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Show HN: My 4-hour project, why it failed
- waffler 16y agoThanks for sharing, this is why I love HackerNews - even fails are wins.
- rgbrgb 16y agoOH NO, FAIL WHALE! TL;DR until I get it back up... I made http://www.weedtee.com http://www.weedtee.com one afternoon for a friend when he got obsessed with this story - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2173155 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2173155 We put it up yesterday, it did not go viral.
- eberyvody 16y agotoo bad. I'd say save it for the next time prop 19 rolls around.
- Tichy 16y agoFailed because of a crappy server? I can't see anything.
- rgbrgb 16y agoYes, I'm running apache on a cheap ubuntu VPS from Enotch. Anyone want to help me with this?
- TamDenholm 16y agoThe quickest way to handle lots of load on an article is to make a static html page of your article and serve that instead of your wordpress/whatever resource intensive website.
- prez 16y agoNot exactly the type of project I expected to see on HN. But actually ... I like it, I might even buy one as a gift for a stoner friend. The design (of weedtee.com) is a bit heavy. I'm using a crappy comp connected to RDP and it took it about 5-10 seconds just to render the page. Maybe (a slight) redesign will help you turn visitors into customers?
- rgbrgb 16y agoCool, thanks for the tip. Is it the javascript that's taking a while or just downloading the page? The background image is on the LARGE side.
- prez 16y agoA little of both. It takes a while for the background image to load, maybe you can compress it without noticeable quality loss? Then again, it should be fine with a normal connection on a normal computer.
- supervotetime 16y agoheres my weekend project http://whoshouldbethenextpresident.com http://whoshouldbethenextpresident.com
- Tichy 16y agoNutrition facts for humans might be fun, too. Useful for vampires at least.