I can safely say that DeeJBase.com, my baby, has grown up to be an awesome website. Here are some of my technical milestones over the past month. I have built:

1. A database with about 250 real NYC DJs with photos and demos from soundcloud.

2. A log-in system allowing human DJ’s to claim and control their profiles through in invitation emailing system.

3. As of yesterday, I was able to use Facebook Graph to cross reference the majority of DJ’s in my database with their facbook pages and pull in their number of likes and well as some other info.

4. A way of filtering through each DJ’s tracks’ taglists and finding genres to associate with each DJ based on key words in the tag lists of their tracks.

5. A cool design with a search feature and the ability to filter DJ’s by genre and soundcloud followers.

6. A like button connected to my Deejbase facebook page.

I’m really proud of the site so far. And honestly it’s been a pleasure - to have a vision and at first, have no idea how you are going to get from point a to point b and then building a scaffold, pouring over API documentation, figuring out algorithms on the back end to parse data. Automating something using code that would take a human countless tedious hours to do manually. Then when you feel like getting artsy, making some design changes on the front-end.

Full-stack web developement is amazing. I. love. it.

But now I need to get real and put on my business, lean-startup hat. As of two days ago, I had talked to a bunch of other (succesfull and unsuccesful) entrepreneurs for advice but hadn’t really interfaced with many potential target customers (venues and event-planners hiring DJs). So that’s what I started doing yesterday. I’m going to write a separate post about that.