Ask HN: Launch an App Month - What did you launch?

Curious to know how many took this up and actually launched something.

Though I started with a rough idea several months ago, I did most of my work coding http://www.sparkmuse.com during November. I'm not gonna make it by the end of the month, but I'll be opening the alpha in around 2 weeks. Right now most of the coding is done, I'm just on the lookout for more content to add to the site.

Launched a personal finance app 'Can I Afford it now?'

http://caniafforditnow.com

Get a Financial health checkup anonymously Get a second opinion before your Purchase

I put up two sites this month, but I'm not sure they qualify. They don't have any chance at growing into a startup, but I'm going to list them anyway.

The first is a little game that lets you try to unscramble words [1]. It's hardest word list is from a post about the 1000 most useful words that came up here a while ago. My favourite thing about the site is that it fetches definitions and the like from wordnik so you can learn as you play. If you want to try playing let me know and I'll fix the last known bug. The focus is stolen from the input box when I check to see if the top word has changed, but I didn't fix it because I got distracted by more interesting projects.

The second is a personal website with links to my blog and a portfolio of past projects [2]. I figured starting to put together a portfolio would help to get me a job at some point and that it would be a nice way to start learning Clojure, which I've been wanting to try for a while. Still haven't decided on a domain name though.

Right now I'm working on a third project that people on Hacker News might be more interested in. I'm hoping it will bear some resemblance to Stack Overflow when it gets a little more fleshed out, but that won't be done this month. God willing it will be done some time in December so I can share it with all of you. I'm really excited about it.

1: http://anagramscramble.appspot.com/

2: http://jcolessite.appspot.com/

That's really cool and super fast (my god is it fast!).

If you are going to launch this, can I suggest that, rather than IP detection, you build out a series of pages for each location, e.g. New York City, London etc.

That way you can get SEO traffic (London has a non-ajax, SE crawlable page), and also provide people a better experience when they plan to go somewhere (e.g. London from NYC).

Lastly - revenue model? I assume affiliates for hotels etc? If so, you need traffic, so see my first point :)