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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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Post by ilaksh »

jeffbcross wrote: post #19
ilaksh wrote: 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

Yes, everything is MIT (that I wrote). Deployd is really awesome, congratulations. I agree that having an easy way to do what looks like direct database manipulations from the browser is really useful and it seems like the rules and stuff you have set up to secure that is a very good approach. I also think that mongodb makes a lot of sense because of its flexibility and ease of use.

My thing really isn't ready to show anyone but its at https://github.com/ithkuil/cureblog at the moment. I have a bunch of stuff to do including most everything related to security. I think at first I am going to try to cheat with really simple rules possibly inserted into the everything.now function call if I can, or something. Really a lot of stuff to work out.

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

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Post by maxmin »

sgdesign wrote: post #2

Something that I haven't mentioned in the article is that for me, Hacker News is a big motivation when doing this kind of small week-end project. Obviously a site can get popular without HN, but having an audience to launch to plus immediate feedback feels much more gratifying to me.

I'm wondering how you manage to constantly get so many up votes for your projects (besides creating super quality content of course). Any tips on this?

Btw: I love the toolbox, super awesome site! It seems to be a little slow for me though, are you hosting this on a shared server?

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

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Post by sgdesign »

maxmin wrote: post #22
sgdesign wrote: post #2

Something that I haven't mentioned in the article is that for me, Hacker News is a big motivation when doing this kind of small week-end project. Obviously a site can get popular without HN, but having an audience to launch to plus immediate feedback feels much more gratifying to me.

I'm wondering how you manage to constantly get so many up votes for your projects (besides creating super quality content of course). Any tips on this? Btw: I love the toolbox, super awesome site! It seems to be a little slow for me though, are you hosting this on a shared server?

Sorry, I don't have any specific tips on getting upvotes… I guess just do cool stuff!

And sorry about the slowness, it's hosted on PHPFog but I think I need to tweak some WordPress caching options to speed it up.

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

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Post by sgdesign »

there wrote: post #14

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 f…

Thanks, I'll definitely use this from now on!

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

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Post by maxmin »

sgdesign wrote: post #24
maxmin wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm wondering how you manage to constantly get so many up votes for your projects (besides creating super quality content of course). Any tips on this? Btw: I love the toolbox, super awesome site! It seems to be a little slow for me though, are you hosting this on a shared server?

Sorry, I don't have any specific tips on getting upvotes… I guess just do cool stuff! And sorry about the slowness, it's hosted on PHPFog but I think I need to tweak some WordPress caching options to speed it up.

Yes, a caching plugin would definitely help out there! Your site was featured in the last webdesigner depot newsletter (which has around 150K subsribers I think) and when I clicked the link I could not reach your site for 5 minutes...

Have you had a look at the W3 Total Cache plugin already? This drastically speeds up sites when configured correctly.

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

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Post by adamrt »

fakeempire wrote: post #26

What is the tool you are using for the responsive testing? http://dun4nx4d6jyre.cloudfront.net/assets/toolb-xreponsive.... I've been using a mediocre plugin for chrome to do this testing but its flaky. That looks like exactly what I want.

http://responsive.victorcoulon.fr/
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