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Tweetbeer.com - Directors Cut

July 27th, 2008

Opening Credits

Here we see Matta doing the dishes on the night of Friday the 25th of July, 2008. As the music is streaming he pauses. He just thought up tweetbeer.com. He goes straight into the living room to IM Lachie, and so it began.

tweetbeer.com

At around 12 midnight of last night Lachie Cox and I launched a fun little app we wrote over the previous day, tweetbeer.com. Here’s some little tidbits of info

• Rails 2.1
• Mysql DB
• Haml for layout
• 97 Lines of code
• Approx 6 hours of dev time
• git was used as our collabaration tool, worked so well
• All frontend CSS and the funky-ass logo done by Lachie
• Tweet parser uses search.twitter.com called via a cron every minute and run through script/runner

So from idea to launch look about 18 hours of real time with about 6 hours of actual coding. Simple ideas are fun. If you could come up with a compelling way to monetize a simple idea like this, that’d be even cooler.

Welcome!

Matt Allen is a full time rails developer at iseekgolf.com. Living in country New South Wales, Australia with his wife Aprill and two boys, Fraser and Lincoln.

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