It seems clear that hybrid-business models will pave the way to the next economic foundation–sharing economy, collaborative economy, etc. We are in a period of technological innovation where the economic possibilities are only constrained by society’s ability to effectively message and disseminate emerging value propositions.
In other words, anyone can make a potentially revolutionary marketplace (helpwith.co?), but how do you get people to care?
Yeah, that's definitely the right question. Part of our argument is that people are overly cynical concerning the fact that finding the answer to such questions is an active, iterative process, rather than a stroke of individual genius.
Technically, HelpWith is in over 100 cities, but we're focussing primarily on the Pacific Northwest. This is largely because cities like Portland are already more amenable to the type of ethos that makes the success of such a sharing economy platform possible.
We're building a successful, community-based model, then we plan on scaling.
My experience with PyDev+Extensions/Eclipse: [1] got (great?) interactive debugging, [2] fairly smart code completion (works for most Django stuff, see below), [3] plus all the other Eclipse niceties: a decent HTML/CSS editor (with WST), SVN integration, Mylyn with trac integration (manage trac tickets from inside Eclipse: nice), etc.
I configured the Django source as another project in Eclipse and make it a dependency in all my Django-based PyDev projects. This makes it possible to click on a class or function name and directly jump to its definition/declaration/source. That's better than any documentation.
Maybe the reason this works for me is that I also got the PyDev extensions? Even if it's just to support the PyDev developer with some cash, there are a few additional features in the extension that definitely improve productivity; see http://www.fabioz.com/pydev/. I configured the integration with PyLint, which helps a lot with coding style, especially since I am--for all intents and purposes--a novice to Python (4+ months of working with it).
Here's my take on the whole debugging Django issue:
a) In my experience, only a small fraction of development time is spent debugging. With the proper code structure/patterns/unit testing, little debugging should be necessary. This may be a controversial statement, but that's how I see it. For all the normal development use cases, just running the Django development server with default settings is fine and one can still edit inside Eclipse and get automatic reload. I have used debugging mostly to discover the framework (and Python) itself and found it extremely insightful, but did not need the reload feature then. Discovery can also be done in the interactive console, though.
b) If there is indeed a need to have a rapid change-debug cycle, the keyboard shortcuts to start a debug configuration in Eclipse allow a quick stop/restart of the development server with the --noreload option. The request can be made with the test client provided by Django; see http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/testing/#the-test..., so one keyboard shortcut gets you to your first break point, without even using the browser.
I know Eclipse is a bit on the heavy side. A few gigs of RAM and a dual-core CPU help. I also do a fair amount of cross-language development and like the Eclipse platform for the breath of available language and tool support. In the past, I've used it extensively for PHP development and of course Java.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2nqgKL2JQU [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15093353