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The Toolbox: From Idea to Launch in 10 Hours

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Re: The Toolbox: From Idea to Launch in 10 Hours

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I'm kind of flabbergasted at how good that Construct theme is. I've looked at themes on ThemeForest and didn't see anything of that calibre for sale. Now I'm awkwardly wondering whether I can buy a theme for my Rails site instead of amateurishly hamfisting it myself. Arggh. edit: Wonderful collection, so many of these sites look really useful and/or inspiring. Great work man.

Try using Bootstrap - there's plenty of resources for ensuring it no longer "looks" like Bootstrap.

Re: The Toolbox: From Idea to Launch in 10 Hours

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When I finally got through to the WordPress admin, I immediately saw the problem: although the caching plugin was installed and activated, caching was turned off in the plugin’s settings page. Talk about a dumb mistake…

There are a few free load testing services that are good for catching problems with caching or concurrency. I've used http://blitz.io/ before going live to tune my caching and have survived a few HN front-pages.

Re: The Toolbox: From Idea to Launch in 10 Hours

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So he used WordPress. Is anyone interested in a tool like WordPress with good support for easy-to-install plugins, but built on Node.js/CoffeeScript?

I ask because I have been working a tool like that for a few months and I'm pretty anxious about the reception its going to get, since I'm pretty much basing my whole life on it.

Re: The Toolbox: From Idea to Launch in 10 Hours

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post #16

So he used WordPress. Is anyone interested in a tool like WordPress with good support for easy-to-install plugins, but built on Node.js/CoffeeScript? I ask because I have been working a tool like that for a few months and I'm pretty anxious about the reception its going to get, since I'm pretty much basing my whole life on it.

Sounds very interesting. Not sure you should be basing your whole life on it, but still curious to see it!

Re: The Toolbox: From Idea to Launch in 10 Hours

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Thanks for sharing and spending time to document all the steps. Impressive achievement in such a short time. Will you continue to build on this platform or is this simply a side project?

Thanks! But I'm not sure how else I can build on it except add more sites… if you have any ideas I'd love to hear them :)

Re: The Toolbox: From Idea to Launch in 10 Hours

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post #16

So he used WordPress. Is anyone interested in a tool like WordPress with good support for easy-to-install plugins, but built on Node.js/CoffeeScript? I ask because I have been working a tool like that for a few months and I'm pretty anxious about the reception its going to get, since I'm pretty much basing my whole life on it.

Is it open source? If so, I'd love to check it out. We've been working on an open source server for JavaScript developers, that has some of the modularity of Wordpress: https://github.com/deployd/deployd
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