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I guess it's good enough to show. I've got most of the issues sorted out to the point that the site is already usable for demo purposes. There are still a lot of all those little things I'd like to iron out. There is also still a lot of work on the backend side. But the basic functionality is there and it doesn't look half bad.

I don't think there will be better time to release it to the wild. If I keep it to myself I just keep refining it over and over again. Trying to reach perfection is sure way of never releasing anything. Trust me, I have plenty of those projects.

The famous quote from Edison about his success in finding multiple ways of how not to so a lightbulb pretty  much sums up my todays progress working on the writing platform. In a sense I didn't make any progress on it today despite working on it for several hours. I did however learn a lot about modern JavaScript and how not to do things.

It wasn't just a talk, I actually went ahead and started prototyping an alternative social streak writing platform. And of course I couldn't wait until the weekend! I've already spend a few hours during the week to setup something simple.

Getting up with the basics is easy. I already have fully functioning platform ready where you can register and login, write posts and comment them. There is even a favourites feature. Then there is own, recent and popular posts listings too.