Development Questions

How can you build a customer base for your product when all you have is an idea (promise of value)? I'm thinking about getting my product idea to a couple of forums to engage people in it's design...

Products Ideas Development Customers

asked May 11 '10 at 01:24

Raed
101 points

I am about to launch a website, which I got created through a freelancer. However, I am not very pleased with freelancer's performance and plan to hire someone full-time to make required iterations...

Hiring Development Employees Design

asked Apr 2 '10 at 03:32

Joydeep
185 points

I'm looking to do a internet based startup with a friend. It is heavily focused on the site development and although I haven't really made proper cost calculations yet, I'm guessing the initial...

Funding Development Entrepreneurs

asked Apr 15 '10 at 10:16

Danny
6 points

I am a non-IT/techie professional and have created a website through a web designing firm. Although, I have learned about various aspects of designing and running a website through reading, I am no...

Co-Founder Partner Development Technical Non Technical

asked Mar 19 '10 at 01:18

Joydeep
185 points

We're reviewing/exploring anti-piracy measures for a new software product. There is a desktop and a web component. What tactics are you using to prevent/discourage piracy of your software and IP?

Software Development Intellectual Property Piracy

asked Feb 19 '10 at 08:08

Keith De Long
5,091 points

I am considering outsourcing some basic webdev maintenance work. Little tasks like: "Please add clock or other wait indicator when the AJAX is still processing." that should take less than an hour...

Development Outsourcing Web Dev

asked Feb 24 '10 at 08:54

Joseph Turian
895 points

I would like to know what is the best way to hire someone to help you building a web-site. I heard about guru.com and elance but I am not convinced that I can get someone from there who can help me...

Development Outsourcing Website

asked Feb 25 '10 at 06:54

Gyurisc
143 points

I'm looking for more great software tools (than the ones listed below that I already use) to not only create and run a website, but to verify and maintain it. All our websites run on Unix servers...

Software Development Website Tools

asked Feb 26 '10 at 15:42

Gary E
12,510 points

Was curious to hear about other peoples experiences regarding getting software to a point where its ready for a paying customer. My personal experience regardless of the venture or technology...

Technology Development

asked Feb 3 '10 at 09:40

Doug G
446 points

I'm building a new social platform. I understand that is very important to include a Content Management System as part of the development. Can you describe specific features you would develop...

Development

asked Feb 3 '10 at 19:01

Pennyfiller13
86 points

I'm a big believer of "release early, release often" but what's the limit? Our software Traditional - Desktop software We are new but already got many clients Updates requires about 15-30...

Marketing Software Development Release

asked Feb 5 '10 at 06:57

The Dictator
2,305 points

So you are about to start contacting companies about licensing your product/technology. What would be the general elements of the presentation deck? I know what I've done in the past but am...

Partner Development Business Licensing

asked Feb 9 '10 at 07:03

Chris
4,214 points

I'm looking to join a very small company (5 employees) and run all of business development/sales and marketing. My professional experience lies in 8 years of Sales in the online media and...

Software Development Business

asked Feb 18 '10 at 10:35

Danny
113 points

I'm working with a SaaS business with a non-technical founder/CEO and am looking for pros and cons for (1) building the software in-house vs (2) outsourcing version 1.0 to a consulting firm. From...

Hiring Development Outsourcing Consulting Saas

asked Jan 8 '10 at 07:39

Torrie
230 points

How do you reject feature requests nicely especially when the feature request is made publicly via twitter, uservoice or something like ideastorm? For us general reasons to reject are: It's...

Development Features Customer Support CRM

asked Dec 26 '09 at 03:12

The Dictator
2,305 points

I don't know about you, while I agree that unit testing can reduce defects and therefore can maximize ROI in the long run, but it just takes an amount of time. Knowing that you're a startup where...

Development Testing

asked Oct 27 '09 at 22:19

Jpartogi
1,342 points

So I guess the follow-on question for this will be to jump into some of the specifics, but I have never worked on a software development team in a professional capacity and am building a web...

Development

asked Oct 10 '09 at 14:38

Marcamillion
153 points