Introducing bravenewfiction.com – Google App Engine Demo

4 Jun

Whew, well after a few nights of diving right into App Engine, I’m proud to announce a little demo I put together: brave new fiction. The site is inspired by a contest copyblogger.com recently had where writers were forced to create a story in exactly 140 characters. I loved the idea, and the results were amazing.

I decided to use that contest a basis for brave new fiction. The constraints are a little different: 140 characters or less per line, 1 line a day is published. This means your story is told in 140 characters a day – can you keep you audience interested?

The concept and implementation are a little rough around the edges, but like I said, this was just a technology demo for google app engine. Overall, app engine was amazing to work with. I had no prior experience with python or GAE (obviously) but the entire application took about 16 hours to create from start to finish. All of that is attributed to both python and GAE, I can’t say enough about either.

Anyways, if you’re interested – bravenewfiction.com. Check it out!

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