This post is mostly a status of what I have been up to here at the nearly-almost-half-year mark of 2016. Introducing Product Search By the end of 2015, we had already been using Elasticsearch for a while. It was the first part of a long-term strategy of moving data away from Google App Engine. Event… Continue reading Golang and the search of the past
Tag: Antecons
Competition
Note: The post below was written back in September 2014, when I was starting to feel a bit down about how poorly the Shopify sales of my app were going — especially after being featured on the front page of the app store without much attention. I did not publish it back then, because I… Continue reading Competition
What happened next
In July last year (2014), I started working full-time on Antecons. Back then, I wrote a post about complete independence where I predicted that I could support myself for up to half a year without income. This turned out to be true, but now that we have entered a new year, it is time for… Continue reading What happened next
Complete independence
I am now jobless. I am now independent. For the next few months, I am going to work on projects that do not provide any steady income and I have not planned to take on any consulting or freelance work. I am writing this post both for people that would be interested in what I… Continue reading Complete independence
Experimental features
This post is about Antecons, a product recommendation engine, now part of Conversio. Antecons is no longer commercially available, but I have kept my developer diary on my website with permission. Yesterday, I found out exactly what it means when Google warns about their experimental App Engine features: Your code might eventually break. Let me… Continue reading Experimental features