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65karma·83submissions·March 25, 2012
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As someone who is trying to run a vaguely similar service (streetmates.net) I'm wondering how communities can be guided to be constructive and pleasant. Or maybe people are just people, pleasant …
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That's sort of how it works. You request the conch, and if no-one else has it then it's yours. Otherwise you're in the queue, waiting... always waiting, until finally the conch falls fr…
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Made this thing, curious if it can actually be useful to anyone. A problem is happening at work with contention for a particular
resource (a pre-production demo environment). The developers have to co…
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That's almost similar to what I'm aiming for. But it (nextdoor) seem very keen to validate an exact person's house address. Not sure how I feel about that. I started signing up and kind…
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Does that mean you'd need to have their phone number first, like everyone would need to be a WhatsApp contact? I guess my approach is aimed more toward casual acquaintances, where you might not k…
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Yeah I'm in two minds about obtaining the precise street address. On the one hand there is actually nothing to stop you just entering a street name and omitting your residence number - I think it…
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Hey that's so nice to get a bit of support. Thank you. Yeah, I feel like whatever it ends up looking like, it's going to have to be kept super simple/accessible. Wondering about the tra…
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Why not just make it non-gender specific?
The female pronouns and imagery really distracts.
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Clickable: http://alouy.com http://alouy.com/blog/introduction.html http://baby.alouy.net (u/p: ned)…
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Just released a spin-off of an open source project that I've contributed to
for a few years. Still scratching my head trying to get some traffic. Create
and manage issues/tickets via email, web, CLI o…
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Intro to the features: http://alouy.com/blog/introduction.html Demo, user/pass: ned http://baby.alouy.net …
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Well it would seem that the logical next step is going to be giving it a way to provide permanence to the data. That generally means online storage, but there might be other ways that are more in keep…
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It's might also be worth checking out allocPSA.com, also open source, and has a similar ticketing email gateway thingo... and a little tiny bit more functionality.
(I'm very biased though :-)
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Huh. I guess that does clang a bit. I suppose the more frequently used approach is to sell sell sell, raise expectations, and then drop the curtain and reveal the pricing. Thanks for the tip, will thi…
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OK. I'm not accustomed to that level of optimism :-)
But I see what you're saying. One API coming up.
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I'm happy to answer any technical questions about the app. It's pretty boring though, LAMP stack, jQuery. The other thing I would kill for is any ideas on how to market this. How to market it, and to …
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Thanks Yunus. The design is definitely pretty bare ... TODO. I'm not so sure about giving it APIs, I think the target market will be mainly non-technical. But I suppose given an API, the application c…