Blarg. Who the hell wants to enter all these stats about their life, carefully submitting numbers about their day, etc. bla bla bla. so in human. in the end you're like a slave to the careful entering of stats about yourself, managing your facts like some accountant.
Show HN: Routinetap, my weekend project to track daily habits
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Re: Show HN: Routinetap, my weekend project to track daily habits
#32I was actually just starting to work on something that did the exact same thing. I felt guilty for taking time to build a system that was supposed to save me time. Thanks! Signed up, will surely use this.
Any plans for social features? I want to share my goals with the universe!
Re: Show HN: Routinetap, my weekend project to track daily habits
#33I have four questions, I only see one at a time. On http://routinetap.com/answers_list I expect to see all four of my questions. I want to spend as little time on this app as possible.
It seems I have to refine the lingo. You may have created 4 questionnaires instead.
I'll have to set up a how-to real soon!
Re: Show HN: Routinetap, my weekend project to track daily habits
#34I was actually just starting to work on something that did the exact same thing. I felt guilty for taking time to build a system that was supposed to save me time. Thanks! Signed up, will surely use this. Any plans for social features? I want to share my goals with the universe!
Plans are refine the thing, go social and/or go mobile, to minimize the friction.
Re: Show HN: Routinetap, my weekend project to track daily habits
#35When people say weekend project, do they typically mean this took 20 hours or so? About how long did this take you, mping? (Just wondering, because I feel I'm very slow with personal projects - mostly because I usually work in 2 hour blocks or so)
Not even remotely close to 20 hours. I used this proj to learn rails and mongodb, I had a previous project that went nowhere to learn rails, I had a previous css scheme (before twitter's bootstrap came along), I used KnockoutJS intensively (only to learn I didn't need it that bad) and I had to learn how to deploy to a server (linode, dns, setting up nginx, etc).
A good estimate would be like 100 hours or more; I'm guessing if I handled the screents to a Rails expert, he would do it in ~20 hours.
If I were to repeat it, I'd probably give backbone.js a try (and spend another 100+ hours...)
Re: Show HN: Routinetap, my weekend project to track daily habits
#36This is my first submission to hn, so be gentle with me. The app still has alot of work to do (eg: send email on registration), but I figure that I shouldn't wait anymore.
As a weekend project, seems like you're off to a good start here. The UI is nice, as I happen to like simple, clean, minimal interfaces. (This is bootstrap, I assume.) I'm not keen on the flow of creating & editing questionnaires, though; would prefer having the whole process be done within the same screen instead of jumping to a new page. This is especially the case when mobile. It's unclear if not being able to hav…
thanks for your input. you (and the others as well) gave me alot of food for thought; It seems my current major headache is the flow of the questionnaire creation; also multiple active questionnaires seem indeed essential. The scoring aspeect also seems interesting.
I find it strange nobody argued about the chart, but I'm guessing there's no sufficient input to discuss it.
As a first-timer let me say that this community is indeed excellent.
Re: Show HN: Routinetap, my weekend project to track daily habits
#37When people say weekend project, do they typically mean this took 20 hours or so? About how long did this take you, mping? (Just wondering, because I feel I'm very slow with personal projects - mostly because I usually work in 2 hour blocks or so)
Not even remotely close to 20 hours. I used this proj to learn rails and mongodb, I had a previous project that went nowhere to learn rails, I had a previous css scheme (before twitter's bootstrap came along), I used KnockoutJS intensively (only to learn I didn't need it that bad) and I had to learn how to deploy to a server (linode, dns, setting up nginx, etc). A good estimate would be like 100 hours or more; I'm gu…
OK, thanks - makes me feel a little better. I was originially thinking "Where do people get 100 hours in a weekend? Wives/children/pets must be on vacation...". But I realize it's probably more like weekends, plural. I've got a side project going to learn Django and Python - you're work inspired me to throw Bootstrap in there too.
Anyway, nice job!