Homeschool Apple Is Finally Done!
Posted on 08. Mar, 2009 by Chris in Geek Life, Geeking Out, Projects, Ruby on Rails, Websites, Wordpress
After years of on-again, off-again coding, several complete re-writes, and at least three complete interface overhauls, Homeschool Apple is FINALLY complete!
Carrie and I thought this day would never come. But thanks to a lot of hard work by Scott, Carrie, and yours truly, I am happy to say that HSA represents the very best of my work thus far.
The interface is clean and easy-to-use. There are a LOT of slick programming tricks making the magic happen, and I believe we broke ground on a brand new way to do multi-vendor sales with one checkout. I actually gave the framework we developed that the site is built on a name tonight, which can only lead to coding stardom - right? For the record, I am calling the framework WeSell, but am open to suggestions on it.
We actually plan to release several niche websites built on the same technology. I can see applications in the comic-book trading, baseball card and collectable doll markets. Who knows? If you have a particular hobby or something you buy and sell online and are not satisfied with what’s out there, shoot me an email. Maybe we can hook you up!
If you get a chance, slide on over to Homeschool Apple and take a peek. Not to whet your whistle or anything, but we are offering a $50 Target GiftCard as this week’s weekly giveaway and all you have to do is sign up as a user to be automatically entered.
Pretty cool!

Jeremy
18. Oct, 2009
Hey Chris, we met at BarCamp. Cool site. I was homeschooled up to college so I definitely appreciate it.
Its funny, I also built a RoR web app for homeschoolers back in highschool. I haven’t been able to keep it up so over the past few months things have broken down due to Amazon closing their affiliate program to North Carolinians. It was a fun endeavor any way: http://www.homeschoolingtogether.com
Chris
19. Nov, 2009
I believe I saw your site before things went awry. Thanks for the props. Keep me posted on what you have going on; I love seeing what other RoR types are doing in Charlotte.