That kind of "Just F*$king Do It" attitude is so rare to find.
Just practice doing shtuff. Don't let people stop you.
Really inspring stuff for anyone sitting around with the itch to throw a side project together on a rainy day. Respect.
SkinProblem.com
Let users upload pictures of there insect bites, infections,... Make them categorize their problem by race/skin color, location, time of the picture since the bite, Source expert opinion on cause of problem List treatment options
I type "Elmhurst, NY" and it converted it to "Elmhurst, Queens, NY 11373, USA", how did you do that? I'm looking to do something similar!
What this effectively means is that while browsing, I no longer need to mentally balance the positives with the negatives of a place. Instead, I can quickly see which places have received more endorsements, which in my mind, loosely forms a hierarchy of best to worst.
Plus, I don't care what Cindy from the Mission says about a spot. If my buddies all like it, good enough for me to at least check it out.
Side note: If possible, I think a ratio of endorsements to check-ins would be hugely awesome.
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.
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 :)
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.
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?
I spent about 8 hours a day, every day working on YumHacker, with the occasional day off or half day around the holidays. Things were kind of slow going at first because I was still doing a lot of learning and I wanted to get a better understanding of what I was doing. After I got the hang of things, the pace picked up and I started producing much faster.
The crazy schedule I've been keeping this past year has definitely cut into my social life. Weekends are my favorite days to work because the office is quiet and I get my best work done then. My friends have gotten used to me carrying a monitor around on trips.
The thing that works for me is to make a habit and do whatever it takes to stick to it. I bit the bullet and got a desk in a co-working space which means I eat more ramen noodles but allows me stay super focused and productive. I tend to stay up really late working but then I let myself sleep in so I can come back fully charged the next day. Finding a personal groove is crucial.
The restaurant search feature uses the Google Places api to get restaurant data (including things like hours and price) for places that aren't already in the database. YumHacker uses Postgres with PostGIS for the database and devise for authentication.
The frontend magic happens with Backbone.js. Backbone latches onto the skeleton html sent over by Rails to render the views. Whenever you request new data, it sends a request to Rails which sends back JSON. The learning curve for Backbone was kind of high but now that I've got the hang of it, it's pretty awesome.
I plan to write something more in depth about the technology in the near future.
As someone who is currently diving into Rails it's certainly really helpful and inspiring.
Extra kudos for the Github repo.
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.
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.
