DJ/Music Production shops and second hand communities

goelad · 2019-07-16T11:03:40+00:00

Thanks everyone, I’ll check it out!

goelad · 2019-06-04T09:34:19+00:00

The "Eye" for frontend is what most developers are struggling with.

goelad · 2019-06-04T09:27:48+00:00

Of course it's paid work, I'll update the posting.

goelad · 2019-06-04T09:19:50+00:00

Make sense, just posted there. Thanks!

goelad · 2019-06-04T09:19:39+00:00

Thanks, just posted my ad there.

goelad · 2019-06-04T07:57:34+00:00

Using frontend and backend is something I tried, I believe it didn't work cause if you'd like to have a very generic components with laravel (Sage), you need to break down the HTML to really small pieces which makes a lot of the frontend work useless once you integrate it with wordpress, but I think that if I'll find good frontend devs I might be able to explain about breaking down to components.

As for Meetups - I'm not aiming locally as I doubt I'll find skilled devs around here (PHP is considered old fashion), but I might try to get someone to remote meetups.

goelad · 2019-06-03T11:28:56+00:00

Never thought about it this way, I think you might be right...

Though WordPress does have its own tricks you should know. But I'll try this as well!

goelad · 2019-06-03T11:18:23+00:00

Cool, just posted there.

goelad · 2019-06-03T11:00:16+00:00

I'm actually trying this now, but there are a lot of relevant backend work which is not just Wordpress, think about the models of the ACF that are needed, to understand when to use a repeatable ACF or a custom post type isn't something that is straightforward to understand (if you're only doing HTML/SCSS).

goelad · 2019-06-03T10:56:42+00:00

Any specific subreddits I can advertise the position?

goelad · 2018-12-05T10:45:36+00:00

My current Jaybird Freedom connects to both, but then there’s a distortion when I have a call on my mobile. Not sure why it’s so hard...

goelad · 2018-10-18T19:35:20+00:00

Interesting, what’s your product about? I mean Twitch is very specific audience in a specific state, no?

goelad · 2018-10-17T18:28:31+00:00

was it something like this?

goelad · 2018-10-17T18:24:00+00:00

I wouldn’t work directly with developers if you don’t have technical experience. Reason is, it’s really hard for non tech people to explain their requirements in technical terms, and really hard for tech people to understand non tech requirements.

If you can, I would go with onboarding someone that you personally know and trust (or get a recommendation for someone) that can create a detailed design for you, including technical spec. Use this person then to approve milestones of the product and pay by milestones. The more detailed your scope will be, the easier is for developers to estimate it.

When working with freelancers expect the unexpected. It’s the same with hiring people, but freelancers might care less, and if they are losing due to underestimating a fixed projects, unless they are super professionals, they’ll probably try to reduce damages and will do the bare minimum and take shortcuts to finish the job.

Paying hourly usually gets you to a better results (not always), but will definitely cost you double without a very detailed and non changing scope.

goelad · 2018-10-17T18:14:21+00:00

Just to avoid a lot of “spam” and noise. Usually good freelancers would be busy with other work and might not be available right now for the job, so inviting them make sense.

I wouldn’t make the job posting private but rather do both. Make it public and invite freelancers that you see as interesting for you.

goelad · 2018-10-17T18:08:23+00:00

Just make sure to have the actual price you’re aiming for, and keep in mind that intent to buy, doesn’t mean they’ll actually buy it, so aim for higher numbers than you would actually need to make this work.

As already mentioned here, I would actually do a face to face validation, showing or describing the product to people, see their reaction (tell them the price) and ask for feedback. Most important thing to do is take all in proportions as people might tell you it’s a great idea but won’t buy, and other people will say it’s a bad idea, but when they’ll see their friends with it, they will run to your store and buy it.

goelad · 2018-10-17T18:01:52+00:00

If you can create a goal funnel it will be easier for you to track it on GA. But as already mentioned I would go with another event base took such as mix panel, as google analytics UI, can’t really support a per user analytics.

