doItLater.com is Open Source… check out our statz on Ohloh!

Recently, when I decided to rewrite doItLater into something else (totally new functionality), I also chose to make the project become a portable engine that would allow similar sites to be built almost instantly.  The concept here is that doItLater can have a niche (internet memes), then others can build similar niche sites using this code.  One site may decide to have all of their pictures related to a certain “football” (soccer) team in the UK, another may decide to become the source for Star Wars fan-art.  Whatever floats your boat.

As an added bonus, open source projects can have their code analyzed by Ohloh.net to calculate the number of lines, comments, etc. and estimate how much the system would cost if you hired developers to write it for you.  The engine just topped $100,000 in the last update. 🙂

If you want to see more details, browse through doItLater’s stats.  If you see a little “Ohloh” badge on the site, those are the stats that it will be summarizing.

When the engine actually does what it’s supposed to (for now it’s mostly a cleaned up version of the old doItLater) I’ll make sure to post more info on where to get the code and how to use it.  My goal is to make it so easy that anyone can run it even without knowing PHP.

What do you think of the Open Sourcing of this project and what is your impression on the stats… leave comments!