Why I launched this project
After launching my first Ruby on Rails project (smartgoalsapp). I wanted to take my new skills and develop an app I would actually try to sell and market.
At the time of this project I was also trying to become a better writer. I understand that a consistent habit will lead to mastery of a subject so I tried to create an app that encouraged daily writing prompts.
Highlights 👍
- The product is more polished than my first RoR app.
- Brought in some data from gems on writing efficiency and effort
Lowlights 👎
- I wasn’t able to program the functionality I had in mind
Going forward
I have no plans to continue with this project. It’s very simple and I have no analytics or tracking on it. If you want to sign up for a free account and click around, feel free.
Biggest Insights
There are a lot of really great gems out there. But you should be careful and not get overly dependent on them for your core functionality. I ended up trying to alter functionality and the project got really complicated, really quick.