One Week After Launching My Startup

One Week After Launching My Startup(codingcupboard.com)

23 points by AdamJBall 12 years ago | 26 comments

sarhus 12 years ago |

How did you get a mention on TechCrunch?

Edit: I think CodingCupboard is nice idea, don't get me wrong, and in your first week you've got a mention on TechCrunch (startup dream, as you wrote).

Can you explain how it happened?

AdamJBall 12 years ago | |

Drafting a separate post on this so bear with me but you can see the press release I sent here: http://www.codingcupboard.com/press/releases/Coding-Cupboard...

sarhus 12 years ago | | |

Ok! But that's not an answer :) it's your press release. Looking forward to reading how "CodingCupboard got on TechCrunch" in a week!

jblok 12 years ago | |

TechCrunch is the kind of site read by indie start up kids and just peddles crap about whichever startup is hot or 'crunching it' that week. Same goes for Mashable. I used to read both for a while before realising it was all mostly hype with no real content or analysis.

Good exposure though, just maybe not to the right audience.

chaz 12 years ago | | |

This may be true, but there's still a lot of value to being written up in TC because it can drive other coverage. Other tech news read TC for stories and look into who they cover, so it can provide a multiplicative effect for mentions. Also, it there's a specific site that you want to be covered by, you can go to them with a link of existing coverage. It's still a brand name in tech, though not as unique as it once was.

rickyc091 12 years ago | |

Generally if you have connection to a techcrunch writer, you can easily get a shoutout.

seivan 12 years ago | |

Second this

ianpri 12 years ago |

Just tried to add a project and some of my thoughts

- you might want to mention more clearly that current posting projects is free

- Do you need to ask for address details just to post a project? I can understand when it comes to billing, but it initially put me off just to post a free project.

- You ask for a budget but i'm looking for someone for ongoing work, perhaps make this optional? I had to enter £0 to proceed

- the text boxes aren't resizable (FF mac) so its hard to re-read what you've just entered

Good luck and looking forward to some responses to my listing

AdamJBall 12 years ago | |

Awesome, thanks for the feedback. Will hack together some updates over the weekend!

dav- 12 years ago |

Why, oh why, are passwords limited to 16 characters? It simply baffles me that modern applications are still being built with these pointless limits. Can you please explain your reasoning to me?

AdamJBall 12 years ago | |

It's a learning curve for us. That's why this kind of feedback is important.

rickyc091 12 years ago | | |

As another person stated, on another question, you didn't really answer why the 16 character limit was imposed in the first place. Is it due to some plugin? You don't think people will remember long passwords?

riquito 12 years ago | | |

> It's a learning curve for us. That's why this kind of feedback is important.

Then I would suggest you to look out to the opposite problem, denial of service via long passwords (assuming that you correctly use a slow key derivation function).

e.g. Django now accept passwords with at most 4096 bytes because attackers used gigantic passwords that took a long time to hash

coldtea 12 years ago | |

Any decent password manager can generate passwords of any length to use, and XKCD style phrase passwords are not that safe anyway.

dav- 12 years ago | | |

I'm using Lastpass. I usually generate 48 char passwords.

viame 12 years ago |

Good luck on the startup.

Few questions: How much time did it take you to build this? Is this an evening project? It costs £25 to list and £100 to award a project, am I getting this right? How do you select your coders? Why did you choose such saturated market, in a way at least? I do believe there is always room for more, just wondering.

dave_sullivan 12 years ago | |

Your comment just made me think of something: Relatively crowded market, and this is probably on the expensive end. Meanwhile, recruiting companies make like 20k per placement (20% of first year salary?). I want to be selling to the guys used to paying 20k for that service, not £100.

Is anyone going after the high end? Recruiting companies I've seen are a bit lacking in innovation.

viame 12 years ago | | |

Very nice, I like where you're going with this. The target market is there for sure. I didn't hear about anyone being in this space, at least for now, and you? I'll try to scan this market and see what I can find.

davidw 12 years ago |

You should make it clear that it's UK only, or add the international prefix to the number.

AdamJBall 12 years ago | |

Will make sure to update!

rjf90 12 years ago |

Congrats, nice work! Look forward to seeing more!