We use these both for https://jumpstartrails.com and it works great. You have to build your own authentication and native navigation, but for launching your app on mobile and the web, it's hard to beat.
Yeah, Avo is a great alternative to the free admin we ship with (Administrate). And Jumpstart Pro customers get 20% off their first year of Avo. Thanks for sharing that discount Adrian!
There have been a couple huge successes with it. One of them is processing millions in revenue a month. A lot of others are doing well and chugging along. Can't share the exact ones without permission, but I've been blown away it.
At the end of the day, it's nice to help people focus on their unique business features and not payments, teams, etc.
Thanks for the support! Glad you've been enjoying Hatchbox. We're wrapping up v2 and can't wait to share it. Upgrading to Caddy for the web server has been wonderful.
That would be so much fun. I originally started GoRails because I missed Railscasts so much. <3 I learned everything from Railscasts when I started with Rails.
A lot of the sponsors that do well are ones that offer things that the sponsor wants. Trading a couple hours a month consulting for $1k/mo in sponsorship helps make it worth doing to the donors. They want to support you, but they also probably could use your help.
Effectively you're productizing consulting and that flips it from a donation to a purchase. They get a tangible thing for their money this way. I think that helps a lot for making sponsorships more successful.
I've been working on something like this for Ruby on Rails in case anyone is interested. It has multitenancy, billing separate for each tenant, automatic query filtering for the current tenant, etc. https://jumpstartrails.com
Thanks for the recommendation of GoRails! I started screencasting a few years back because I missed Railscasts and learned just about everything from Ryan Bates. Wish he was still around in the community.
If anyone ever has suggestions on Ruby / Rails topics to cover, let me know!
I'm using Passenger for serving up apps, which supports Python, Node, and Ruby. Got some basic Node support right now, but have plans to add Python soon. I haven't used Python deeply for quite a few years, so I've got a lot to catch up on to figure out what'd be best for that.
Shoot me an email and we should chat about Python support! chris @ gorails com
Yes, of course it's still worth learning. Whether you learn Rails, Django, or anything else, the concepts will apply pretty well for any web framework.
I've been making screencasts for Rails developers at GoRails (https://gorails.com) showing how to build various features of websites in Rails.
I've been working on a solution for deploying Rails called Hatchbox. (https://hatchbox.io) Basically wanted to offer something as easy to deploy as Heroku, but on your own servers so you could host on DigitalOcean, AWS, etc. A lot of people have been deploying 50% cheaper than their Heroku bills which is fantastic.
Feel free to email me, [email protected] if you have any questions or want to chat and see if it'd be a good solution for you!
Thanks for the kind words! I appreciate the support!
I definitely am considering offering courses that either package up a series or a topic. That seems to be a good way of solving that balance between the different types of customers I see.