Comments on: Reel Roulette

By: Reel Roulette, the SFW Motion-Design Video Site | Stocks!

Reel Roulette, the SFW Motion-Design Video Site | Stocks! — Sun, 02 May 2010 07:29:42 +0000

[...] of guys, Joshua Schaible, Nick Campbell, and Trevor Turk, who explains just how they got the idea here. The three of them were on a plane to SXSW last month, discussing just how hard it can be for [...]

By: Reel Roulette, the SFW Motion-Design Video Site | Web Design Cool

Reel Roulette, the SFW Motion-Design Video Site | Web Design Cool — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:01:39 +0000

[...] of guys, Joshua Schaible, Nick Campbell and Trevor Turk, who explains just how they got the idea here. The three of them were on a plane to SXSW last month, discussing just how hard it can be for [...]

By: Joshua + Schaible + Blog » New Launch: Reel Roulette

Joshua + Schaible + Blog » New Launch: Reel Roulette — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:42:09 +0000

[...] ReelRoulette: An easy way to find motion designers has just been launched. Nick Campbell & Trevor Turk came up with the idea of the site on their flight down to SWSX. Two weeks later after idea swapping and a few long conference calls, we narrowed down some simple features, decided on a design, coded it and launched it. You can read more about the journey here on Trevors blog. [...]

By: Introducing Reel Roulette: Show off your work! | greyscalegorilla/blog

Introducing Reel Roulette: Show off your work! | greyscalegorilla/blog — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:43:21 +0000

[...] How We Built ReelRoulette Related posts:Introducing KeyframeTV: Episode 1 [...]

By: Trevor

Trevor — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:35:50 +0000

Yeah, Heroku had a DB problem this morning. Total bummer ;(

The 30 hours include everything aside from the plane ride conversation, and the app is pretty well tested. I'm not a TDD/BDD guy really, but I do have unit/functional tests, and I'm adding tests when I catch bugs, etc.

By: Spin The Wheel On Reel Roulette | Fuel Your Motionography

Spin The Wheel On Reel Roulette | Fuel Your Motionography — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:37:22 +0000

[...] simplicity was what pushed the entire design of the site from the beginning. Trevor Turk writes on his blog about the design process, “After pondering this over a couple of beers at the Ginger Man and [...]

By: Glenn R

Glenn R — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:14:45 +0000

Great article Trevor. I really liked your approach to developing this app.

Those 30hrs – do they include time spent doing TDD/BDD ?

I tried the URL, but the site is down.

(Consider using http://wasitup.com/ to monitor your site – I use it for all my Heroku hosted apps, and its great.)