jordanmessina

28 ms·

1. 91.▲
   by jordanmessina 14y ago

   Great post DJ. I'm excited to see where you'll be after this next year! I enjoy watching really smart people with dedication excel in programming when they don't have a traditional technical background, like a degree in CS. "I thought that
2. 92.▲
   by jordanmessina 14y ago

   Shameless plug for my friends: I got an advanced copy of some chapters from Traction Book ( http://tractionbook.com/ ) which is where I read about the traction vertical 'Engineering as Marketing'. I think this is an awesome example of that.
3. 93.▲
   by jordanmessina 14y ago

   Nice work. I really like the simple deployment aspect. I've been working on a static site generator as well, but with a twist. My issue has always been having to learn a brand new framework and set of commands to simply generate a static si
4. 94.▲
   by jordanmessina 14y ago

   Can you elaborate on "resolving the manager/queryset/model-method wackiness"? I haven't used another web framework in a while so I'd like to see a comparison to understand your frustrations.
5. 95.▲
   by jordanmessina 14y ago

   SEEKING WORK - We're about to launch our new service http://freelanceleague.com We specialize in: 1. Logo Design 2. Landing Pages 3. Mobile Sites 4. Icon Sets Some examples of our work: http://freelanceleague.com/static/work We have yet
6. 96.▲
   Envy and Entrepreneurship(justinmares.com)

   5 points by jordanmessina 14y ago|1 comments
7. 97.▲
   by jordanmessina 14y ago

   These quotes are from users on the Amazon Kindle, all quotes are linked to the exact book the person was reading.
8. 98.▲
   by jordanmessina 14y ago

   Yes! Mission accomplished. I said when I started if only one person discovers a new book I'll be happy. Which book if you don't mind me asking?
9. 99.▲
   by jordanmessina 14y ago

   I do have the number of highlights. I'll consider showing those in the next release.
10. 100.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    Thank you! Fixed it :)
11. 101.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    No end in mind! Aside from my company, I hadn't launched anything in a while and had the itch. I'm not looking to make a fortune (I'd be fine making $0 to be honest). I wanted a site like this, so I decided to build it when I realized it di
12. 102.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    Just scraping.
13. 103.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    Thanks! That's the only goal I have for it :)
14. 104.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    Yes! I started to attempt this. I had quite a few background images to use, but I realized assigning a background to each quote would be too large a task for this initial release. Hopefully I can add this for the next release.
15. 105.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    Great idea. My goal was to just have it pay for itself, I'll write a follow up and let you know if it exceeds that.
16. 106.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    Thanks! It's really just a trivial Django app. The real magic comes from memcaching everything. It's all on a 2gig rackspace vps.
17. 107.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    Awesome ideas. I like the sound of "flickr for quotes" a lot. Thanks!
18. 108.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    Ahhh, sorry! It's not as intuitively as I wish it was. I've been struggling with how to keep the design simple and still allow the proper back/forward functionality. I think I know what you're getting at with the grooveshark/youtube playlis
19. 109.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    Thanks for the great feedback! A couple of the things you suggested were in the works, however, I set a time limit for how long I would allow myself to work on this and I simply ran out of time. Next iteration though!
20. 110.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    Whoops! I had planned on fixing that before I shared. Thanks for the heads up.
21. 111.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    We're actually already using amazon associates. We could probably make our affiliate links bigger though!
22. 112.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    That's our source! This is what I mainly used to find new books. The idea was to make this beautiful and more fun. We're going to add discovery via genres soon too, hopefully making it even more useful.
23. 113.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    No API. I just scraped the quotes and metadata.
24. 114.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    It is confusing. I wasn't sure how to keep the interface as simple as possible and also include the forward functionality. I'll be putting more thought into this for the next iteration.
25. 115.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    :) as you can see, I didn't have time to go through all the quotes I scraped. We ended up with over 300,000 quotes and chose to use the top 1000 to start. What I find even funnier is that this was highlighted on the kindle by 980 people!
26. 116.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    I feel the same way as you! We were in the midst of doing all these things but decided to hold off to see what others thought of it first. Thanks for the feedback!
27. 117.▲
    Show HN: my weekend project, Quotably(quotab.ly)

    142 points by jordanmessina 14y ago|75 comments
28. 118.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    I think Github has nailed it in terms of culture. I've been trying to get my company to adopt the Github ways for a while and I can't wait to share this latest gem with everyone. I do have some questions though. What is Github's structure l
29. 119.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    There is no debate as to whether or not gittip should support international payments. It absolutely should and they're already trying to figure it out: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/126 I don't understand the point of m
30. 120.▲
    by jordanmessina 14y ago

    Find me two Russell Keith-Magees that will work for $250/week and you have a valid argument.