I have a tradition of making my girlfriend a Web app every Valentine's Day and other holidays. She's a GAS analyst, so I try to incorporate location - based features.<p>This year I got her three locked wooden boxes with numbers written on them. The numbers represent the miles she has to travel to unlock them using a companion app called MapStreak (www.mapstreak.com).<p>Making apps for people close to you is a great way to explore new technology without all the pressures or time commitment of starting a full - fledged side project.
I made my wife a blog / marketing page for her business a few weeks ago as her 'early' valentines day present. The domain name was $13 or so, and using s3 (it's a static generated site) is basically free for how small it is. I decided not to pay 0.50/month for route53 apex support - www. is fine. No SSL.<p>I'm a backend programmer, but it was fun to learn bootstrap 3 and put something together, and run it through google pagespeed :-). It was a good week of effort, along with helping her learn markdown.
This is a fun thing to do. A couple years ago on Valentine's Day I learned a little Canvas to make this for my wife: <a href="http://oinksoft.com/valentines-day/" rel="nofollow">http://oinksoft.com/valentines-day/</a>
I've done the website thing before. I am sufficiently bad at UI that it's always come off corny.<p>So, I made my wife an app this year. I thought it'd be something other people might appreciate, so I polished it into a product and am selling it:<p><a href="http://valentines2014.upside-down-research.com/" rel="nofollow">http://valentines2014.upside-down-research.com/</a>
My wife has wanted an Android tablet for a while now, so I'm getting her a Nexus 7 and writing a custom Valentine's card app on it for her. I think she'll be surprised!
One of my friend from college has a similar startup that runs Dropbox-powered websites, 900dpi.com<p>I think the difference between them and brace.io is that they have a CMS that allows people to edit text visually as opposed in code.
Doesn't seem to work -- setup a site, keep clicking the "Ship Site" button (an odd choice of verbiage), yet, site is still only viewable in "administrator" mode.
This is well well done! The instructions say the page should refresh. Should it refresh automatically or did I miss read (I had to refresh to make any changes appear)?
Automatic reload not working and getting a lot of "Internal server error. Server unreachable." messages. Maybe getting hit too hard at the moment?
i made my girlfriend a website (instead of card / flowers / whatever else) for valentine's day in college... made it from scratch and made it rather lovely. It did not go over well.