Mellow-Morning

Fashiolista.com is launching in 7 days and has already been getting quite some attention. Techcrunch: 25 startups that will be shaping the next web. For Fashiolista we’ve been able to utilize a great deal of best practises learned in previous Django based sites. More on this topic later. For now I’m wondering if there are many other Django fans attending the next web conference.

The conference itself should be very interesting. Definitely looking forward to Werner Vogels and Joe Stump. The later seems to be running Django for SimpleGeo.

YouTellMe.nl is a completely Django based startup located in Amsterdam. We’re probably one of the largest Django projects in terms of codebase. Pretty soon the famous nextweb awards are coming up. (remember those guys which broke into Michael Arrington’s house?). And we need some love from the Django community. Lots of it.

Pretty please nominate youtellme.nl for the next web!
http://dsa.thenextweb.com/?lang=nl

Good articles coming soon to offset the bad karma for this shameless plug ;)

Update:

A couple of stats about the current codebase.

According to wc (including whitespace and comments) we currently have:

• Python: 3,363,188 characters, 87926 lines, 655 files
• Javascript: 940,536 characters, 24229 lines, 77 files

No more beta for YouTellMe.nl
The website which is taking over the Dutch product comparison market is officially going out of beta @ 8 o clock.
Party in Amsterdam, Keizersgracht 182 :) Festivities starting right now!

Things are going well, looking very forward to international launch.
We’ve changed a lot since the first reviews!

Beter pictures coming after the event :P

PS. Thanks to Python and Django, for enabling us to beat the competition :)

PSS. Next2News, eduhub, come and join :)

I just noticed that Ebuddy has won the best international award at the Crunchies. Awesome to see a Dutch startup win it :) Go over to Ebuddy and congratulate them! (Found through NextWeb)

Two months ago YouTellMe moved to the beautifull Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. With the crazy work schedules any entrepreneurs lives by, we didn’t really get to enjoy the city yet. In fact, I went to more Amsterdam based events when the company was still in Rotterdam.

This Thursday my fellow YTM entrepreneurs and me will be visiting the Open Coffee Amsterdam meetup. For me its a first timer on the long  standing Open Coffee tradition. Hope it will be fun :)

Thanks to ebuddy and techcrunch for organizing the event.

I was so surprised to see a stand from Google at the Erasmus campus today. Usually we don’t see too many hi-tech companies visiting a business university. Google has an amazing brand name amongst students, this was very clear from the crazy amount of attention they got. The staff from Google was representing their Dublin headquarters. Working benefits seem pretty amazing over there.

Good job Google! (why don’t other tech companies do this?)

The movie they recommended us to watch: