One Week After Launching My Startup

http://www.codingcupboard.com/blog/2014/02/21/one-week-startup/

by AdamJBall • 12 years ago

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sarhus2• 12 years ago

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?

seivan• 12 years ago

Second this

AdamJBall5• 12 years ago

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...

sarhus2• 12 years ago

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

rickyc0912• 12 years ago

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

jblok• 12 years ago

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.

chaz• 12 years ago

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.

davidw• 12 years ago

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

AdamJBall5• 12 years ago

Will make sure to update!

ianpri• 12 years ago

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

AdamJBall5• 12 years ago

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

dav-3• 12 years ago

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?

AdamJBall5• 12 years ago

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

rickyc0912• 12 years ago

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?

riquito• 12 years ago

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

coldtea2• 12 years ago

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

dav-3• 12 years ago

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

viame2• 12 years ago

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.

dave_sullivan• 12 years ago

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.

viame2• 12 years ago

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.

rjf90• 12 years ago

Congrats, nice work! Look forward to seeing more!

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