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Recently we've launched a new IT geek oriented job board.http://gowork.at/ (Gowork@)
I have shown it to the IRC community and they pointed out some issues regarding the market niche and since we didn't have any posts it became an chicken and egg problem.
We are currently trying to solve the niche, but we wanted to be design, web dev job board mostly. And to start having some jobs post we've integrated other job boards listings that could be used in search.
Our main feature currently is: a boolean search engine, that let's users save it and get daily/weekly updates based on that. Which is cool, for instance you might want to get web dev jobs but not PHP related, so you could just setup an search like "web dev -php".
In a nutshell: I would love to know your guys opinion, advices, what we could do to improve it, and things we are doing wrong or not all.
Thanks
Being a single founder is hard, you have to deal with everything from incorporating, accounting, writing code, design, worry about SEO, how to introduce your project to the world get some momentum, etc..
Plus, add that to the fact that I'm from Europe, VC is very complicated here.
But because it's hard we should be more appreciated and not put aside.
I'm working on it for at least 3 months now and it's 90% complete, I've been able to keep motivated and I've learned lot along the way.
I just felt that this was the right path to go for me, I didn't feel the need have someone as a parter on this. I may be wrong in a long run but for now I'm pretty satisfied with what I've done.
Obviously I don't agree with YC rule here, I understand some of their view points , but not everything is true or false. Some great projects maybe aren't being looked into because of the single-founder rule.
But then again, you don't have to apply to YC or any funding, try something else, or simple bootstrap you idea and see how it goes.
Rest assured that I would rather hire a good PHP developer than this guy to code in Ruby.
The main reason I'm still using IDE is mostly because of code debugging and code browsing. If I could debug code on vim or ST and do code browsing I would switch in no time.
Two questions: My company is an LLC and I have a valid SSN, however my bank account is in Portugal, can I still apply for stripe ?
If not, do you have plan to support EU countries like Portugal ? thanks
It isn't about the competitors, it's about who come first with a viable solution.
PS: You not a scientist, you are not NASA, you will never be, you will never have the need to develop anything close to a space rocket in your life. And if you do, don't start a startup for god sake, do something more valuable to the human kind, please use you knowledge for much more important things.
It really confuses to see kids with red bulls typing code all day and night. I mean, how can you think clear and be productive that way ?
You may do more, but do you do it better and deliver quality code ?
This article is pointless imo, doesn't explain why is it any safer, only assumes it because some hacker HIRED by microsoft said so.
If you wanted to connect to a MySQL, you have to do it all by yourself, you need to create a database, tables, PKs, connect to database, execute RAW mysql queries, and so on. Form validation ? Yeah right. Back then the include_once() or require() were amazing for separating code. But all in all that mades us learn how things work internally, how HTTP requests work, how SQL works, even why CSRF or XSS and SQL injections are executed.
Yes, the code was shitty, it was all over the place, but we learned how a web app works internally.
And yet, most developers I know who coded PHP back then are amazing developers today in any web language or framework. Why ?
Because most of them learned doing things the hard way. We had to understand how HTTP requests works, how SQL works, etc..etc.. because we didn't have the magic of rails, or any helper for any framework.
In these 12 years, web development as grown, a lot, and for the better, I'm currently learning Rails, and I've already done a project with Django and Node.JS . I liked them a lot and they are amazingly well done, I just wished PHP was more OO like ruby or python.
However, I laugh at these new Rail/Django developers that joke about PHP code. Most of them start coding jumping immediately into a framework. I bet that most of then couldn't create a simple MVC framework, ORM from scratch, hell, even a simple security CSRF would be a pain without "gem install <whatever>".
You see kids, PHP was like our first GF or our first car, where we tried stuff, made us cry (in a sense), and helped us grow and mature as developers, for those who wanted to grow that is. Now you have lots of languages for web dev, but back then PHP was the thing.
I still believe that PHP is a very cool language if done correctly, I wished tho, that it should be rewritten to be more OO.
But if one thing I learned from all of these years is that, it's the developer who makes quality code, not the language. Unless that is, you are using a framework who basically demands you to do things the way it wants, and puts a lot for magic so you don't bother with "boring" stuff. But in the end of the day it's not your code, it's theirs.
So my advice for new dev is, forget frameworks, and learn the hardcore way, then pickup a framework you love and go with it, either PHP, Ruby, Python or whatever.
On topic: If this is true, this is great news. I know they are supposed to test it and that takes time, but I find that a lot of these "found cure for xxx" news kind of fade away after awhile to never be heard. It's not the first time I read a cure for cancer or HIV, but never comes out.
No matter how good they are they will always be one, two steps behind native apps. It will be either for lack of documentation or unsupported new iOs features etc..
To be honest, I'd rather build a web app for iPhone than use this stuff. At least I'm being honest to my users and I'm not delivering crappy apps to them. I mean, I understand why we need a standard tool, but this is the way to go, running apps on top of VM is crap.
Sorry Adobe, not this time.
Edit: also, is really that hard to learn ObjC ? I find it to be a very easy language to learn to be honest. Not the most pretty syntax, but it's easy.
Damn kids, they are alike.