/prog/ - Introducing: Progriders Co.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-19 17:03

Watching the Y Combinator 2013 Startup School ^[1] I asked myself: who would be a /prog/rider startup company?
I'm not sure about what kind of software we would create. I'm not sure about what software development methodology we would chose. I'm not sure if we would be capable to write proposals to catch the attention of VCs...
But there is one thing that I AM sure: it would be SUCCESSFUL

lets do it guys!

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[1] - http://startupschool.org/watch.html

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-19 17:18

>>1
If we have not even finished distbb or the fileshare server, what makes you think we will even start a startup? And a anonymous at that?

I am all up for funding, but without a prototype, what can even start?

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-19 17:45

Methodology: I program and you watch anime, we take turns
Proposal: DistBB with achievement badges and funny cat image macros!!!! ^{_{(we'd drop those later though)}}
Programming language of choice: Scheme, Clojure if we're forced to use a SCALABLE FRAMEWORK

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-19 18:26

I would change the name to Progriders Enterprise Corporation.

[improvements on >>3]
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< anime

touhou eroge

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-19 18:51

But how are you going to achieve marketspace disruption among the pre-existing mindshare, /prog/?

Is ``Toohoo-Air-OJ'' web-scalable?

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-19 20:31

marketspace disruption among the pre-existing mindshare

What?!

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-19 21:13

More than marketspace, there is the socialcomputing space or SCS. This space exists around the internetshare within a two by four supercomputer. Rock stars are needed here, gentlepeople. So many spaces existing around shares and we just don't know what to do.

Name: Steve W 2013-10-19 21:36

>>1
I've been thinking about this for a while too. Unless... HIBT?

Anyway, if not, I think our biggest problem would be collaboration. Working on a large project with a widely-spread group of people who don't know each other is very difficult. Anyone who has spent time in the ENTERPRISE knows teleconferences are just a clusterfuck. But I have an idea: the project we should work on is solving that problem, of working with people over a wide area without ever seeing them. It's a problem a lot of people have, and we'd come up with something we could sell (if we choose to go down the commercial route). Or, we'd fail and the whole thing would fall apart. But the point is to roll the problem of collaborating up with the problem of what software to write, so that we have one less problem to deal with. And yes, I know such things have been done, but they suck and no one uses them, so we still have room to make something useful.

I have some specific ideas about this, but let me know if you're interested (anyone?) before we start wrangling about what the finished product would look like.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-19 22:07

>>8
Do you mean a Decentralized Enterprise?

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-19 22:54

>>5

Is ``Toohoo-Air-OJ'' web-scalable?

Oh [b][i]shit[/i][/b] I chuckled

>>8

Working on a large project with a widely-spread group of people who don't know each other is very difficult.

Which is why STARTUP ENTREPRENEURS rent a small office in San Francisco and work from there. That said, I think Linux worked pretty well for a widely-spread group of collaborators.

This could work if we followed the ``bazaar'' model of open source projects with good willed contributors instead of the ``cathedral'' one where a monkey in a business suit tells us to boost our productivity and forces us to attend meetings with silly PowerPoint slides.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-19 22:58

>>10
Well, I'm fed up of these BBCode non-failures. I'll go and pray to the cat on the table.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-19 23:47

>>11
If you try to use BBCode in or right after a quote it will fail.

This is...

fine

[b]This isn't...[/b]

but this...

is okay...?

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-19 23:53

>>12
Thank you for the tip! I updated the thread at the Tablecat's software BBS with your post.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-19 23:54

>>8
I don't understand.

We, a widely-spread group of people who don't know each other, should collaborate on a project... that is about making a platform that makes the collaboration of a widely-spread group of people who don't know each other possible.

Circular dependencies.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 0:14

Let's make a Visual Novel /prog/. Let's call it the SICP VN

Name: ;_; 2013-10-20 0:17

>>15
I wish that the screens that were posted on /prog/ for that were real.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 0:23

>>15
How I wish that VN was real.

Fire up your RenPy.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 2:46

>>16
>>17

Let's make one ;) /a/ was able to make their own VN and /g/ was able to make their own OS and skype? How can we /prog/lodytes not be able to do anything? Let's change that. We can do whatever we want if we put our minds to it.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 4:35

>>18

/g/ was able to make their own OS and skype

That's a gross overstatement.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 7:41

>>18
/prog/ came up with a scraper, a search engine, a markup language, and dozens of tripcrackers. I don't know what /a/'s VN looks like, but we're more accomplished than /g/, at least.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 7:51

>>17
I think we should do it. It would just be the entire text of SICP, and the choices would be adapted from the exercises. Choosing the wrong answer would result in a bad end where Sussman screams as he watches a giant black snake devour you.

