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Re: Show HN: Coding noob - first weekend project

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Post by whatusername »

d0m wrote: post #27

I think every programmer made their own task manager at least once in their life.. welcome aboard :) Also, don't be to hard on yourself, creating a real project from scratch takes time and passion. I understood in half a second what your app was about and why I should use it.. What many apps/site cannot even do in weeks :) Finally, I like the idea about adding/removing stuff by replying by email.. so intuitive but I…

http://boingboing.net/2007/11/14/i-want-sandy-perfect.html

I Want Sandy was pretty cool in it's day. (Till it was bought out by twitter at least)

Re: Show HN: Coding noob - first weekend project

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Post by Sephr »

The email address validation is incorrect. Neither test+foo@gmail.com, test+foo@gmail.com., test@io, test@io., test@::123, test@[::123], or test@[::123]:456 are accepted, and likely other cases. I suggest you take the easy route and just only check `emailAddress.indexOf("@") !== -1`.

Re: Show HN: Coding noob - first weekend project

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Post by hristov »

I have question about the Google App engine. How does pricing work? Their webpage says that you pay $8 per user per month, which seems pretty high for any webapp.

And how do they decide how many users you have? I am sure here you are not counting each person that submits their email for chore reminders as a user or this would bankrupt you pretty quickly. So how does it work?

Re: Show HN: Coding noob - first weekend project

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Post by stanleydrew »

augustflanagan wrote: post #29
d0m wrote: post #27

I think every programmer made their own task manager at least once in their life.. welcome aboard :) Also, don't be to hard on yourself, creating a real project from scratch takes time and passion. I understood in half a second what your app was about and why I should use it.. What many apps/site cannot even do in weeks :) Finally, I like the idea about adding/removing stuff by replying by email.. so intuitive but I…

Thanks a lot for the feedback. I like the idea of having some sort of scheduling/reminder feature. I was wondering if I could set up a simple way to do SMS reminders. There could be a special code to set an SMS reminder (like * SMS 7pm) to get a reminder at 7pm. That was a friend's idea though so I can't take credit for it ;)

Twilio SMS is super easy. Documentation is here: http://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/sending-sms. And there's a python library to help you get started. (Full disclosure: I work at Twilio)

Re: Show HN: Coding noob - first weekend project

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Post by elxrr »

hristov wrote: post #33

I have question about the Google App engine. How does pricing work? Their webpage says that you pay $8 per user per month, which seems pretty high for any webapp. And how do they decide how many users you have? I am sure here you are not counting each person that submits their email for chore reminders as a user or this would bankrupt you pretty quickly. So how does it work?

That's App Engine for Business which is determined by "intranet users in your Google Apps domain." The service is free for a fixed quota set by App Engine, you pay extra for a billable quota, for resources used above the fixed quota.

App Engine for Business: http://code.google.com/appengine/business/

Terms:http://code.google.com/appengine/terms.html

Quotas:http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html

Billing FAQ:http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/billing.html

Re: Show HN: Coding noob - first weekend project

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Post by dzlobin »

quizbiz wrote: post #26
endlessvoid94 wrote: post #12

Great job! I also used GAE to build ThatHigh.com and it's working pretty well. But like you're probably aware, GAE has a learning curve in addition to python/django/whatever. The datastore, mainly. This is a shameless plug, but I'm the co-founder of Djangy.com and we're in private beta. We're doing Heroku except for python/django. we'll support other wsgi frameworks in the future, but for now we make deploying almost…

May I ask why you didn't go with just php for thathigh.com?

What kind of question is that? Why not go with language x for any project y?

Maybe he prefers python to PHP?

Re: Show HN: Coding noob - first weekend project

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Post by blanketman »

I like this project with the email replies, I use gmail so labelling and filters etc don't make it spammy

I put "buy my girlfriend a new ring" hopefully that will annoy that crap out of me until I do it lol

adding and optimizing the email replies would be great, its a great idea

Re: Show HN: Coding noob - first weekend project

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Post by merijnv »

Sephr wrote: post #32

The email address validation is incorrect. Neither test+foo@gmail.com, test+foo@gmail.com., test@io, test@io., test@::123, test@[::123], or test@[::123]:456 are accepted, and likely other cases. I suggest you take the easy route and just only check `emailAddress.indexOf("@") !== -1`.

This point should really be made more to web developers. Nothing annoys me like yet another website which tells me myname+filter@example.com is not a valid address and ruins my nice mail filtering...
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