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Re:One Month Rails (YC S13) Teaches How To Build Your Startu... by mattangriffel on Monday August 05, 2013 @03:32PM (#6162355)
Good call patio11, I made the change. It's a good thing we're using optimizely and can push that up quickly.

On a side note, this landing page is actually an A/B test we're performing on the effectiveness of an email drip campaign vs a hard sell to signup (which is currently still up on the homepage). The writer of the article was part of a 10% of people that were redirected from the homepage to the try landing page and so he hardlinked directly to that page in the article.

That's our mistake.

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Re:One Month Rails (YC S13) Teaches How To Build Your Startu... by wallawe on Monday August 05, 2013 @04:19PM (#6162650)
Does that have anything to do with my not having received an email for the 7 day trial? I signed up over an hour ago.

Also as a side note, you privacy statement link is 404ing.

Edit: got the email! thanks

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Re:One Month Rails (YC S13) Teaches How To Build Your Startu... by mattangriffel on Monday August 05, 2013 @04:29PM (#6162738)
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Mailchimp's autoresponders can't be set for immediately, only "within an hour" because I don't think they want people using it as a transactional email / content delivery system

Good call on the 404. That's bad. Fixing now.

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Re:One Month Rails (YC S13) Teaches How To Build Your Startu... by digisth on Monday August 05, 2013 @08:46PM (#6164189)
I've used Mailchimp's transactional service (Mandrill) on a number of projects and it's been great. If you're looking to set up the AR yourself at some point and want insta-respond, give it a whirl.
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Re:One Month Rails (YC S13) Teaches How To Build Your Startu... by scubasteve on Monday August 05, 2013 @04:23PM (#6162689)
I signed up about an hour ago and got my email just now.
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Re:One Month Rails (YC S13) Teaches How To Build Your Startu... by mattangriffel on Monday August 05, 2013 @04:46PM (#6162882)
Sorry about that scubasteve. That's not nearly fast enough.
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Re:One Month Rails (YC S13) Teaches How To Build Your Startu... by pallandt on Monday August 05, 2013 @05:32PM (#6163237)
One question, sorry for hijacking the discussion.

Is this the same course offered on Udemy? (https://www.udemy.com/how-to-teach-yourself-to-code/)

Potential suggestion: add a syllabus or at least a (more) concrete summary of what course takers will learn/build. I read the 'Sign up for this course and you'll learn' section and it's very thin on the specifics. The Udemy page is much better in this aspect, IMHO.

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Re:One Month Rails (YC S13) Teaches How To Build Your Startu... by scubasteve on Monday August 05, 2013 @04:53PM (#6162942)
It was more informative than being disappointed :). Thanks for the great service.
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