Ask YC: Four Year Roadmap

Re:Ask YC: Four Year Roadmap by ivankirigin on Thursday July 10, 2008 @11:30PM (#243207)

I hadn't really done any web programming before starting tipjoy. With a full time commitment, we went from start to launch in 3 months.

You should certainly be able to do side projects. The best part is that you don't need to try to make money, so you should focus on building something interesting and useful.

If you want to do tiny free projects for tipjoy, let me know :)

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Re:Ask YC: Four Year Roadmap by matt1 on Friday July 11, 2008 @10:18AM (#243544)

ivan, thanks. question: what programming languages is tipjoy built on?

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Re:Ask YC: Four Year Roadmap by ivankirigin on Friday July 11, 2008 @01:06PM (#243746)

We use Django, a Python framework.

Here is a quick installer I wrote up. http://wiki.slicehost.com/doku.php?id=install_django

You might also consider building on Google App Engine, which uses Django. There are parts of Django you can't use that aren't a big deal if you start with App Engine. Basically there is no MySQL, but that should be fine for most applications.

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