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#Cat facts spam code#
#Cat facts spam free#

I downloaded the python SDK of Google App Engine for the mac and got a subdomain at. The best part? If you need to scale later, you can pay for only the resources you are really using up on Google’s machines.

#Cat facts spam code#

Google doesn’t require you to give it your credit card to start, it lets you have a sharable domain, and focus on code design.

#Cat facts spam free#

You sign up and get a free subdomain, free hosting, and awesome scaling abilities right off the bat. Google App Engine is a terrific way to launch a website with the least headache possible.

For Macs, TextMate is a great editor, or try TextWrangler.

For Windows TextPad is a great, free tool.

For everyone else, use a standard text editor from below. Linux users should learn to code in emacs, vi, pico, or gedit. This will make it a lot easier to build a webapp using Google App Engine and Twilio without the hassle of installing and configuring an Interactive Design Editor like Eclipse. I usually code with emacs in Linux, but I was stuck at home with a Macbook, so I used TextMate. I used only three tools: a text editor, Google App Engine, and Twilio.įor most coding, a simple text editor will be your greatest friend. People were finally able to send their loved ones facts about kittens.Ĭat facts was built on a pretty slim web stack (a “web stack” is a set of technologies that will let you build a web site). My app received over 20,000 visits in its first day live. I launched my cat facts app the same night user “frackyou” post hit the reddit front page. Within a few hours, I was up and running using Google App Engine, TextMate, Twilio SMS, and a bunch of pics of cats from. I had no Eclipse, no GIMP, and a foreign looking Terminal. It was a unique opportunity to start from scratch and build a website without any prior tools. Just in case any spamming occurred, Twilio provided the awesome ability to also make sure people could easily opt out by texting “ STOP” back.Īt the time I was using my Macbook, a computer I had yet to use for web programming. My goal was simple: let users sign themselves up to receive facts about cats from a “cat fact” service. Many LOLs were had and I was inspired to give people the ability to bring out their inner “frackyou”.

I created in response to a terrific post by user “frackyou” on reddit - while the image they posted wasn’t a real application and in fact was a joke, I thought it would be fun to recreate the app with some anti-spam precautions added in!