This may go against the popular opinion around these traps, but does anyone else feel like the premise of success arising from the pursuit of "not X" a little flawed in that for every AirBnb story that makes frontpage, a hundred other "not X" ventures never see the light of day?
I guess side-projects may not always have a coding element to it, or maybe someone wants to showcase the end-product without necessarily showing the source code.
Hi. MakeDock is a project that I've recently started working on. It lets you quickly create a profile page for a side-project your working on and share it with other side-project enthusiasts.
I wasn't very good at node, and I wanted to get it up and running quickly. So I used node for the message passing and php for serving up the client files and routing the rooms.
I'd put it to technical incompetence more than anything else.