Hey all, My name is Aaron and I am from Melbourne :)
I found this mailing list and the podcast last night and I am really excited about getting involved. Hopefully I will be able to make it to the next Melbourne meet up. I am currently working for a startup called Austhink Software. Soon however I am going to be breaking away and doing some contracting work and hopefully start up something of my own. I am mainly interested and skilled in web 2.0 technologies. I am a big Django and Flex advocate but I also enjoy working with C#, functional languages and doing user interface and graphic design. I even worked as a game developer for a while at Red Tribe and Team Bondi. I am sick of business people exploiting skilled developers and creative people and being under appreciated because I am young. I read Hacker News religiously to try to calm myself down :P I am the creator of Path of a Hero (http://www.pathofahero.com) a World of Warcraft based site that allows you to keep a visual blog of your character and track your rivalries with other players. I built it using Flex and Django and did all the graphic design myself. It took me 1.5 months (of after hours work) to take it from concept to release. It now has over 6000 users and has an average 250 hits per day. This site has been my first hint of success and is spurring me on to do more. I have a question for all you experienced entrepreneurs out there: So Path of a Hero has some users and traffic however I am not making any money out of it and I don't think I can easily get the traffic to a level that will provide significant advertising revenue. I am wondering whether I should invest more time in this project to add the features that people are asking for and possibly provide a premium type account? It kind of does not feel like there is a strong business model available and I am thinking of just moving to a new project where I have actually concentrated on a business model from the start. Any thoughts? If anyone needs some Django or Flex expertise for some rapid development I would love to have a chat btw. Cheers Aaron --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
