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Re:Woke up this morning, and realized I just lost my future company to... on Monday October 03, 2016 @10:52PM (#12632999)

Here in Manila, this is a huge thing and not just a nothing.

This is like a breakup. I need to move on and work on something else, moving fast and not procrastinating.

Woke up this morning, and realized I just lost my future company to Facebook

Posted by xtnzt19 on Monday October 03, 2016 @10:30PM
from the self-post dept.

So I woke up this morning, turned on my phone, and found my friend sending me a link reading "Facebook launches Marketplace...". I felt lost in an instant.I had this idea in 2014 for people to be able to buy and sell things and services whenever and wherever they are using their mobile devices. Shortening the time needed to be able to make a successful deal since buyer and seller are already in...

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Re:Startup with no direction seeking for guidance on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @05:30AM (#5667203)

Thanks for this. I'll take a look at those areas. Though I'm wanting more functionalities, will it be okay if I gather likes for the facebook page even though the functionalities I wanted are not yet implemented? (e.g. first impression of the site's current functionalities can make a visitor like/dislike the site)

Re:Startup with no direction seeking for guidance on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @05:05AM (#5667144)

How I wish it would have been! :) Thanks for this.

Re:Startup with no direction seeking for guidance on Monday May 06, 2013 @06:20AM (#5661649)

Sorry, but I didn't say nor even think that it's the cause of my main problem.

Re:Startup with no direction seeking for guidance on Monday May 06, 2013 @05:28AM (#5661529)

I don't know if it would be ethical for me to tell of the framework I'm using. What I can say is that it's quite new and collaborators of it are small unlike that of Yii, Zend, and Symfony. (I'm using PHP) Unit testing, database ORM, model validation, etc. are hard to make use of on this framework I'm using, as these functionalities of it are lacking features

Re:Startup with no direction seeking for guidance on Monday May 06, 2013 @05:23AM (#5661515)

So are you saying that the idea is a no-good? :( Could you elaborate why the risk will be doubled? Though I'm just planning on rewriting, my real problem is to build a user base and make the website known and used.

Re:Startup with no direction seeking for guidance on Monday May 06, 2013 @05:19AM (#5661507)

Thanks for the reply. Well the main reason for the rewrite was that I wanted to switch to a different web application framework so I could accomplish features that I can't with the current framework I'm using. And also to clean up the code, and write more efficient unit tests. Though I'm just planning through it.

Yes, though I really don't have any idea how to REALLY market a website. The only idea I know of was spreading it through Facebook open graph, but it still wasn't enough. I'm thinking of ads, and more ads, but I don't have the money for it.

Startup with no direction seeking for guidance

Posted by xtnzt19 on Monday May 06, 2013 @04:47AM
from the self-post dept.

This is my first time submitting to hacker news. I'm 21, turning 22 on June, and based on the Philippines. I have recently quit my job as a web developer last October 2012 to build my startup - Droolify, a content sharing service/catalog that lets people discover, share, and talk about "droolify-ing" things. I spent the last hellish 6 months building the web application, with no income, and my...

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Re:Ask HN: Where can I find a good tl;dr of the different open source ... on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @03:07AM (#5636860)

great! :)