If I only had 4 hours I would stand on the shoulders of some good APIs. Maybe make a gaming site with challenges - "guess the common theme"... pictures, video or something like that. Use search and embedding.
Between ZenCoder and the encoding services that AWS released, someone needs to expose easy video encoding to non-developers. It's easy for us to wire up these services for our needs, but Joe Marketer can't.
Here's what he see when he searches: a large amount of spammy looking sites offering downloadable software of questionable origin (and ability). Five minute trial versions. The actual download page has twelve other download buttons for affiliate links and products. It's awful.
He just wants whatever-file-type he was given to work on iPhone/iPad for this upcoming ad campaign.
I just launched one yesterday for a small business. I'll probably launch another today. If it takes you more than 4 hours to ship, you've probably made it too complicated and you'll never finish it.
Only two small issues I noticed were you can't change the whois data, and the 2nd year would cost $39. You can turn off autorenewal and transfer it in a year though.
I just tried it.. not too good to be true! They even give you complex DNS zones and setup was near instant.
Have you thought about just using Wordpress? You can be the admin and then make a contributor account for your daughter to write random things but not have the power to publish them or change up any of the settings/design.
I spend too much time procrastinating... so I'd like it if I could speed up my "stupid" time.
I'd build a site that has the design of pinterest/instagram or whatever the site is that has the multi-columns of different heights for individual cells.
And the content would simply be from various RSS feeds -- npr, cnn, fox news, times, huff po, etc. Ideally I'd bring it to a level similar to HN, Reddit and Digg with the only difference being the content isn't user generated and you can't "vote" on a story's popularity -- it's timely.
Add the necessary ajax elements so it "stacks" stories on the top of the scaffolds. I should be able to sit on that page and not do a thing and have fresh content load for me.
Then if there's any interest you could easily add more features.
I'd probably write it one day if I weren't so distracted by other things. Shouldn't take much longer than 4 hours to code.
A bookmarking site that works with bookmark previews only. I haven't been able to find something similar to what I want but then again I haven't searched a lot.
stupid simply small business 'housekeeping' tools - open source. people could setup tools, create a dashboard, setup recurring actions, notices, invoice tracking, tax calculations, etc. <I've exceeded 4 hrs I guess>
The idea would actually fit well with several sites I already have. I cannot get traffic. I don't know how to "sell" anything. I have at times jotted down ideas for sayings but I tend to be too wordy. So I haven't figured out something short and snappy for a t-shirt, though I am disabled and I have a few ideas on how to frame that as sexy (men seem to think I am hot).
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And of course i had to compromise with the available domain.
Here's what he see when he searches: a large amount of spammy looking sites offering downloadable software of questionable origin (and ability). Five minute trial versions. The actual download page has twelve other download buttons for affiliate links and products. It's awful.
He just wants whatever-file-type he was given to work on iPhone/iPad for this upcoming ad campaign.
Bootstrap + filepicker.io + Zencoder + Stripe.
I usually even go as far as setting up a website. Here's a coupon for a $0.99 domain name (http://www.networksolutions.com/domain-name-registration/PS-...), and here's some $1/month web hosting (http://www.lowendbox.com/).
I just tried it.. not too good to be true! They even give you complex DNS zones and setup was near instant.
I'd build a site that has the design of pinterest/instagram or whatever the site is that has the multi-columns of different heights for individual cells.
And the content would simply be from various RSS feeds -- npr, cnn, fox news, times, huff po, etc. Ideally I'd bring it to a level similar to HN, Reddit and Digg with the only difference being the content isn't user generated and you can't "vote" on a story's popularity -- it's timely.
Add the necessary ajax elements so it "stacks" stories on the top of the scaffolds. I should be able to sit on that page and not do a thing and have fresh content load for me.
Then if there's any interest you could easily add more features.
I'd probably write it one day if I weren't so distracted by other things. Shouldn't take much longer than 4 hours to code.
This way, I could just fill links in, then when I got time, read the first one and unstack it instead of having 20+ tabs opened at the same time.
Yes, I am serious. I would totally do that if I had any clue how to make it work.