2 Jasons

Man we've been busy!

We threw our hat in the Rails Rumble ring with our buddies Mike and El. We didn't win but 48 hours of pure coding was a rush and our app worked. Good times.

We've been working on a few different projects, too. Lifejot.com is our recently re-launched shopping list maker. JasonC started this one a couple years ago using .net. It was working fine but we needed to add some features and the site needed a facelift. There was no way we were going to hassle with doing it in .net. Converting this app to Rails was a piece of cake.

Lifejot lets a user create unlimited shopping lists. Usually these lists are created by store but you can create them however you like; Shopping list, Christmas list, Wish list, any list will do. Each list has drag-and-drop reordering. Most of the forms are ajax-loaded and most parts of the main list page are also ajax-refreshed. Lists can be printed, emailed, and merged or copied. It's a great improvement over v1!

We're also working on some ideas to monitize the site. I don't think we'll ever charge a user but we think there are many opportunities to partner up with services and, of course, advertisers. We'd love to hear if anyone has any other ideas.