Congrats! An uplifting tale. -R
Sent from my iPhone On Aug 22, 2011, at 10:26 PM, Alpha Blue <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > It's been a little more than 2 years since I first started working with > Ruby on Rails. At that time, I was out of work and looking to get > involved with development rather than infrastructure. Lo and behold, > the Ruby language and the Rails framework was something that held a lot > of interest to me. Being out of work at the time, I read several books > over a weeks time and started my first reborn project that culminated > from years of working with statistics for college football in a PHP > driven site. In 2 to 3 months, I had my first rails 2.x production site > going and it was a solid success. > > Today I look back at what I accomplished and what I have built today and > would like to showcase both production sites that I now work solely on. > I am the sole developer, creator, administrator, and owner of these > sites and they were built with Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.0.10. > > http://nflstatpages.com > http://ncaastatpages.com (this was my first rails production site) > > Both sites use html5, no flash, jquery, jquery mobile, and some custom > components I built on my own. They are also fully integrated with > oauth and have applications built in facebook, twitter, and I'm now > working on a google plus variant. In addition, I built a zong api > framework to handle mobile phone payments and was pleasantly surprised > when paypal ended up purchasing them. > > I didn't want to promote my sites (even though football season is right > around the corner), but I wanted to show others that if you have an > idea, > maintain drive, put effort into everything you do each day, you can > become successful. I now work as an infrastructure and systems > administrator for a high profile company on my normal time, and continue > to build my stats sites on my spare time. The sites I've built are > valued right now at about a quarter of a million dollars and continue to > grow. The total operating expenses are less than $5k per year for both > combined. > > It doesn't take much to work on a successful project so long as you have > a tangible idea that is worth investing in. I'm hoping that in 3 to 5 > years I'll be able to fully leave my job and work 100% on my sites, > competing with Accuscore who I've successfully beaten in straight > predictions going on 2 years now. > > Take care and happy coding. I believe in ideas and success. I hope you > do too. > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
