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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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A Hack for Technical Interviewing

www.readwriteweb.com

October 25, 2010 / Loading Comments PagerDuty Wakes The Right Person Up For Your Tech Emergencies October 21, 2010 / Loading Comments Facebook Moves to Encrypt User IDs October 21, 2010 / Loading Comments POPULAR TAGS php api appup cloud developers google intel unconference bugs conference data geo intuit ipp java javascript jquery linux logging network (..)

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Ruby on Rails as a platform? Many other types of applications where Ruby makes complete sense. Salesforce, Ning - get platform + API leverage - must go down a particular path Marc Canter CEO, Broadband Mechanics - makers of People Aggregator VERY colorful speaker. Completely agree. Must be willing to work the way Google expects.

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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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My frustrations

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

1) How to build your own widget in Ruby on Rails in 10 minutes (4) Founder Mastermind Breakfasts, how we do it (0) From → Entrepreneurship & Startups , Startup tips and tricks 4 Comments → Jarek S. permalink Hi! Get a list of keywords to target 1. buy and set up domain name 2. add google analytics 4.

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

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Submit your website to news aggregator websites. Other articles you might like How to build your own widget in Ruby on Rails in 10 minutes (4) How to get cheap and targeted paid traffic? (5) You don’t want to ignore it if you are in for the long term. How to run a blog properly could be the topic of a whole new article.

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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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