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I am wondering how much battery drain it could cause. Whatsapp also has this MessageService that keeps running all the time in the background & it has not been a battery hogger I guess.
Even if they do, legally speaking, will you sharing the internet connection on your name with your flatmate / family members would amount to breach of contract ? In all likelihood, your flatmate shares the cost of the internet with you. Isnt this case is exactly the same, somebody else using your internet & helping you offset some of your cost. Am I missing something here ?
What we are trying to do is similar to what Uber did to cars. Not everybody need to own a car. Similarly, not every household need a dedicated wifi connection when you can borrow some from neighbours.
Apart from city center, big apartments are another good case for Griggi. Big apartments in cities have a good number of migratory population.
Free WiFi hotspots that works is still a rarity in city centers of developing nations. Griggi is also an attempt to organize the unorganized free WiFi hotspots. A couple of guys are trying to solve this problem by building a mobile app that does the job of remembering username password of free wifi hotspots. Griggi is an attempt to solve the problem at the root. But I agree that it also makes things more challenging for us.
We are also going to put a feature which would let people manage their free WiFi hotspot with Griggi as well.
The vision is to be the default WiFi sharing platform across the world. As a user, you just have your Griggi username, password & you use it to connect to every other WiFi hotspot.
1. There are no telco partners. We directly sell to consumers.
2. Data sharing & usage is metered. You accumulate then you use it elsewhere. Its called Karma GB.
3. We are also thinking of putting up a feature that lets you enable 'free wifi' if you are a cafe/restaurant owner and you need a DIY solution for your customers. Thinking of keeping it as paid feature.
Most of the linux based OS will support the above packages. For others, we are yet to test.
In addition - probably the rise & fall in impressions for the keyword is not to do with the keyword ranking. Any idea on this ?
If you go RoR way - Michael Hartl's tutorial - http://railstutorial.org/ is probably the best place to start (I did that when I was starting with RoR). Codelearn - www.codelearn.org should be the next best.
Disclaimer: I am the founder of Codelearn
I think I just took the parent plugin handicap & fixed it. But guess Jquery plugin is already doing it the way I am doing it.
Thanks for pointing.
1. The parent plugin could attach to one element through the HTML changes. The JS change - you need to explicitly bind the lightbox to click event. In the current plugin - you do not need to edit any of the existing HTML. Just add one line of JS to view all the images (or probably a select few) in Lightbox on the page.
2. While providing this feature, it might not be evident to the user that clicking on the image shows it inside Lightbox. Hence the tooltip.
If you are using Bootstrap Lightbox separately - make sure the other lightbox div id dont conflict with 'demoLightbox'
1. Limit user privileges http://linux.die.net/man/5/limits.conf
2. Create a jailed environment & copy limited binaries in the environment for him to execute http://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/
It is pretty big a technical problem. Most of the server selling guys anyway do the above things. They miss the web based shell though.
While asking for an image/banner to be used as letterhead could be too 'tedious'. How about letting the user attach company logo in the email & you process it as letterhead.
Company logo & name below it on the left, company address on the right. May be - make the background color gray to show it as letterhead.
Point 3 - guess this is classic example of we founders trying to show the philosophy as the first thing to the user. While he/she wants to learn RoR. Guess we should create a separate link 'Philosophy' on the main page & link the content there. Something like https://supportbee.com/ .
Point 4 - guess the command out is too long (especially the rails new part) which is making it look long.
Point 5 - a linux user is needed at the backend & hence there is a signup process for that. We need to figure out a sub-optimal way to provide console access to non-signed up users as well like what Codecademy etc do on their main page.
Caution: Things should be reasonably stable but you may expect some beta hiccups. Some hiccups might also come due to high HN traffic. We have reasonably low traffic otherwise. The server is a small EC2 instance.
IMHO even after reading this, he/she does not want to continue, you should stay separate for good & concentrate on the venture. Co-founders are like boyfriend/girlfriend, you dont look for one, but find one on the way :).
Wish you, your co-founder & the venture - best of luck.
I faced similar issue in my previous startup & to solve it, started http://stalkninja.com . It is a way a deserving & self-starter student can differentiate himself/herself from the rest even if they are not from one of the top colleges like IITs.