How I built 7books in under 4 weeks • Hacker News Board

Re: How I built 7books in under 4 weeks

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Post by satishf » Wed, Nov 10, 2010, 10:38 PM UTC

neilkod wrote: post #7

As someone who within the last two weeks picked up app engine and created an MVP of my own http://www.pubcontweets.com , I can not only relate to your story but also applaud you for sharing the it as well as your code. Thanks.

I totally agree. Getting something out in few weeks is amazing especially if you have a day job. I too released my first project http://caniafforditnow.com/ and it took around 2 weeks to get it out. But I had some ruby on rails experience.

Re: How I built 7books in under 4 weeks

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Post by raghus » Wed, Nov 10, 2010, 10:47 PM UTC

neilkod wrote: post #7

As someone who within the last two weeks picked up app engine and created an MVP of my own http://www.pubcontweets.com , I can not only relate to your story but also applaud you for sharing the it as well as your code. Thanks.

Stupid question: what does MVP stand for here?

Re: How I built 7books in under 4 weeks

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Post by almost » Wed, Nov 10, 2010, 10:47 PM UTC

First thoughts: yeah yeah 4 weeks isn't that impressive. But then... that included learning to program from scratch?!? Wow.

Re: How I built 7books in under 4 weeks

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Post by kingkao » Wed, Nov 10, 2010, 10:47 PM UTC

It would be nice if you can pull in some images from amazon of book covers.

Re: How I built 7books in under 4 weeks

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Post by kalid » Wed, Nov 10, 2010, 10:49 PM UTC

raghus wrote: post #12

neilkod wrote: post #7

As someone who within the last two weeks picked up app engine and created an MVP of my own http://www.pubcontweets.com , I can not only relate to your story but also applaud you for sharing the it as well as your code. Thanks.

Stupid question: what does MVP stand for here?

Minimum Viable Product (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product)

Re: How I built 7books in under 4 weeks

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Post by dabent » Wed, Nov 10, 2010, 10:49 PM UTC

raghus wrote: post #12

neilkod wrote: post #7

As someone who within the last two weeks picked up app engine and created an MVP of my own http://www.pubcontweets.com , I can not only relate to your story but also applaud you for sharing the it as well as your code. Thanks.

Stupid question: what does MVP stand for here?

Minimum Viable Product.

Re: How I built 7books in under 4 weeks

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 10, 2010, 10:50 PM UTC

raghus wrote: post #12

neilkod wrote: post #7

As someone who within the last two weeks picked up app engine and created an MVP of my own http://www.pubcontweets.com , I can not only relate to your story but also applaud you for sharing the it as well as your code. Thanks.

Stupid question: what does MVP stand for here?

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Re: How I built 7books in under 4 weeks

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Post by MisterWebz » Wed, Nov 10, 2010, 11:01 PM UTC

Very impressive. I've been learning Python for almost a whole year and I haven't even got one completely functional app. I've got tons of unfinished ones though.

Re: How I built 7books in under 4 weeks

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Post by johnconroy » Wed, Nov 10, 2010, 11:04 PM UTC

Hell of a good job. Learning to code & build a web app from scratch in 4 weeks is mighty impressive.

Re: How I built 7books in under 4 weeks

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Post by johnconroy » Wed, Nov 10, 2010, 11:06 PM UTC

nopal wrote: post #6

Thank you, thank you for creating a product blog whose header links back to the actual product page. It seems like every other product blog that I visit is intentionally keeping me from being able to navigate to the actual product!

This. I'm always coming across blog posts for products which I DON'T know... and hit hte header link... and it just brings me to the blog home page. Which usually tells me nothing about what the service actually does.