How I built a web app in six days for only Rs. 350 ($8.75)
In this technical retrospective (2008), @paraschopra shares practical architectural lessons learned from running, scaling, or migrating production software under lean constraints.
HN engineers debated the tradeoffs between cloud convenience and raw server economics, database indexing strategies, and resisting premature architectural complexity.
Nice application. It's a really good start and a good guide to how people can make a nice application.
But I've noticed something. All the new webaps seem to have the same (slick) design. I like it, but I can't replicate it. Is there a template or guide you all follow?
Nice.
Some thoughts:
* Allow the creation of slide shows without signing/up, as 280slides allows. * If a page requires JavaScript to work, have a notice on the page for people like me who surf with NoScript on to tell them to turn on scripting.
Actually, I tried the website, typed in Ferrari, and was able to surf easily through 10 interesting articles linked from Google news.
I like it. I think it's really nicely done.
ping: cannot resolve www.paraschopra.com: Unknown host
"pay for what you get?" :-p
Actually that is very good progress for both the timeframe and cost.
That post is partially in response to TechCrunch featured 'How To Build A Web App in Four Days For $10,000 (Say Hello To Matt)' (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/03/how-to-build-a-web-app-in-four-days-for-10000-say-hello-to-matt/) and partially to document my process of building a web app.
Critical comments and candid feedback appreciated.