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

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Post by danso »

Thanks for sharing Jennifer. Congrats on this and your past 180 app streak...I was wondering if, after being able to be away from the daily grind, you changed up how you built and structured your app? That is, what were the architectural lessons you learned after 180 days of getting-things-done-(even if not always best practices) that you could apply on your longer term projects?

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

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Post by jenniferDewalt »

danso wrote: post #22

Thanks for sharing Jennifer. Congrats on this and your past 180 app streak...I was wondering if, after being able to be away from the daily grind, you changed up how you built and structured your app? That is, what were the architectural lessons you learned after 180 days of getting-things-done-(even if not always best practices) that you could apply on your longer term projects?

Thank you! I spent a lot more time thinking about what I was actually doing while making YumHacker. There is definitely a time for just hacking things together to get something that works but sometimes it's worth taking the time to carefully think through the mechanics and do it right. It took time for me to learn Backbone and set up a good system for using it but it saved me a ton of time (and headaches) in the long run.

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

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Post by jqueryin »

jenniferDewalt wrote: post #3
minimaxir wrote: post #2

So how long did it take?

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. Just this weekend (Saturday and Sunday 9AM-9PM) I built CarePrice which utilizes geolocation, a backend api, user management system and authentication, frontend, accompanying social networking, additional pages, and the full gamut. Albeit I did have a little help, I'd attribute 90% of the development work to myself on this one.

http://www.careprice.co

It's this ease of development you can look forward to with more experience under your belt! Keep on hacking and the days just start to shave off.

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

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Post by jcutrell »

jenniferDewalt wrote: post #29
pbreit wrote: post #21

Need a one sentence description towards the top. Otherwise I have no idea what the site does.

Good point. I probably need to think about a more optimized landing in the coming weeks.

Just pop in the title you're using for the page - Find Restaurants Endorsed by People You Trust. That's the powerful tag that's missing. It feels like Yelp on initial landing, but the "you trust" part gets me hooked.
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