How to bootstrap your idea when you are a developer
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Presentation by @ndeverge and @bluxte about the launch of their products (http://teammood.com and http://actoboard.com). Presented at the Toulouse JUG.
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How to bootstrap your idea when you are a developer
- 1. HOWTO BOOTSTRAPYOUR IDEA when you are a developer Toulouse JUG - 16/05/2013
- 2. WHO ARE WE Nicolas Deverge @ndeverge Working @ ekito as Software Developer & Agile Facilitator Micro-entrepreneur at night Sylvain Wallez @bluxte Freelance Software Developer & Architect Compulsive startuper
- 3. THE PROBLEM As a developer, I have a kickass idea and I don't know how to start* * apart from coding the whole project with the coolest frameworks
- 4. VALIDATETHE IDEA "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." Henry Ford
- 5. LEANSTARTUPTOTHE RESCUE "We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want" @ericries
- 6. LET'STESTTHE IDEA Build a first MinimumViable Product to collect feedback
- 10. AREYOU KIDDING ? TeamMood A Playframework 2 app containing static HTML pages and storing emails in a Google Form. Actoboard Not even Play! Just static HTML + Google Form
- 11. AREYOU KIDDING ? TeamMood A Playframework 2 app containing static HTML pages and storing emails in a Google Form. Actoboard Not even Play! Just static HTML + Google Form Could have been Rails / Django or whatever geeky technology* * Nope, JPA + EJB + JSF are not the best technologies for building a landing page
- 12. SERIOUSLY, GOOGLE FORM ? Yeah, you did read right ! No database (NoNoSQL)
- 13. SERIOUSLY, GOOGLE FORM ? Yeah, you did read right ! No database (NoNoSQL) New trendy concept !!
- 14. HOSTING ★ Free cloud based hosting ★ Heroku ★ Cloudbees ★ OpenShift ★ And many more ★ For static websites ★ Amazon S3 ★ Github ★ Cheap hosting ★ OVH (kimsufi)
- 15. HEROKU EXAMPLE First deploy in 15mn top ! 1. Create an account on heroku.com : 5mn 2. Download and install the HerokuToolbelt tool : 5mn 3. Then : Done ! $> cd /path_to_your_project $> heroku create $> git push heroku master
- 16. THE LANDING PAGE - COSTS A theme on http://wrapbootstrap.com 6$ A domain name 10$ Hosting on Heroku free Some passionate time to build it priceless !!
- 17. THE LANDING PAGE - COSTS You're up and ready for 16$ Equivalent to
- 18. THE LANDING PAGE - COSTS You're up and ready for 16$ Equivalent to Tough choice...
- 19. TOOLSYOU MAY NEED FOR UI Twitter Bootstrap Foundation Themes Bootswatch (free) Wrapbootstrap (not free) ThemeForest (not free)
- 20. TOOLSYOU MAY NEED FOR UI Color scheme kuler - 1pxdeep
- 21. Some icons Font-Awesome IcoMoon Nice fonts Google WebFonts TOOLSYOU MAY NEED FOR UI
- 22. ANNOUNCE In 24 hours ★ About 400 unique visitors ★ About 70 registrations
- 24. THE BESTTOOL EVER Don't forget to put a notebook on your nightstand ! Warning: may prevent sleeping...
- 25. THE BESTTOOL EVER Don't forget to put a notebook on your nightstand ! Warning: may prevent sleeping... Or in the shower
- 26. THE BEST COMMUNICATIONTOOL Email ! Users generally do not consider your messages as spam Tools to build awesome emails, manage lists (un/subscribe), analytics about a campaign
- 27. FAST ROUND-TRIP TECHNOLOGIES Playframework • Simple full stack framework Angular JS + JAX-RS • REST server • One-page HTML+JS front-end
- 28. BOOKS
- 29. YESYOU CAN! Got idea and a bit of free time? Start now! You will: • learn new things • enjoy doing your stuff • meet new people The riskiest thing: success!