I spent a while on and off again putting this together with a friend. We were featured on BBC Click today which was completely unexpected; yesterday the server it was on totally died and I had to get it setup elsewhere - which we managed to do just in time.
Lots of stuff we still have to do or have in a semi-finished state in the background. We were thinking of charging for the instructions but it's really more something 'fun' than a business idea for us. There's a few affiliate links but they dont really bring in anything (at least so far they dont).
I toyed with the idea of having a login but in the end just made it completely open. We have some social auth added to let you save your outputs to your own account but that's not yet live.
We're using django with imagemagick doing the background bits. I've been thinking of trying out graphicmagick instead here.
One thing I'd love to do is integrate it into the lego site itself so you can just order the correct bricks but this doesn't seem to be possible as yet.
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[ 0.25 ms ] story [ 8.9 ms ] threadLots of stuff we still have to do or have in a semi-finished state in the background. We were thinking of charging for the instructions but it's really more something 'fun' than a business idea for us. There's a few affiliate links but they dont really bring in anything (at least so far they dont).
I toyed with the idea of having a login but in the end just made it completely open. We have some social auth added to let you save your outputs to your own account but that's not yet live.
We're using django with imagemagick doing the background bits. I've been thinking of trying out graphicmagick instead here.
One thing I'd love to do is integrate it into the lego site itself so you can just order the correct bricks but this doesn't seem to be possible as yet.