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The number one rule in startups, just like any other endeavor is just do it and unleash the potentials you never knew you got. TRY is key. Very often we read a lot of rules, dos and donts from successful people and finally just get confused. A lot of them won't tell you they learned their mistakes early on, made corrective adjustments and moved along.
This application needs userid for many other additional functionality and so has to track who the user is. That has always been the reason why logins are needed in applications. If you just doing a onetime request like a google search then no login is needed. Even a simple blog requires login to track your comments. Thats the way the web goes. Thats until someone comes up with a solution like single-sign-on.
Mongodb has one good thing, excellent geospatial queries. I am taking advantage of that. Its the only reason that I picked mongodb.
readme, Thanks for the extensive feedback. On the content, I now have indeed publisher account to get the data legally and even earn commission. CL doesn't expose any public API and their TOS explicitly bans screen scraping.
Some of the issues on the UI is because I am using app framework which promises it working on most mobile devices.
If it were just web, I would go with bootstrap.
Thanks jcr for the comments. 1 mile is the goal. Not the starting point. I have not restricted the distance from the beginning until I get critical mass.
I agree, it's really a pain to maintain older browsers.
Thanks @brent_noorda, I am aware of this. I am thinking of modifying the code to do that. CL is such an inspiration!
Wow, these are the insights we are looking at.
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enowbi on Saturday July 19, 2014 @03:37PM
from the show-hn dept.
HN, I have very much appreciated your feedback on variety of issues. Whether it's bitcoin or flappy bird, I have always come back to HN to gain insightful knowledge from comments. Me and my buddy have been working on a project for a while now. It's 1milejobs. Our primary audience is people for whom distance to a job location is the deal breaker. These might be either because of commuting costs...
We just put it up 3 days ago. We will add that. Thanks
I have been wrestling with a solution to help wage and part time workers find work in short distances and avoid unnecessary commuting costs. This is especially true since the type of jobs these people do can be produced and consumed by almost everyone. A beta webapp is here
http://1milejobs.com. We will be coming up with mobile versions later.
This story encapsulates the complexities of the human nature. For every individual with guilt about his new-found wealth there at least two on the other extreme who would loose no sleep over it and sometimes even if the wealth is ill-gotten.