Just Launched RubyFlow: Yet Another Ruby News Site!
I’ve just launched RubyFlow, my new community-driven Ruby news / links site. As is typical for me, I bashed it together in a day, and then went live tentatively yesterday. Just now, however, I turned the taps up to full by posting about it on Ruby Inside. Visitors are now flooding through at a good clip!
It might seem a bit weird that I’m competing directly with myself (RubyFlow vs Ruby Inside), but RubyFlow is meant to be a higher quantity, rawer and more grassroots outlet for Ruby news than Ruby Inside. There’s some overlap with Ruby Inside, but there’s also a more grassroots audience to go for. It surprises me how many well known and established Rubyists aren’t that familiar with Ruby Inside (despite it having over 15,000 subscribers now!) and perhaps they’re looking for a less sanitized experience. RubyFlow is it.
The software behind RubyFlow is a basic Rails application. Not much code. It still uses the default SQLite3 database (!) but it’s working very well so far. No advanced features, no search (actually, there is, but it’s not exposed yet), and it’s really clean. It’s deployed using SwitchPipe which makes it easy to scale later on and keeps it fast now. I could roll out similar sites for other niches pretty quickly now.. so if you want to work on a collaborative weblog (in the classic sense, a site where you link to other stuff) with me, get in touch!
(Update: And PythonFlow too..)
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