Minimal Tech Hacks for startup products (Minimum Viable Products) in early stage based on our findings in Day5Labs (http://www.day5labs.com).

1. Minimal Tech Hacks
for
Minimal Viable Products
Don’t be a full-stack tech jerk!

2. We need a login module!
Let’s use OpenID! Or Facebook! We need
Twitter too...! I have and idea to implement a
pretty cool auth module!
WRONG!

3. Here you go:
@app.route('/login', methods=['POST'])
def login():
email = request.form.get("email")
session['email'] = email
if not db.ghift_users.find_one({'email': email}):
db.ghift_users.insert({'email': email})
return 'OK'
Done!

4. We need to send out mails!
Let’s integrate Mailchimp! Or Sendgrid!We
need features like HTML mail and the like...!
WRONG!

5. Here you go:
def sendmail(mail_subject, mail_body, mail_to):
result = send_mail(mail_subject, mail_body, settings.EMAIL_FROM,
[mail_to], fail_silently=False)
return result
Done!

6. We need scheduler for recurring
tasks!
Let’s integrate Celery or Quartz! Those are just
awesome…!
WRONG!
(not that they are not awesome, but still it’s an MVP…)

7. Here you go:
@app.route('/runjob')
def runjob():
job.run()
return 'Done!'
$ crontab -e
01 02 * * * curl http://www.mowish.com/runjob
Done!

8. We need to persist data!
Let’s install MySQL or Oracle and design
schemas and Business Objects! We need an
impressive ORM layer as well!
WRONG!

9. Here you go:
https://mongolab.com/signup/
MONGODB_URL = 'mongodb://ghift:xxxx@mongolab.com:33828/ghift'
db = MongoClient(MONGODB_URL).ghift
db.ghift_feedback.insert({ 'email': session['email'],
'feedback_text': feedback_text})
Done!

10. Do you think it’s bullshit?
Catch me at @ZoliDay5
Thanks!