"It's hard for multiple developers to share one staging server".
My company has two staging servers, but with a team of 6 devs, someone often has to wait. Does anybody know of any solutions to spin up/down staging servers in a cost-effective way?.
Alternately, I use vagrant-aws (https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-aws) to quickly do this on Amazon. Just be very careful to not check your keys into source control.
These sites always seem to suffer from the same problem - not enough contributing members. It's quite understandable - what is the incentive to post a problem? What is a chance that someone will solve it? When will it happen? How will I know about it? etc. All these factors result in a situation in which people rather treat such sites as an entertaining curiosity.
My suggestion to improve it is: make it an inverted Kickstarter - if I've got a problem I pledge X dollars for someone to create a solution for it. Other people with similar problem add their pledges. When the sum starts to look tasty developers pick up the challenge and compete (?) for the bounty. The backers get the solution at discounted prices. Everyone's happy and live long ever after ;)
- Just like any "network": not enough contributing members.
- People would pay now or when the problem was solved? Are they going to guarantee payment for something without a certain date?
- Who would decide if the problem was solved or not?
That might be a feature and not a bug.
Sure these are problems, but they are limited to a very specific demographic in many cases. Let's not pretend that working on these is more meaningful than it actually is.
This seem like a decent attempt to actually make it viable though. Good luck!
Be sure to visit the FAQ page to get an idea on what are the use cases of the site - http://realproblemhunt.com/faq
To improve the site we are planning to split the site into different categories or at least first focus in a specific community of people so the problems listed will be more relevant to the type of visitor. What are your thoughts about this?
edit: I'm taking my own advice and would like to congratulate you on launching and trying to drive some social good via startups. Good luck!
- https://assembly.com/discover
- https://www.bountysource.com/I fear that having very localized problems will end up killing the site. Most people can't act on these problems but they are taking up valuable space on the front page.
Browsing Product Hunt is too distracting for me because there are so many solutions to problems I'm not having, which inevitably get me off track of what I am trying to do.
Thanks in advance.