign so far- this is the last day, thus the begging :)
Beg HN - last day for my open source crowdfunding campaign (neo4django)
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Re: Beg HN - last day for my open source crowdfunding campaign (neo4django)
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bulbflow is great, but a little lower-level and doesn't offer much Django-specific integration (eg auth, admin, signals). It expects you to learn more about Neo4j, for better or worse.
bulbflow avoids vendor lock-in via rexster.
Good point. One of these days, I'd love to decouple the DSL in neo4django from the query building, and allow eg a Rexter backend.
Re: Beg HN - last day for my open source crowdfunding campaign (neo4django)
#13Re: Beg HN - last day for my open source crowdfunding campaign (neo4django)
#14Without following more links, it's completely unclear to me what this project does, who you are, or why I should give you money. Maybe it's just inside-baseball that I don't understand, but I think you need rework your pitch page.
Sorry! I hadn't expected much non-niche interest in the campaign when I wrote the copy. Neo4django is a Django ORM replacement for the Neo4j graph database. I'm the primary dev, but since our startup supporting the project is on hold, I'm trying to find time to keep up development- this campaign will help me complete the next milestone.
Yet you promote it on a non-niche forum. What else could you have possibly expected?
Re: Beg HN - last day for my open source crowdfunding campaign (neo4django)
#15Maybe instead of begging you could try to find someone that needs it willing to fund development?
A number of users have contributed to the campaign so far- this is the last day, thus the begging :)
You're missing his point.
Scrap the crowdfunding completely and find SERIOUS (defined as "$1K is nothing") backers for the project -- perhaps a company that wants it.
Re: Beg HN - last day for my open source crowdfunding campaign (neo4django)
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry! I hadn't expected much non-niche interest in the campaign when I wrote the copy. Neo4django is a Django ORM replacement for the Neo4j graph database. I'm the primary dev, but since our startup supporting the project is on hold, I'm trying to find time to keep up development- this campaign will help me complete the next milestone.
Yet you promote it on a non-niche forum. What else could you have possibly expected?
Do note that I wrote the copy 30 days ago- this is the last day of a month-long campaign. I'd love any actionable advice on the copy.
Re: Beg HN - last day for my open source crowdfunding campaign (neo4django)
#17What does $1000 get you? Time off to work on the project?
In general, I think begging posts are in the best interests of HN.
Re: Beg HN - last day for my open source crowdfunding campaign (neo4django)
#18Without following more links, it's completely unclear to me what this project does, who you are, or why I should give you money. Maybe it's just inside-baseball that I don't understand, but I think you need rework your pitch page.
Sorry! I hadn't expected much non-niche interest in the campaign when I wrote the copy. Neo4django is a Django ORM replacement for the Neo4j graph database. I'm the primary dev, but since our startup supporting the project is on hold, I'm trying to find time to keep up development- this campaign will help me complete the next milestone.
I still have no idea what it does.
Re: Beg HN - last day for my open source crowdfunding campaign (neo4django)
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yet you promote it on a non-niche forum. What else could you have possibly expected?
Do note that I wrote the copy 30 days ago- this is the last day of a month-long campaign. I'd love any actionable advice on the copy.
IANACW, but for me, something energetic and concise like "Help support bringing the world's leading graph DB to Django" helps me get my head in the game a lot faster. I'm closer to "he's making a DB interface for Django" instead of "what is neo4j".
Or even just your opener in your README "neo4django is an Object Graph Mapper that let's you use familiar Django model definitions and queries against the Neo4j graph database" is useful for identifying the players.
Considering the HN audience Django would be known but I'm not sure how many people would know about neo4j. (I hadn't heard of it)
Re: Beg HN - last day for my open source crowdfunding campaign (neo4django)
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry! I hadn't expected much non-niche interest in the campaign when I wrote the copy. Neo4django is a Django ORM replacement for the Neo4j graph database. I'm the primary dev, but since our startup supporting the project is on hold, I'm trying to find time to keep up development- this campaign will help me complete the next milestone.
I still have no idea what it does.
Django has an ORM that works with Postgre, MySQL, and other relational databases. Neo4django mimics the Django ORM, but connects to a graph database- Neo4j. It's a way to use Django with Neo4j, while supporting Django nice-to-haves like the auth library and admin site, in a way that's already familiar to Django developers.