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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it. Ruby on Rails as a platform?

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

www.subelsky.com

Heres a revised version of what I emailed in response, garnered while building OtherInbox and other Rails apps: First and foremost, I find Rails itself to be very useful for building a product for a lean startup; the expressiveness of Ruby and the conventions of Rails help developers more quickly build a minimum viable product.

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Mass Relevance Launches with Funding

Austin Startup

He’s joined by Brian Dainton and Eric Falcao, two seasoned Ruby developers who will hold the titles of Director of Products, and Director of Platform. The value is in how to aggregate, curate, display relevant content, create participation around the conversation, and analyze how it drives real business metrics.

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Tips to kick-start the traffic of your new user-generated content.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

For example, for TaskArmy, I am monitoring "find a freelancer" and "freelance marketplace" Each time someone mentions these keywords on the internet, I receive an email. Submit your website to news aggregator websites. Set up alerts in Google Alerts about specific keywords of your niche. Alert: don’t spam, ever.

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Should You Hire a Programmer or DIY? | Vinicius Vacanti

viniciusvacanti.com

But, since Yipit, an aggregator of all these services, involves more user interface / user experience challenges, it made more sense for us to teach ourselves so that we could iterate on the concept till we got it right. The only knowledge I have is I know PHP and Ruby are programming languages. My question is.

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Tips to kick-start the traffic of your new user-generated content.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

For example, for TaskArmy, I am monitoring "find a freelancer" and "freelance marketplace" Each time someone mentions these keywords on the internet, I receive an email. Submit your website to news aggregator websites. Set up alerts in Google Alerts about specific keywords of your niche. Alert: don’t spam, ever.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.