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This is a great answer, thanks!

Do you have an email? I will update you when I have talked to some shelters / homeless people and when I get some work done


Thanks for your answer, I agree that with a website the iterating process is probably faster.


Thanks for your answer. Indeed! I'm not sure, the main mission of my idea is to offer homeless/refugees a way of connecting to other people (it could be just for chatting or for meeting and offering some jobs in order to allow them to integrate).

The main problem here is that these people won't have an easy access to the internet so it might be easier a website but otherwise I think an app would be more suitable.

(probably worth go to the streets and ask them).


All the refugees I've met have mobile phones and use Facebook for connecting with other people just like everyone else.


We are testing an idea of developing communities in different places in Europe, here's the first try: http://nomadclub.co/ In case your answer could be yes, what do you think the website should have and what do you think it'd be important for the service to provide? would you use it? we're happy to take any feedback! :)


Thank you, I think you are making a very good point here, We will test that out, definitely!


1) I believe it's not stolen since we got it from a a free webpage in which it was permitted to download the pictures and use them on your own website. If you know anything else about that please, let us know. If it's not permitted to be used in a web, we wouldn't use it but I believe it's not the case.

And about the other points, thanks, we just want to test the idea out, I guess we have to explain it better, so we will try to make it easier to understand.

We are an agency that wants you to meet interesting people while traveling and working remotely, the min 2 weeks is there because we believe that could be a minimum to make a meaningful impact within this community.


1) That's not how copyright works. You took an image with watermarks and used it on a commercial website.

2) If I'm already traveling, why should I book anything with you?


I will check that out and if necessary, delete it,

Plan would be to give you people to connect and a plan of experiences to do together, like trips to cities close to the destinations, activities inside the locations in which we are and services like coworking or gym membership


You need to explain this, it's not clear from your current website. Instead of "book blah blah blah" your message should be something like "plan activities with other people".


The image has the watermark of the site is it sold on all over it, which very much looks like you saved the preview image from the download page.


I'll check it out asap as we don't want to steal any work, but I believe it was free to use and we downloaded it because of that like the other images from the same website, thanks for your comment


We are testing an idea of developing communities in different places in Europe, here's the first try: http://nomadclub.co/ In case your answer could be yes, what do you think the website should have and what do you think it'd be important for the service to provide? would you use it? we're happy to take any feedback! :)


Yeah, we want to make it into an e-commerce with a clear pricing included, this is our first sketch and we wanted to prove it could be a good idea, thanks for your comment, we will definitely follow that line!


Then ok, I didn't know it was that early stage, but yeah, gather feedback, improve it, get feedback again and repeat this process for as long as needed.


Yeah, I agree, we wanna test everything out before we offer our exact solution, we started out during Christmas time with this project and we believe is something that can definitely give value to it's potential users.


You're completely right, the thing is that I'm not sure about that as the amount of people that will land on the page will depend on the success of the marketing/crowdfunding campaign.

Also, the type of application is an easy concept for booking (via online form) vacation experiences, so it has terms and conditions, explanations of our service, cities in which we're offering it and not much more


Is this a static website? When you fill out and submit the form, what code do you have that receives and processes said form? You indicated that you built this with CSS and HTML, but those aren't server languages. Is there something else that you are using to process the submitted form? Do you use some third party service to do that? What would be helpful is a technical explanation of what you are trying to do.


Yes I am using php on the server side to update a database when the user send a form


OK. You should update the original question you asked to include the fact that the server side code is using PHP and you'll probably get more targeted responses. Also, which database are you using and where is that being hosted?


Thanks, I'm planning on using MySql allocated in the own server as I'm using now in a free hosting server


I would use AWS, EC2 + RDS for now. A t2.micro should get you started. Make sure you automate the installation using Ansible (it's slow but you don't care, most importantly it's easy to pick-up and it's relatively agentless).

At this point, that's it IMHO. I wouldn't even use an ELB or auto-scaling at this point.

If you need help, drop a mail, I have spare time I can help you with the specifics (free of charge ofc).

ps. AWS has a learning curve and is not cheap but saves you a great deal of sysadmin management and most importantly, saves you from probable fire-fighting at this stage, plus there is the free tier will get you nearly a year without charges.


I would choose an option in wich automation is difficult to apply, also, something that I love to do (so maybe I had to be a pro player of soccer haha).

You got a serious and a kind of serious answer :D


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