January 20, 2006
Michael Arrington smacks Ning, appropriately in my view, for… well, basically for not cutting it. As I see it, they’ve released an app that would have been really, really cool in 2003. But now, with thousands of programmers-turned-entrepreneurs realizing they can do business better than their former bosses, and frameworks like Ruby on Rails enabling them to move at unprecedented speed, a gated PHP5 application is met with little more than grunts and hand-wavy gestures.
Things are moving very, very fast these days.
Update: Ning responds.
January 20, 2006 at 8:26 pm
I disagree. But then, I work for Ning. (But then again, I work for Ning for a reason.)
If you’re an entrepreneur building a web startup and you’re getting servers and looking at Rails etc, Ning is not for you. You want full control of your environment and user registration, you want to manage your own hosting and everything else that comes with it.
But that’s only a small percentage of people building web apps. For every major web startup I’ve been involved with, I’ve knocked up 10 fun little web apps on the side that I just wanted to be fast and easy, where I wanted *less* control so I didn’t have to admin every little thing. Similarly, I get friends and relatives coming to me all the time saying they want a special kind of group app for their school or charity or conference or whatever, or just want to have fun online with their friends. These people cannot use RoR, and there are many more of them than there are web entrepreneurs.
We’re still working on making it as easy as possible for those people to get what they want. Currently, we offer cloning and basic customisation. Next, we’re offering components. (And if you really want Ruby on Rails, we’re working on offering that too.)
January 20, 2006 at 11:47 pm
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Picture this: it’s a Friday, early in the morning. The office is quiet, there’s a smell of fresh coffee in the air. You’re still a bit sleepy, and as you’re booting up your brain for the day ahead you end…
January 22, 2006 at 4:57 am
[...] Ning is unquestionably alive and well, a fact proven by their swift responses at TechCrunch, this blog, d2r and elsewhere. I’m not personally very excited about Ning, but clearly I’m not part of the target audience so it makes sense that I wouldn’t be on board. [...]
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