* Created http://jspkg.com for hosting javascript packages. A sort of plugins.jquery alternative, except for all JS projects. This is still a very active work in progress that I've been working on for about 7 months now.
* Rewrote the entire remotipart gem for ajax file uploads in rails (https://rubygems.org/gems/remotipart) (again, I'm assuming the rewrite counts, since it essentially became an entirely new project that happened to have the same goals as the original).
I also contributed to a lot of other open-source projects like the ruby carrierwave gem, citizenry, ruby sunspot (solr gem), ruby-git gem, and some others.
I consider these contributions to be pretty much on-par with things created, because whenever I want to create something, my first step is seeing if there may be some existing project that even comes close, to which I could contribute instead of starting something new for people to keep up with. So really the only difference between creating and contributing is whether or not I can find something of similar quality and purpose that already exists.
I created http://onepix.me in about 3 months of 2011
I did the bulk of the coding on http://localbeer.me (find great beer, brewed locally) in 2011
I created http://imgonly.info - only the images from the Reddit home page in 2011
I also created several smaller failures, which were quite fun as well.
My plan for 2012 is to create revenue from one, or all of the above sites.
I made http://www.newsfeedy.com to provide context for trending topics at a glance. Born of my desire to know what breaking news/trends were, while being too lazy to google the Twitter trending topics.
Started writing (semi) regularly on my blog, http://tgriff3.tumblr.com - a big step after many stops and starts.
An email list! I interview startups which are hiring and email the interview to my list. Thinking about podcasting the interviews in the near future. http://startupfrontier.com
I created http://dudmail.com - a disposable email site that allows you to automatically forward emails, and permits attachments.
It's not been as much of a success as I was hoping (currently 1200 registered users, with quite a large number more of unregistered users), but it was a project that I started and finished =)
Still a work in progress, and none outside of my fulltime job:
FitBolt (fitbolt.com) - workday health & wellness platform. Gives you alerts/actions/notifications with posture corrections, exercises, stretching, health & nutrition tips. Currently have a web version, firefox & chrome plugin, and pokki (desktop) version
Wow, I live in a small town in Canada and it had a news feed. Nice. You might want to think about geolocating the user by IP address, and displaying their local news without having to select a city.
http://www.gemfury.com for hosting private Ruby Gems. I wanted a unified way to deploy software for another project and decided to use gems. First built it for myself, then figured it would benefit others.
http://jekyllbootstrap.com - The quickest and most hassle-free way to get your new Jekyll powered website up and running. 100% compatible with GitHub pages.
I created BugMuncher - a feedback widget that allows users to create marked-up screenshots of website errors (like on Google +) - http://bugmuncher.com
[+] [-] JangoSteve|14 years ago|reply
* Created http://jspkg.com for hosting javascript packages. A sort of plugins.jquery alternative, except for all JS projects. This is still a very active work in progress that I've been working on for about 7 months now.
* Created the jquery dynatable plugin as a semantic HTML5 replacement for jquery datatables (http://jspkg.com/packages/dynatable).
* Rewrote basically the entirety of the rails/jquery-ujs adapter (kind of a creation, right?) that's now included in Rails (https://github.com/rails/jquery-ujs and https://rubygems.org/gems/jquery-rails).
* Rewrote the entire remotipart gem for ajax file uploads in rails (https://rubygems.org/gems/remotipart) (again, I'm assuming the rewrite counts, since it essentially became an entirely new project that happened to have the same goals as the original).
I also contributed to a lot of other open-source projects like the ruby carrierwave gem, citizenry, ruby sunspot (solr gem), ruby-git gem, and some others.
I consider these contributions to be pretty much on-par with things created, because whenever I want to create something, my first step is seeing if there may be some existing project that even comes close, to which I could contribute instead of starting something new for people to keep up with. So really the only difference between creating and contributing is whether or not I can find something of similar quality and purpose that already exists.
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[+] [-] svmegatron|14 years ago|reply
* http://www.coachulous.com, a web app for triathlon coaches
* http://loanarranger.heroku.com, a visualization tool for mortgage/car/student loans
* Aspect Ratio Converter (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aspect-ratio-converter/id4776...), a calculator for resizing images, embedded video, and flash objects without screwing up the aspect ratio
* http://www.receiptparty.com, a service that stores and organizes your digital receipts
* http://realpersonreminders.com, telephone reminders from a real person
[+] [-] pkamb|14 years ago|reply
Reddit Notifier (for your OS X menubar): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reddit-notifier/id468366517?m...
[+] [-] MarkTraceur|14 years ago|reply
I also did a really stupid javascript library: https://gist.github.com/1138419
Hopefully 2012 will be even better!
[+] [-] jmslau|14 years ago|reply
http://shopcaste.com
[+] [-] dholowiski|14 years ago|reply
My plan for 2012 is to create revenue from one, or all of the above sites.
[+] [-] jessepollak|14 years ago|reply
http://5crideshare.com/
[+] [-] tg3|14 years ago|reply
Started writing (semi) regularly on my blog, http://tgriff3.tumblr.com - a big step after many stops and starts.
[+] [-] polyfractal|14 years ago|reply
Also a visualization of US Foreign Aid using D3: http://www.euphonious-intuition.com/USForeignAidVis/
[+] [-] davesmylie|14 years ago|reply
It's not been as much of a success as I was hoping (currently 1200 registered users, with quite a large number more of unregistered users), but it was a project that I started and finished =)
[+] [-] pestaa|14 years ago|reply
Congratulations on shipping your project! I'd like to check it out, but seems down for the moment...
EDIT: It's live actually. Looks like a problem on my end.
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[+] [-] sagacity|14 years ago|reply
http://getlocalne.ws (Global News Aggregator) and http://www.RapiDefs.com (Web 2.0 English Dictionary)
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[+] [-] brewin|14 years ago|reply
I created it to learn Ruby, Sinatra, JQuery, and web development in general. It was a fun little project.
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