Howdy.
You might notice it’s been a long time since I’ve touched this blog. It’s upsetting. But I have a good reason: Quizlet.
Quizlet is a site I made for learning vocabulary. It’s a fully-featured web application that lets you enter terms and definitions, then gives you tools to study them. It’s perfect for students learning foreign languages, studying for SATs, learning dates in history, or tackling Quizbowl, Science Bowl, or other academic competitions.
I made this site from scratch, programming and designing it as a one-man team. It took me 450 days to release.
I’ve been so involved with this project that it has profoundly changed me, I think. My social life has without a doubt changed. I don’t particularly enjoy doing much of the stuff that all my friends enjoy doing. I’ve pulled a few friends closer, and distanced myself from many more.
I’m now the president of my very own corporation. It feels weird, being in high school. No one else is doing this. I don’t feel like a kid at all any more. Most of my favorite people to talk to are adults. I don’t want to be elitist or anything, it’s just whom I feel comfortable operating with. It’s also strange to feel like I could totally make it in the world without any of this high school stuff or even college.
Oh, and my 17th birthday recently past. It was my first year without a big party. That was okay. Compared with last year, I’m a little less happy. I don’t think I’m having as much fun as I used to. My old friends have changed a lot, especially the things they do. I’m really just waiting for college I think - to get to a place like MIT where everyone is a nerd and I can talk about code freely. Err, that’s not why I’m waiting for college - I like normal stuff too.
Man, that felt good to blog my thoughts. Maybe I’ll get back into it.
There've been 21 whole comments
6:01 am on 1/21/2007 1. Sam Gerstenzang
Congratulations! Quizlet looks great, obviously the product of much hard-work.
8:49 pm on 1/21/2007 2. buchin
what is killing flashcards? i don’t understand what’s that means.
9:38 pm on 1/21/2007 3. Andrew
Sorry, HTML get messed up somehow. Just fixed it
12:16 am on 1/25/2007 4. Pone
Well Andrew, its good to see you’ve been doing great work. MetroPost is starting to do well once I figured out how to make google happy. I have plans to expand it a bit like we talked about - 1 for every city and letting anyone write an article, with the best floating to the top. I appreciate you giving it a great start and anytime you want to jump on, let me know. You’re ahead of the game and ahead of the curve, sometimes thats lonely but you’re off to bigger and better things. Congrats! - Pone
12:26 pm on 1/25/2007 5. Quetschke
Hey - That’s a very nice project! - Maybe I’ll use it to practise Latin.
But there’s still one question unanswered: What the hell are flashcards?
10:46 pm on 2/4/2007 6. Aubrey
Wow! I just discovered your blog 5 minutes ago, and love it!
The graphics are some of the nicest I have ever seen
I really like Quizlet too!
I am a 16 year old who also does a lot of programming, loves graphic design, and runs a web application development business.
I have had the same thoughts you mentioned about friends and college.
I have never actually met a “young” developer before who wrote really cool stuff on their own. I too thought I was alone
I think you might be interested in my biggest personal project: Safarri.com
Safarri is (in my humble opinion) the best classifieds (or even commerce) site on the net. It syndicates ads in and out (submitting and browsing) with most major classified aggregators, is easy and fun to use, is totally free, and has many features which are original and revolutionary!
Unfortunately, not many people know about it, so I haven’t really had much feedback on it. I can tell you are a very talented developer and would to hear what you have to say about it good or bad.
Anyway, your work is definitely inspiring to me and I will be sure to check on it every once in a while!
Keep up the good work!
-Aubrey
8:37 am on 2/8/2007 7. josh shipp
Andrew
You helped me out with joshshipp.com/blog
I’ve got a new project I’d love to hire you for, if you are interested lemme know.
josh (at) joshshipp.com
peace
3:31 am on 2/18/2007 8. hot-chat-girls
Hello! Great site.
5:58 pm on 5/4/2007 9. Sue
congratulations. all this work will DEFINITELY pay off when college apps come around. i’m so jealous of you
5:09 pm on 5/8/2007 10. Harjot
Wow… amazing…theres so many of us….iam 17 programmer 2
working on some projects. But Iam also a professional photographer and filmmaker so my script time is short. But my computer is my best friend….I think :)…great work… I need some of your help man… I live in the bay 2. El Sobrante… its by Pinole…
great work
11:36 am on 5/28/2007 11. xzeilfaelx
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2:23 pm on 9/1/2007 14. promo
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1:38 pm on 2/19/2008 15. ICE Q
truely amazing how a kid like you can do all that .. you have a bright future I suppose and wish
good luck
3:20 am on 5/4/2008 16. hit
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