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admanrs | 7 years ago | on: From Dead Code to Company: The FullCalendar JavaScript Lib Turns 10

Most of my competitors (who provide client-side-only libs) were doing perpetual licensing, so I followed suit. However, there IS a recurring aspect: the customer gets email support and version upgrades for only a year. Then they must renew. It's opt-in, but I nudge them with email reminders.

I've seen a number of client-side-only products that ARE subscription (like Sencha), but they seem more general-purpose, like a framework. Something developers at a company would use everyday for everything. FullCalendar felt like more of a plug-n-play widget, not as pervasive.

Maybe your product is somewhere in between. It's pretty arbitrary nonetheless.

admanrs | 18 years ago | on: Fake Steve Jobs jokingly misquotes PG's recent essay

um yeah... i misread the article, didnt think he correctly linked to you, just thought he called you a "non-famous programmer dude". sorry, should have been more thorough (but i never imaged this post would get ranked so high -- who knew)

just an announcement, fakepaul.blogspot.com is open

admanrs | 18 years ago | on: Fake Steve Jobs jokingly misquotes PG's recent essay

id say fake steve is sort of a blog version of the daily show / colbert report for tech news. its ridiculous and cynical, but sometimes very true.

however, this particular story is just silly fluff. thought news.yc might get a kick out of it though

admanrs | 18 years ago | on: Ask YC: Feedback on our webapp (website-building tool)

thanks! you can completely customize your template w/ the blogger xml template language. the editor is somewhat crippled though, u cant expand the html of widgets, but thatll come soon. we're also gonna put up some better documentation for it

admanrs | 18 years ago | on: Ask YC: Feedback on our webapp (website-building tool)

thanks! yep, its all php and mysql. we imagine 'orgu' means something like organization-universe or (you guessed it) organization-university, but in reality we wanted to pick as short a name as possible so groups using the .orgu.com subdomains wouldn't have a long url.

admanrs | 18 years ago | on: Ask YC: Feedback on our webapp (website-building tool)

if you have a wildcard in dns records, you can effectively make it a fallback, so thats how our something.orgu.com addresses get mapped to an IP. however, we do allow tld's, we handle that by hosting our own instance of PowerDNS, which is great (u can use mysql with it)

admanrs | 18 years ago | on: Ask YC: Feedback on our webapp (website-building tool)

we use your f+lname as your identity when you post things and invite other people to the site. the point about the confusion over the sn field is valid, we might want to reformat that screen (or ideally have a live demo that eases into a real membership - like weebly).

we use the same java/activex image uploader that facebook uses (hoping people would be familiar w/ it). however, there should be an option "use the simple uploader" that will take u to a standard file-input setup. let me know if this isnt showing up.

admanrs | 18 years ago | on: Ask YC: Feedback on our webapp (website-building tool)

we're not so much in the 'group communication' space as the 'web publishing' space. our main goal is to make interesting/useful/rich websites (though we may harness group communication for content). we want these websites to be valuable for those within the group AND mean something for those outside.

admanrs | 18 years ago | on: Ask YC: Feedback on our webapp (website-building tool)

even though we have launched, we aren't trying to attract major pr yet. we want to beef up a few features a little more first, but when we do, we're thinking (besides announcing on the standard internet portals) to talk to some large national organizations (greek, community, etc). there is no paid version, but you CAN currently use your own domains for free. (in the "settings" tab)

admanrs | 18 years ago | on: Ask YC: Feedback on our webapp (website-building tool)

it was actually painfully hard. we ended up with a very elegant solution though... Blogger has a set of widgets, but we introduce some new ones (like a 'Photos' widget or an 'Events' widget). These sort of inherit from existing ones (by transforming their templates), so designers only have to code html+css for the standard 'Blog' widget and the others are inferred
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