Show HN: I got into a venture accelerator and built my first Rails app

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Hi, OP here.

Just a bit of background, myself and 2 friends have just gotten into AngelCube (an Australian based venture accelerator) and we're validating an idea we have, that people will purchase goods using bitcoin.

We've decided to pick Raspberry Pi's (as bitcoin has generally a tech audience), and I've created a page to sell them using Rails (a stack that one of our cofounder swears by :) ).

If you have any feedback on design, technology, or anything startup related we'd be keen to hear it

Thanks!

Jerrold

Are you rolling your own system to accept the bitcoins? Coinbase seems to be gaining some popularity as a method for Merchants to accept bitcoins, don't know much past that myself though.

Yep good guess and yep, we've heard of Coinbase, though our approach is a little different to theirs (yet to be revealed :) )

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