The Experiment

I'm conducting a little experiment. The outcome will determine if this service will get built. It's simple. If this goes viral or at least gets enough atention, I'm going for it, otherwise - only 3 hours were wasted.

Pikky - Haters Gonna Hate

Time to reveal my new spare time project - a social search and opinion service called Pikky. What the hell is a search and opinion service you say? Well, you can search things up, see a slideshow of the results and then love or hate it using two big buttons. You can read more in it's About page.

It's in an early stage of development, so there's nothing amazing. Here are some screens and features:

Home page

Search in action

View what others were searching for

See authenticated user searches in real time

Get awarded with stars for various actions. Perhaps this service will turn out to be a game.

View slideshow in fullscreen mode

Works on iPhone

This project is being developed using Django, and I must say I'm loving the framework. It's much more fun than coding web applications with anything available in Java and it's way less lunatic than Ruby on Rails.

If you want to know what's happening with Pikky, you can follow @pikkyme on Twitter.

Slogan FAIL

Rails deployment that just works!

GitMon Quick Start Screencast

A screencast showing how to install GitMon in 5 minutes on a Mac.

GitMon 0.3 - Easy Install!

Since the last post GitMon has got many improvements, including the easy_install support (GitMon is hosted at Python Package Index), so to install it, simply do:

sudo easy_install gitmon

Then run gitmon from terminal and it will create a default configuration file for you (~/.gitmon.conf). Edit it and you're good to go!

Mac OS X users who have Growl installed can get it all working in 3 minutes. It will involve some additional configuration twiddling for Linux and Windows guys, but that will be improved in future releases.