Chances are he used django for it. He has blog posts on his new found love for django and his ratings code is in python. According to the Lamson (his project) FAQ, Lamson was influenced by django's features and structure.

Whatever it is, it's really fast.

What problem is this specifically solving that dozens of other scheduling/task/GTD/Calendar systems haven't solved?. Even the most basic phone now has some kind of alerting feature on it.

It's usually a bit of a hassle to set those, since you have to set each of the fields and most date fields are rather annoying. Just using plain text is easier.

Better question, what is the likelihood that a hospital near most residents are busy enough at 2am where wait times are extremely excessive that you need to use a service like this to "schedule" your visit? I would imagine that the likelihood decreases considerably during the "middle of the night" especially when taking into consideration that there are probably more hospitals that are not level 1 trauma centers and/or county run facilities and are often the busiest between 11am and 11pm.

My last experience with the ER was in the 90s, but there were several times I (or my then wife) had to wait for hours in the evening or middle of the night to see a doctor at the ER, in both Columbus, GA, and Melbourne, FL.

I'm not sure how being a parent provides qualification in assessing the practicality of this startup, but if it does, then I would like to weigh in on this issue as I am a parent of 2. These clinics are typically staffed at least by a nurse practitioner, who can treat and prescribe medications (depending on the state) for almost any reasonable non-urgent condition, including antibiotics. If you live in a state where the nurse practitioner can not prescribe medications, there is usually a physician on staff that works along side the NP to assist in those situations. These clinics sell themselves as being non-urgent care facilities that are able to treat conditions that otherwise would have required a physician or Emergency room visit. If they could not prescribe medications and treat most of these conditions, I am unsure how successful they would really be.

My guess is there are a lot fewer of these clinics and the majority don't have access to them.

There are 5,700 hospitals in the U.S.(AHA) and ~ 4,500 emergency rooms.

Do you know how many of these clinics there are?

As much as I love the InQuickER idea, it's not hard to predict which one of NP clinics and InQuickER is going to make a bigger dent faster. Clinics are going to be everywhere in ten years. It's too good a system not to succeed.

Of course, InQuickER (or something like it) is just going to integrate with the clinics and urgent care centers. I'm going to select "ear infection" and enter my zip code and it's going to give me a selection just like Orbitz.

As a point of reference, I've never heard of these clinics.

not shocking that it's a lot of marketing speak considering the post was written by a marketing manager at F5

I would wait until you meet two requirements: 1. Have income where spending $400 isn't a big deal and 2. have projects that take up so much of your time where you need a chair to ease the burden of sitting that long

Just getting out of college doesn't fulfill those 2 requirements. Wait until the amount of work you do demands that you get a chair that costs that much. It seems you would have a lot bigger things to worry about and focus your time on than evaluating chairs.

"However, at some point, the public needs "grow up" too, and always treating us like five year olds certainly won't stimulate this process."

The public always has the ability to "grow up" as you put it but they do not want to. People are not motivated to take action if there isn't an immediate risk to their own personal well being. Risk has been taken out of many things that we do so now we can make ignorant choices without immediate consequences.

We keep falling off the bike, but instead of scraping our knee and learning not to fall, we have a security net there to save us over and over again.

I don't blame the government for treating us like 5 year olds when that is how a majority of people act.

I agree with you completely.

But I also think it is possible to train yourself to manage your emotions better despite how strong our instinctual wiring is. This is evident in the long history of meditation practices.

So, it's good that the government is nursing us. And it will be even better if, in addition to that, they integrate meditation, behavior economics, entrepreneurial training courses, etc, into our education system. However, the current education system is far from that.

You are focussing too much on the language and scalability rather than focusing on just building something.

Every major language/framework out there has been used and scaled for large websites. Pick one that you would like to learn, provides you with the flexibility you are looking for, and run with it.

Worrying about how you will scale an app that you have not built yet will be a major drawback. Also keep in mind performance and scalability as you're building the site, but do not spend much time worrying about it before hand. Just take an idea and run with it, tweak the app to scale as you go.

I would assume you would set up a subscription based service where the first month is free and every month after that is a certain fee. This would all be setup with the payment gateway of choice, such as Authorize.net. You would set it up in a manner that would allow the customer to have the first month free, and then Authorize.net would charge their credit card every month for whatever fee you set up. Authorize.net would be responsible for making sure the credit card is valid and processing the payment.