Ancap ruby on rails developers here?

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Hi,

I was wondering if there are ancap rails developers who visit this forum?

I’ve recently acquired a very premium domain name judge.me and am looking to build an online court system.

Interested in teaming up with an experienced ancap developer!

My skills:

  • Experience as strategy consultant
  • Beginning rails developer (quick learner)
  • Best domain name possible for online judging system IMO
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Is there a particular reason it must be done using Ruby on Rails?

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Hi,

Ruby on rails in the web development framework of the moment and with a good team in place, would make the idea most fundable by startup incubators such as YCombinator.

Technically it’s not a requirement to do it in RoR, but strategically I think it’s best.

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I cross-posted this over at Fr33Agents.Net–can also put up a job posting (or a less formal message) on LinkedIn, if you like.

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I’m not sure about YCombinator but my business has already gone through a competing incubator in Philly, called DreamIt. Our project was entirely in PHP and I don’t think the languages used had much of an affect on their decision. Those incubator admins looks for strength in the TEAM, not even the business idea or languages used etc, if there’s good team synergy and dynamic then they are more likely to take you. I’ve also seen many projects fail because it’s hard to find good developers in Ruby and when you do it’s expensive. PHP is a bit better in this regard because there is a larger talent pool of PHP devs and it’s a more mature language, especially if you use a good framework like the Zend Framework.

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Thanks a lot for all the feedback!

To answer all questions and remarks:

  1. Feel free to post this wherever you want! I wrote a more detailed job post on hacker news: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189849

  2. I’m certainly open to building this in other languages (PHP, …) and frameworks (Zend, …). As I write in the detailed post on the hacker news website, the choice of technology will ultimately be a responsability of the technical co-founder.

As a libertarian in the startup scene, could you please forward this startup idea to developers who think you’re a good match? (Maybe yourself?)

Thanks!

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I don’t know the rails framework, but I am a seasoned php developer and know java and javascript solid. I understand OOP as I reorganized much spaghetti code into Class structures when I first got started in IT.

Do you have project management software? I can help with that also. I have been busy, but I will have some free time after March 25th.