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RailsRumble Apps that Deserve to Be Startups

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Re: RailsRumble Apps that Deserve to Be Startups

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Post by jskopek »

Hates_ wrote: post #8

For convenience: #1 LowDown - http://mcp.r09.railsrumble.com #2 Hi, I'm - http://hi.im #3 Omnominator - http://omnominator.com #4 Thingivore - http://thingivore.com #5 Neighborhood Watch - http://neighborhoodwat.ch #6 Techmeets - http://techmeets.com #7 Straightlist - http://husohuso.r09.railsrumble.com #8 SmackSale - http://smacksale.com #9 Nybbl - http://nybblme.r09.railsrumble.com #10 Last Percent - http://lastper…

These are all remarkable, but the one that really gets my imagination going is #7 - Straightlist. If they can implement embeddable widgets that can be put into blogs and forums I can see the site picking up a lot of steam, and once they start keeping track of hits on each page the site has the potential to become a reddit for guides

Re: RailsRumble Apps that Deserve to Be Startups

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Post by railsjedi »

bryanwoods wrote: post #17

Still reeling from the weekend; my first Rumble. We also got an app built and deployed, a simple little game: http://marryboffkill.com The whole time I expected that it would be the smoothing-over of rough edges, double-checking, and doing general "cleanup" that would take the most time, but even so was surprised how quickly the deadline snuck up on us the last day. I have a feeling if the rumble was over a long week…

Heh, your app is pretty hilarious. It definitely needs a gender section though. Since 99% of the users will be male for the time being, maybe you should have made it female only list.

Having to think about boffing Salman Ruschdie was too terrifying to continue playing.

Re: RailsRumble Apps that Deserve to Be Startups

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Post by railsjedi »

jskopek wrote: post #21
Hates_ wrote: post #8

For convenience: #1 LowDown - http://mcp.r09.railsrumble.com #2 Hi, I'm - http://hi.im #3 Omnominator - http://omnominator.com #4 Thingivore - http://thingivore.com #5 Neighborhood Watch - http://neighborhoodwat.ch #6 Techmeets - http://techmeets.com #7 Straightlist - http://husohuso.r09.railsrumble.com #8 SmackSale - http://smacksale.com #9 Nybbl - http://nybblme.r09.railsrumble.com #10 Last Percent - http://lastper…

These are all remarkable, but the one that really gets my imagination going is #7 - Straightlist. If they can implement embeddable widgets that can be put into blogs and forums I can see the site picking up a lot of steam, and once they start keeping track of hits on each page the site has the potential to become a reddit for guides

Oops, they actually already do have the integration widget via an iframe link. Missed that around the first time.

Re: RailsRumble Apps that Deserve to Be Startups

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Post by railsjedi »

Hopefully the Rumble organizers drop Rails from the competition next year. At this point it no longer makes sense. If Django, PHP, or Java folks want to enter, they should be allowed. It would say a lot more for whatever language/framework the winners of the competition used.
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