eisokant

Hi Makeea,

In the next version we'll be offering a whole suite of new ways for the sponsors to benefit from Twollars. Including an API which allows them to send the Twollars they buy from a charity to their users. I'll be releasing more details on the blog in the coming weeks.

Thank you,

Eiso

Hi Ivan,

They do, we've let them know beforehand.

All the best,

Eiso

Sounds great! Just drop me a mail at eiso@twollars.com

Every Twitter account has a starting balance of 50 Twollars. So if you would tweet that - you would get a message saying you don't have sufficient balance.

The incentive for the businesses is exactly what you're mentioning - the visibility on Twitter.

Hey Akash,

The way it works is that companies who are interested in donation money to a charity and getting visibility on Twitter can chose to sponsor a charity. So then if for example a 1000 Twollars are donated, the company sponsoring the charity will donate a $1000 Dollars.

Yup, I had launched it from a netbook in a hotel lobby/restaurant in London since I was traveling at the time and we really wanted to get it out there (someone posted a Twitpic of that). It was a great experience and got to meet up with some great people via Twitter. One guy even found a problem in the code and averted disaster.

All the best,

Eiso

I think it's Twitter's first step to monetization of their API.

It looks like a great site especially since you allow filtering to some extent. I was just deleting my account with Techrigy.com earlier since they just didn't get it right, MightyBrand has a lot of potential.

When I tried blocking an author though I got the following error from Google Chrome:

The webpage at http://mightybrand.com/brands/block has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer.

All the best,

Eiso

Congratulations Paul! I wish you and your wife all the best during and after the pregnancy. - Eiso

I think you should - the obvious point of view that it's just kind to do so. From a business perspective it's allowing you to hook in the future startup founders and coders. It'll get them excited and used to GitHub and in a few years from now when they're working somewhere or starting a new project they'd be more then happy to pay.

Sounds like a great idea, I couldn't find your email address in your profile could you post it here?

Feliz Navidad!

Same here

Don't worry at all - It was just a fun app I made when I had some free time. If you want I would be happy to share some of the things I picked up on the way that made it run smoother. I was also going to implement an RSS feed because it was requested by some people (see YC thread) - I hope you don't mind. Let me know.

All the best and goodluck with it!

Eiso

Here is the News YC thread for it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392845

Hi Jackowayed,

This is almost exactly like my web app http://tweetlinks.org which I created and posted here several weeks ago.

Eiso

PHP definitely has its flaws and lack of conventions but for me that is what makes it beautiful. It's a language which has allowed me to grow as a developer over the years. If I look back at how I structured and wrote my code when I first started it's nothing close to how I code now. Since PHP allows so many different variations I didnt have to conform to one style but instead developed my own. If I would have chosen a different language to start with I am quite sure I would have given up on programming quickly. PHP has allowed me to learn from my own mistakes and create my own unique way of solving problems.

Besides how I feel about it; it's been great for all the projects I've worked on and now for the first time I'm using a framework (Codeigniter) for my startup and it's proving to be even more solid and progressing my style even more.

I believe PHP code is as good as its developer. Like mentioned in the article; you can paint a mess or a masterwork, all the colours and brushes are there.

I have changed the text - good suggestion and added a read more link instead of the whole blob.

An RSS feed is a brilliant idea! I'll be adding that soon.

Thank you! I've implemented it and now it's at the top. You're right it's a lot nicer.

Thank you for the feedback. I am going to see what it looks like when I move contract to the top; I am slightly worried people get confused because expand was at the bottom, what do you think?

You're right about 2 mails a day and I am going build that in - great suggestion.

Thank you!

Thank you! The extension hangs under the tab and shows up when you hover over the tab. This breaks on Mac OS X and Linux plus the keyboard shortcuts don't work on these platforms. I am as surprised as you are that it doesn't work cross platform. Also thank you for posting more information about Tyba - it's much appreciated.

Prism

For me it's about making something a success in the eyes of the users. Built something people love using. Then make it a business that maximizes it's profits. Then move on to the next venture. I don't want any toy's and I don't need any recognition but what I do want is the sense of achievement once you've built a profitable business. Hence I hope to one day have created a million dollar company not for the money but for having overcome another challenge.

I have only tried CodeIgniter so I can only speak for that but it is by far the best decision I have made to move to this MVC framework. It's holds a lot of libraries and helpers which will simplify most tasks and they are incredibly easy to extend. It's downside though is that you're not able to call functions internally from other controllers but once you get used to that it doesn't pose many problems. I would recommend you having a look at their documentation (which is very well done) and a demo video.

I find PHPMailer a great class to use; there's also opensource mailing list code for it (http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmailer) but haven't used that one personally.

Thank you! I look forward to sharing about the road to it.

Haha, yup west ;-)

Sorry, I missunderstood you there. I completely agree with you!

Thank you!

About being a community CEO (and coder ;-)): I believe you're building for your users - they are your community, who knows better what they want and where they want the product to go.

Thank you! The city nearest is Marbella. About a 120 km left of Nerja.