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History of Benny Using Time Nerdily

Inspired by Gabriel Weinberg's post about his history of side projects.

So, here is my list.

1999

wongdb

My first webapp. I built this for my brother to catalog his closet

2005

A Firefox plugin that would let you highlight Chinese characters, right click it, and cross reference it with pin1yin1.com to get the phonetic notation of the character

2005-2006/2007

My first crowning achievement. One of my favorite projects. Built the first version on PHP, learned Porototype. Then a year later rewrote the whole thing in Ruby on Rails so I could learn it. Plots restaurants around Columbia on a Google map, with a bunch of different filtering options

2006

hearphone

Muxtape before Muxtape came out. Basically a webapp that let you upload an mp3 playlist, and share it with friends

2007

*nix photoblog

Was really big into photography then and building stuff, so wrote a photoblogging platform in Ruby on Rails. It was used by no one besides me. Helped me learn RMagick

2008

mmdelish

Never made it to the public, but this project lets you email a link

to some email address, and it'll post it to your delicious bookmarks

I like to clip inspiring web designs, so I wrote a bookmarklet that would take a screenshot of the page your on and post it to Posterous

A webapp that allowed you to listen to podcasts via the web, instead of having to open iTunes or another media player

A Google App Engine project that makes Hacker News readable on the iPhone. Haven't really touched the code since 2008, and has the most traffic out of all of my websites

2008-2009

pony

mushroom

prowl - gmail

2009

umbrellatodayny twitter

txtme

gluetogo/gluby

sink

2009-2010

node.js chat

2010

aaldef

seeinggilt

cowsay

webtoasters

hummingbird

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