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Commerce · February 16, 2011

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soft-launching one of my pet projects

So a while ago I was thinking it would be neat to build a site that had the most absolute utility. The idea I came up with was a site to store those little protips that are super useful, if you know them ahead of time. I hired a guy to work on it with me, and ClueDB was born: http://cluedb.com/ Please give it a whirl (it uses Twitter auth as login but doesn't tweet anything) and tell me what you think! (Various trivia: My first try at a project coded by someone else and "product managed" by me. Runs on Flask + MongoDB. Also, this is totally unrelated to my startup.)

soft-launching one of my pet projects launched on February 16, 2011 with 27 votes, #26 of 163 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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ClueDB is a web platform for storing and sharing practical tips and tricks that are useful to know in advance. Users log in via Twitter authentication and can browse or contribute to a database of helpful protips organized for easy reference. The site is built on Flask and MongoDB, designed for anyone looking to discover or share small but valuable pieces of practical knowledge.

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