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Re:Ask HN: Drupal or Django for my startup? and why on Friday April 07, 2017 @08:26PM (#14064508)
Good point, though not on point ;)
Re:Ask HN: Drupal or Django for my startup? and why on Friday April 07, 2017 @08:25PM (#14064503)
Interesting. I am not arguing, just sharing: people say that Drupal now is a framework and you an actually write custom stuff, not just stack modules. Can that be, what do you think?
Re:Ask HN: Drupal or Django for my startup? and why on Friday April 07, 2017 @08:14PM (#14064458)
Why do you say that?

Ask HN: Drupal or Django for my startup? and why

Posted by pepeto on Friday April 07, 2017 @06:55PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hey there,I wanted to know which choice is wiser - try to save up money with a CMS like Drupal or go with a flexible framework like Django or asp.NETThe project is a startup for cars that includes: - marketplace cars and all kinds of other vehicles - marketplace for autoparts - marketplace for tires - marketplace for all kinds of services around car - washing, repairing, etc - booking - vin...

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Startups: It's not about coding, its about Product/Market Fit.

Posted by pepeto on Sunday September 08, 2013 @08:40AM
from the self-post dept.

With today's tools and frameworks, getting the website up is not difficult. Startup efforts should be focused on Product/Market Fit.How would you like a tool that helps you step by step achieve product market fit?Let me know what you think about www.getpmf.com and if you like it TWITTER SHARE through the buttons.

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Re:Ask YC: Where to find practical guide on gamifying? on Monday April 29, 2013 @01:32AM (#5624250)
God idea for courses! Thanks
Re:Ask YC: Where to find practical guide on gamifying? on Sunday April 28, 2013 @08:37AM (#5621016)
Nice answer. I have things to say: - there are situations that number of levels matter - dependecies is one reason. There must be others, why is 51 the highest in WOW? I am looking for a source that can point all the reasons. - how many points do you award each task? Surely this matters, but what do i benchmark those to? Time it takes to complete? Mix of time, complexitity, scarcity, x y z? What are possible x y z, and in what proportions do i mix them? - books are "Gamification by Design" by Gabe Zichermann (biggest proponent), "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal, Also "Flow", "Drive" and a couple more. All of those seem too theoretical, and when i sit to create something, i cant put numbers to the theories.
Re:Ask YC: Where to find practical guide on gamifying? on Sunday April 28, 2013 @06:36AM (#5620835)
Thanks, i still can not answer the very first practical question: How many player-levels should there be?

Ask YC: Where to find practical guide on gamifying?

Posted by pepeto on Sunday April 28, 2013 @06:11AM
from the self-post dept.

Do you have insights on where i can find tutorials, step by step, formulas, applicable concepts?I want to gamify my startup, but i can't find good resources. Most of the How to" are vague and at concept-level, rather than specific steps. I googled this question I have been on the wikipedia for gamification I have most of the famous books on gamificationNowhere in those i can find how many...

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Re:Random Ideas For Sites and Startups on Saturday August 18, 2012 @11:59AM (#4401434)
Awesome, that's exactly what I have been looking for, thank you!
Re:Random Ideas For Sites and Startups on Saturday August 18, 2012 @11:57AM (#4401428)
Right. I have one thing I am working on, but I am sharing all my other ideas so that if anyone likes something they can work on it. Sometimes someone has something similar and just by reading those summaries can come up with a mix or with the missing piece in his puzzle. You never know.

Ask HN: How many of you have the freedom to work on what they want?

Posted by pepeto on Sunday October 09, 2011 @05:22AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I took a decision 1/2 year ago to concentrate on one thing. Little by little I scrapped side projects, brilliant 'other' ideas, stopped taking new clients for my web design studio, wrapped up old ones and finally today is the first day I can fully enjoy just sitting at home and coding my startup, watching the controllers grow. It's a feeling of freedom, peace with myself, hopefulness and...

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Re:Two Non-Tech Co-Founders...?? on Saturday October 08, 2011 @02:36AM (#3087324)
Getting a partner only because he is a friend does NOT cover basic requirements for partnership.

Explanation:

Your idea is not going to work if no one knows how to code. Period. Your friend starting now will need a minimum of couple years to get to an OK level to build what you want. Your product will have bugs, inefficient code, hard to maintain. Given that, the only way to make it is if the market and idea are exceptionally strong and really pull you in sales so you hire someone better. Not likely.

What could happen?

Being honest and meaningful now with him is important because it will settle thigs right between you guys. If you keep him only because of friendship (yet worse, afraid to break friendship- if he is a friend he would understand whats meaningful for both) there will always be tension between you, low morale, the business will not move fast and things eventually will fall apart. Keep in mind also that you are getting him into something log term that is not likely to work this specific way, which is a bad favor.

What to do?

In my opinion, to keep the friendship and the business be honest with your friend and find a programmer to partner with. Or at least bring in a third person experienced coder. Otherwise it feels like you will lose both.

Re:Ask HN: How do you ensure that your customers are profitable? on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @02:46AM (#3074524)
If you have already found that your customers are first timers, i can tell you one thing

Guide them step by step

With the problems. For example, for marketing, outline the process for Facebook marketing and ease it in their accounts. If you see they have problems with lets say accounting, integrate Freshbooks.

Your customers will be profitable when they put effort, and for that to happen, they need to know what they are doing and connect actions to results.

My 2c

Re:Ask HN: What's your morning routine? on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @02:12AM (#3074469)
Wake up, gmail, thefeelgood.com (music), HN, code 1h, breakfast, code 3h, lunch out with friends. I dont drink coffee, i dont smoke, try to stay healthy.

And what energizes me is that i love what i work on. The simplest, easiest and best motivator. Otherwise lots of contacts with lots of friends, Sports, games and sex (when circumstances allow) keep me in good mood and happy.

Re:Web Designers should all be using this idea by now: Font Icons. on Thursday September 29, 2011 @06:05PM (#3054539)
Not switching that fast. The few advantages are size/load time as well as switching effortlessly color. But at the price of ... compatibility, accessibility, rendering (white on black background issue with fonts), single color icons, delayed loading(sometimes fonts load after the page)?

If you want fast loading use css+single image robust method as in: http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo86.png and http://images.apple.com/global/nav/images/globalnav.png

Re:Ask HN: is there a place where one could get help with programming ... on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @08:14AM (#2758681)
I know, but there's no one there usually. Especially if you need anything slightly unusual such as python/django
Re:Ask HN: is there a place where one could get help with programming ... on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @06:28AM (#2758472)
Thanks, I will look into it!
Re:Helping People Until Not Helping on Saturday June 05, 2010 @06:00AM (#1406705)
I think what you said hits the sweetspot. I understand not to give advice until I am asked for, but I just never realized that someone coming to tell me a problem != 'i want a help'

huge heads up, thanx!

And why would someone not want a solution? yet to figure this one out...

Re:Bulgaria Applies for .bg TLD in Cyrillic Script on Monday June 23, 2008 @09:01PM (#225790)
e who cares about that?

Ask YC: How To Value Your Non-Launched Company

Posted by pepeto on Monday June 23, 2008 @08:43PM
from the self-post dept.

I guess you really have to have experience with angel investing for this one...I know everybody is here is fan of 'build it yourself' but while building it I have this business plan and with my partner decided to go around family friends and other potential investors for investment. same question comes up again and again - "How do you value the company? You did you decide to ask for X...

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Re:France to ban illegal downloaders from using the internet under thr... on Friday June 20, 2008 @06:46AM (#222635)
Depressing news

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