The original post: /r/internetisbeautiful by /u/Federal_Chocolate327 on 2024-10-25 21:51:30.

I’m a 13-year-old maker and developer, and I’ve been building projects since I was about 4 or 5. I mostly work on robotics – started out with an Arduino and now I’ve got a ton of different boards and have done some cool projects. I’ve even won a few medals (5-6 so far)! So, my background is more in hardware and software for robotics.

For this challenge, I wanted to step out of my comfort zone and create a small social media site from scratch in around 3 hours! The idea? A place to share fun and interesting facts because, well, I love reading random facts while studying. So I thought, why not turn this into a real website?

With a little help from the internet (because I’m definitely not a web developer 😅), I coded and published this simple site. Is it perfect? No way – the UI and features are basic, but hey, it works!

There is one catch though: since this was a free project, it’s using Firebase’s limited real-time database, so storage might max out someday. But honestly, each fact takes up so little space that it should last for a while! (Also fun fact: right now, every fact on the site is one I added for testing, even though I published it 6-7 months ago!)

I’d love to hear what you all think! Just a heads-up: I’m mainly a C++ and Python dev, so web dev is new to me – thanks for any feedback!