Getting close to going live with a site redo
The overhaul of GoBlogGo is nearing completion. Finally! Every bit of old code has been looked over at least twice, rewritten, and tested vigorously.
My favorite feature is the new triggers system. Previously you would send an email to ljpost@something.com to get an image to send to LiveJournal. Now you’ll still send to post@whatever.com but put :lj in the subject. The :lj will be stripped out of the subject and the script will know to send it there.
This took some doing. Previously in order to make a service like LiveJournal work with GoBlogGo I had to mangle tons of code. With the new version I changed it in to a decent system of plugins. I just need to add some more services now so I don’t have to worry about them later.
I still have a lot left to do. I was able to fix up all of the code but I need to go through it and reorganize a little. When the base site is up to snuff I have three things left: New features that are needed, verify that everything works, and marketing. I dread the M word.
I’m feeling pretty good about this though. I’m not totally embarrassed about the code behind it anymore. So if this ever became big I wouldn’t feel bad bringing other people on to help code, or I wouldn’t feel bad selling it later on. Hopefully I can keep it this way. And hopefully people will use it.