Wow.. these messages got sent to my spam folder so I'm only now reading them.. Ugh. Thanks for the feedback.
I did first think of going with Kickstarter. But they do not accept campaigns for websites like mine. I already tried, and they said no :( That's why I went with Indiegogo.com. I have just done a follow-up video (see http://www.modomhan.com/gallery.html) that explains things a bit better. One of the things I mention is the planned support for PHP. As for non-programmers being able to make their own widgets, I HAVE put some thought into this. And I hope to be able to build tools for this. But I certainly don't have anything ready yet, nor will I in the near future. Android and Iphone apps have worked pretty well for non-programmers, so I figure I should be safe since there are more Perl and PHP programmers than Iphone & Android (though those numbers are changing...) Every $0.02 is most welcome! Thanks! --Alex On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:11 AM, David Larochelle <[email protected]>wrote: > tl:dr > > Glanced at your sight. > > Is this being funded on KickStarter? If not you might consider kickstart > just for the publicity. > > I'm never been one to down play the importance of good marketing. But I'm > not a marketing guy so I can't say if that is your problem. > > I saw that you mentioned HTML,CSS, Javascript and Perl, do you have a > provision for non-technical users/ non-programmers? > > Also while Perl is near and dear to our hearts, other languages such as > PHP might appeal more to people who are building things on the web. (Yes > everyone acknowledges that PHP is a flawed language but it has mind share > in a certain demographic.) > I saw you're planning on adding PHP but perhaps the fact that you don't > have it now is part of your problem. > > Just my $0.02. Hope it helped and good luck with the site. > > -- > > David > > > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Alex Brelsfoard < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> URL was incorrect. Correction: http://www.indiegogo.com/modomhan >> >> Thanks. >> --Alex >> >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Alex Brelsfoard < >> [email protected] >> > wrote: >> >> > Hi All, >> > >> > Sorry for the slightly off-topic message, but I could really use some >> > feedback. >> > I'm trying to go live with a big new project (written in Perl), and I'm >> > using crowd sourcing to get it off the ground ( >> > http://indeigogo.com/modomhan). >> > >> > I'm really keen on pushing the open source technology part, and the fact >> > that anyone who can program in Perl will be able to contribute to and >> help >> > define MoDomhan. But I'm having a hard time getting the word out. >> > >> > Is this just a really tough time? >> > Am I not doing enough (facebook, twitter, regular SEO, adwords, emails, >> > phone calls, projects.mefi, boingboing, etc.)? >> > Or is this simply a really crap idea?.... (I seriously dig this project >> > though) >> > >> > Any advice or input would be really helpful. >> > Thanks. >> > --Alex >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Boston-pm mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm >> > > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
