LiveBlogging from BCH5 - 3

Hardcore way to do your startup - Nanda - www.atuitu.com.

About AtuItu: Social Network for telugu folks. Built on Ruby on Rails.

• Describe your product/startup in one single line
• Breakup your work into very small parts - modules - task for the days - not codes
• Every problem is a challenge - every achieved challenge gives a sense of achievement
• Do mistakes. Don’t worry about them.
• Be in the market and keep changing it based on the feedback.
• Focus on getting your product out. Let the users give you the response and feedback.
• Only dependent on yourself.
• Distractions - money to sustain, depressions. Be very guarded from any distraction.
• All about persistence.

Relevance of Rails to startups - Sumanth Krishna A

• One person - one idea - product.
• And basically the top ten of Rails - the usual drumming that is given for rails - DRY, convention over configuration, ActionModel, CRUD, partials, helpers, etc…
• Agile Development
• Huge debate on Rails vs PHP vs Ruby vs Django
  • It quickly moved onto saying PHP is a language and Rails is a framework, blah blah. But then finally it boiled down to whoever already knew the language/framework and whoever was comfortable with the other.