In early December we were approached by a startup in Raleigh that wanted to develop daily coupon website on a rapid schedule. We looked at our team’s resources, the short time frame, and decided to give it our best try.
A little over a month later Twongo.com was launched, a strong competitor in the growing group buying world. The Twongo back-end is written in Ruby on Rails, leverages Mad Mimi for all emailing, and is hosted on the Engine Yard Cloud. Not only did we do all the development for Twongo, but we also created two simple screencasts to help people learn about the service. Here’s the first screencast below:
Here’s the second screencast about the checkout process (if you want to see more).
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Top Ruby Article: Twongo Website & Screencast: http://bit.ly/9OJJrP
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Did you just end up re-creating http://www.groupon.com all over again?
No video love on the Ipad Gregg. Do you Guys plan on implementing HTML 5?
Paul: Slightly different then groupon, but yeah… same sort of idea.
Anthony: Hmm… html 5 on twongo.. that’d be interesting. Perhaps another question would be… how is vimeo going to get on the iphone / ipad?
Gregg: didn’t mean to give u heat…twongo is a great product! keep it up ;) anyone out there looking for serious development should checkout envylabs.com
I live in Europe and plan to open a similaire service than Twongo, but for sport related physical products.
How about buying you your dev and working with you for enhancing it to fit my needs ?