M2M Day 327: I built this website in 15 minutes
This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For September, my goal is to continuously freestyle rap for three minutes.
Two days ago, on Thursday, I mentioned that I was going to build my own website for freestyle rap training. This was a direct reaction to the fact that my previously favorite training website (randomwordgenerator.com) became nonfunctional earlier in the week.
The project has progressed faster than I expected:
On Thursday, as a first step, I aggregated the 10,000 most common words in the English language, deciding to use the 7,717 words that are longer than four characters.
Then, yesterday, I hired someone on Upwork.com to help sort all 7,717 into separate lists based on the number of syllables in each word.
This morning, I woke to surprisingly find that my Upwork hire had completed the project overnight (with about 95% accuracy, which was good enough for me).
Today, with the sorted list in hand, but with limited time, I set a timer for 15 minutes, challenging myself to get my website online before the time expired.
And thus, Syllables.co was born.
Due to the time constraint, the site is currently quite limited, but it does work for what it’s designed to do: Generate random words with a specified number of syllables.
If I have more time over the next week, I may enhance the site further, but, for now, I’m happy with the result.
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