nikz
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Comment · 10 years ago
Programmers are inherently encouraged to be lazy, so they'll follow the easiest path assuming you're careful to actively encourage that... if you're not really careful about exactly how "obvious" you make your intended path (Hint: It's never obvious enough) then you wander by a few weeks later and there's a giant Rube-Goldberg construct blooming in source control.
As per all generic advice, YMMV.
Comment · 12 years ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote or London, UK
Full-stack Rails developer, been using Rails since before v1.0. I've just moved to London and I'm looking for something for ~20 hours per week.
More about me: http://nikwakelin.com
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Comment · 13 years ago
Are you sure it's not more along the lines of "don't 'play' at it, do it properly?"
Perhaps I'm reading too much into it. I guess that's the problem with this sort of vague generalised advice :)
Comment · 14 years ago
We have a similar app, Flatmin (http://flatmin.com) that's targeted more specifically at shared living situations.
We built it a few years ago, and h(ave|ad) big plans to expand into household chores and shopping lists. It's an interesting problem from a couple of perspectives. We've found the more Facebook integration we can do, the better as the target market are very comfortable with Facebook.
It's also a difficult one to make money from - we have some ads on there, but I think to really make it work you'd need integration with another app or some kind of freemium offering (daily deals?)
Yours looks nice - if I could make a suggestion, it would be great to enter email addresses of people to invite, as sending them a hex string is less common and more likely to get lost!