jwblackwell

I think spending any time on this sort of thing is next to worthless. You're better off just reaching out to a small handful of actual customers directly with your time.

I saw this and was going to comment, it's outrageous. I don't know anyone who doesn't have a thermostat. I've lived in 5 houses myself and always had a thermostat.

I'd love to see the data on that claim.

I don't think you can get away with this type of marketing when you're a little know startup. Perhaps because the Facebook name is there they can, because that's made me interested enough to sit through the video. Otherwise, just tell people what you do in a few seconds.

Great point, it's entirely possible to build and market a successful product that you have no need for yourself and even no interest in using.

All I would say though is if the product isn't something you use frequently then be absolutely sure others are actually using it or do want it.

I believe building something you really need or want yourself is a great way to validate an idea and it'll keep you motivated to build it.

Approaching it with the attitude of "how do I add 100k" is the first mistake. You need to find a genuine problem that you can solve. The rest will work itself out.

Laravel is a great framework and has really helped push the community towards writing tests and producing packages that can be easily shared via composer. Of course Symfony has a big part to play in Laravel's success to.

2013 was a good year for PHP. Most of the time when I hear people complaining about the language, it's as if things haven't changed since 2005.

There's a lot of horrible, badly written spaghetti code out there in PHP that doesn't exist in other languages, but there's also probably much more decent code written in PHP and I think that trend is only set to continue.

Whilst I think the need for speed is often overestimated, it's definitely important in some industries. If you need to move quickly and get a decent product to market first, cash is essential.

Actually playing with it, I see it doesn't do that much. My first instinct was that it was broken or I just didn't understand so I'd be careful with that.

I assume the drag and drop isn't actually meant to work?

Looks great! The online playground seems like a massive development overhead though. How much longer did it take to develop?

Nice bit of marketing from Spotify. I can't see myself using it but if it really is a lot more lightweight than the Spotify client it could be a great alternative for those on low powered machines.

I was a technical reviewer for their recent Laravel book. I've only just received a copy so haven't had a chance to properly review what went into publication.

All was OK (although the level of English was bad, but I was told not to focus on this) until I got to the REST API section which was atrocious. The author clearly didn't understand REST principals.

I essentially suggested a full rewrite or at least a change of title to something like "simple web api" but I can't comment as to whether that happened yet. I expect not.

Take a look at graze.com if you haven't already. Their model seems to be working - you select a bunch of stuff you like and you receive a selection randomly.

Good luck! I think you'll need to find your niche because coffee delivery to offices isn't something new. Most offices get their coffee deliverered. You can differentiate by having a higher end product, perhaps providing some background on where it came from etc

Title is kind of misleading - should probably say "record labels" not "corporations" at least

Also, despite all the naysayers PHP's going through a bit of a revival at the moment. It's certainly not dying.

It's recently got Composer as an awesome package manager, the Laravel 4 framework, new features like short array syntax, closures etc and support from more PaaS (e.g. Google App engine). The community is really getting behind all this as well, which will help bring up the reputation.

I'd still recommend anyone to learn PHP as their first programming language. It's still the easiest to hack your first idea together, there's more jobs than any other language and the standard of code is improving now the language has the features and infrastructure it needs.

Wow $40,000 for an apartment that provides ROI in one year. if only you could do that in London...

The doc for "mock" is a funny example of how poor the docs are in places http://docs.angularjs.org/api/angular.mock

I'd be interested to hear who's getting genuine "freelance" jobs, as in remote, charging per hour and where you're getting them from. I I think a lot of these votes are from contract devs working on site.

It appears Mr Brian Tree is actually an actor - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0871672/

Well this has put me off ever using them.

Thanks! Don't forget to sign up to the beta if you haven't already. It's free and you can use the app unrestricted!

Please do a hard refresh (ctrl-r) and let me know if this doesn't fix it (email in profile and on site). I had to push some bug fixes recently and you might have some old cache files causing problems.

The sorting can be adjusted - just click on a column to see the most popular stuff on Twitter, Linkedin: http://app.buzzsumo.com/#/top-content?result_type=twitter&nu... (twitter)

It's way down at the bottom! Obviously no one upvoted :(

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6437715

We're two developers, to get to this point Henley built a crawler and search index around the data. This is then available via a private API. I (James) built the web app using Angular and Laravel.

Laravel is currently just used for user auth and as a proxy to the api. Nearly all the front end logic is handled by AngularJS (it's a single page app).

Great idea! We're currently working on adding more advanced search operators/an advanced search option so you can do stuff like this.

Thanks! We really appreciate the feedback. We're constantly working on growing the index and improving the search so expect that to improve over the coming months.

We built a search engine that shows you the most engaging stories/topics being shared across Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Google+. We crawled over 15 million articles the past 3 months, retrieved the total number of Facebook likes, tweets, Google+’s etc and built a search index around it.

Here's what our infrastructure looks like:

Rails/Redis: We use the Sidekiq gem as a message queue. We have hundreds of workers that do the crawling, data mining, and number crunching.

ElasticSearch: We built the search index using ElasticSearch, with the data imported from our Postgres database.

AngularJS: Front-end is built using AngularJS and Laravel 4 (PHP), which sends the requests to our Rails server in the backend.

Very inspiring, a very simple idea executed well. Proud that it's a UK invention as well :-)

Wow....what are the odds of this! I literally just came on here to find the site wide progess bar submitted earlier so I could implement it in angular and this shows up! Thanks a lot!

The thing is, most marketing types who actually pay for this software don't think like this. As mentioned in the article, a lot of people actually had troubled pronouncing the brand as they didn't realise it was an acronym.

Albeit, I would of thought most marketers should know what SEO is. But still, I think this will help them sell their product to a more mainstream audience.