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- animatedgif0
Minimum Viable Product, get it out the door in the quickest way possible and test if it gets any traction.
Seen so many projects fail because people have tried to make it perfect and then it never got anywhere at all.
- Agree. Get it out there, gauge interest.set
- Sound adviceFallowDeer
- Yes, that's pretty much what I was getting at in my post above.nocomply
- bklyndroobeki0
Update?
- fate0
Option 1
- fate0
Everyone in this thread is pretty right on.
Start with the easiest, quickest way to get something built.
I've done this about 10 times over for startups.
Never go custom out of the gate, it's a big mistake and waste of resources.
- ArmandoEstrada0
I'm still working on it in my spare time. I keep building, nukeing and rebuilding. I also question whether people will use it. I've stramlines a few things. Hopefully I can get it launched in the next few months. It's nothing new, just a job board for the film industry, mainly low/Indy jobs. I work in the industrty often (people find me) but the resources out there to find jobs are shit, so I thought I would make one and get custom ads from industry vendors. Anyways that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
On a side note, Ive been playing with meteor and angular, now I want to start over.
- dont worry about what you are using - just get it up there - WP is fine for job boards - loads of options for that.fadein11
- I think it will be used. I hope you publish it soon.bklyndroobeki
- yup, good luck, keep us posted!!moldero
- prophetone0
i'm in your boots and am just coding it for WP. fact is, it's just faster to get to the finish line, for me anyway. also there are plenty of heavily-trafficked sites that are WP-based so it can handle some sh*t. if my site gets a godzillion hits a day and requires to be custom coded w/o WP to be better optimized i can cross that bridge when i get to it. not a bad problem to have imo.
- prophetone0
other diy options incl. codeigniter, etc.
- nocomply0
Don't let traffic be a barrier to going the WP route.
I'd most definitely recommend starting the easy way, and then investing more time if and when the site actually gains some traffic.
WordPress is a very flexible platform and most likely you will be able to make it do what you want it to, and essentially turn it into something more like your option #2 over time.
- ukit20
Porting data is not difficult. You could do it by exporting the database to XML and then do a find and replace with regular expressions to make it match the new format. At least that worked for me when moving from WordPress to Django, etc.