calbear98

Short answer: Ruby/Python for B2C startup, Java for B2B / large company.

This is easy to quantify just by looking at the jobs posted on AngelList.

Signed up. Good luck!

I don't really have or listen to vinyl, but I'm a music lover and also love album art.

It's not specifically for sole founders, but I'm on nReduce and it's a good way to get feedback from fellow entrepreneurs.

This is a specific niche, so have you thought about ads in industry specific places? Like Infoworld, sites like that.

P.S. Thanks for posting about your experience.

I'm no expert on sales/marketing/distribution either, but... given that you run a paid service, each customer has a tangible lifetime value. So you can offer a referral commission to existing users every time they get a new customer to sign up. Groupon, Dropbox, and tons of others do this.

Gamification, badges, recognition, social profiles. Offer some sense of gratification when they complete a transaction and give something away. Integrate with Facebook, both for inviting more users and for posting on their timeline when they have given something. It highlights their generosity. Focus on having the recipient give feedback to the giver - recognition, express gratitude, how much they enjoyed what they got.

Craigslist has the audience but no sense of identity, community. eBay has the feedback loop and score but no social network.

Market research: someone who can interview potential users/customers, get statistics on the market, create/run/evaluate surveys. UI/UX: someone who can evaluate the user experience and design. Security +1 for code reviews +1 for press +1 for legal +1 for SEO and marketing

What area is your idea in? You don't have to give exact specifics, but you can and should say what space it is in. When looking for a co-founder you want someone who shares your passion and vision about the product.

Also, in your research have you spoken directly to potential customers/users?

I'm a technical founder seeking co-founders as well.

You show a lot of drive and dedication. Best of luck!

Salesforce.com. Twitter uses Scala.

$1500 per person, you won't find your own place for that price in SF.

Yes, absolutely. I had an experience where the design was dictated by an architect who cared more about the theoretical and having UML diagrams looking nice than about actual business requirements and having the code be lean, clean, simple and efficient.

TDD and also code analysis tools can help highlight what you actually need and what you don't.

The converse is true too, if you under-engineer you run the risk of not easily being able to scale up to new requirements.

Over-engineering creates an albatross where you'll fall under your own weight (too much code, slows down development, possibly bad performance, harder to debug). Under-engineering creates a house of cards that is fragile (more buggy, code gets duplicated and patched on, frustrating to work on, hard to refactor).

I hate to recommend doing something you don't really like, but in this case it might be worth it to make your life easier.

smegel is right, all recruiters and most hiring managers will filter resumes based on easily quantifiable criteria, and the school and degree are at the top of that list.

Also, to get through interviews at tech companies like Google, you need to have understanding of fundamental computer science concepts if you are applying to be a developer.