We're 2 developers with more than 8 years of working with Rails stack. You'll get full-stack Rails development, including Dev Op work for a very reasonable rate.
Emailed. I lost contact with you some time ago, but we were always wondering when the service would become publicly available. Glad to hear it's coming soon!
Perhaps I wasn't clear. Collecting email addresses is fine, but make sure you're really getting people who are genuinely interested in your product. My point is that people shouldn't focus on hoarding emails. The focus should be on testing certain message, certain angle of the product, whether they like the future vision, etc...
So you're saying startups should be A/B testing their coming soon landing pages. That sounds like good advice. I'd be surprised if that feature were not on the todo list of the LaunchRock guys...
I used to do what you did too. Pure PHP without frameworks projects always grow unmaintainable. At least go with a framework like CodeIgniter. Rails is great too if you prefer Ruby (which I do).
Wow, thank you everyone for the incredible responses and support. I'm really glad people found the post useful.
I didn't link to Munchery because I intended to write something to help future interviewees, not to promote the company. But it's really encouraging that people seem to like the idea :)
Investing in people over their ideas is always advisable. But let's not forget how brilliant people can still fail. Tons of bright kids come out of MIT, Harvard, Stanford, etc... Should you blindly invest in all of them?
Instead, I prefer Mark Suster's "invest in lines, not dots" strategy. You really have to spend more time to have a better idea on whether you should invest.
In hindsight, of course Drew Houston would be a good investment.
I think he's not suggesting investing in "bright kids," but "smart and gets things done." Or "relentlessly resourceful." Smart is just one of the criteria, but he still would invest in people, not in "the idea."
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We're 2 developers with more than 8 years of working with Rails stack. You'll get full-stack Rails development, including Dev Op work for a very reasonable rate.