Thanks for all the great comments and support throughout this series of posts. Besides the enjoyment of brainstorming through each of pg's ideas, by far the best part of this experience was the chance to discover the Hacker News community - you guys rock.
Also, I'd really appreciate it if you could let me know which (if any) of these ideas you think might be worth pursuing. Someone posted a comment here a while back suggesting that after the challenge is over, I take the next 30 days to take the best idea and actually build it out. It might be a fun project to take on - contact me if you're interested in helping out (kleneway at hotmail).
Not looking to start a company, just looking for a fun weekend project to hack on. I've got some thoughts on which one I want to take on, but it never hurts to get some feedback from the community.
1. I have a lot of respect for what you guys think and wanted to get some input on which one to tackle.
2. It's more fun for me to work on a project with other people than to go it alone. This is my way of trying to find some new people to work with.
3. I'm 100% not in this for the money. This is a side project for me - I love coding, I love brainstorming ideas, and I love getting feedback. If I were a trillionaire, you know what I'd do? I'd come up with some ideas, throw them out there, and hopefully find some cool people to work on it with me.
If I were a trillionaire, I would have some more interesting uses for that kind of money. Run my own projects, absolutely, but I'd hire great people to take care of the actual and experimental coding.
Futzing around with other people's APIs is one of the most frustrating parts of coding for me. Only reason I code myself is that I'm better at doing it than anyone I could hire. Only real advantage over outsourcing is the ay it pushes you to the edge of innovation because you can see the technological possibilities before other businesses do.
The site builder but oriented around plugging it into other sites. You create something like Weebly but focus purely on letting other sites give it to their users (for profile pages, or entire sites). Charge for the service.
I hadn't seen CushyCMS. Just checked it out. The way it works seems entirely different from what I'm talking about. I want to be able to add a page designer to my site for my many thousands (or millions) of users. Or whatever I want. CushyCMS wants FTP/SFTP information for single site and it's not at all clear whether I can integrate it into my own site.
Oh I see what you mean. Then you want eXponent CMS. www.exponentcms.com. I'm good friends with the people who developed it, and I've used it myself it's a great package.
Lets you edit pages with a WYSIWYG interface instead of plugging in code or dealing with text templates. Give it a shot.
No problem, nearly 100% of my freelance projects are using CushyCMS to keep them from mucking up code. It's also GREAT for centralizing your work without having to manage multiple FTP connections so often. One quick setup and you're good to go.
So what? The whole thing seemed like a waste of time. There's a million people out there who can shit ideas on a list of possible areas- the only thing that matters is actual execution.
Also, I'd really appreciate it if you could let me know which (if any) of these ideas you think might be worth pursuing. Someone posted a comment here a while back suggesting that after the challenge is over, I take the next 30 days to take the best idea and actually build it out. It might be a fun project to take on - contact me if you're interested in helping out (kleneway at hotmail).