rm2kdev

I made Memcards, a flashcards app to fix a bunch of things I wasn’t feeling with Anki. I've been using it to study Japanese and well I love it and want to see it succeed!

I think your site is down :)

Everything here is feedback :) nothing really negative i'll take it and improve my next post hopefully end up with a better result.

Thanks! ill take a look :)

Is there any specific points that i could improve on? this article was more or less "The things i wish i knew" when i started node.

What exactly let you down so that i can continue to edit and improve this post going forward?

Kind Regards.

Thank you for pointing that out, I did spend quite a while writing this article (more than a few days :P)

As i stated in another reply i am a novice writer and still looking and learning to improve, I've gone back through and fixed up those NodeJS occurrences.

Do you have any good places that i could find more about improving my writing as that would help greatly in the future!

Thanks for reading though i still hope that the core point of my article was useful and not in vein.

Absolutely of course these things matter, but i think the point of the article was to outline what was 'necessary' to begin writing usable decent applications with a proper workflow.

For me urgency in getting up to speed in actually writing a functioning application was of a higher necessity than learning about core node and as part of the learning experience it bummed me out going back to writing hello world examples not getting any 'results' made me want to give it up faster.

also a side note, usually as with most platforms, experience in the higher level results in experimentation lower levels.

Fair point. For me points 4 and 5 were part of my nodejs learning experience while your right they are not 'node specific' they are however things that if i had a better understanding of before i began i do believe would have made my initial experience better :)

I may do a more elaborate comparison of IDE's and how they've effected my workflow regarding node in the future thank you for the inspiration there :)

And yeah, looking back i am surprised that i didn't find out about npm and packages earlier on in the game. But yeah for me the learning experience was so fragmented that it was very hard to get a good grip on 'what i needed' and 'what was available' i suppose in the beginning i spent all my time trying to learn the 'core' nodejs without knowing that later i'd spend all my time in 3rd party librarys

Unfortunately, English is my native language but i spent all my time in school programming and thus now suck at writing haha :) thanks for reading though!

That's because I'm using the planid to display the name I have to do some back end changes to subscriptions so I can have 'Friendly names' :)

Regrettably that was my poor decision to launch without checking it in Firefox, nevertheless bug fixed now :) learn from your mistakes haha

Thanks a lot, I used to be a Firefox user when I was younger maybe 7 years ago. It started to get very 'windows vista ish' and my really really poor pc couldn't handle it so maybe 4 - 5 years ago I switched to chrome... unfortunately that seems to be heading down the same path.

Im not sure what modern firefox so lets see :D

Thanks for the suggestion, I replied to the other gentlemen about this the only reason I didn't consider them was I had no prior experience or knew anyone who'd used them before. Their pricing looked 'too good to be true' but if HN is suggesting them I will defiantly look at their services soon :)

I'm sorry you feel this way :( but I understand it is a small application. By Full Application I meant 'completed the goals it set out to do' obviously no application can ever be truly finished and I will be adding more over time :)

Thanks for your compliments and no worries you can be that guy today :P

Regarding the payments side of things I am using the client side stripe library. Basically what happens when you input card details and hit submit a secure async push is made to stripe's servers where the card details are stored a call back is made with a token to your browse and ONLY that token is sent to my server.

While having SSL would be nice and make the clients feel more comfortable rest assured the payments side of things is still secure

SSL WILL BE ADDED :) Probably over next weekend my next personal 'sprint'

While I agree with every point you make here about the EC2 Tiny m1micros. A good test for the instances was this article since posting this the site has received over 10,000 visitors and at one point in time it was dealing with 10 - 50 visitors a second while this isn't ideal to run 'business critical' software on a tiny instance if it ever had to deal with such a large array of consumers on a daily basis it would be scaled immediately to something more robust.

However the past 10 hours have prooven that the m1's do have some balls :) both the site and the processing exist on the same machine and have only marginally struggled with 0 downtime from the HNEffect

it was a two day project some things I didn't have time to really 'clean up' that's not to say it ends with two days of work :) I will be clearing up many of the small issues and growing the site's features much more over the next few weeks. Maybe even making the switch to digital ocean and twillio

Thanks for your suggestions, i had not considered Digital Ocean purely because I'd not had any experience with it or know anyone who's used it before.

Regarding the relational data that is one of the challenges I faced when building the application. I used NoSQL because I had recently had some experience with mongo and mongoose thought it would be easier then I realised I would have to begin making multiple selects and concatenating data together to bring back average ping stats for the dashboard etc which made it somewhat harder.

That would be the HN Effect. The post has exploded the site receiving something like 10 - 50 hits per second.

It may also be the server is hosted in Sydney on Amazon's ec2 so if your far from Sydney Australia that might also contribute to a page load time of about 2 - 3 seconds :) the rest is probably HN Effect

Thank you :) I will download and install a copy of firefox see if I can fix this up!

Fixed ;) thank you for pointing that out.

Thanks for pointing that out! ill fix it :D thats a typo or is it some kind of new age support

Thanks, i cant take all the credit i am using twitter bootstrap for the ux

Early on saturday it was LEMP Framework :) i added some more and cleaned it up a little then it became PLEB :P https://github.com/rm2kdev/LEMPFramework

Feel free to check out lemp :)

I'll take a look into that tomorow!! its 11:30pm here :(!

We don't host any of the content its aggregated from public ally available websites the application is simply a search engine with links to where the content was found. Users who upload videos to these websites agree to have the rights to do so.

Hello! no I don't host the content myself the application acts as a search engine / index for content that a spider aggregates from the internet. However having seen a lot of the feedback thus far I'm going to make an update to the application that adds more transparency about where the video is being sourced from and downloaded from. it basically connects to streams from about 8 different websites where the users who upload the content have agreed to have the rights to do so and extracts the video links then downloads and manages the folders.

That's a monthly cost. not once off :)

To all: The application merely acts as a search engine / agrigator for publicly available content hosted on sites such as youtube, dailymotion etc.

Its a search engine, as for legality, the users who upload the videos have agreed to having the required rights to upload said content.

The site / application are not affiliated with any of these users and merely scan, index and organize content that is publically available elsewhere.

I've had my online alias as rm2kdev since i was 13 back in the y2k. Its just stuck with me all these years :)