A little bit of context... I overheard my 17-yo daughter lamenting the closing of OhLife last week and it dawned on me that there might be many, many others in her position. Did some quick googling and didn't find any replacements that were exactly the same as the original. Opportunity?

Lately I've been obsessing over the FAN stack: Firebase, Angular, and Node.js. And I happened to have a full 3 days available last week, so I hunkered down and cranked this out. And I have every intention of setting it up as a sustainable little passive income project and FAN playground. I can't really imagine why OhLife guys felt the need to shut down. I could be way off but back of the napkin calculations for me show this costing less than $100/month to host, even with massive uptake.

Now once I went out there and started doing a little promotion, realized that it turns out that there are indeed a couple of other contenders wanting to take OhLife's place. One is an open source program that you can run yourself. That's only going to appeal to the tech crowd (I think.) And there's one called Trailmix written by some guys from Thoughtbot which is charging $3.99/month. (My gut says that won't fly.)

Cool thing is that the source for Trailmix is open. It's a Rails 4 app so I got to see what the same app looks like written in Rails.