Show HN: Coding noob - first weekend project

Post by Tichy » Wed, Oct 06, 2010, 9:15 AM UTC

prawn wrote: post #14

Reminds me - one of the things on my list is to build (yet another) chore tracker with that gaming incentive everyone's done (earn points of some sort) but avoiding the fault those all have: too easy to cheat yourself. I envisaged multiplayer action, even just with a wife, for example, where each person would allocate 'points' to be earned and traded for chores. She might be more likely to avoid creating a floordrobe…

Post by giu » Wed, Oct 06, 2010, 10:31 AM UTC

Sephr wrote: post #32

The email address validation is incorrect. Neither test+foo@gmail.com, test+foo@gmail.com., test@io, test@io., test@::123, test@[::123], or test@[::123]:456 are accepted, and likely other cases. I suggest you take the easy route and just only check `emailAddress.indexOf("@") !== -1`.

Post by mahmud » Wed, Oct 06, 2010, 11:06 AM UTC

scrrr wrote: post #44

d0m wrote: post #27

I think every programmer made their own task manager at least once in their life.. welcome aboard :) Also, don't be to hard on yourself, creating a real project from scratch takes time and passion. I understood in half a second what your app was about and why I should use it.. What many apps/site cannot even do in weeks :) Finally, I like the idea about adding/removing stuff by replying by email.. so intuitive but I…

I think every programmer made their own task manager at least once in their life.. True. Before that it used to be "write your own Tetris".

Post by ulf » Wed, Oct 06, 2010, 12:29 PM UTC

stanleydrew wrote: post #35

augustflanagan wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks a lot for the feedback. I like the idea of having some sort of scheduling/reminder feature. I was wondering if I could set up a simple way to do SMS reminders. There could be a special code to set an SMS reminder (like * SMS 7pm) to get a reminder at 7pm. That was a friend's idea though so I can't take credit for it ;)

Twilio SMS is super easy. Documentation is here: http://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/sending-sms . And there's a python library to help you get started. (Full disclosure: I work at Twilio)

Post by bmelton » Wed, Oct 06, 2010, 1:30 PM UTC

endlessvoid94 wrote: post #12

Great job! I also used GAE to build ThatHigh.com and it's working pretty well. But like you're probably aware, GAE has a learning curve in addition to python/django/whatever. The datastore, mainly. This is a shameless plug, but I'm the co-founder of Djangy.com and we're in private beta. We're doing Heroku except for python/django. we'll support other wsgi frameworks in the future, but for now we make deploying almost…