Didn't intend to have a forever project, but I did anyway

About 8 years ago I started building a weight loss competition online and called in fantasyfatball. It was really just something fun to do so I could learn Java Server Faces and compete with your friends to lose weight. Years later I revamped it to learn Spring and renamed it to slim2win.net, then last year revamped the front end to use Spring MVC and renamed it to www.teamhealthchallenge.com which is where it lives today. Funny that I always go back to building this site and actually play sometimes. The site has been a complete money pit but I do enjoy seeing people succeed. There have been some people that have lost a lot of weight which I'm happy I could be a part of. I guess everyone needs a hobby. I've even considered open sourcing it just to make the site that much better for the players.

Posted Jan 26, 2013, 12:15 PM UTC

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elssar•

Nice. At least your Forever Project actually exists. Actually that would kinda disqualify it from being a forever project, don't you think?

Anyways, in the next iteration, think about renaming it lose2win.net

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reticulogicOP•

lose2win.net, hey I like that. Let's see, I could rewrite the whole think in node.js next.
:-)

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