Hi Emile! So I just poked around on your site and see that you started a 99designs campaign to get a "dog mascot" logo...<p>This is the one you should go with -- the ones designed by WorkHorse; I would totally put one of those on my Macbook! The others? Not so much.<p><a href="http://99designs.com/illustrations/contests/illustration-tindie-162449?filter=eliminated&sorting=rating&show=shortlisted" rel="nofollow">http://99designs.com/illustrations/contests/illustration-tin...</a><p><a href="http://99designs.com/illustrations/contests/illustration-tindie-162449/entries/32" rel="nofollow">http://99designs.com/illustrations/contests/illustration-tin...</a><p>You can thank me later :)
Some data:<p>-1 developer (me)<p>-$646 transacted in July<p>-Over $1800 transacted last month<p>-Shipped to 20 countries & every continent except Antartica<p>-Avg 30k visitors a month the last 2 months
This is really cool. I have a project I'm working on now which I'll be listing on there for sure. Shameless plug—it's a small IR receiver board which provides input switching and volume control to a stereo amplifier. I'm using it to upgrade a 1970s solid-state amp, but the intended user would be a chipamp builder. The MCU is an atmega168/328, so it's completely hackable.<p>The site is down right now, but would there be a way in tindie to get a volume commitment, a la Kickstarter? It would be great to be able to have a chunk of cash upfront, to pay things like setup fees for PCB fab and assembly.
Very thrilled about this! As a Tindie seller [1], I've had an excellent experience so far. Congrats, emile!<p>I put this in an email to Emile earlier, but would like to say it here, too... I think Tindie is <i>perfect</i> for people like me. I don't have the time (yet!) to dedicate a huge effort putting my projects up on Kickstarter. But by putting the project up on Tindie, and having a cap on my inventory, I can organically improve the project within my personal time constraints. I fully expect to ramp up inventory over time, but it's nice I can start at one or two items... and grow at a pace I'm comfortable with. Thank you so much for creating the site!<p>[1]: <a href="https://tindie.com/hugs/robot-that-plays-angry-birds/" rel="nofollow">https://tindie.com/hugs/robot-that-plays-angry-birds/</a>
That's awesome. Tindie was one of those things that I found so cool that I was actually a bit perturbed to find out that it was just someone's side project. Some ideas just deserve more. Best of luck.
Every time I see someone announce a new startup on HN, and they can't keep a blog online through a little spurt of traffic, it makes me think very poorly of their business. That if they can't configure a web server to not fall over, they can't program a stable, secure app either.<p>My own experience is that even the smallest Linode VPS, with an out-of-the-box WordPress install, serving a blog live from the database without a cache plugin, can handle all the traffic HN throws at even a #1 story on a work day afternoon. All it takes is setting the Apache config such that it won't spawn more processes than there's memory available, or using something lighter weight than Apache in the first place.<p>I <i>know</i> this is a foolish connection to make, that their ability to keep a blog online isn't connected to the things that will actually determine whether the business succeeds or fails, but I can't avoid thinking it nonetheless.<p>To turn this rant into something possibly useful, maybe some advice: it's important to figure out the basics of setting up a web server, not because it's a terrible thing for your blog to go down, but because you're losing out on all the prospective users/customers that come with being linked to and discussed on HN or other sites. Even if they can read a cached blog post, you're probably less likely to get them to go visit the startup you're blogging about during this short moment you have their attention.
Great work and don't mind the uptime critique.<p>Anyone who have launched know that shit happens sometimes and that it has nothing to do with whether you have the ability or not.<p>Most people who know how to configure a server only do that (nothing wrong with that btw), you do much more so of course sometimes things fucks up.<p>Congratulations on the great start, will be sure to let my electronic geek friends know.
Seeing that I'm much more of a "builder" then I'm a creator, I really have to admire someone who drops there job, to do something full time that hasn't proven a source of income yet.<p>Personally I love the idea of the site. I'm not sure it has anything that I would buy yet, but I'm still a huge fan of it. I keep looking for something I'd want off there.<p>That being said, I'm not sure what the market is, out there for these kinds of things.
Down for me at least. Cache: <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Ftindie.com%2Fblog%2Fi-have-some-news%2F" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...</a>
Hi. This is a site I would use personally, if you could provide a meaningful view for a European, filtering out items that sellers aren't prepared to post to me. (Postage within Europe is quite cheap).
This is awesome! I think I know where I can offload my assembled older projects when I'm done with them. =)<p>One note: When singing up you should redirect away from the registration page.
Does the site have some kind of "request commission" feature? Ie I can send out a request for a specific gadget I need made and people can bid on the project.
how are you managing the titles for the requests?
I think you are saving items in one table with unique id, but the url is with text/title. Are you looking over a full-text indexed column for every request for an individual item?