Comments on: Turning away a potential client

By: Gordon Murray

Gordon Murray — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:08:24 +0000

Share away, Im listening…

By: Asp Net Web Hosting

Asp Net Web Hosting — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:53:02 +0000

Good post …. but I have a better approach up my sleeve …. I can share if anyone is interested ?

By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 27 May 2008 01:54:50 +0000

Wow a web host that doesn’t support mysql……I thought those went extinct

Ross
-http://www.hostdisciple.com

By: Gordon Murray

Gordon Murray — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:19:33 +0000

Hi Brendan,

I never even considered of looking for someone who might be able to create a .NET version for me, my default reaction was to do it myself.

There’s a guy I went to college with who’s working with Silverlight stuff at the moment, I think he’s pretty nifty with .NET too. Must look him up and see if he can help.

Thank you for the idea!

By: brendan lally

brendan lally — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:48:42 +0000

I’d 2nd Conor.
Don’t go down that (side)road unless u have good reason (and not just temp $) 2 do so
Easier option is 2 drag in some .NET ‘buddy’ (that u can trust and has done good work b4) that can take this on (on the side and outa his expense) and come up with a viable ‘partnership’ that makes sense (and works with the client).
Just a thought.

Lal

By: Gordon Murray

Gordon Murray — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:00:35 +0000

Ohh, I think I’ll start a .NET version to see if I can create a little controversy.

*Watching Subscriber numbers going down*

By: dahamsta

dahamsta — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:40:22 +0000

“Makes me wonder why there isn’t a .NET version of Wordpress (Is there?)”

Nope. I can’t tell you why, but I do know that at least one of the developers would turn his head to the side and spit if you suggested it. As would I.

adam

By: Gordon Murray

Gordon Murray — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:27:30 +0000

I don’t know if I’d be able to get a good return on the developing of a .NET version. Makes me wonder why there isn’t a .NET version of Wordpress (Is there?) The programmer in me whats to do it anyway.

It would make sense to hold off on a .NET version until at least 2 more clients want it but at this early stage I’d want every client I can get.

By: Conor O'Neill

Conor O'Neill — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:51:53 +0000

That’s a tough one. I’ve been surprised by the number of small companies I’ve seen on Windows hosting. The problem a lot of them run into is that they decide they want a blog (or some other app, like eWrite) and discover that Wordpress doesn’t work without PHP and MySQL.

Is the return on investment there for you to maintain and sell two completely separate code-bases? We didn’t start building our API until we had a couple of requests for it. We had previously built several things which some vocal people said we should have but which ended up with close to zero usage!