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Show HN: PeerGym – A Health Club Database Made with Elixir/Phoenix

9 points by acconrad 11y ago

acconrad 11y ago
After some inspiration from this post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10784089 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10784089) I got motivated to finish a side project I'd been working on and off for a little while. I've been wanting to play with Elixir and Phoenix since the Phoenix 0.13 release, so I had starting messing around with the framework over the summer. I had also noticed that when trying to change gyms or travel, I could never find the info I needed from Google Maps or Yelp when it came to trying out a new gym, so me and a friend started collecting some more in-depth information on the health clubs in the US. So naturally this seemed like the perfect opportunity to test out Phoenix and stretch my knowledge a bit. Right now we have over 4000 gyms and health clubs in the database, with about 150 that have pretty complete profiles in the major metropolitan areas. We're testing out picture reviews with a few friends we showed it to over the weekend. It's definitely still got a few kinks to work out, and there's a bunch more features I want to put into it, but I felt that the holiday weekend was the perfect time to wrap it up enough to show to the world! Would love your feedback and any advice/tips on working with Elixir/Phoenix - I'd also be happy to share my experience programming in Elixir/Phoenix as well, it is a lot of fun and very easy transition for someone with a functional and/or Ruby background. EDIT: Mods is there a way to change the link back to HTTP, I accidentally put in HTTPS when I don't have SSL set up (yet!)
- amatxn 11y ago
  I've been researching and looking into Elixir & Phoenix a lot lately. What are your thoughts having done this side project? I'm coming from a java, ruby perspective with experience in several other languages.
Droned 11y ago
Server internal error here
- abrookewood 11y ago
  Same, plus certificate error.
crosa 11y ago
Error here.

9 points by acconrad 11y ago

After some inspiration from this post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10784089 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10784089) I got motivated to finish a side project I'd been working on and off for a little while. I've been wanting to play with Elixir and Phoenix since the Phoenix 0.13 release, so I had starting messing around with the framework over the summer. I had also noticed that when trying to change gyms or travel, I could never find the info I needed from Google Maps or Yelp when it came to trying out a new gym, so me and a friend started collecting some more in-depth information on the health clubs in the US. So naturally this seemed like the perfect opportunity to test out Phoenix and stretch my knowledge a bit. Right now we have over 4000 gyms and health clubs in the database, with about 150 that have pretty complete profiles in the major metropolitan areas. We're testing out picture reviews with a few friends we showed it to over the weekend. It's definitely still got a few kinks to work out, and there's a bunch more features I want to put into it, but I felt that the holiday weekend was the perfect time to wrap it up enough to show to the world! Would love your feedback and any advice/tips on working with Elixir/Phoenix - I'd also be happy to share my experience programming in Elixir/Phoenix as well, it is a lot of fun and very easy transition for someone with a functional and/or Ruby background. EDIT: Mods is there a way to change the link back to HTTP, I accidentally put in HTTPS when I don't have SSL set up (yet!)

amatxn 11y ago
I've been researching and looking into Elixir & Phoenix a lot lately. What are your thoughts having done this side project? I'm coming from a java, ruby perspective with experience in several other languages.

Droned 11y ago

Server internal error here

abrookewood 11y ago
Same, plus certificate error.

crosa 11y ago

Error here.