Interesting. I am not arguing, just sharing: people say that Drupal now is a framework and you an actually write custom stuff, not just stack modules. Can that be, what do you think?
Nice answer. I have things to say:
- there are situations that number of levels matter - dependecies is one reason. There must be others, why is 51 the highest in WOW? I am looking for a source that can point all the reasons.
- how many points do you award each task? Surely this matters, but what do i benchmark those to? Time it takes to complete? Mix of time, complexitity, scarcity, x y z? What are possible x y z, and in what proportions do i mix them?
- books are "Gamification by Design" by Gabe Zichermann (biggest proponent), "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal, Also "Flow", "Drive" and a couple more. All of those seem too theoretical, and when i sit to create something, i cant put numbers to the theories.
Right. I have one thing I am working on, but I am sharing all my other ideas so that if anyone likes something they can work on it. Sometimes someone has something similar and just by reading those summaries can come up with a mix or with the missing piece in his puzzle. You never know.
Getting a partner only because he is a friend does NOT cover basic requirements for partnership.
Explanation:
Your idea is not going to work if no one knows how to code. Period. Your friend starting now will need a minimum of couple years to get to an OK level to build what you want. Your product will have bugs, inefficient code, hard to maintain. Given that, the only way to make it is if the market and idea are exceptionally strong and really pull you in sales so you hire someone better. Not likely.
What could happen?
Being honest and meaningful now with him is important because it will settle thigs right between you guys. If you keep him only because of friendship (yet worse, afraid to break friendship- if he is a friend he would understand whats meaningful for both) there will always be tension between you, low morale, the business will not move fast and things eventually will fall apart. Keep in mind also that you are getting him into something log term that is not likely to work this specific way, which is a bad favor.
What to do?
In my opinion, to keep the friendship and the business be honest with your friend and find a programmer to partner with. Or at least bring in a third person experienced coder. Otherwise it feels like you will lose both.
If you have already found that your customers are first timers, i can tell you one thing
Guide them step by step
With the problems. For example, for marketing, outline the process for Facebook marketing and ease it in their accounts. If you see they have problems with lets say accounting, integrate Freshbooks.
Your customers will be profitable when they put effort, and for that to happen, they need to know what they are doing and connect actions to results.
Wake up, gmail, thefeelgood.com (music), HN, code 1h, breakfast, code 3h, lunch out with friends. I dont drink coffee, i dont smoke, try to stay healthy.
And what energizes me is that i love what i work on. The simplest, easiest and best motivator. Otherwise lots of contacts with lots of friends, Sports, games and sex (when circumstances allow) keep me in good mood and happy.
Not switching that fast. The few advantages are size/load time as well as switching effortlessly color. But at the price of
... compatibility, accessibility, rendering (white on black background issue with fonts), single color icons, delayed loading(sometimes fonts load after the page)?
I think what you said hits the sweetspot. I understand not to give advice until I am asked for, but I just never realized that someone coming to tell me a problem != 'i want a help'
huge heads up, thanx!
And why would someone not want a solution? yet to figure this one out...
you are a bit harsh but in any way, i am trying to show a different side of learning - one in which you don't need 100% accuracy. If 5% of the information of the information is wrong and it still does the job, what is the point of sweating the lack of perfection? glad to hear opinion though
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