commanderj

Why is this removed from the front page. 2 hours after posting, 117 up votes and more than 10 healthy comment threads?

I have been here at - 1

Isn't it harder to make good decisions while in panic mode, thereby floating you further away from the goal of making money?

Wouldn't that make the web even less open and even more monopolistic?

Would it not have been easier to just write down what is actually "allowed" :D

A friend and I worked on a typical weekend project lately. A Font Awesome to PNG online generator (http://fa2png.io). I was great fun. It took us about 24h total from concept to live deployment. It's a flask app deployed to digital ocean.

We were on HN in 2nd place for about half a day. Got about 17.000 unique visits in the first two days, a couple of twitter mentions and now about 200-300 visits a day.

It was an awesome experience. Very satisfying because it felt kind of complete when we launched. That's not typical for a web app. Although there are always more features to add. We felt like the app is exactly doing what we planned it should.

I wrote about it in more detail here http://jannikweyrich.com/blog/2014/05/26/weekend-project-fon...

You could. Not sure if Heroku offers a full fledged linux environment. Also there are unlimited databases (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, CouchDB or Redis ) included in the 1€ fee.

Works in many browsers: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=...

Right, that's not ideal. Maybe Google Translate can help you get through the signup process.

Making JS heavy sites crawlable is also possible with libraries like https://github.com/minddust/jquery-pjaxr and https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax . Plus the push state has the advantage of "real" urls.

Well done dude!

This is good stuff, bro!