Antti Akonniemi - Rails Girls
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This document discusses the development of an app called Splendid Bacon during a 48-hour hackathon. It describes coming up with the name, initial planning, building functionality in the first day and UI in the second. After launch, the app gained thousands of visitors and users in its first weeks. The document concludes by advising to promote the app widely, listen to users but not always trust their opinions, continue evolving the app, and enjoy the process of trying to change the world.
Antti Akonniemi - Rails Girls
- 1. Story of Splendid Bacon and stuff you might do after launch Antti Akonniemi
- 2. Rails Rumble
- 3. 48 hours, few hundred teams
- 4. We need a good name for the app
- 9. But what does Splendid Bacon do?
- 12. Ton of feature ideas filtered to
- 13. Show me who’s doing what
- 14. Initial architecture design before the competition
- 15. In real life: Talked for an hour about stuff
- 21. 3, 2, 1.. Go!
- 22. After giving 4 hour head start to others..
- 24. Day two: UI
- 26. Stats •First 18 hours: 10 000 visitors •9000 users •48 hours, 49 espressos, 2 kilos of bacon •Now ~ 700 active weekly users •Ton of tweets, 100 comments in Hacker News, tens of blog posts
- 27. Site launched - Now what?
- 28. Tell everyone about it
- 30. .. and ask help from Christina
- 31. Crush It (respond to every contact)
- 32. Listen to your users
- 33. But don’t trust their opinions
- 34. Evolve
- 35. Change the world and enjoy the ride