While I do agree with the topics and perceive them as changing resistance, I would like to add that bootstrapping your community is always a good idea for a successful business, so VCs are not essential. On the other end, I feel that personal data control and the human willingness to daily give away so many tasks are hard barriers on the long distance.
Same here, thanks Ned, this really touched me. I was 9 yo on a hot Italian summer day of 1985 when my dad bought his first computer for the bag-handcrafting company he still has with mom. I had my C64 since 1983 and I was also quite fluent in Basic at that point, so I was super curious to see the new IBM XT 8088D in action.
The sales agent from this "big" Italian company arrived, unboxed the PC, and started to explain to my dad the default MS-DOS commands. I was sitting there sneaking the prompt commands he was typing when, while installing the accounting software (which was the selling reason) the installation utility failed with an error twice and the sales guy was in a panic. A new version of the software was shipped early that week, and this was the first live installation of it. He tried some commands, started to screw up turning the PC OFF and ON, and at the end, he was completely clueless.
That's when I've stepped in - I've gently asked him permission to touch the keyboard and once got access, I started to play with MS-DOS and found the batch file that was responsible for the installation. The guy was looking at me with an expression that mixed surprise and hope when I've found out this file was a script that was similar to Basic and I've found a way to edit it. After poking for 1 hour in tests and trials, I've finally fixed a bug on a conditional that was bringing the data loading to a dead disk path.
The guy talked with his department the same day, and a manager from the company called me to understand what I did. They were so thankful! Nobody paid me a cent for this but after that phone call, I realized my passion could also be my future job and life, and 36 years later is still true. Thanks again!
Thanks, yep I think you are right about Olivetti, but in this case the company was Buffetti, a national-wide office supplier company that moved into software in the '80s to surf the PC era, cooperating with IBM for the hardware. I think at that point that was the first version of their software, and the department didn't last a long time.
Hi everyone, OP here. In those last rushing weekends busy with my startup I needed something simple to quick share my shopping list
with my girlfriend as she is also working in my core team. So, bored of upgrade gdrive docs all the time lol, I've decided to write
this as a Mithril.js tech demo, inspired from a standard todo list to have a shorter dev time. I'm on Mitrhil a lot on my current
project, so I've preferred to keep the focus on the same modus operandi.
I've also added some simple features and absolutely went with a no-login logic based on UUID_URL sharing. I quickly wrote a node.js
server side app to deal with mongodb and expose some simple API functions. This was also a test, cause I wanted to double-check how
to deploy 2 different applications on the same dokku instance. So I'm actually serving the Mithril client as a single app with nginx,
and commute data through the API's on the server site, also for some route logic, launching the node app in a docker container.
At the end I don't like it so much, I'm still considering to switch back serving with Express 4 static, also to get rid the '?' from
the URL as root in Mithril and not be forced to use rewrite methods.
Flow: Absolutely no need to login, fast search engine to check if the recipe/list exists in mongodb and load it to have it ready on the
fly, and a quick list of the most forked ones. Forked cause can be logical your GF to modify and re-save your shared list, but can be
also logical for another person to load it, check is quality and then take this list as a basis for his/her new fork. Then the last
point is just sharing, as many way as possible for free.
At first, using it on my android is pretty nice and fast, and I like the experience, tap and start typing. Friends are also happy.
I'm still working in really spare time to add some other features (edit an item, a desktop icon) and some fixing (I know a couple
of bugs here and there), but it's logical message is pretty clear. Also the mobile custom grid is not perfect, but should work on
most of devices. I will share some Mithril.js coding technique on a blog-post too. At first, using it on my android is pretty nice
and fast, and I liked the experience.
I would love to hear your feedback! I am CTO acting temp CEO right now on my startup. If somebody likes the idea and would knock to
be a tech co-founder on REALLY spare time to give this concept a serious look and add some custom features (like an optional twitter login), I would appreciate it a lot and for sure I promise to find some time to give it a business dev and some much more serious feedback.
Sounds a real odd memory. First cause I was almost ten, sick from a strong flu, and resting in my grandma bed to let her assist me as a child. Got my first Polaroid camera as an anticipated birthday gift, and being inside the same engineer i am now, i was ready to shot the Shuttle with an instant. And in a matter of seconds, it blows up crew included. An incredible sad day.
Did it too successfully 3 years ago with my Acer laptop. It worked but as you're saying, didn't lasted so much. Anyway was pretty cool ;) Pic here: http://imgur.com/iDaYpBD
I'm a CTO and a serial entrepreneur, and i'm into this business since i was a kid. 6 years ago after a very intense splash in a huge famous company in US, I've decided to take a break, and fly to the Caribbean to open a sushi restaurant. My girlfriend is a successful F&B manager so i took all the suggestions I can handled from her, and opened it. After 12 months, was a complete failure. The first of my life. I was really scared to lose everything but just the time to close and open my eyes, solutions were there. Time and focus are very helpful. I didn't drop. I've found a re-start partner, took my girlfriend with me in business to advice and manage, changed style, and finally sold it to at least break even all the debts and have some vacation, ready to go back to the Internet. The break lasted 4 years at the end, and was the most important time of my life, looking at it from here now. The major growth of your soul. Keep the energy and focus, be sincere, and for sure something good is going to happen. And your second time is going to be ridiculous easier, trust me. Good luck.
