dmckay

In that case, what you should take from the article is that the St. Louis Cardinals are by far team to bet on.

Good stuff, except this, ssh -x [username]@[ipaddress] is the opposite of what he wanted to do, it's ssh -X. -x disables forwarding.

You should absolutely develop it. It doesn't matter if anyone will use it or other's opinions about it. Here's the deal, from your own post, you have plenty of time on your hands and you could learn a lot from developing this application. It's also yet another project for your resume. Try developing it in something you aren't familiar with, backbone or flask or sinatra, etc.