naithemilkman

Interesting emphasis on 'New York'.

This is good stuff. But isnt there already way too many wire-framing prototyping apps already?

That is a killer seo title. Porn and social media in the same sentence.

Yes without a shadow of a doubt. These are the most important metrics to look at in fact. It will be helpful as well to identify a (one) core super metric unique to your business as an overal measure.

E.g. Blogger - Number of blog posts per day Flickr - Number of photos uploaded per day

After that once you start breaking down into AARRR, you can start defining more mini metrics to watch and optimise at each stage of the process.

Be careful with data overload. Less is more. Is finding out the number of users with a personalised profile picture meaningful to your business RIGHT NOW? If not, shove it and move on to the next metric.

Less is more!!

I thought it might be interesting to share my expectations ss someone who is taking a similar path.

Goal: Launch a databound webapp by June. Requirements: Get good at Python and Django. Pick up HTML/CSS along the way.

So maybe you can become a hacker in one language in 6 months as opposed to trying to be a hacker in 10 languages in 1 year. Honestly, I would go with the shorter option. Time is everything in this business.

I've done my fair share of research on SEO as well during my startup and I can sum it up in one sentence.

Assuming equal on-site optimisations, he with more backlinks wins.

how long did you take to launch that? did you do all the graphics/html/css as well? it looks really impressive! good job!

So you reckon dump google app engine and get going first?

Thats what Im thinking as well.

Really interesting

What a great idea which really ought to be in a spreadsheet!

I wonder why is everyone advocating option B? Is joining a marketing agency that bad an idea?

Yeah, I found Youtube videos very helpful as well. If you know where to look, you can find Lynda.com videos around too..

Get a book and just get stuck in. Do all the exercises, do not copy and paste.

Search Quora/Stackoverflow/Amazon for recommendations.

league of legends

What if the site doesn't have an API? Or what is the API is not user friendly? Case in point: address book scraping employed by many companies bypassing APIS. e.g dropbox

Thanks for the support and positive comments guys :)

Im trying to move from the non-technical camp to the technical camp!

I had to stackoverflow a lot of it so I claim no credit but thanks anyway :) BTW, what do you mean by idiomatic code? UPDATE Ok quick google for idiomatic code. Gotcha. I wonder what non-idiomatic code for c# looks like?

What a nice thought. Someday someone is going to benefit from the code I wrote. LOL!

I feel like 10,000 miles away from that right now.

Does this 'URL' help? I think you have to be a member of github to see this. Nice viral mechanism lol.

git clone git://gist.github.com/761348.git gist-761348

You mean in 24 hours? I think its gonna take me at least a few days lol

I was intimidated for the longest time about picking it up. Partly because I wasn't spectacular at math or algebra or statistics and all the arcane calculus.

Part of the perfectionist in me was also trying to understand everything that happened. Like what actually happens when I enter Console.WriteLine("Hello world");? That is always going to be a losing better so I've since subscribed to the "I know how to drive but I don't know how a car operates" school of thought.

Somewhere along the way, I realised programming isnt about hardcore math but more like just grouping actions together in a logical manner.

Im not interested in web scraping per se but in my previous gig, I was doing erm some 'marketing' through social networks and I was frustrated at not being able to contribute more actively to the process. The marketing work was essentially a programmers job.

So its nice to be able to look under the hood now and see whats going on!

Achievement unlocked! Startup Padawan ranked attained!

I don't know where can I post it? Probably post it to my blog once I've commented it up. Heading out for dinner with the gf so check later! FYI, it looks like a thing of beauty to me but it probably looks like dogshit to the pros. lol.

My cofounders were C# guys. One new benefit I thought of recently was that C# is similar to Java and thats what mobile apps are coded apart from Objective-C. Who says the MVP has to be a webapp? :)

In anycase, my thinking was just get started first. Im probably going to dabble in Python or Ruby (probably Python) just to see what its like at some point. But for the time being, just getting my head down and writing code and asking really n00b questions on stackoverflow is definitely the way to go.

The gravity of life.

When I was 17, all I wanted to do was get laid and play video games.

also see:

http://survey.io/ http://startup-marketing.com/