irooster VS lunchplanner

I just published the source code for the first app I ever built, all the way back in 2003: https://github.com/aaronbrethorst/irooster

It "turns your Mac into a $2,000 alarm clock."

I originally made it because I had endless amounts of trouble waking up for my morning classes in college, and found that the only alarm that could get me up was a subwoofer right underneath my bed. So I hooked a 2.1 speaker system up to my Mac, wrote a little app to start playing an iTunes playlist at a particular time, and ended up productizing it.

It was never a huge commercial success; I think the best I ever did with it was about $2,000 in sales one month after Apple featured it in a newsletter (different times!), but it taught me several important lessons about building a commercial software product that still guide me today.

Enjoy checking out my super janky code!

https://github.com/egeozcan/lunchplanner

I was having so much fun back then with this one. Meteor.js was a blast of productivity and I apparently couldn't have cared less about code quality. This is not embarrassing, there's no perfect code and we make different trade-offs all the time, not to mention the skill difference between you and your past self.

Too long ago, I had written a lunch-planner as a joke to mock how much time we were losing by discussing what to eat at the office (and it even was used in a non-sarcastic way, to my own amazement), and I used meteor because it just worked.

2 years ago I said, I wonder if it works still, and I installed meteor, did an update and voila! It worked, just million times faster to build and much more responsive: https://github.com/egeozcan/lunchplanner/commit/91541a637531...

Even the built-in account system still works!!

Of course, it's not a serious project but I'm just very positively surprised how great of a DX Meteor has.