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15 amazing Web apps built in 48 hours [slideshow]

networkworld.com — The Rails Rumble 2008 announced eight winners of its programming competition where teams of up to four people had 48 hours to build original (and somewhat complete) Web apps using Ruby on Rails. This slideshow includes a few non-winning apps worth a look. Check out Qflip, it lets you mess with someone's Netflix queue.

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  • Barryrowe, on 11/11/2008, -0/+3348 hours? I feel so....inadequate.
  • inactive, on 11/12/2008, -0/+16*sips latte, adjusts beret, craps out some more web 2.0 ******

  • MtheoryX, on 11/11/2008, -0/+13Takes me 48 hours (not 48 hours straight) just to get the class diagrams and db schema straight. I feel inadequate as well.
  • nahsrocketeer75, on 11/11/2008, -0/+13I like the winner, MeetInBetween. Who hasn't been in that situation where you're kinda-sorta interested in seeing someone but not enough to make the entire round-trip. Finding a spot in the middle is like splitting the tab for lunch.
  • devila2208, on 11/12/2008, -2/+11I can type 4 billion words in 3 seconds. I just did. See what I did there? ;)
  • sheff555, on 11/11/2008, -2/+11Check out #14 Notiflyapp.com (shameless self promotion)
  • wontstoptalking, on 11/11/2008, -2/+9I can type 187,200 words in 48 hours.
  • Valect, on 11/12/2008, -1/+7ruby on rails isn't a language, it's a framework
  • inactive, on 11/12/2008, -1/+7Oh ya, that's great....until someone comes up with the 47 hour web-app contest.
  • covertbadger, on 11/12/2008, -0/+6Rails isn't a language. You fail at overhyped buzzwords.
  • d03boy, on 11/12/2008, -0/+6building is often the easy part. Designing is the hard part
  • inactive, on 11/12/2008, -0/+6You can get a McDonald's hamburger in 45 SECONDS, it doesn't mean it is any good.
  • morninglorii, on 11/12/2008, -1/+7I can type 10 million words in 48 hours if you give me enough time to do it.
  • Barackalypse, on 11/12/2008, -1/+7Many things on the web look and perform like they were built in 48 hours, by amateurs with no thought to performance, usability, or maintainability. The Digg comments code comes to mind.
  • MacTyler, on 11/12/2008, -0/+5not possible for that type of competition. Google doesn't index new websites that fast. An SEO/Traffic battle would have to last weeks.
  • Ravatar, on 11/12/2008, -0/+5That's no problem, so long as you're being paid hourly. :)
  • Bloodwine, on 11/12/2008, -0/+5I can't wait for my boss to read this. "Why is it taking you two months to write our web app? There are people out there that can do it in 48 hours". I'm either getting older and slower, or I just spend a lot of time trying to debug my apps and try to battle-harden them as much as possible. Maybe a bit of both.
  • nater, on 11/11/2008, -1/+6Awesome stuff, constraint-driven-development
  • MtheoryX, on 11/12/2008, -0/+4Don't forget your leather wristband and retro belt buckle!
  • devila2208, on 11/12/2008, -0/+4The original site has links, too. How can you not see that?
  • tibbon, on 11/12/2008, -4/+8But it's Rails... does it scale? :)
  • wontstoptalking, on 11/12/2008, -0/+4I find your lack of faith disturbing.
  • samotage, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3Rails just freekin' rocks. So awesome to see such brilliant output from such a contest.

    Sam.
  • inactive, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3I'm not sure I want to allow Qflip access to my Netflix account.....
  • inactive, on 11/12/2008, -2/+5php > ror

    hate me.
  • werries, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3Thats not impressive.
  • devila2208, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3Dude, there are links to every site in the right sidebar. Click on a pic and it loads its description and A LINK to the site in the sidebar.
  • tehchicken, on 11/12/2008, -1/+3It took you 3 seconds to type "4 billion words"..
  • hobogeneral, on 11/12/2008, -2/+4Rome wasn't built in a day, but these Web Apps were built in two!
  • n8dude, on 11/12/2008, -0/+2Man, rbDB looks really interesting.
  • djfonz, on 11/12/2008, -1/+3No you haven't.
  • SPRFRKR, on 11/12/2008, -0/+2"Ug no use torch to make fire. Ug like spark from rock. Ug make fire better using rock than torch. Nar use torch. Nar big dumb head."
  • niradg, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1oh ***** me. most of those would have taken me two weeks or more.
  • salinaspaul, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1< jinglemusic >
    < recordscratch >chickitikawwwwwww!< /recordscratch>
    ...
    < /jinglemusic >
  • dcmusicfusion, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1Track Class actually looks useful... Cool.
    15 pages....seriously!>!?!??!
  • MtheoryX, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1You don't ever have bugs in your code?

    What language/framework are you using that eliminates bugs...I want some of that!
  • bongosity, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1Its too late, it already has your social security number...
  • MtheoryX, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1php is a language.
    roro is a lanaguage and a framework.

    Compare CakePHP or CodeIgniter to ror and you may have valid points.
  • GothAlice, on 11/12/2008, -1/+2That's you. It also happens to be me: I'm fluent in SQL and Bash. Not everyone is, though, so phpMyAdmin rapidly fills a need. And even I use it when I need to do simple things very quickly.
  • Valect, on 11/12/2008, -1/+2Already found some serious bugs in a couple of these apps. It's too bad rails takes a lot of the intelligence required out of programming things.
  • palmer, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1Worthless. Thumbnails of screenshots don't prove a damned thing.
  • GothAlice, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1If only.
  • Akira71, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1Well Ruby is and I mean to Ruby on Rails. Its a technology and perhaps I do. Perhaps. But I did not realize how I typed it in until too late. I apologize and thank you for pointing it out.
  • MtheoryX, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1The limitation of web apps is rarely the particular language used.

    It's the network.
  • inactive, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1Who doesn't?
  • MtheoryX, on 11/12/2008, -1/+2"the flow"

    Also known as: multiple other developers, weeks of planning, and large doses of cocaine.
  • GothAlice, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1One example, from way back in the day, was a PalmOS backup application called VFS QuickBack. I wrote it in response to a fellow Palm user who asked me if I knew of any backup solutions that didn't suck. As I didn't really use any, I had a look around. They all sucked, so I wrote one in about 40 minutes and e-mailed it to him. The user I was in contact with happened to run Matchbook Products, and asked if he could sell it bundled on the VFS adapter for Handspring Visor handhelds, and I agreed.

    http://www.pdatoday.com/more/A253_0_1_0_M/

    "[VFS QuickBack] seems to give you alot more options than backupman as far as individual files etc. I especially like the battery level checking so it won't backup is your battery is low..." -- gfunkmagic, a moderator of the Treo Central forums.

    Alas, I closed the doors on Margin Software a few years ago and the program is no longer available on the interwebs. (I guess I should re-release it some day.)

    http://web.archive.org/web/20041026054008/www.marg ...
  • GothAlice, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1Yes I have. On multiple occasions, though far less frequently as I get older.
  • GothAlice, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1Useful, but not here.
  • jpinsonault, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1That's why I use verizon
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