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Since the Indy Domain Name Sepculator Start-UP that I worked for by accident is still struggling with the 11,000 domains over 10 years and still not 1% sales concept of failure I thought I would highlight mistakes that should be avoided:
1. Do not attempt development of more sites than you have resources. 11,000 sites even at rails frameworks miracle hours of 3 months per site means that you have approximately 33,000 months or in other terms 5,280,000 human hours to develop 11,000 sites. Basically, you are fooling yourself and lying to others about having a plan to develop 11,000 sites as the plan is never attainable.
2. Automate every repeated task as it is less costly to have the computer do it than the developer. You do not automate to save developer time and reduce his hours to part-time but to turn his or her now free hours into a revenue multiplier by developing new technology that earns new revenue or in better words you are by automating promoting the developer to architect rather than just coder. In basic terms that means if you do not have a DBA for your database driven sites you use the computer to automate that process of backing up databases and etc.
3. If a website calls for edits each month than convert that website to CMS.
4. If the CEO's girlfriend does not have high tech experience but wants a management position than it is her duty to travel to the locations of the developers and become their gopher and beg for training and experience to obtain the management position by earning it. Some of us developers thrive on training new developers.
5. If the CEO claiming to be a developer has never been on a developer forum or board than run-like -hell as he or she is obviously using his or her copying and pasting experience as developer experience.
This is just the short list but no less important.
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