Laughlitmus Alpha Release
Friday was somewhat of a busy day in that I was watching an early torch relay in Stanley park, the Olympics were opening, I had a day of work, and there was a “90’s Party” later in the night. However, another thing I managed to sneak into my day was an “Alpha release” (let’s be honest, people just say that to cover their ass because they haven’t thoroughly tested or haven’t made the UI pretty yet) of my latest side-project.
The new site is call laughlitmus, and it’s basically a funny tweet ranking site. It actually uses a lot of the whichishotter code as you could probably tell. The basics of nominating a tweet, voting on them, displaying leaders, and outputting the ‘best’ to the laughbot are all working.
I’m especially happy with the nominating interface. You’ll need to have a twitter account and be logged in to authenticate to it. However, it gives an easier way of picking a tweet than anything else I’ve seen. Give it a whirl, I’d love feedback. However, keep in mind that the Olympics are going on here and I probably won’t get to any new features or bug fixes until they are over.
This is actually going to be my last “fun” side-project. Once this is in a kind of stable state I’ll promote it on my popular twitter feed and see where it goes, but I won’t be starting any new projects that don’t have any real commercial value. This and WIH will still get some dev love, but I need to start thinking about things to prototype which could really go somewhere. By April, I’d like to be deep into prototyping something that could be a contender to be “Ian corp”.
Anyway, I’d love to hear your feedback.