Name: ;_; 2013-10-20 10:59

>>18,20

/a/ was able to make their own VN

We probably can't make a VN because none of us can create graphics beyond SVGs of progsnake. I'd assume making VNs isn't programmatically difficult, since it's basically a text adventure with pictures in the background. It's more artistically taxing.

/g/ was able to make their own OS and Skype

I've only seen /g/ make shitloads of Linux distro spinoffs, and the tox thing is mediocre at best, furthermore most of the contributors aren't even from /g/.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 12:27

>>22

Compared to what /prog/ has ever collab'd, even /s4s/'s Weekly Dispatch is infinitely better

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 13:58

>>18

/a/ was able to make their own VN

Do you mean Katawa Shoujo? It was just RenPy and some people doing the writing and the art. The programming itself was not hard, the creative content is what could impose a problem on our non-neurotypical minds.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 15:21

>>14
You understand just fine. We start out with progrider, take a look at what doesn't work and come up with improvements. As we work on the project we'll learn more about what needs to happen to work together better, and having identified the problem we'll be able to fix it. It's less circular than iterative; we're building a collaboration tool in the same way assembly programmers wrote C and C programmers wrote basically everything else. The state of collaboration tools is still somewhere in the assembler->C range. There's a market for the equivalent of Python/Java/etc.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 15:34

proposal
silkroad 2: an open source e-commerce website that enforce every user to use pgp and bitcoin for absolutely everything. Login should be done through pgp or bitcoin (like bitcoin-otc). Web of Trust for pgp pubkeys, bitcoin addresses, and reputation. Analyze the possibility of periodic public back-ups distributed with bittorrent (everything is encrypted so should be ok).
Create a Firefox add-on for PGP for a better UX, like firegpg.
Create a Wiki explaining everything, +some kind of human protocol for buying shit anonymously.
And one last thing: do not use JS, just plain html and css (and the add-on).

You can do this, just be smart. Create a public repository, put a list of all the programmers with btc addrs. Let people pay for features.
If you do this the fucking Russian mafia is going to pay you thousands of btcs, period.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 20:15

>>26
You might get your ass busted if you're not careful enough! No thanks, I'd rather play it safe. Also, keep in mind we're submitting this to Hacker Jews. I don't think this would even get funding from Graham-sama.

Maybe an adventurous anon will accept your proposal?

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 20:21

I've got an idea that would immediately get startup funding, but I've already got funding for it and I don't want you jews to steal it.

Do a startup that addresses a problem in the financial industry and watch millions roll in immediately.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 20:34

>>28
R R pls go

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 20:48

>>27
fuck you, I'm not saying that we should anounce it as a hiden service for buying Krokodil but as an anonymous e-commerce website.
also ycombinator only fund stupid startups because they are affraid of inovative ideas (seriously, go and check).. they prefeer basic but safe than interesting but risky, probably because their VC's are a bunch of jews who only care on low risk investments since they don't know shit about technology.
Anonymous only can earn money from the Russian Mafia selling zero-days or anonymous marketplace for drugs and weapons.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 20:58

>>30

anonymous

Script kiddies cant come up with zero-days.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 21:16

>>31

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>le anonymous meme

XDD_{D_{D_{D_{D_{D_{D_{D_{D_{D_D}}}}}}}}}

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 22:05

>>32
Banned.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 22:22

>>33
When you're banned, do you simply lost the ability to post while still being able to lurk, or are you banned from lurking as well?

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 22:41

>>34
*lose
damn

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-20 23:07

>>33
http://tablecat.ipyo.heliohost.org/perl/read/1382232714
Hi Admin, Tablecat has some answers about the apparently broken BBCode. I'm not exactly sure about this, but it seems we're using an old release of the BBS software.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-21 6:35

>>34
You only lose the ability to post.

>>36
I'll look at this. The funny thing is that it only happens when you actually post, but not in the preview.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-21 6:40

>>37
Testing that new BBcode file:

bold

stuff [b]abc[/b]

test

...

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-21 6:42

>>38
Meh. At least it doesn't break BBCode after quotes. Still breaks them inside though.

Name: Anonymous 2013-10-21 6:43

xxx

stuff one abc [o]uuuu[/o] xxx

Introducing: Progriders Co.

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