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Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

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Post by jenniferDewalt »

jqueryin wrote: post #24
jenniferDewalt wrote: post #3

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About 80 days.

It's exciting to see how much your skills have improved over the course of the half year. I guess this proves a point that added complexity and learning new technology drastically adds to development time for those still learning to program. Also couple this with no extensive amount of development under their belt. Not to hijack this thread and solely to prove a point, take for example my startup weekend project. Jus…

That is awesome! Now that I've gone through the whole process I'm definitely much fast than I was when I started YumHacker. I spent a lot of time in the beginning just trying to wrap my head around what the heck I was doing, especially with Backbone.

Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

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Post by jenniferDewalt »

hardxxxtarget wrote: post #46
jenniferDewalt wrote: post #40

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Thanks! The front end uses Backbone.js so most of the content is rendered with Javascript. The backend uses Rails as an api which on page load sends along a barebones html doc for Backbone to latch on to and work its magic. You can check out the source code on GitHub - https://github.com/jendewalt/yumhacker

Thanks Jennifer. Btw, how did you manage to build 180 websites in 180 days. I mean what was your inspiration to conquer the streak?

I wanted to learn to code but I'd never really done any coding before. I came up with the 180 websites idea as a way to start really small and stay motivated. It wasn't always easy but I had a blast and learned a lot.

Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

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Post by jenniferDewalt »

mutagen wrote: post #52

Awesome! Your journey is quite inspirational as well. There's some weirdness remembering locations I search for before I sign up and across the boundary when it asks me for a signup but works great once I've logged in.

Thanks! It has been a really fun ride.

There's still a lot to be done with the sign up/sign in process that I haven't gotten to yet. Saving the last search is at the top of that to do list.

Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

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Post by jenniferDewalt »

stevesearer wrote: post #50
jenniferDewalt wrote: post #36

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That is an excellent point and something I've been thinking about as well. One thought I've had is adding some sort of rating system where people who are active on the site get promoted as 'Awesome people who have good taste' (working title). I'm also thinking about ways to make the site more useful on a personal level.

Hi Jennifer, I really like the site, but I'm wondering if there is any way to add more restaurants? Santa Barbara has a lot of great places, but I'm only seeing a few to choose from :)

There is a way to add restaurants! Under the main search field in the header is a link to Search for a Restaurant. Enter the name of a restaurant and the location and YumHacker will return a list of possible matches. Endorsing a restaurant and it will be added to the database.

Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

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Post by stevesearer »

jenniferDewalt wrote: post #55
stevesearer wrote: post #50

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Hi Jennifer, I really like the site, but I'm wondering if there is any way to add more restaurants? Santa Barbara has a lot of great places, but I'm only seeing a few to choose from :)

There is a way to add restaurants! Under the main search field in the header is a link to Search for a Restaurant. Enter the name of a restaurant and the location and YumHacker will return a list of possible matches. Endorsing a restaurant and it will be added to the database.

ah perfect, I thought I had tried that, but I guess not :) Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

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Post by elwell »

Like the crisp and quick ux. You might want to adjust the line-height for the business names because two line names seem to have too much spacing vertically; you'll need to adjust the line-height for the entire li first I think because of the way the css is set up.

Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

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Post by jenniferDewalt »

elwell wrote: post #58

Like the crisp and quick ux. You might want to adjust the line-height for the business names because two line names seem to have too much spacing vertically; you'll need to adjust the line-height for the entire li first I think because of the way the css is set up.

Thanks! Good call on the line-heights. I hadn't noticed how weird those multiline business names look.

Re: Show HN: Website 181 Took Way Longer Than a Day – YumHacker

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Post by glittershark »

jenniferDewalt wrote: post #54
mutagen wrote: post #52

Awesome! Your journey is quite inspirational as well. There's some weirdness remembering locations I search for before I sign up and across the boundary when it asks me for a signup but works great once I've logged in.

Thanks! It has been a really fun ride. There's still a lot to be done with the sign up/sign in process that I haven't gotten to yet. Saving the last search is at the top of that to do list.

Have you considered open sourcing it to get the development flowing? I for one would love to hop in on this website in particular and get hacking
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