Re:Show HN: Online C/C++ Code Browser
by sdesol on Monday March 07, 2016 @09:39PM
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> Step 1: Copy github, but with features people want.
I hope you are not suggesting they implement a new Git hosting product, because that would be an extreme waste of time/money. Implementing the hosting logic/UI would probably chew up a year or two of development time. I don't know how long sourcegraph has been in development but this is what they are doing.
The smart thing to do in my mind is just build on top of Gogs/GitLab/Bitbucket/GitHub. You may want to focus mainly on Gogs/GitLab/Bitbucket instead though. And the reason why I say this is because I think the vast majority of GitHub/GitHub Enterprise customers are script related shops that develop in JavaScript, Ruby, etc.
> Step 3: Market place where people can hire programmers on demand to work on their project.
Unless you can draw an audience (millions of users) like GitHub/Stackoverflow, I wouldn't even ponder this. What I really think is a smart play is
which doesn't require millions of eyeballs. They just need to continually attract really bright university kids/seasoned programmers for this to be viable. This is definitely not monster.com, but if it works out, they are looking at a very comfortable lifestyle business.
I hope you are not suggesting they implement a new Git hosting product, because that would be an extreme waste of time/money. Implementing the hosting logic/UI would probably chew up a year or two of development time. I don't know how long sourcegraph has been in development but this is what they are doing.
The smart thing to do in my mind is just build on top of Gogs/GitLab/Bitbucket/GitHub. You may want to focus mainly on Gogs/GitLab/Bitbucket instead though. And the reason why I say this is because I think the vast majority of GitHub/GitHub Enterprise customers are script related shops that develop in JavaScript, Ruby, etc.
> Step 3: Market place where people can hire programmers on demand to work on their project.
Unless you can draw an audience (millions of users) like GitHub/Stackoverflow, I wouldn't even ponder this. What I really think is a smart play is
https://www.starfighters.io/
which doesn't require millions of eyeballs. They just need to continually attract really bright university kids/seasoned programmers for this to be viable. This is definitely not monster.com, but if it works out, they are looking at a very comfortable lifestyle business.