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I Built a Social Network for Food and Here’s How I Did it

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Re: I Built a Social Network for Food and Here’s How I Did it

#61
Well done.

Be careful, though, Yum Brands (trading symbol YUM) is a well known brand associated with... food? Well, maybe in other parts of the world they're associated with food but here, I'd say if this seriously takes off you might hear them come a'knocking due to trademark infringement.

Re: I Built a Social Network for Food and Here’s How I Did it

#62
post #11

A cute site. What it lacks in functionality it makes up for by being made by a woman. Pro-beginner-tip: Don't make social networks.

This guy is easily the worst.

As a person who spent all his spare time the past few years to self-train his way to mere developer competency, I can genuinely say that I am continually blown away by Dewalt's accomplishments. Forget gender, she's plainly impressive, an exemplar for all the autodidacts out here.

Re: I Built a Social Network for Food and Here’s How I Did it

#64
Wow. I and my friend have build a similar project (similar technology, not topic). I will announce it here in NH, I am just afraid the tiny server won't be able to handle the traffic.

It just took him two days to build it. But I realize that we don't have your "Redo search when map moved". I realize that it is annoying that we don't have this feature.

Great work.

Re: I Built a Social Network for Food and Here’s How I Did it

#66
Very nice. I love the idea of specific social networks where people can connect based on their interests.

I really like the UI as well. The top 10 represented on the map, it's so convenient. I hope you keep working on this.

I think you should include a link to github on the main website it might be a good endorsement?

Re: I Built a Social Network for Food and Here’s How I Did it

#67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something like https://www.dermio.com/ ?

Woah.. is this like Rule 34 of startups? If an idea exists, there is a startup doing it (and has a .io domain name)?

"Best, Most Original Idea Man’s Ever Had Returns 114,000 Google Search Results"

http://www.theonion.com/articles/best-most-original-idea-man...

Re: I Built a Social Network for Food and Here’s How I Did it

#69
Great work Jen.

One question. How do I set my default location? I've signed in and it has my location as "Newcastle, New South Wales" but the homepage still goes to San Francisco, CA.

I see that I can share my location, but that only seems to run a single search query.

Once this issue is resolved I will suggest it to my friends, so you can get some more users down-under :)

Re: I Built a Social Network for Food and Here’s How I Did it

#70
a) You are amazing and inspirational. Congratulations!

b) As a person struggling with procrastination, and goal setting/choosing, I would like to ask you some qs about the 1 site / day for 180 days, thing. It seems to me as an interesting "reach your goal, without setting hard (sub)goals in between"(?)

If I understand correctly, you set out to code one site per day, without specifying beforehand what you would do each day? Every day you said, "ok, today I'll do this"? Was it difficult to choose between possibilities, and how did you address that? Where there end conditions for the day's goal? Or you just went as far as you could? How did you manage to stay focused on the day's project, without branching off to various tangents? Were some days under- or overwhelming, in their difficulty?

..Sorry for the wall of text, but any experience/advice/insight, would be greatly appreciated. ..Congratulations, once more.

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