bfgeorge9000 / bcaas

BeneWHOcumberWHAT-as-a-Service

BeneWHOCumberWHAT-as-a-Service (BCaaS)

A while back, a chat room conversation with some coworkers turned to crafting creative permutations of an English actor's name. That weekend, I threw together a tongue-in-cheek name generator that still lives at BeneWHOcumberWHAT.

The original application was built in Ruby on Rails, to serve up a website in hopes of driving some traffic to an array of relevant Amazon referral links. Despite my best online marketing efforts, the referral links failed to make any money. I did learn a valuable lesson, though - I'm a terrible online marketer.

Fast forward to today; I find myself working with APIs more often than anything else, on a project that has me doing more visual programming than typing. While an enjoyable and varied challenge, I wanted to keep my skills sharp. As such, BCaaS was born - a Node.JS rewrite of the original RoR application, with the sole purpose of serving up its data over API.