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How much did that domain name cost? These are similar, they may help inspire you for features: http://www.goodreads.com/ http://www.shelfari.com/ Keep it up!
As HN'er nerfhammer noted: 1 digit + 3 letters = 83.8% availability. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1698035
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.
I started doing "web stuff" about 3 years ago and have learned sooo much just by forcing myself to do it.
It's so funny to me to see how much I've changed, I came across one of the first ever "apps" that I made a few days ago. It was a DVD cataloger that I made my Dad for his birthday (He glanced at it, went "huh", then bought some commercial version of the same thing...humph) and it was kindof cool to look over the shoulder of Ryan from 3 years ago to see what he was doing.
What's keeping you from finishing these things?
I've enabled billing in appengine as I'm nearly over quota:
If anyone has any tips to optimise my outgoing bandwidth it would be very much appreciated! Hopefully I caught it in time to avoid any real outages. I'll try and keep an eye on it though.
Ok - right off to trawl through the comments and responses and reply!
Thank you all :)
So is there already a hn spreadsheet up somewhere where one could find a, say, rails mentor? :)
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!
Of course it helps that I built it all from scratch so integrating the blog was pretty easy :)
I've activated billing in app engine but no idea how long it takes to come online. Really sorry guys - I assumed the free quotes would see me through! Hopefully it comes back soon.
edit - looks like the billing just kicked in... Phew. Sorry about that! looks like I caught it just about in time. If you saw the 404 page my apologies. I've loaded it up with credits so it should stay up now
I haven't done much with the site but it actually ended up getting used by teachers and librarians so I would feel bad ever shutting it down.
How much did that domain name cost? These are similar, they may help inspire you for features: http://www.goodreads.com/ http://www.shelfari.com/ Keep it up!
The domain may well have been unregistered. As HN'er nerfhammer noted: 1 digit + 3 letters = 83.8% availability. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1698035
This is awesome - I built a site called 22books a couple years ago as a way to learn Ruby... it took me a little longer than 4 weeks but I think I launched with more functionality. I haven't done much with the site but it actually ended up getting used by teachers and librarians so I would feel bad ever shutting it down. http://22books.com
Jesus, 4 weeks? That's awesome. I've been learning on and off for a few years now, and have recently buckled down to finally get something done. What are some lessons you learned for building your next project? Also, it seems like you've got a good eye for design. With a bit more practice and experience, you could likely make some great looking sites. It certainly looks a lot better than sites I've seen made by more…
Thanks a lot for your feedback :)
