PayPerPost - Rails App

I found PerPerPost.com while surfing the web and reading fellow Microsoft refugee Peter Wright’s blog. He mentioned the company he works for and creating a system using Ruby on Rails. I immediately wanted to find out what it is.

It’s a website that pays bloggers for writing about a products and services. It’s a nice way to monetize the blog and serves as a great advertising vehicle. I really like the idea, but at the same time, little spooked by the fact that blogs may become something of late-night infomercials. In fact, I will be paid for this post (fingers crossed).

Things That Suck

I found the performance of the website to be incredibly poor. The pages load so slow that it reminds me of the days when I used telephone to connect to the Internet. I pay extra for increase in bandwidth for my FiOS and it angers me to think that my money is wasted. It really doesn’t boast well for Ruby on Rails.

The site is also very buggy. I can’t even change my password. Take a look at the error message I get when I submit the change password form.
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I’m now stuck with a weird password, yet the developers call themselves “Code Ninja” according to their video blog at http://www.rockstartup.com.

I guess things will change as they get more advertisers, but I really couldn’t find anything that I can post here. Their products and services are similar to what you’d find in your spam filter inbox. On top of that, in order for my account to be active, it had to go through a manual review process. I don’t mind the wait as long as it’s quick, but it took over a week before I heard anything back.

Good Stuff

I like the concept of allowing casual bloggers to monetize their efforts.

Conclusion

I hope Peter and his company can improve the performance and eliminate the bugs. I also hope that this company does well and become a poster child for Ruby on Rails, not an example of why RoR sucks. Unless they add more products and services that are relevant to the subject of this blog, it will most likely be the last post for me.

December 28, 2007 | Filed Under Review

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