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New Year's Resolution: Lanuch a website/day for 2011

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13 pointsgersh11 comments

Isn't this just going to produce a bunch of incomplete crap? Notable that the announcement page itself is displaying a broken html tag (as of this writing).

Might be more useful to think of a real project you've been meaning to do, splitting it into day-sized chunks, and working out a schedule for completing those. Don't be too strict about this either, otherwise you'd risk getting burnt out after a couple weeks.

Pretty much what I would have written.

The real target shouldn't be 'make X websites.' It would be make X sites until there's one that clicks in terms of your interest or income potential and you can devote the rest of 2011 to it.

There's much to learn from incomplete crap. It's like an artist making sketches for a year. With dedication I have to believe it'll produce something of value, and something new.

I don't think its quite the same as sketching, as art has no purpose except itself, whereas a website would be expected to do something.

I'd think differently if he was just creating a new site layout every day.

I think this is more about self-improvement. If you have to launch a website every day, you're going to get pretty good at it. But it might be easy to get into a rut where you an only launch one kind of website. So by launching 365 websites, Gershon's going to get a very flexible, very fast way of thinking about launching a website.

Not a chance. Even one a week would be a stretch.

I will release 5-10 apps/sites in 2011.

Nice. What language / framework will you be using for the first batch of releases?

And what will you do when a site requires attention? e.g. with a traffic surge? Are the old sites going to stay up?

Finally, are you thinking of registering 365 different domains? Oy.

wow some dw just downvoted that?

Also, will you have a 90's era link ring? You must.

>Finally, are you thinking of registering 365 different domains? Oy.

He could register one domain and put each project on its own subdomain.

Looks like he already achieved his goal on January 1st - his site got a million hits.

That is the number of likes for the Facebook Platform, nothing to do with him.

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