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1) If you are a technology company, this is Harakiri (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku). You are alienating every developer who is worth her salt. If you have a recruiting arm, and they are trying to recruit, god be with them. Ofcourse, you think people will never come to know, but this has the potential to be a good story and press will pick it up. I will not be surprised if Techcrunch or Wired Enterprise picks this up first.
2) Strategically, this is so uncool. You could have leveraged this open sourcing in several ways. Made the codebase part of your official Github ( ever heard of Bootstrap?) and drummed up participation. If THIS was the product, you could leverage the free PR to accelerate user-acquisition. Nick had some amazing documentation, and he even got SUCH a cool domain for you guys.
3) Eventually, you will lose Nick, who seems quite competent, who will move on to do better things under the umbrella of better employers.
Pretty lame, on several counts.
1)Our society is structured in pyramids across multiple dimensions. On top of the these pyramids are powerful cliques. The pyramids that are predominantly influenced by the business world have even stronger cliques at the top. People at the top try to optimize for their success, and its only human. So ya, this who pump and dump is not surprising, happens everywhere.
2) Mailbox is a super-sexy acquisition for Dropbox. Because of my work, I am in this unique position to look deeply at around 70 online backup and cloud vendors, their features, their social signal, their pricing etc, their usage scenarios, their usage feedback and I think, given the uber-competitiveness of the space, most of these vendors will either a) move upstream and try to increase the real estate of their clients (Box trying to get into document editing suite is a prime example) or b) have a differentiated offering like egnyte. With this context, I think, the mailbox acquisition is an absolute bomb. I am doing further research on this topic and will hopefully publish it soon.
So yes, the hype-cycle was at work, but its normal and dropbox founders and executive team were pretty much certain they needed to this.
Gemfile gives a pretty good overview - https://github.com/discourse/core/blob/master/Gemfile
On the other hand, Atlassian's enterprise offering, Stash, has a different pricing structure with only a one-time payment. Infact, for 2000 users, the upfront costs are 48K versus Github's 2000 user pricing at 500k per year.
I wonder about this large discrepancy in pricing structures between two kind-of-close competitors..
"Visimojo is developed by Martin Angelov, a 23 year old developer / designer from Bulgaria. What makes this project interesting is that it shows how a kid from the farthest corners of Europe can build a service that can teach the incumbents in a $7 billion industry a thing or two about interface design."
It was not really planned as such, but rather where my startup took me. But,it was amazing. You meet great people and understand the human race a little bit better.
I just wonder if they had continued their run, could they have IPO-ed at a much higher valuation? They seem to have both very strong product and business fundamentals. Would love to hear thoughts on this..
I see the potential, if done well, this can really help in better communication between a product and its customers/users.
>> We use nodejs for local development via Sam’s Pow server, but there’s no nodejs in Basecamp Next itself. It’s all Ruby on Rails. We’re running the default stack using Rails 3.2+, MySQL 5.5, Memcached, a tad of Redis (mostly for Resque), ERB , test/unit, CoffeeScript, Sass, and whatever else is in the default box you get with Rails.
How does this fare against other enterprise hosted scm/version control products?
app.py,requirements.txt,Procfile
$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Init"
$ heroku create --stack cedar
$ git push heroku master
With that Heroku becomes the Heroku for Django.
Argentina: 5, Australia: 1, Belgium: 2, Bolivia: 1, Brazil: 5, Canada: 11, Chile: 27, China: 1, Columbia: 1, Czech Republic: 1, Equador: 2, Estonia: 1, Finland: 1, France: 3, Germany: 3, India: 5, Ireland: 1, Israel: 1, Malaysia: 1, Mexico: 2, Netherlands: 1, New Zealand: 1, Poland: 1, Romania: 1, Singapore: 3, Spain: 1, Sri Lanka: 1, Switzerland: 1, UK: 9, USA: 54, Uruguay: 2, Others: 1
Interesting to note, there are no companies from the African subcontinent.
1) The slight tilt of an item in the process of doing a drag and drop of tasks
2) The modal boxes for adding invites, viewing task details etc.
3) The scrollbar on the right(Activity) pane. (Was digging around in the css, is this done in Javascript?)
Well done!
This application uses other third-party javascript components distributed under appropriate licenses. For more information, see the following files at http://trello.com/js/lib/
backbone.js,
highcharts.js,
json2.js,
markdown.js,
socket.io.js,
underscore.js,
...apart from jquery/jquery-ui.
Incidentally, there is actually a language named Coral ( a general purpose programming language based on ALGOL-60 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_66 )