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Congratulations on your success. The site demonstrates a lot of your characters and it's all looking good :) My (sincere) question is regarding the help you h

Congratulations on your success. The site demonstrates a lot of your characters and it's all looking good :) My (sincere) question is regarding the help you had. I noticed you credited extensively to a few folks and your boyfriend. Other than Django/Python, there's also server setup (BitCould?)--did you do that yourself as well? Did you work on this full time for 6 weeks or was this an after 9-5 hours project? I don't mean to pry; just simply want other folks out there who are also self-taught and are working on their own projects to understand the extend of your hard work with great assistance from experts in achieving this great result. In other words, could you explain the "magic" a bit so we can have a deeper understanding of your process? A lot of time, people gloss over the hard work parts and in some way that perpetuates a misunderstanding which says: "it's easy to create something good." I don't that is the case. Even in The Social Network, Zuck seems to somehow create Facemash or even Facebook in matters of hours while drinking beer. But I digress. Thank you for sharing.

limedaring 16y ago
Server setup was through http://DotCloud.com http://DotCloud.com, who set it up for me (I joined them before they were officially launched so there were a few bumps in the road that were paved out by DotCloud themselves for me). Server stuff would have been a much bigger issue if I didn't have them. As for hours, I worked full-time-ish. I don't have a "real" job — my real job was WeddingType until things fell apart for a bit. I started work on WIL but was also doing client projects on the side to pump up my bank account a bit. I have no idea how many hours total I worked on WIL — it was one of those things where you wake up at noon and work until 2am on and off on various projects, which was mostly WIL but a lot of client stuff as well. Any more specific questions? Please pry away if I missed anything!
- l0c0b0x 16y ago
  You should add "...and did this by sleeping 10 hours each day!" to your main title. Good job in getting this done! Makes me want to tech my wife a thing or two about web-development.
  - limedaring 16y ago
    Heh — yeah, I meant, start work by noon, but I will admit I'm a stickler for 8+ hours of sleep at all times. I'm a complete zombie when I get less, and my productivity nosedives. I'm lucky my significant other, @shazow, is doing the same no-job-working-on-projects thing as me, and with him being a developer and me as a designer, we can work well together to launch projects. It's also a great motivator when you have someone to bug you to work whenever they see you on reddit.com. :P

limedaring 16y ago

Server setup was through http://DotCloud.com http://DotCloud.com, who set it up for me (I joined them before they were officially launched so there were a few bumps in the road that were paved out by DotCloud themselves for me). Server stuff would have been a much bigger issue if I didn't have them. As for hours, I worked full-time-ish. I don't have a "real" job — my real job was WeddingType until things fell apart for a bit. I started work on WIL but was also doing client projects on the side to pump up my bank account a bit. I have no idea how many hours total I worked on WIL — it was one of those things where you wake up at noon and work until 2am on and off on various projects, which was mostly WIL but a lot of client stuff as well. Any more specific questions? Please pry away if I missed anything!

l0c0b0x 16y ago
You should add "...and did this by sleeping 10 hours each day!" to your main title. Good job in getting this done! Makes me want to tech my wife a thing or two about web-development.
- limedaring 16y ago
  Heh — yeah, I meant, start work by noon, but I will admit I'm a stickler for 8+ hours of sleep at all times. I'm a complete zombie when I get less, and my productivity nosedives. I'm lucky my significant other, @shazow, is doing the same no-job-working-on-projects thing as me, and with him being a developer and me as a designer, we can work well together to launch projects. It's also a great motivator when you have someone to bug you to work whenever they see you on reddit.com. :P