Any content should always be in a container. The 15px margin keeps the content from laying against the side of the browser. If you want to do a fullscreen background or image or something then you don't need the container.
Exactly this. If you want to create a bleed, don't use a container, but if you want content inside that bleeding element, put a container inside of it, which will keep content from bleeding.
If you need multiple bleeds on a page, use multiple containers. Just don't nest containers inside of containers.
You guys are right in that the total profit was probably nil for the weekend (but that doesn't sound cool). However, you're not considering this is a subscription service. The idea is that the work put in initially returns revenue every month indefinitely. If the work this month returned $1K, then the same amount of work next month should return $2K, etc.
That's how most monthly services work. It takes a lot of work up front to make a product successful. You will almost always in fact be working for almost nothing when you start a company like this. That's why people raise money. But that initial work returns exponential value in the long term.
So yes, if you want to attack something you can attack the $1K in profit, go for it. But you're missing the point. The point is that making money takes work, and if you put in the work, you can make money doing anything. Like selling Jerky. Imagine if you actually have a good idea.
First off I think doing Startup Weekends is awesome (I believe the author would approve of that descriptor), just focusing on turning a profit during them I do not see as a worthwhile focus(with exceptions of course), and it seemed to be the author's focus.
As per your point of recurring income. No, I am not taking into account recurring income, because the author does not make it clear what the '267 subscriptions sold' constitute.
For instance he says:
And when I say “what Noah did” I mean exactly what Noah did. Beef Jerky Subscription Service. Period. I “iterated” on the idea exactly zero. Just ‘stole it’ and executed like crazy for two days, along with the seven other people on my team.
Now in the author's post they mention they sold 3 month subscriptions however the $5340 divides by 20 as exactly the number of subscriptions sold.
So did the author count the 3 month subscription as 3 subscriptions?
Did the author count it as 1 and not count $40 of the revenue?
Did the author do something else, there is not enough information for me at least to determine how the recurring income would be handled next month. So while you can estimate it would double, I do not feel safe making that estimate.
You're still missing the point. It was an exercise, or a "challenge" as the author states. The point of the post is that sales are hard, and awkward, but very possible if you focus on it. If you can sell jerky, you can sell anything. That's the point. Forget the jerky business, it's just an example of what happened to prove what people can do when they put the work in.
I plan on writing a follow up post with details and ideas on how to acquire users. I'd just say think outside the box. Particularly when it comes to writing. Don't just write for your own blog. Guest post with quality, useful content for other blogs (with readers). Also, always reference your product but you don't have to write directly about it.
Ex:
5 Ways to Get the Best Price on Christmas Gifts
We (http://differential.io) have been using Meteor.js almost exclusively since switching from rails about 5 or 6 months ago and are very excited about where the framework is headed.
Obviously, it's still new and has some kinks but 1.0 is around the corner, and we've found the ease of development is well worth the few issues we've had to work around.
I think you could have less steps here. Why not have the person sending out the initial invite pick all the times possible for them, and just let the collaborators choose the ones that work for them, and then send out an email that works for the most people.
I think we might have some bad UX here, you can actually propose multiple times in the wizard (as a creator). We allow other people to propose a time in case none of the original times work for them. We just deployed some stuff that will hopefully make this more clear.
I'm in the market for a solution here, but really need one with calendar integration. If I have to go back and forth between the app and my calendar it doesn't save me that much time over email.
Looks great but I'm having issues with it in Chrome. Only the text will update. Nothing else changes and when I click to get the code the new page just says "Loading the code..."
It seems something is wrong with the javascript. Please, what Chrome version do you have? Would you check the console for errors? It works ok in mine. Thank you!
I'm using version 21.0.1180.79 on Windows Vista. Any time I try to do something I get this in the console:
Uncaught TypeError: Property 'css' of object [object Window] is not a function button.js:349
$.extend.paint button.js:349
$.extend.repaint tweaker.js:121
editorChange tweaker.js:102
f.event.dispatch jquery.min.js:3
f.event.add.h.handle.i jquery.min.js:3
