What is the shortest duration you've worked on a project? This means a complete project, from ideation to deployment (bonus if it got many users and press coverage)
There are the likes of Facebook etc, which started out as weekend on-the-spur hacks and led to huge companies. Has anybody in the HN community had such an experience?
Please mention how long it took you, what stack you used, link to the project would be appreciated, and some metrics to give us an idea how successful the project was.
We were on HN in 2nd place for about half a day. Got about 17.000 unique visits in the first two days, a couple of twitter mentions and now about 200-300 visits a day.
It was an awesome experience. Very satisfying because it felt kind of complete when we launched. That's not typical for a web app. Although there are always more features to add. We felt like the app is exactly doing what we planned it should.
I wrote about it in more detail here http://jannikweyrich.com/blog/2014/05/26/weekend-project-fon...