Re: [Boston.pm] Could use some feedback -- typo fix
Wow.. these messages got sent to my spam folder so I'm only now reading them.. Ugh. Thanks for the feedback. I did first think of going with Kickstarter. But they do not accept campaigns for websites like mine. I already tried, and they said no :( That's why I went with Indiegogo.com. I have just done a follow-up video (see http://www.modomhan.com/gallery.html) that explains things a bit better. One of the things I mention is the planned support for PHP. As for non-programmers being able to make their own widgets, I HAVE put some thought into this. And I hope to be able to build tools for this. But I certainly don't have anything ready yet, nor will I in the near future. Android and Iphone apps have worked pretty well for non-programmers, so I figure I should be safe since there are more Perl and PHP programmers than Iphone Android (though those numbers are changing...) Every $0.02 is most welcome! Thanks! --Alex On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:11 AM, David Larochelle da...@larochelle.namewrote: tl:dr Glanced at your sight. Is this being funded on KickStarter? If not you might consider kickstart just for the publicity. I'm never been one to down play the importance of good marketing. But I'm not a marketing guy so I can't say if that is your problem. I saw that you mentioned HTML,CSS, Javascript and Perl, do you have a provision for non-technical users/ non-programmers? Also while Perl is near and dear to our hearts, other languages such as PHP might appeal more to people who are building things on the web. (Yes everyone acknowledges that PHP is a flawed language but it has mind share in a certain demographic.) I saw you're planning on adding PHP but perhaps the fact that you don't have it now is part of your problem. Just my $0.02. Hope it helped and good luck with the site. -- David On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Alex Brelsfoard alex.brelsfo...@gmail.com wrote: URL was incorrect. Correction: http://www.indiegogo.com/modomhan Thanks. --Alex On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Alex Brelsfoard alex.brelsfo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Sorry for the slightly off-topic message, but I could really use some feedback. I'm trying to go live with a big new project (written in Perl), and I'm using crowd sourcing to get it off the ground ( http://indeigogo.com/modomhan). I'm really keen on pushing the open source technology part, and the fact that anyone who can program in Perl will be able to contribute to and help define MoDomhan. But I'm having a hard time getting the word out. Is this just a really tough time? Am I not doing enough (facebook, twitter, regular SEO, adwords, emails, phone calls, projects.mefi, boingboing, etc.)? Or is this simply a really crap idea? (I seriously dig this project though) Any advice or input would be really helpful. Thanks. --Alex ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] Could use some feedback
Wow.. these messages got sent to my spam folder so I'm only now reading them.. Ugh. Jason, Thank you very much for your thoughts. And you are not alone in thinking this way. Your right, the biggest problem I have is that MoDomhan can do SO much. So how do I create a short video to explain it. The answer turns out much like you explained: I can't. Let me first answer your main question: what can MoDomhan do that no other site/app can: It can give a non-programmer the ability to create a fully customized and feature-rich website without needing to hire a developer or designer. And full websites can be built in minutes. Sure you can build full websites, even customized websites in Wordpress. But you typically need to be a programmer to do so and you need to pay for the ability to customize your site. This is the main issue I am having with advertising. There are really important points from both the developer and the layman point of view: Developer side: You have a new and easy platform to develop on where you can make money and/or just play. Layman side: you can create your own website easily and with no need for a developer. As I explained above, this only touches the tip of the iceberg, but it's the driving force of MoDomhan so far. My current solution now is to break up the advertisements. I just released a new video (see http://www.modomhan.com/gallery.html) where I speak more to the laymen. I will be doing another one soon where I'll be speaking to the developers out there. So, all you developers: if you have questions (like Jason Gabor) send them my way and I'll try to incorporate them into my next video. Gabor, Thanks very much for your feedback too. To answer *your* questions: I had originally planned on making this open source, but the more I worked on it, the more I realized that it would really work best as a hosted solution. I DO hope that MoDomhan becomes A better Wordpress, but I honestly plan on it being much more than just that. For example, I'm hoping for this to become a useful platform for social/professional networkers who are tired of or frustrated with the current options. You raise a very good point though: people need to *know* me. I'll definitely be adding a section of my experience and expertise in the next video. And once I do that I'll also update the text on the campaign website. *Very* good feedback. Also you asked about a blog. Right now I've just got a news feed: http://www.modomhan.com/news I might eventually create a more proper blog. But this is working for my current needs. As for letting people in for Alpha testing: I would LOVE to. I simply haven't had enough for alpha users to play with to make it worthwhile (only have a couple widgets and background themes setup), plus it being in alpha it wasn't all that pretty. But I've made some good progress over the last couple weeks and might be open to letting some people in for alpha testing soonish. Do I have any interested parties here? Again, thank you so very much for the helpful feedback. And I'm so sorry for my delayed response. (I've added a new filter to prevent these messages from going into spam again). Hope you guys read this long-winded email :) Thanks! --Alex On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Jason McIntosh j...@jmac.org wrote: On Oct 17, 2012, at 12:45 AM, Gabor Szabo ga...@szabgab.com wrote: Have you already written about your experience in a blog that could be shared? Have you given talks about this at Boston.pm or YAPCs? Maybe now… In fact I gave talks to Boston.pm and other local gatherings circa 2006-7, when I was in the thick of things and very optimistic. Here's a YouTube from 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsXIaDg7agQfeature=g-upl A postmortem blog post that I wrote a couple of years after that: http://prog.livejournal.com/953385.html I haven't otherwise turned my experiences into talks. (And I'm aware that volity.org does not in fact have any documentation on it right now, alas. Scraping the doc-wiki out of the Wayback Machine is on my TODO…) -- Jason McIntosh Appleseed Software Consulting j...@appleseed-sc.com • www.appleseed-sc.com ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
