Check out some profitable, personal projects I work on in my free time.
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Sports Blogs
Sportsblogs.org is a directory and aggregator of sports related blogs. Using a MySql backend with PHP/Apache, the website serves up dynamic pages.
People submit their blogs for entry, and through an automated approval process, their site is reviewed and entered into the correct categories.
Once an hour, a custom crawler written in PHP checks each site using XML syndication technology and adds any new entries into the database. We then take the new entries and create aggregated feeds based on sport/team categories.
Ranked number one by Forbes Magazine (Sports Blogs Category), profiled in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and metioned at Slate.com, times.com, sportsblogs.org has been operational and profitable for a few years.
Click here to visit Sports Blogs.
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All-NFL
All-NFL.com is built upon the SportsBlogs.org backend engine. Using traditional news sources along with blogs as for content, this website focuses solely on the NFL.
By including team schedule information in a database, I was able to integrate a ticket provider. The site profits from affiliate sales.
Click here to visit All-NFL.com.
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Instant Poster Store
Instanposterstore.com sells a collection of scripts that I wrote which make it easy for anyone to create an online poster store.
Once the scripts are installed on a customer's we site, they connect up to my central database and retrieve posters for their specific niche. It then builds dynamic pages built around their niche choice. For example, a website with a message board about Star Wars may find it profitable to sell Star Wars posters on the side. An example Star Wars poster store can be found here.
The central database gets updated once a day by a shell script that downloads new data feeds via ftp and then loads them into a MySql database.
Click here to visit Instant Poster Store.
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Dream Interpretations Guide
Dreaminterpretationsguide.com is a public domain dream interpretation book, which I broke into specific sections like dream ditionary and common dreams.
The functionality of the site includes articles, forums and a searchable dream dictionary (using MySql search functionality).
Click here to visit Dream Interpretations Guide.