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Seems really pricey for a relatively simple software like this. Someone write an opensource alternative? it looks like something that can be thrown together in a weekend.
Seems really pricey for a relatively simple software like this. Someone write an opensource alternative? it looks like something that can be thrown together in a weekend.
The price includes managed hosting. A million page views for $129 isn't bad.
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Why pay $999/mo, when you can have a few hackers code it up in a couple of weeks for a few grand. The long road of our industry is littered with the corpses of projects which would only take a few programmers a couple of weeks to program. But technical risk isn't the big worry here for a startup. Hell, someone should do it here, would be a decent startup idea, copy them, but charge $29.99/$59.99/$99.99 for your plans…
The first part, I wasn't talking about building it. I was talking about a customer, who is stuck paying $999-2500 a month, for a product that can be built by a few programmers in a few weeks. That hypothetical startup wouldn't need to give customer service. You want customer service and like paying large fees? Go to stackexchange, you want a working solution at a huge discount? You come to the hypothetical startup. B…
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Link?
I'll update here as I make progress: http://code.google.com/p/hackerexchange/ I'm aware of the chinese solutions done in Django but after looking it over, I think I can do better. I'll prolly write it in PHP too ( gasp ) so any n00b can basically rip it off and throw it unto shared hosting! ahh, gotta love opensource =)
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I'll update here as I make progress: http://code.google.com/p/hackerexchange/ I'm aware of the chinese solutions done in Django but after looking it over, I think I can do better. I'll prolly write it in PHP too ( gasp ) so any n00b can basically rip it off and throw it unto shared hosting! ahh, gotta love opensource =)
i am having difficulty pulling the latest revision. i'd like to review the progress made in the first weekend.