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My "Hello, world" for this is to create a personal URL shortener. If an adequate third-party library for it exists I will use redis as the backend, otherwise I'll use a hash that I'll write to a file when new entries are added and load when the application starts.

[ryanyogan]

That's a pretty cool idea, at a base, create something useful and force yourself to look through the standard library. I am learning GO right now and I am blown away with what comes out of the box.

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Me too! I was shocked to have my Go url shortener come in several lines shorter than node.js one, and it felt much cleaner. I was pretty much sold at that point.