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NAME
We had a few names that we tried out on friends to gauge their reaction. Goodreads was easy and it made sense. However at first we could only afford Goodreadz with a z! When a friend asked us if it was a hip hop site we knew we needed to pay for the correct spelling.
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COMPANY COLOURS
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LOCATION
We wanted something cosy and bookish. It wasn’t as important to us to have a site that was covered in bright colors. We like things to be low key and comfortable. We are based in San Francisco.
60 The website is built on Ruby on Rails. We've got 3 very large MySQL clusters, and use large amounts of Redis and Memcache. The developers code in RubyMine TextMate, Sublime edit 2, vi, and Emacs. Designers are using the pretty standard Adobe line-up.
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INCOME
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MOST OFTEN USED SOFTWARE
There was a Panera Bread bakery-café a block away from Otis’ apartment when we first started Goodreads. We ended up eating there way too much. To this day, I can’t go to Panera.
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MAIN FOOD