Woflow | Full Stack / Front End Engineer | San Francisco | Full Time | Onsite
Looking to add an engineer to our small team to help us keep up with growth!
Tech: Ember.js / Ruby on Rails
We are building the data backbone of the food delivery industry and have proven ourselves in the market with the worlds largest food delivery companies.
I butt heads with folks every day over the importance of validation before building begins. I have always been a believer in BUILDING first. The only way to really validate the product is to the put it in REAL hands and see how it does. Well said Gary!
Props on the innovation. Devil's Advocate: Barcodes were put in place to speed up mass quantity entry. This might cause a lineup as the ticket-taker is now a 'bouncer' and has to verify each persons physical identity. Have you tested this model at any fairly large events?
I totally agree with that! There are tons of companies that "win the lottery", and build a product with no validation and succeed. It is obviously not the "right" way to do it, but sometimes it does work.
I hear what you are saying. I have tons of pages of lessons I learned that I will touch on in later posts. I tried to summarize the whole experience in to one page. My experiences took me to business meeting after business meeting, and opened my eyes to the entire tech / music startup scene. The main lesson I learned was not listening to feedback early on, but I also have insight on co-founder issues, legal issues, budgeting issues, personal/work dilemmas, etc.
All of these things I DO agree with. And yes, we are young. We might not use the word "shit" on our homepage next time. But Hell, I used the word "fuck" on the title of this article, and it sure turned alot of heads.
We were a middle-man to the artists. We had it setup so when a fan bought their music all of the money went directly to us, and then we paid out the artist. That is where we went wrong. You need to use "recipient tokens" so the money is split by Amazon. This way the money goes directly to the artist and we get sent a cut directly from amazon.
Yes, Bandcamp was for sure our competitor. Simple to use, and well known. Our added value was the dynamic pricing (which we found out was not a value at all). There are many pain points for artists. The main one is "no one is buying my music". That pain point hasn't yet been solved in an easy way, and as time goes on, it seems its getting harder and harder.
Dans right (he's my co-founder). Amazon allowed for a much larger period of time between authorization and capturing. They are the only processor that had the technology on hand for us.
I did want to open source it, but the problem is all of our passwords and keys for amazon and everything are in the code. Is there a way to get around that?
We were a middle-man to the artists. We had to setup so when a fan bought their music all of the money went directly to us, and then we paid out the artist. That is where we went wrong. You need to use "recipient tokens" so the money is split by Amazon. This was the money goes directly to the artist and we get send a cut directly from amazon
Looking to add an engineer to our small team to help us keep up with growth!
Tech: Ember.js / Ruby on Rails
We are building the data backbone of the food delivery industry and have proven ourselves in the market with the worlds largest food delivery companies.
https://www.woflow.com [email protected]