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Felix21··on Show HN: Olokuta – Hire a landing page design team in 5 minutes
I don't think any off-the-shelf bootstrap theme can meet your design objectives, but if it can, go for it.

How much would you hire a designer to do this?

Felix21··on Why London Underground stopped people walking up the escalators
It's still faster for the person running up the escalator but for that luxury, we are sacrificing half the capacity of the escalator.

Having another row of people on the left means the overall capacity increases and everyone moves faster but I always walk up the stairs and this won't benefit me one bit. Everyone else wins.

Standing when I'm in a rush can never be faster than walking up the escalator.

Felix21··on Sketch2UI: Upload Your Wireframes, Download a Complete UI Design
I did. I'll trip load thanks
Felix21··on Startup Design Buffet – We'll design anything in 3 days for $179
Thanks a lot for your feedback.

Our first few projects are just coming through now, so I'll update the homepage in a few days, when we have enough work samples for a portfolio.

Felix21··on Startup Design Buffet – We'll design anything in 3 days for $179
We can do your whole webpage. $179 for the first page, then $100/page after that.
Felix21··on Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform
It seems the fedora team really wants to do what they can to discredit my project. Ah well
Felix21··on Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform
Yeah 2 years ago. I decided to stop commenting on that but yeah that's just one side of that story
Felix21··on Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform
Hopefully we can.

I'll let you know when the new design is up. I've already coded most of it.

Felix21··on Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform
I'm already working on quizzes. I still need to refactor the current code base though so that feature is at least two weeks out.

The multi course feature is already working as well and once I clean the code up, I'll update the code base on GitHub.

Do you have any other type of assessment in mind?

Felix21··on Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform
Hi Ankur,

I very much didn't intend to offend you, copy you or cause you to be upset.

That homepage design is based on what Udemy looked like before their update and that's why I felt okay to use it as a starting point.

That said, I'll update the homepage for the course today with a new design as a gesture of good faith.

I think the platform itself, not the homepage/sales page is what the people using coursify like. I suspect many of them won't even use that homepage. It's just a starting point.

Again I'm trying to make friends not enemies. Hope I didn't offend you.

Felix

Happy Easter.

Felix21··on Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform
Seems to be back up?
Felix21··on Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform
Oh that's a good idea.

Seed planted

Felix21··on Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform
Yes I'm working on that. And it will also be free . Not sure how I'll monetise that though.
Felix21··on Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform
Do you mean the OneDayRails course?
Felix21··on Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform
It's designed for just one course at the moment. I'll add support for more multiple courses later, but at the moment no, you can't sorry.
Felix21··on Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform
Thanks for your feedback.

Yes that's right. Is multi-tenancy something you'll like? If it is, I can start working on this next week.

Felix21··on Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform
Thanks for your feedback.

We used Moodle at my last University (UON) (transitioned from blackboard) but this is a very lightweight product for a very different purpose (Online courses).

Granted It didn't take too long to build (about 13 weeks in my spare time) but It's actually a lot more work than you might think.

The challenge is not in the "coding" but getting the user experience right.

Beginners cant install this. Someone has to do it for them :).

Felix21··on Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform
No, you can add text as well. In fact for now, video is an after thought.
Felix21··on Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform
I'll fix it now thanks. That's what happens when you launch at 8am without sleeping HAHA.

Edit: Fixed

Felix21··on Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform
I launched at 8AM (without sleeping all night) and I forgot to make the Git-Repo public (oops).

Its public now and the link now works thank you.

BTW, the actual download link on my website takes you to Dropbox and that link works.

Felix21··on Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform
I created that price plan because I want most people to avoid rushing me to install it for them.

I'm very busy so the peace of mind that most people won't choose that plan is why it's so expensive.

Thank you.

Felix21··on Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform
WOW! I made it to the front page. Okay so I posted it yesterday and went to bed. Thank you all for your support an feedback.

When Udemy decided to start charging 50% of every sale, I needed another way to sell my Online Courses.

I looked at a few self-hosted Online Course platforms, but they all wanted a monthly fee + transaction fees, which I think is excessive.

So I started working on Coursify. With Coursify, you can download it, install it and use it without paying.

If you don't know rails, you can pay me a one-time installation fee and you can use it forever without any more charges from us...

I also released it under the MIT licence, so others can improve on it.

Thank you.

Felix21··on Ask HN: How do you store and organize your startup ideas?
I have a folder in wunderlist.

So i can add more details as notes, add things i need to do to execute this idea as subtasks and tick the ideas off as i execute, or delete them

Felix21··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)
CW - We Train Developers

Senior Rails Mentor / Remote / Fluency in English

We need a few more Rails developers to mentor our programming students (4-weeks/student).

What you will do?

Reply all the student emails and rails questions for 4 weeks Have an Hour-Long Skype conversation with the student(each week) to correct their projects and for higher-level explanations of concepts they don't understand.

You'll get a generous fee per student and you can take up to 5 students if you have the time.

You don't need to have used rails for 5 years to apply, but you need to be very comfortable with the framework and have enough experience and knowledge to be able to teach it.

send me an email: felix.oginni {at] outlook {.] com

Felix21··on A Surge in Growth for a New Kind of Online Course
How about a model that lets you learn in your own time (free) and have the option of taking the class with a co-hort(for a fee).
Felix21··on A Surge in Growth for a New Kind of Online Course
The problem with these is... I'm busy.

I might be able to commit 70 hours to the tutorials and assignments this week, and then im busy again for the next 7 weeks.

If they were all completely self paced, then perhaps the completion rates will improve.

The "deadlines" and timetabled classes are being carried over from traditional college courses without any real need for them to be.

Felix21··on Academia.edu, The Social Networking Platform For Researchers, Raises $11 Million
I was typing the same question as i saw this
Felix21··on PayPal nears deal for Braintree Payments
If stripe was a public company, their share price would increase today and even more-so when this is official.
Felix21··on How to teach your girlfriend programming
I have taught many "technologically challenged" people how to code. They say cute things like

... okay so how do I "compress" this file

... i used that "tag thingie" but its not working

but they still learn it and are able to build websites sometimes even faster then the "technologically exposed".

In general technologically challenged doesn't mean stupid. Its just a lack of exposure to the technologies and in time they get the hang of it.

Felix21··on Ask HN: How to become smarter?
Its not just about reading, its about thinking on your feet and being able to find solutions to problems.

Spend time around a lot of different people from different fields and always ask questions. They have alot to teach you, but you wont learn anything from them if you dont give them a chance to talk.

You'll be surprised how much stuff "ordinary people" know if you give them a chance to talk.

Do a lot of Math and calculus and try to solve complex coding problems.

Build things, release, get feedback and repeat. The experience will surely increase your intelligence understanding, awareness and your ability to recognise patterns.

Good Luck.

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