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Re: Show HN: My first web app, DailyDo.it

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Post by stfu »

jacquesm wrote: post #28

I think you can safely drop the 'aspiring' from your bio, you've made more progress in three weeks on this than many have made in much longer time-spans. Impressive, to put it mildly. What you've made is interesting, but what is even more interesting is how you managed to do all this in such a terribly short time, I think there will be plenty of people interested in the 'making of' of this neat little website.

I agree with the notion above. Please make some posting on your progress over these three month - i.e. what tutorials you took and how you reached that level of expertise in design and coding in such a short time. Very impressive work!

Re: Show HN: My first web app, DailyDo.it

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Post by jurre »

eevilspock wrote: post #32
michelle_ wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hah, I hadn't thought of that. I agree though, it needs to be much more obvious if I'm expecting people to actually find it! I'll play around with it, thanks :)

Try "TeamDoIt"

or just Teams/Groups :)

Re: Show HN: My first web app, DailyDo.it

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Post by dgabriel »

michelle_ wrote: post #10
sparknlaunch12 wrote: post #4

Like the design. Looks good for first web app. Do you mind sharing some background? How did you come up with product idea? What technologies did you use? What are your planned next steps for app?

Thanks! The design started as a themeforest template, but at this point it has been very heavily modified. I used PHP and MySQL for the backend, and jQuery for the UI interaction. I'm a chemistry major spending the summer learning to code, so this is all a learning experience. It's only been about 3 weeks so I'm happy to have gotten something functional out of it. I'm really hoping to get some good feedback from HN.…

You're awesome! This is a great first app and a wonderful example of getting things done. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Re: Show HN: My first web app, DailyDo.it

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Post by billpatrianakos »

rhizome31 wrote: post #29
billpatrianakos wrote: post #14

I don't care how overdone to-do lists are, I never get sick of them. Putting this together in 3 weeks is impressive considering your background. The UI is really what makes it. Todo lists are really straightforward from an under-the-hood perspective which is probably why everyone makes them (myself included). That's why I think the design is really the most important part of it and you nailed it. I've been developing…

I'm jealous too :) I've got about ~10 years experience in software, half of it working on web projects. I posted my app yesterday hoping for feedback and got exactly zero upvotes and zero comments. The lessons I'm taking from this: 1) get people to interact with the app straight away (aka. lazy registration) 2) keep words away from the homepage, they can go in the /about page 3) get a design

I think design is the most important thing. It's your first impression and you have to make it a good one. If there were a website that cured cancer but it looked ugly upon first glance people probably wouldn't stay on it long enough to figure out what it does or sign up to try it.

Lazy registration is also a good idea probably. I never once built anything that used any registration and I'm embarrassed to say I'm not sure how it works. I'm sure 5 minutes on Google would get me going though.

Re: Show HN: My first web app, DailyDo.it

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Post by gere »

michelle_ wrote: post #39
ZanderEarth32 wrote: post #30

So, going from zero programming knowledge or experience to this in 3 weeks? If that is the case, it's pretty amazing. I would never have pegged this as a 'first app'. Great job.

Not quite zero. This past semester I took a course in MATLAB which was fairly unrelated, but definitely helped me get comfortable with programming a real project (we did bridge design in the course). I also live with a software developer who helped bail me out from time to time. DailyDo.it was started on April 29th, and I worked long days since then to get it up to what you see now. During the weekend before that I m…

Sorry, what do you mean with "bridge design"? Great first app, by the way!

Re: Show HN: My first web app, DailyDo.it

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Post by glimcat »

gere wrote: post #46
michelle_ wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not quite zero. This past semester I took a course in MATLAB which was fairly unrelated, but definitely helped me get comfortable with programming a real project (we did bridge design in the course). I also live with a software developer who helped bail me out from time to time. DailyDo.it was started on April 29th, and I worked long days since then to get it up to what you see now. During the weekend before that I m…

Sorry, what do you mean with "bridge design"? Great first app, by the way!

You use a series of members under tension or compression to support a load-bearing surface spanning a gap. Then you see if it falls down under a static or dynamic load. It's a common exercise for engineering students.

I hear there's a nice one in San Francisco.

Re: Show HN: My first web app, DailyDo.it

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Post by mehulkar »

jacquesm wrote: post #28

I think you can safely drop the 'aspiring' from your bio, you've made more progress in three weeks on this than many have made in much longer time-spans. Impressive, to put it mildly. What you've made is interesting, but what is even more interesting is how you managed to do all this in such a terribly short time, I think there will be plenty of people interested in the 'making of' of this neat little website.

Where does it say anything about 3 weeks? Was it 3 weeks of learning programming or 3 weeks to build this? The latter is impressive, the former is phenomenal. There are many of us who could benefit from learning from OP.
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