What Not to Ask

- Paul Smith
- July 10, 2014
- Uncategorized

We love making software, but how do we make software that people love back?

8 Free Ways To Get Many Users On Your Application or Product

September 15, 2014

High cost of customer acquisition is one of the main reasons why new businesses fail.
Here is a collection of free forms that can be used as a way to acquire customers and reduce the costs of customer acquisition dramatically.

Direct Selling: approach and build relationships with your first 1000 customers. Use email, social networking, phone, meet with them directly and get them to sign your application. We must remember that these people are the people who are important to the growth of initiation. They are the people you know and have a personal relationship with you. Their feedback will undoubtedly have a major impact on the development of your application.

Partnership: Find a company that can complement your startup and awaken mutually beneficial cooperation with them. Help the company to generate their value for you so you can enter their personal’s lists for free

Piggybacking: Experience a great platform as a way to increase the number of users in your business. You can emulate Instagram to build cross-posting feature where you can post photos on Facebook and Twitter.

Comments: Do a 5-10 keywords search related to your business on Google and leave a comment on the related page. Remember not to spam. Give qualitative responses help or advice to anyone who reads it.

Think creatively: Think creatively, many new channels such as Instagram, Pinterest, and other social networks that you can use to increase the number of users.
In Asia, maybe you might use a messaging app LINE Kakao Talk, and WeChat to increase the number of users.

Blogger: Blogger is the people who are important as they usually have a great mass and also loyal. Reach out them to expand your product promotion, offering early access demo or your application to them. At least, have a good relationship with them.

Networking: Go to events for the exchange of business cards and build relationships network. From here you can get a lot of opportunities. You can post a link to your website on your business cards so people can read directly to your website and get to know your product.
In this case, it is possible for you to meet with potential investors who will help you in building your startup

Sponsors: You can become a sponsor on event related to your business, offering free food or drink or other things.
On the other hand, more people will know your business.

Refference link http://bit.ly/1wuAmVN

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Reducing MySQL’s memory usage on OS X Mavericks

November 24, 2013

Recently, I found myself re-installing everything from Homebrew and began to notice that MySQL was consuming nearly half a gig of memory. Given that I don’t do too much with MySQL on a regular basis, I opted to override a handful of default configuration options to reduce the memory footprint.

As you can see, a fresh MySQL install via homebrew was consuming over 400mb of memory.

Here is how I reduced my memory footprint:

$ mkdir -p /usr/local/etc

Unless you already have a custom MySQL config file, you will want to add one into this directory.

$ vim /usr/local/etc/my.cnf

We’ll then paste in the following options into our file… and save it.

  # Robby's MySQL overrides
  [mysqld]
  max_connections       = 10

  key_buffer_size       = 16K
  max_allowed_packet    = 1M
  table_open_cache      = 4
  sort_buffer_size      = 64K
  read_buffer_size      = 256K
  read_rnd_buffer_size  = 256K
  net_buffer_length     = 2K
  thread_stack          = 128K

Finally, we’ll restart MySQL.

$ mysql.server stop

If you have MySQL setup in launchctl, it should restart automatically. After I did this, my MySQL instance was now closer to 80mb.

So far, this has worked out quite well for my local Ruby on Rails development. Mileage may vary…

Having said that, how much memory are you now saving?

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