In thirty days

My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen:

Birthing an idea is such a strange and wonderful process.

A while back, I was totally consumed over by something someone said in an interview. I can’t remember who it was that said it, although I thought it was one of the Github crew. (Please leave me a comment if you can find the source). The premise is that if you have an idea, you should put it away for thirty days. If you come back to your idea and thirty days and it’s still a great idea, you should do it.

I often times go through really slow periods of creativity where I feel uninspired to do anything. I hardly write any of my ideas down. I wanted to create something that would help me through these times when I’m uninspired. An idea, buried carefully in soft peat for a month to see if it will germinate.

I also love weekend projects, the whirling energetic emergent pattern of colors and code and ideas. Idea to finished product in days. It was also a really great way to play with the Twitter API. John Nunemaker’s twitter gem made Twitter and OAuth painless, once you conceptually understand how things work.

Also, if you haven’t checked out Heroku, you should. Heroku was instrumental in being able to develop and publish an idea in a weekend.

So the finished concept is this. You go to In Thirty Days and stash your idea. In thirty days, an automated whoah-bot will DM the idea back to you on Twitter.

Please drop me a line if you find it useful, or if you have some feedback at: whoahbot (at) gmail (dot) com