Here’s one of the disadvantage of having all programmer friends: I don’t know any graphics designers. I’m thinking whether I should ATTEMPT to design the product’s UI myself and then hire once I get some investors interested in the project or just hire one right now and pay out of pocket.
I’ve been meaning to try Rails since the first version got released, but didn’t really found any reason to completely switch from Symfony/PHP. So now with a new project, I needed something faster (development wise for my new startup), and I was completely blown away with the ease of use of Rails even for a Ruby newbie like me (Java and PHP background). While the language itself is pretty awesome, the really great thing about Rails is that when you want to override the defaults (convention) its pretty easy without hacking too much, i’m not sure if it was always like this but having tried the latest version (3.1) that’s the primary thing I can appreciate.
The Q&A market is pretty saturated now for the consumer side, but for the enterprise side there are still problems that needs to be solved. There are 2 key issues that needs to solved: information silos (security) and how your solution integrates with the rest of the company’s systems.
So I finally taken the plunge to start my own company. First things first is to have a product and that’s what i’ve been doing for the past few days. This is actually quite exciting, i’ve been wanting to do this for a long time.
Although I have several concerns, like:
I guess, i’ll worry about those when I get my first beta version out.