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General Assembly Launches Dash, A Tool For Coding Newbies (techcrunch.com)
39 points by rrhoover on Oct 15, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments


1. STOP INVENTING A NEW AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM FROM SCRATCH.

Damn it. I am serious: use Persona. I know at this point people'd say, well, most people are still going to use providers like gmail. Well, it's better to have a single identity than multiple one.

2. Don't ask people to sign up until you have shown them your features. A demo what it is like to use your service. Like seriously... I consider this whole giant signup button as a crime. You are asking me to provide you my identity and my password and my name before I even had a chance to evaluate your product. If I don't like it that record will sit in your database.

I'd like to see a 2 minute Youtube commerical and/or a bunch of screenshot.

No. This is not how you do business.



then have them put it in the website. Customers shouldn't have to google that at all. But thanks.


I know HTML and CSS and tried out the product. I found it so fun I wanted to go through all the lessons, plus I learned some new HTML 5 tricks I had glossed over.


Possibly easy to confuse with http://kapeli.com/dash. I understand this is completely different, but both fall within the category 'programming'. I'm not a Mac user but I'm aware of the older 'Dash'. (Incidentally, is there a similar offering for Linux? Other than installing the offline documentation for each lib, obviously!)


Nathan made a great product and worked really hard over the last few months to make it perfect!


Learning to code gets more fun, relaxed and personal. I like it.


this is surprisingly addictive...wish there was more already!


best online programming tool i've seen.


This looks like a really great tool.




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