The time has come

I’ve been working on an Erlang project at home for a while, and it has reached the first public version! Here it is http://www.dayfindr.com. It’s a simple utility that can make your life easier.





It ticks some of the boxes that Paul Graham related recently in Six Principles for Making things:

(a) simple solutions I hope so. This was one of the big design principles - to make it as simple as possible. That’s why, for example, it leverages email instead of using some fancy social networking/address book features. There’s also no login, since your email address already identifies you. TripIt uses the same idea
(b) to overlooked problems nothing that I know of addresses it
(c) that actually need to be solved, and This tries to help with a real problem that I’ve encountered myself. Feedback on the idea has been quite positive, so I know it’s something that people will find useful!
(d) deliver them as informally as possible Hope so
(e) starting with a very crude version 1, then Relatively crude
(f) iterating rapidly. We’ll see!

It’s implemented on a Lyme stack (Linux, Yaws, Mnesia and Erlang). This project has generated some interesting questions, that I will relate in a series of posts. For example:

Why Erlang?
Why not ErlyWeb?
Why not Rails?
Why did I abandon the fully functional Lisp version?

So, use it, it’s free. If you like it (or more importantly if you don’t), lemme know at feedback@dayfindr.com

P.S. To the Internet Explorer users: You will notice that there’s a javascript error on the page, because some function is “not implemented”, which means you’ll see check boxes and not coloured boxes in the calendar. The current versions of Opera, Firefox and Safari have no problem with it. Maybe you should consider an upgrade…

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Thank you so much for starting this. I look forward to those yet to come. I thought the product was presented very throughly and the reviews were excellent. Way to go! Keep up the great work!
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Posted by search the internet online on 07 Oct 2009 at 21:24

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