Projects
Projects come and go in my life. I actively keep a text file of ideas
that I'd like to implement. The ones that make it out of that text
file get written about here.
Beerpad
I like to drink beer and I like to brew beer. The first of my beer
app ideas is a place to share and discover beers with friends called
Beerpad.
Kwiqi
This is a personal finance app I'm actively developing. I use it all
the time, but it's not ready to go prime time. I've thrown up a quick
project page with some details.
FlacoBlog
These pages you're currently viewing are published by FlacoBlog. I
wrote FlacoBlog in my last semester in Berkeley after trying different
blogging systems on and off. FlacoBlog is really closer to a mini-CMS
that allows you to select files to work on, and apply 'recipes' for
what to do with those files.
See here for project
details.
Housing
For lack of a better name, I've created a housing bookmarking site to
keep track of Craigslist housing ads. The app allows you to share ads
with potential roommates, keep notes and tags about places you've
seen, and extra utilities likes various maps. It's an on-going
project, and I'd love to hear a better name for it. For now, it'll be
known as 'housing'.
** Update 2008/12/05 ** This app was super helpful when I was looking for a place
to live. I stopped working on it after I found a place to live,
but less than half a year later, I have to start looking for a
place to live again. I made a bunch of hacks to get it up and
running as quickly as possible, but I'll definitely clean this app
up since it's saved me twice so far.
Yumify!
Yumify is a web application built on top of the
Yelp!
API. The purpose of
the application is to make it as easy as possible to organize a group
of buddies to eat out. We explored different ways to make the user
interface as silky as possible. For example, there's no need for
registration, and location is inferred by IP. The project's on hold
until we get more time to work on it.
**Update** I haven't had the time to migrate this app over to my VPS.
It also hasn't been worked on since I took the class.
pSyfun
This is a project I worked on summer 2007 for my IBM ExtremeBlue
internship.
WeightBuddy
This project is to help all the gym rats out there who need to track
workout progress. I was stuck for a while on how input should be done
for the weights. At first I thought it'd make sense for users to
enter numbers into a form, but when I tried this out for myself, I
really disliked it. My new idea is much more intuitive. More here
later.
AnimeNook
Since I thought up of this idea a while ago, someone has registered
the domain. It's not a huge worry since I wasn't too attached to the
name anyways. Hopefully this project will get kick started again.
With the proliferation of video streaming sites, it'd be fantastic if
this site served as a one-stop shop for anime.