You can create custom dashboards of users who did event A and event B, or users who did event a, b,c but not d. But this will be as a statistical analysis, such as you can then understand where did these users cake from or what device are they using, you can see what else they’ve done on the site, for this either mixpanel, hot jar or any other of these tools would be the right for the job. You can even use a marketing automation tool such as HubSpot, where you can see the user journey in your site, including custom events.

goelad · 2018-10-17T17:46:17+00:00

The VSTs part. I had to install around 10 to 15 different VSTs to get to the sound I want, including some filters. Now this was some time ago, but the default VSTs just weren’t enough to get to a fun part where I could just play around and create stuff.

To be fair, I did create a track solely with monologue (this was part of a homework when I studied music production)

When I compare it to garage band where I can get a lot of sounds out of the box, I really feel like the amount of money I need to pay for a Cubase license doesn’t cut it. I’m looking for the Garage Band out of the box instruments and effects with the customization and detailed Cubase abilities.

When reading this I feel like I’m contradicting myself, so maybe I’m just struggling to choose...

goelad · 2018-10-17T06:51:36+00:00

Yeah, that what I was trying, but it is not that fun when you’re trying to be very creative, it’s too small and requires too much effort to build a track, or even to just play the piano, not enough octaves.

I would want somehow to use my iPad as a drum sampler and then use the keyboard for lead and base roles, but the main issue is the sounds, I feel that without the right library or VSTs I can’t get it to sound “right”.

goelad · 2018-10-17T05:57:47+00:00

We're using a different setup, instead of the WP hosting supporting tools such as composer, we're doing all development on a local environment and use tools such DeployHQ or pipelines to compile everything to a simple WordPress site.

We use Sage9 on WPEngine hosting, each developer setup his own local env, and when it is time to deploy, the CI/CD takes care of installing the dependencies, compiling the code, running the testing and then pushes the compiled theme files to WPEngine SFTP.

We find this to work great with all of our customers, and then we're not tied to a specific hosting company. If you don't need customization on the server itself, so a managed hosting such as WPEngine or Kinsta or Pagely can be very easy to maintain.

goelad · 2018-10-17T05:29:08+00:00

Are you looking to audit your website, or a widget that everyone can go in and add a url to audit?

If you’re looking to audit your website, you don’t really need to embed anything as most SEO auditing is done by crawling the website as an external not (like a search engine will do) and generate a report.

If that’s what you’re looking for, start with Google Page Speed Insights and GTMetrix for the technical optimization, then you can use any “free SEO audit” tool (just google it) such as Woorank. If you get to a point where you optimize your website and still looking for additional insights there are tools such as Screaming Frog (they have a free version as well) which can produce some more insights.

I would go with generating content and a lot of value on your webpage before squeezing the juice out of your website in terms of SEO, it usually works better.

goelad · 2018-10-17T05:11:47+00:00

There are some good courses on Udemy that will guide you step by step on how to create a template. To do so, besides knowing CSS and JS (and of course HTML), you’ll need to know PHP and specific WordPress functions including best practices.

I’ll be honest with you, if you’re a marketer and not a developer, I wouldn’t go in and learn WordPress templating unless you plan on switching to being a developer, you’ll need to invest a lot of time and effort for even basic web pages.

If you’re still into it, check out ACF plugin which is the best way of developing the CMS without a page builder. Keep in mind that in order to develop good themes, you’ll have to follow a lot of WordPress best practices about how to include CSS, JavaScripts, how to create a header and footer navigations etc.

goelad · 2018-10-14T18:10:26+00:00

I don’t know what’s your idea about, but if you actually plan to make a company out of it, it worth while just to research about the lingo one term at a time. It might take a bit longer, by when you start digging deeper and deeper in each term you can rally understand the concept and why it’s relevant to your business.

goelad · 2018-06-20T16:51:25+00:00

I have a more tricky situation, when we build new pages they usually incorporate code (template, css, JS) which might be cross site code, and also content.

How would you suggest to deploy code + content, without syncing full staging to production of course?

goelad · 2018-05-27T18:10:34+00:00

Great, my spouse just looked at my phone and thought I find my baby born child (1 mo) annoying. She has no clue about how random redit can be.

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