Teascript: A Homesteader's Story

How to use the homesteading mindset to build small, maintainable, revenue-generating Rails applications.

1. A Homesteader's Story
2. teascript? and various other philisophical questions...
3. ground rules or how to keep from getting deprecated...
4. homesteading 500.times { timber.nail }
5. getting real 37signals build less stay lean manage debt
6. “The old school model of shipping software in a box and then waiting a year or two to deliver an update is fading away.”
7. from nil to idea find a target niche pick something easy solve one problem
8. taking off scope out the competition create a skeleton app post a teaser page
9. build what they need beta testing use the feedback be willing to change
10. when to stop minimum functionality don't get sidetracked courage, mates
11. let's build a transcript
12. <gasp> deployment </gasp> VPS vs. shared Apache proxying Mongrel Capistrano, baby
13. mar-ki-teeng newsletters let others spam for you speaking for fun and profit Google AdWords
14. the buck starts here revenue potential? stop trading time for money multiple sources
15. how, again? set some goals stake out some land work, work, rest relax... it's only ones and zeros
16. more... teascript.com gettingreal.37signals.com rubyurl.com/rAy matthew@adeptware.com
17. questions? comments? witty quotes?