How many plugins did you write? Also, how do you handle payment, licensing and such?
Making about $40/day extra would help a lot currently and I'm not bad with jQuery. I can probably hack together some simple yet usefull php scripts too. Wonder if those would sell?
What boggles my mind is that tech events in San Francisco don't print name badge automatically on admission. 0_0
I live in South Africa and pretty much any trade show or event I have gone to in the last 4 years have had name badges printed at the door on admission. Or am I missing something here?
Good luck man! I'm sure if you just keep at it it'll work out fine.
But a word of advice, be careful that you and your wife's relationship won't be jeopardized by working together. I don't know either of you but from observing my friends it could put an untold amount of pressure on your relationship.
Your wife will essentially stop being your soother and turn into a business partner(one you live with D:) and thus another source of pressure.
Yeah sure. But something tells me it'll be less technical people who'll use this service(which is better imho :D) so I'd focus on a simpler plug and play solution.
But setting up an API wouldn't be too hard so why not.
Here's a suggestion though. Seeing as its an appointment making service basically most companies would like to have this service through their own sites.
So, it would be rad if you made a javascript plugin that your clients can pop in their own sites so that their clients can make appointments right from their own site.
Ha, I'm on the other end.
I'm more excited about the product and marketing side of this business. But alas I know no coders so I had to learn all this coding shit myself.
I'm also on the look out for a technical partner and will actively start looking once I have my prototype working.
What I plan to do though is meet them in person or via webcam first. Shoot the shit, observe how they handle different situations, get a feel for their morals, talk about normal stuff friends talk about.
You want to know the real person you're going to share your business with, not what their CV says or what their marketing talk convey.
How would they handle conflict? How likely are they to use slight of hand tricks to better themselves at others expense? What do they want to accomplish and how would that tie in with your shared business? Do they simply want to make a quick buck? Do you?
Hi, sorry for the stupid question here but I'm a tech newby.
But why would you want to encrypt php? I thought only the hosting server can view the actual code. Is it possible to view php scripts that are not executed through a browser?
I do taijiquan too. It can be brutal if you train it like the yang family did. Low stances, excruciating chin na, jing punches to gut.
Its sad that it sort of evolved into this slow dance. Read up a bit about how Yang Luchan and his sons used to train. They didn't get the nick name "Yang the invincible" for doing ballet.
I don't know any developers so I have to learn to code myself. I also have not business related experience so that's a double whammy. But I can generate good ideas like a mofo.
While building my prototype I mostly feel like I have no idea what I'm doing but slowly and surely my site's starting to function, grow and work. Its amazing what persistence can accomplish.
I realize I'll have to find a technical co-founder eventually though. I won't be able to hack together a smoothly running and awesome site on my own. I also have no idea where to look for a technical co-founder and how to approach them. Interesting times ahead.