I recently renewed this domain, meaning I’ve had it for a year now. Seems like a good time to summarize what’s been accomplished.

March 2006 - RSStalker.com
April 2006 - RSStalker.com Widget
RSStalker is the most successful site in terms of financial return. Although it certainly isn’t allowing me to quit my job. Looking at it now it’s obvious the design sucks. The UI is confusing at best. I’m currently in the process of completely re-doing the site using CakePHP as the backend and giving it a whole new look.

May 2006 - StadiumTraveler
A complete disaster is term of traffic. Apparently if you don’t actively promote a site no one will visit it - who knew? I renewed the domain for another year anyway. It’s a decent enough show piece for my portfolio.

June 2006 - SiteAMonth
I redid the look for this blog. I still think it looks pretty decent. I don’t even want to think about how much time I spent of those damn corners though.

July 2006 - Vacation
I took a month off from my side projects and enjoyed the summer.

August, September 2006 - FantasyLife.net
This one took two months, but I thing it came out awesomely. I recently redid the header/logo and it looks way better. Still struggling to build a user base. I still like the idea and have some unique ideas for the direction of the project. I’ll circle back to this one eventually.

October 2006 - NetFlix Prize

November 2006 - DealCrew.com
One of the first sites I ever did in PHP was DealCrew. It was a coupon/forum shopping site. At some point I ported the whole thing to Xoops, but it was pretty much the same premise. This is the third iteration - a significantly slimmed down site.

December 2006 - PseudoCoder.com
I was super excited about starting a second blog. I really wanted it to become a haven for self starters, like myself. I’ve reviewed a bunch of cool sites and interacted with some great developers. I just haven’t had the time to keep it up. I was throwing a solid 6-8 hours into each of the site reviews.

January 2007 - camXip
I actually took on partners on this one, but their interest fizzled out about the time I launched the site. I’m going to circle back to this one - there is a lot to like about it.

February 2007 - Frantic Job Hunt
I quit my job sometime around here. Worst job I ever had. I just walked in and quit one morning. I wish I could quit that place a million times.

Obviously the furious pace of projects has died down as I haven’t really worked on much since January. It’s times like this when I realize I shouldn’t have picked a domain like SiteAMonth. It promises more than I can deliver at the moment.

With that I announce the end of this blog. In the end there can be only one. Stay tuned for the rise of PseudoCoder.

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