iisbum

Full stack developer by day, Full stack hacker by night :)

My most recent side projects are http://whenactive.com and http://creatorslog.com

Creators Log is a platform for creators to connect more easily with their users, just publicly launched today!

Would love to hear your feedback.

All projects have the stuff that's exciting and fun, and all the other stuff that's boring and dull, but needs to be done. I try and handle some of that boring dull stuff early when I have lots of energy, and try and save more of exciting stuff for later.

I've had trouble launching things when I've left that boring stuff till the end, and boy does it drag on getting that stuff done.

Build something small, anything, from scratch and launch it.

Hobby projects, usually solve a problem that I'm experiencing, the proverbial itch that needs scratching.

If I happen to be looking to try out a new library or programming language I give it ago, even if its not the best choice, because its just a hobby project.

I've done this with recently with: http://optionsworth.com/ and http://dailyriver.herokuapp.com/

It would not even be up to the author, Twitter would have the data and could provide this to authorities.

I found I was visiting a few sites regularly to see what was getting launched, so I created this simple aggregator to save me some time!

Thanks for the feedback.

This was the MVP of the site just launched a few weeks ago.

At this point it's expected that your searching for people that you already know, hence the lack of detail for the person.

I had trouble finding interviews with Joel, but I'll hunt some down.

VR in particular gaming

Podcasting will get even bigger

Wearables

eSports

I take a slightly different approach to podcasting, follow people not podcasts.

Have someone you want to hear from, get a list of podcasts they've been on.

http://interviewed.io

Hacker here, if you have any questions, would love to answer them.

I wrote my own app for doing this, but not just for hacker news, also for designers news, product hunt and few other websites that provide an API.

About 20 miles each way, about 40-50 minutes a day.

Also have the option to work from home, which I do 2-3 days a week.

I registered some domains a couple of years ago that contained the word 'hobbit', and almost immediately got a letter from the lawyers of Tolkien Enterprises, demanding that I turn them over to them.

I hadn't even put a site up on the domains, and probably would have turned them over, but a lawyer friend of my said that I hadn't done anything wrong, and if I didn't plan to violate their copyright of the 'hobbit' that I didn't have too.

I decided to keep the domains (still haven't launched a site on them) on principle and wrote a nice legally worded letter courtesy of lawyer friend back to them. I told them I wouldn't be turning them over, and didn't hear back from them :)

I'm sure they are waiting for me to put up a site and violate the copyright somehow, but they can keep waiting.

A couple of friends and I built a twitter hashtag voting site for the WorldCup in about 12 hours.

We've got about 1000 votes in the first couple of weeks.

http://www.hashtagvote.me/

Site was built using Laravel, and is hosted at DigitalOcean

Traveling home from upstate NY, I've been stopped (having never left the USA) at a border patrol checkpoint well inside NY, we were within 100 miles of Canada.

They didn't ask to check my laptop or anything, but did want ID etc.

Can't talk to the legality of it all but they do exist.

clicky: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/teamote

Don't forget the 50% share that ThemeForest takes, and also the first of sales dates back to 2008.

I've been really happy with my laptop from System76 (https://www.system76.com/laptops/).

Although I got the Gazelle for more horse power, the Lemur seems like it would fit your needs: https://www.system76.com/laptops/model/lemu4

Hey. This is the first meeting so things may change for the future.

There a couple of twitter accounts you can follow for updates...

Clicky: http://www.hackassist.co

Link: http://www.nowplay.us

Been working with a couple of friends on a new CMS which works without a database: http://www.statamic.com

I started tchvlly: http://tchvlly.com is a community site for the tech valley region of new york.

I don't expect it will ever make any money!

App In Review, trying to get some visibility into the Apple App Store review queue:

http://appinreview.com

That is one of things we'd like to highlight too, that the review process certainly is FIFO :)

Although this was our first app submission to the App Store, we could tell how frustrating an experience it can be.

Hoping this little tool and help relieve some of that frustration for us and other developers.

Looks like its trying to load something via AJax, but its timing out.

http://apigee.com/about/products/enterprise might be worth a look