A Chance to Work and Welcome to the Journey

Unfortunately, I had a mishap that allowed me to take some time off of work. Rather than sit on my butt and feel sorry for myself, I decided it would be a good time to try and get this site off the ground like it deserves. So, I decided to go ahead and get a development blog going because I knew that would not only allow me to track this crazy endeavor and talk a bit about it but it would keep the drive going to develop this thing and make it as successful as it deserves.

That said, allow me to say:

“Hello there! Welcome to the journey of getting Smokereports.com ready for the big times. I hope you enjoy the show.”

Now then, let’s get to it. I’ve had this site for 3 years now and haven’t done much but give it a slight redesign and a tinkering since it’s initial months of research to bring the database together. I started getting a few thousand hits a month, then a couple hundred thousand and now I’m getting closer to 1 million hits in a month with each month that passes. Something’s telling me I’m on to something…

There are a few things that I need to get in place before I will feel comfortable sending out invites to the various cannabis powers that be to see what kinds of reactions I can get for this thing. I decided to break it down into the 10 things I want most so that’ll give me 10 blog posts and 10 things I get to finish. Usually for lists I enjoy Remember the Milk, but this blog should be just as fun.

  1. Better genetics handling
  2. Easier smoke reports
  3. Genetics trees
  4. Country mappings
  5. Data vis
  6. Logo
  7. Redesign
  8. Comments
  9. Mobile App
  10. Make it known

I’ve already begun on the better genetics handling and will write about the details tomorrow. Expect some snippets of code and brain dumps as I get all of the genetics remapped into a usable format. Much of the list has been brainstormed or mapped out or in some cases already started.

This will be a lot of fun and I hope you enjoy watching this come together as much as I will.

Stay tuned!

May 11, 2011 · admin · No Comments
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