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23 pointsAdamJBall26 comments

How did you get a mention on TechCrunch?

Edit: I think CodingCupboard is nice idea, don't get me wrong, and in your first week you've got a mention on TechCrunch (startup dream, as you wrote).

Can you explain how it happened?

Second this

Drafting a separate post on this so bear with me but you can see the press release I sent here: http://www.codingcupboard.com/press/releases/Coding-Cupboard...

Ok! But that's not an answer :) it's your press release. Looking forward to reading how "CodingCupboard got on TechCrunch" in a week!

Just rushing about at the moment and want to spend the time on a more detailed post that can help more!

Generally if you have connection to a techcrunch writer, you can easily get a shoutout.

TechCrunch is the kind of site read by indie start up kids and just peddles crap about whichever startup is hot or 'crunching it' that week. Same goes for Mashable. I used to read both for a while before realising it was all mostly hype with no real content or analysis.

Good exposure though, just maybe not to the right audience.

This may be true, but there's still a lot of value to being written up in TC because it can drive other coverage. Other tech news read TC for stories and look into who they cover, so it can provide a multiplicative effect for mentions. Also, it there's a specific site that you want to be covered by, you can go to them with a link of existing coverage. It's still a brand name in tech, though not as unique as it once was.

Just tried to add a project and some of my thoughts

- you might want to mention more clearly that current posting projects is free

- Do you need to ask for address details just to post a project? I can understand when it comes to billing, but it initially put me off just to post a free project.

- You ask for a budget but i'm looking for someone for ongoing work, perhaps make this optional? I had to enter £0 to proceed

- the text boxes aren't resizable (FF mac) so its hard to re-read what you've just entered

Good luck and looking forward to some responses to my listing

Awesome, thanks for the feedback. Will hack together some updates over the weekend!

Why, oh why, are passwords limited to 16 characters? It simply baffles me that modern applications are still being built with these pointless limits. Can you please explain your reasoning to me?

It's a learning curve for us. That's why this kind of feedback is important.

As another person stated, on another question, you didn't really answer why the 16 character limit was imposed in the first place. Is it due to some plugin? You don't think people will remember long passwords?

It's because the password field in their database has a length of 16.

Let's hope they store a (salted) hash of the password, not the password itself.

> It's a learning curve for us. That's why this kind of feedback is important.

Then I would suggest you to look out to the opposite problem, denial of service via long passwords (assuming that you correctly use a slow key derivation function).

e.g. Django now accept passwords with at most 4096 bytes because attackers used gigantic passwords that took a long time to hash

Any decent password manager can generate passwords of any length to use, and XKCD style phrase passwords are not that safe anyway.

I'm using Lastpass. I usually generate 48 char passwords.

Isn't that overkill though? It's not like they're practically (as opposed to theoritically) better than 16 char passwords.

Who can force break 16 char passwords (especially with non-alphanumeric chars in)?

Realistically, I'm not worried about someone brute forcing my password for some one-off site. On the other hand, there's really no technical reason to limit passwords to anything less than 255 characters, so why do it? What if some technological breakthrough enables us to build processors much more powerful than previously thought possible, processors that can easily brute force a 16 character password? Likely? No. Possible? I have no clue, but I'd rather not gamble on it.

Good luck on the startup.

Few questions: How much time did it take you to build this? Is this an evening project? It costs £25 to list and £100 to award a project, am I getting this right? How do you select your coders? Why did you choose such saturated market, in a way at least? I do believe there is always room for more, just wondering.

Your comment just made me think of something: Relatively crowded market, and this is probably on the expensive end. Meanwhile, recruiting companies make like 20k per placement (20% of first year salary?). I want to be selling to the guys used to paying 20k for that service, not £100.

Is anyone going after the high end? Recruiting companies I've seen are a bit lacking in innovation.

Very nice, I like where you're going with this. The target market is there for sure. I didn't hear about anyone being in this space, at least for now, and you? I'll try to scan this market and see what I can find.

You should make it clear that it's UK only, or add the international prefix to the number.

Will make sure to update!

Congrats, nice work! Look forward to seeing more!

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