mduvall

I made a small application over the weekend that I'm sure has been done a thousand times, but it's a filtering website done for Hacker News and has sorting by points and most recent (similar to reddit and other sites). Was wondering what the community thought, room for improvements, etc. I wanted some way to look at HN on the iPad (ended up using Twitter's awesome Bootstrap), so here it is: http://f.ilter.us/

The code is also available here on GitHub, if that's useful to anybody: https://github.com/maskact/hacker_news_filter

Hi Hacker News, first post, and I'm sure the answers to this are somewhere...but waking up and reading this site every morning and all the awesome stuff that happens here gets me pumped up (who knows why); then reality hits, walk to class, do schoolwork, be bored, rinse and repeat.

So far, I've just interned a couple summers, did Rails and web dev stuff on the side, and made a bunch of little apps...nothing monumental really.

What are some of things that you guys did to take that first step? I always get the impression from the people here that their product/site was their first app/idea, but really what happened at first and what are some stepping stones to take along the way?