Pilanites

Deploying Rails 4 to VPS and fixing some problems

Shobhit — Tue, 28 May 2013 12:15:04 +0000

So, Rails 4 release candidate 1 has been released and I wanted to get a feel of how different things were in it. So, I made a small trivial app to get the feel of changes with which I have to deal with. There weren’t many problems which I faced in the app making process, [...]

Surprise surprise!

Shobhit — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:17:14 +0000

Remember I made a game 2 years ago just to get the feel of what Android platform was? Well, the game didn’t really take off back then but it seems to be creating (a very little) buzz right now. And why not, after all it did get featured at YourStory. :D I have no image [...]

Why Google+ sign up is a good thing

Shobhit — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:55:38 +0000

Google recently announced the Google+ sign in button which is very similar to the FB Connect button. So, why will the Google+ sign in be a better option than FB Connect? I read an article sometime ago which claimed that Social Login buttons aren’t effective. I couldn’t agree more. I even tested and verified the [...]

Easy way to organize Ruby Gems using RVM Gemsets

Shobhit — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:45:44 +0000

Finally, I have completely ported my workspace for PollDaal from Windows to Ubuntu. Windows is great, I have nothing against it, it just does not adjust well with Rails and the community is mostly on Unix based Operating System, thus making me search for any sort of errors for hours and hours because the first [...]

Rails 3 polymorphic associations explained (somewhat)

Shobhit — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:05:31 +0000

So, in past few days, I got requests from people to offer a Quiz type question at PollDaal. Being a nice fellow as I am (Modesty at its best!), I listened to them and started looking for ways to do it elegantly in Rails 3. After searching for a bit here and there, I got [...]

Announcing, PollDaal

Shobhit — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:03:43 +0000

As many people know, I have been working on a project by the name of PollDaal. I’d like to announce, today, I’ve made enough to give a demo of this project. I started working on it a couple of months ago and made the site live on 11th November 2012 for the first time. [...]

First “Startup Jaipur” Meetup

Shobhit — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:19:33 +0000

If you’re based in Jaipur, you’d know how difficult it is to find people in the Web industry. I personally know at most 10 people who could make a website or design a website or have even a little knowledge about the internet industry. For most of the people, internet is pretty much restricted to [...]

Enjoying pushing code to a live server!

Shobhit — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:20:25 +0000

Finally, I was able to put online my long awaiting Ruby on Rails application. It’s currently in very primitive stage. What it does is allows you to create public polls for people to answer on. Very simple idea, nothing universe denting about it. The site is currently live at atulyalabs.com. Go ahead, make a account [...]

Great monetization strategy by Facebook

Shobhit — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:50:23 +0000

Up till now, facebook monetized by showing ads beside feed, timeline, photos, messages and the troll posts present on the website. The click through rate was just a little less than spam mails (which cost nothing!). They also offered to highlight users post but they targeted wrong people and thus their share price kept falling [...]

6 reasons why blogging is extremely necessary for all startups

Shobhit — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:07:12 +0000

When you’re starting up, you rarely have enough money to blow it off on a crappy Adsense campaign. You might even not have enough to get newspaper ads, which might not be effective either. So how does one solve the problem of marketing without having millions to burn down? First answer in my mind, blogging! [...]

Finally, earned some money!

Shobhit — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 18:03:23 +0000

It’s been about a month since I last posted anything, but I have some great news to share with you all. So, if you remember, we are on a quest to earn enough money to buy land to be able to play Monopoly in real life. Sadly, that achievement looks a bit tougher than expected, [...]

The best way to get people excited about your product

Shobhit — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:13:58 +0000

Have you ever created a website or mobile app? Disappointed by the number of downloads or amount of traffic? Even if you have quite a good number of users, were you disheartened by the initial response of your product? Just could not figure out how to solve the chicken and the egg problems with your [...]

Get started with your own microbusiness

Shobhit — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:11:43 +0000

So, I had pre-ordered “The $100 Startup” by Chris Guillebeau, and after reading initial chapters of book, I can safely say that I am addicted. I am just not able to put the book down. I read it before sleeping, I read it because I am not able to sleep, I read it coz I am [...]

How do people discover new apps?

Shobhit — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 08:46:16 +0000

So, for the past week, I have been roaming in malls trying to figure out how do people actually discover new apps to download. I thought if I am able to get some insights here, I might be able to use them for marketing my own app. After talking to around 250 people (247 to [...]

7 tips to keep your company on the right track

Shobhit — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:00:59 +0000

So much happened last week, I don’t know where to start from! I went to TechSparks, Delhi and attended the presentation by Kunal Bahl, CEO of snapdeal.com and later the panel discussion among some experienced folks. It was a great experience! Kunal gave a very simple yet astonishing presentation. Here were some key points:- Be [...]

E-commerce in India, Boom or a Bubble?

Shobhit — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:51:45 +0000

So, recently, I stumbled upon an info-graphic which comments upon e-commerce opportunities in India. According to it, since we have huge populations, we’d have total e-commerce worth of around $500 billion! Yes, you read it right, $500billion. India’s GDP is some $1.5 trillion. Too optimistic? Well, everyone’s entitle to their opinion, and so, I have some very [...]

Looking for graphics designer

Shobhit — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 05:13:25 +0000

So, the past week has been very busy. Well, it has not been that busy but I didn’t find much time to do much work on the coding part of the app. As the basic features are already done, I thought about designing the features of the app by myself before I go further with [...]

Completed backend, and its working!

Shobhit — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:22:51 +0000

So, it has been a while since I updated my blog. Have been kinda busy with summer training and shit! I didn’t even have access to internet for some time but I managed to get a data card and back! :D During the day, after trying to understand the concepts of how a power plant [...]

No college for two months

Shobhit — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:57:18 +0000

My final exams have finally come to an end and boy, were they horrible? But let’s not go to those boring topics, I have some exciting news to share with you guys! First of all, I’ve decided to chuck the website in favor of app. This way, it becomes more glamorous and fun to do [...]

Switch over to mobile or stay with the web?

Shobhit — Sat, 12 May 2012 04:36:17 +0000

After having messed with some PHP and frameworks, I realized something. I don’t like the front-end stuff, I just love the back-end part! For example, when I was working on the current project on my mind, I just did not like doing the CSS and HTML as much as I loved to interact with the [...]