Comments on: Digg created for $200 bucks http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/20/digg-created-for-200-bucks/ Where TV Finds the Future Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:37:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: David Johnson http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/20/digg-created-for-200-bucks/#comment-131958 David Johnson Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:58:30 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/20/digg-created-for-200-bucks/#comment-131958 all too true, but my gut statistical check says the hit rate vs. the fallout rate on garage startups is probably about the same as those who start blogs and then abandon them. we focus on the success stories, but for every internet millionaire, are there a million washouts that never clear the first breakpoint? all too true, but my gut statistical check says the hit rate vs. the fallout rate on garage startups is probably about the same as those who start blogs and then abandon them. we focus on the success stories, but for every internet millionaire, are there a million washouts that never clear the first breakpoint?

]]> By: Cory http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/20/digg-created-for-200-bucks/#comment-131462 Cory Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:42:37 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/20/digg-created-for-200-bucks/#comment-131462 My point is not that all web development should be outsourced for nothing to random freelancers. Kevin Rose had an idea for a community site, a fraction of what it is today, and he experimented by hiring some guy on the cheap to build it for him. Then he let the community help him improve it. This is different than improving a core site or launching a well-defined product, of which you want professionally done, and you'll pay for it. Big media tends to put all web development in a single basket which excludes this sort of garage style of entreprenuerialism which has shown to be nearly unbeatable over the years for community sites (Craigslist, FlickR...etc). My point is not that all web development should be outsourced for nothing to random freelancers.

Kevin Rose had an idea for a community site, a fraction of what it is today, and he experimented by hiring some guy on the cheap to build it for him. Then he let the community help him improve it.

This is different than improving a core site or launching a well-defined product, of which you want professionally done, and you’ll pay for it.

Big media tends to put all web development in a single basket which excludes this sort of garage style of entreprenuerialism which has shown to be nearly unbeatable over the years for community sites (Craigslist, FlickR…etc).

]]> By: ae http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/20/digg-created-for-200-bucks/#comment-131197 ae Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:01:40 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/20/digg-created-for-200-bucks/#comment-131197 Ugh, this "I'll pay a pittance for your technology/programming/repair skills" attitude is why I got out of freelancing on the side. People will pay mucho dinero an hour for a plumber to show up to fix a leaky faucet, but not for someone's programming skills? You may be able to sucker people into the TV biz for a pittance, but the other hemisphere of the telecommunications world were we IT workers reside is a whole 'nother ballgame. Ugh, this “I’ll pay a pittance for your technology/programming/repair skills” attitude is why I got out of freelancing on the side.

People will pay mucho dinero an hour for a plumber to show up to fix a leaky faucet, but not for someone’s programming skills?

You may be able to sucker people into the TV biz for a pittance, but the other hemisphere of the telecommunications world were we IT workers reside is a whole ‘nother ballgame.

]]> By: Nick Geidner http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/20/digg-created-for-200-bucks/#comment-131031 Nick Geidner Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:39:18 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/20/digg-created-for-200-bucks/#comment-131031 or a dorm room/slash shitty college apartment. or a dorm room/slash shitty college apartment.

]]> By: thedetroitchannel http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/20/digg-created-for-200-bucks/#comment-131017 thedetroitchannel Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:09:36 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/20/digg-created-for-200-bucks/#comment-131017 that $200 figure must not have included the obligatory "garage". can you truly be a web wonder not starting out in one? that $200 figure must not have included the obligatory “garage”.

can you truly be a web wonder not starting out in one?

]]> By: david http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/20/digg-created-for-200-bucks/#comment-131007 david Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:36:07 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/20/digg-created-for-200-bucks/#comment-131007 You're right. Here's a local example: our local Economic Development Agency had an outdated website -- picture of the agency president, who had departed many months ago, etc. I offered to help them (free) and teach them how to incorporate blogging (to some degree) so that they could update their website instantly and at no cost. Here is the response that I got one of their staff members, in trying to explain why he didn't update the site to reflect the interim president and then the new president: "...t just didn’t make sense to me to spend the money on a website update only to do it again once our new president was on board..." None so blind... You’re right. Here’s a local example: our local Economic Development Agency had an outdated website — picture of the agency president, who had departed many months ago, etc. I offered to help them (free) and teach them how to incorporate blogging (to some degree) so that they could update their website instantly and at no cost. Here is the response that I got one of their staff members, in trying to explain why he didn’t update the site to reflect the interim president and then the new president:

“…t just didn’t make sense to me to spend the money on a website update only to do it again once our new president was on board…”

None so blind…

]]> By: Steve Safran http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/20/digg-created-for-200-bucks/#comment-131004 Steve Safran Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:28:32 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/01/20/digg-created-for-200-bucks/#comment-131004 Bah. You started LR for even less. Bah. You started LR for even less.

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