Comments on: Aarpix – wow thats a lot of goodies (!?)

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:27:26 +0000

It looks interesting and appealing. I’ll certainly check this one out in my spare time. The post above mine mentions boonex dolphin which is really cool too, but a little costly and not the easiest for anyone new to hosting and php scripts.

By: There Is Also

There Is Also — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:08:00 +0000

There is also http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/ .

By: Ahmedij

Ahmedij — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:36:30 +0000

Hai Farhan.
Tum bhi na :p

By: Faizan

Faizan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:12:16 +0000

Hey Farhan
I’m sorry if you took my comments the wrong way, but all I tried to do here was to help you (if I can at all) plan out the future path for this endeavor of yours.

By no means did I ever mean to dishearten you, if anything consider it constructive criticism, and nothing more.

We’ve done security consultancy and setups for websites such as http://www.presidentofpakistan.gov.pk and learnt a lot in the past 10 years as far as projections for future requirements go.

To see new things coming up is always something to be proud of as a Pakistani!

I would never mean to make you feel as if you should give up, but if even a single thing I said previously could help you in any way, that’d make my day.

Once again, best of luck!

By: Kamran

Kamran — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:11:53 +0000

i second QAZI on that front…cheer up mate.. what faizan wrote was not at all wrong.. he has to do the review in his own perspective.you just have to dig in to get the ideas from seniors out..

By: Qazi

Qazi — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:01:34 +0000

Farhan, You will be faced with such criticism at every stage of your product launch be prepared for that, you have done a commendable job feel proud of it all this criticism does not mean to bog you down, take the good hints from these, as these are your best friends taking time out of their life to do a QA of your product,
Entrepreneur ship is a tough job specially so in pakistan where even your family members tend to discourage you and push you towards a comfy job. the harder you are the more you would be able to rise through all this.
Good luck for all your efforts.

By: Farhan

Farhan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:34:56 +0000

Nowhere I said that search engine is custom built by me or my team, It is rather customly built by Inout Company.

Secondly, it isn’t bad to use a readymade software or scripts for social networking service or anything.If this was so, then why GreenWhite is using WordPress? And Why The So big Reliance Group’s social network is based on open source and FREE social network software ?

And this is not all, So called Nilaam.pk is using PHPproBid, And everybody is appreciating them just because they are having foriegn investors.

Thanks for your kind opinion about the host and server which nobody asked for , I dont think there is any harm to run a test version on a shared server. And let me tell you, I myself have been associated with a web hosting business and have been dealing with dedicated servers, the day I feel I should move because of heavy traffic,certainly I will.

And at the end Thanks for taking time to write in.

Now GreenWhite tends me to believe that this forum is just to criticise someone if he has taken the initiative. And to make it stop before it launches.

I dont wanted to comment here again, but I had to. So please everybody hangout for few days, everything will be clear then.

By: Faizan

Faizan — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:13:14 +0000

Well it is quite a good effort.

I looked into the technical aspects of it and the “effort” that went into it really, being I’ve been in the web design / development / hosting business since almost a decade now.

Well the main part of the website, namely the search engine which Farhan you said is “custom built”, making one think that you and / or your colleagues built it, and its now powered by Windows live; well I totally agree to the part that its now powered by Windows live, and now lets just visit http://www.inout-search.com/

That would be the script available from http://www.inoutscripts.com, which gives the fully functionality of the search engine out-of-the-box.

Secondly, the social network is again and out-of-the-box solution called phpFox (www.phpfox.com)

The Aarpix mail part is powered by Windows Live which takes hardly an hour to set up.

I fail to see what parts actually took “time and effort” for this “Web 2.0″ website.

The website is hosted by Host Monster (www.hostmonster.com) giving you “unlimited space” for $6.95 per month, which stands to be a shared hosting provider so one can assume that the site isn’t really geared for the mass since such hosts usually will start to crack under extreme traffic.

It can still evolve into a good “platform” of sorts if any of the elements in the website, that is the search, blog, social network, email accounts etc were in any integrated into each other which I don’t see as being there.

Using open source scripts (or ALMOST open source) isn’t bad at all, but it should lead towards further “custom development” which would tie in all the elements of the website and give the users a seamless experience before actually growing any further.

Best of luck!

By: Kamran

Kamran — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:17:04 +0000

c ya next time.. chao!!!

By: Farhan

Farhan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:20:56 +0000

If I am testing ads on the test run of aarpix, that doesn’t mean that doesn’t mean that I have targeted those ads

And about my marketing plan, I am gona do what anyone else couldn’t dare to Lets see what happens.

As I have courage of risk taking.

And now I am not gona defend aarpix here anymore, since it isn’t launched yet so its useless.

I’ll be writing to re-review aarpix right after a week inshaAllah