Minimum Viable Product MVP
As much as I like things to be perfect I soon discovered from my startup camp experience that its far more important to have a minimum viable product out there and generating interest. After all how can you determine how worthwhile your time investment is without throwing out your ideas and testing the reaction. That’s always something scary for any developer, but probably is the correct approach.
And so I am releasing a quick weekend project I created when I became interested in Google’s Instant search. Welcome to http://www.searchforphp.com/ which is my first real attempt at anything interesting with jQuery and using my search skills. Essentially its a search engine totally focused on PHP. Feel free to give it a whirl. Some queries work better then others on it, but “mysql” is a pretty good search term. At the moment its just showing the results from RSS feeds that are being crawled and the function list in PHP but it is a pretty good start. Let me know what you think in the comments below.
Wow)) my congradulations with such start-up! Will tweet it to my followers
Good job!
I’m thinking on my MVP now, also planning something simple to complete in weekend
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Thanks! Its pretty dirty on the back end, but its getting there. I have pushed a few updates since I first pushed it out too which has been nice. Possibly the most useful thing for me is that I am using it while developing it. Truly I am Dogfooding, and thats always good when launching your own stuff.
When you do announce it via your blog and I will be sure to check it out.
It is great than you are the user of self product
, do something that is usefull to you is most easy way to proceed 
Are you plan to do it open source, to get possible contibutors sometime ?
Its certainly possible. Most of it is just MySQL Sphinx PHP and jQuery. If I can throw it together in 4 hours or so anyone can really.
I will certainly consider making it free software though. For the moment though I just want to keep improving it since on my own since search is my hobby and this is a search I can actually do without a big outlay on hardware.
Ben … I like the site … well done. I can see you are getting into jQuery now. It’s awesome isn’t it?
Can you do it a search for .net?
Sure. I will be looking into doing a .NET one over the weekend. I would find it more useful then a PHP one during the work day. Will let you know the moment I have something presentable up.