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Related to this but somewhat off-topic: I just worked through Michael Hartl's RoR tutorial[1] and early on he mentions that it's depressing to work on something with absolutely zero style. (He uses Blueprint to jumpstart the process and then gives chunks of CSS along the way, so that what you're looking at as you work is never awful/empty/unstyled.) Along those lines but even more fully-baked, I just found Pilu's[2] web-app themes[3] in a recent blog post[4]. Maybe everyone who does Rails knows about these, but they were new to me.

[1] http://railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book

[2] https://github.com/pilu

[3] http://pilu.github.com/web-app-theme/

[4] http://blog.bryanbibat.net/2011/01/03/starting-a-professiona...

Thanks for the pointers. It is indeed much more fun to work on an app that looks hot!

I've seen pilu's theme, but I'm aiming at having themes designed by professionals (no offense to pilu), with quality similar to http://www.woothemes.com/

Yup, and I agree that the two issues are distinct. Having more fully designed templates that you would buy for a final project is (to my mind) different from wanting something immediate (and free) that you can use while building.

This is my blog post. Not much to see atm. I'm only validating if there's enough interest at the moment. Didn't expects it to get posted to HN.

That being said, any feedback on the idea are greatly welcome :)

I know there's not much yet, but I thought it interesting enough, and, perhaps more importantly, I thought it might generate some interesting discussion here.

That the idea is from you means it's likely to actually be executed and executed well, which further encouraged me to post it here.

Sorry Miles didn't mean it was a bad idea. I appreciate you posting it here.

I just hope nobody gets offended that there's not much to see atm.

For those who don't know Marc-Andre he is an accomplished developer who created http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/ (used by big sites like Heroku.com) and he also wrote http://createyourproglang.com/ which has sold over 500 copies.

Nothing much to see at the moment. any invites available?

Sign-up to the newsletter, that's how I'll let ppl know what's up.

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