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by coderKen 3702 days ago
When I first learnt to code I started out building stuff to solve problems around me, turns out it wasn't a problem to people.

while in college - myrumate.com [2011] I built a basic web app to help students find roomates, especially students coming from long distances.

- thestudybox.com [2012] (I still keep this domain don't know why) question and answer site for students, a cheap stackoverflow clone.

- Snatchh.com [2013] A classifieds sites for students to buy and sell stuff.ly

They all failed but I learnt a lot about building stuff from scratch to completion alone. Code was most procedural PHP(spaghetti) and I experienced first hand the problem with a large smelly code base.

I still build stuff, but it's mostly small personal stuff.

Find the code here: http://github.com/nkudo