Friday, August 13, 2010

Give Me A NIche

Whats-hot-weekly.com was originally GiveMeANiche.com.  I was trying to basically create a site that used the eBay API to help one find cool niche marketing ideas. The "Most Searched" keyword feature was originally used on GiveMeANiche.com.

When I wrote Whats-hot-weekly.com, I created "Most Watched Items" features as the main part of the site. The "Most Searched" feature was added later, and I just pointed GiveMeANiche.com to Whats-hot-weekly.com as a redirect. It has been this way for about two years. 

Recently, I decided to go back to our original idea. We wanted GiveMeANiche.com to be true to its name. We wanted it to give us new niche ideas with the click of a button. So, that's exactly what I built, a simple web app with one big button. Try it out and see what kind of niche ideas you can get.

Monday, June 28, 2010

I just realized that I can send text blog posts from my phone. This will come in handy.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Used Acoustic Guitar

If you are in the market for a good used acoustic guitar, check out my latest site. I built it with ProNicheStore, my new niche software suite. You can get this software now for $67. Check out the demo on the site as well.

ProNicheStore For your Niche Site Software Needs

I may have mentioned this before, but I have written a complete content management system called ProNicheStore. This software can be used to create great niche sites, complete with eBay and Amazon feeds. This software retails for $67, which is an extremely low price for the amount of work I've put into it. I've created about 10 sites with it so far myself. I'm constantly either coding or working on my niche sites. Check it out when you get a chance. I will be changing whats-hot-weekly.com very soon. There are changes in the API that will effect it. I've delayed it about as long as I can. I will be revamping the site but I may be adding new features to it and cleaning up the code as well. Chances are, I'll be recreating whw from scratch.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Enough with the delayed posts already, Randy!

Ok so it's been forever since I posted to the whats-hot-weekly.com blog. I apologize. As I've said in previous posts, I've been involved in a huge project that is taking most of my time. However, as that project gets closer and closer to completion, I've been thinking about my plans for Whats-hot-weekly.com. My site has never received any SEO treatment so it doesn't rank very well in search results. That will be one point I work on.

Next I'll be revamping the interface, and lastly, I'll be working on some of the internal workings of the site. We may even add a few more features.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

In case you are wondering...

I've been working on a very large project which should be complete within the next two weeks. I'll be spending a lot of time working on that project for maintenance purposes, but a new whats-hot-weekly.com is planned for this year. I plan to revamp the site completely by June.

What should you expect? Well the interface will be much much better. I've spent the last six months working with ExtJS. ExtJS is a javascript library that helps one create amazing interfaces. It also includes many Ajax functions. The site is going to be a breath of fresh air in a few short months.

As far as features go, I'll be changing how whats-hot-weekly.com access eBay's API. I've not been able to read about it thoroughly but I believe that aspects of the shopping API or the entire API are being removed. I really need to find the time to read up on that. No matter what the case may be, I will be updating the site very soon.

I'll try to keep everyone posted on when they can expect to see the changes.