I have the semblances of a plan, and a backup plan, and a second backup plan.

Plan: spruce up and publish a web I finished a while ago and never did anything with. I'll use that as a portfolio piece, a method of advertising my freelance services.

If I can spin that in to freelance work, or sell the use of the application as an income stream of it's own, Great! If not, the tools that I wrote will still be super useful for me, and maybe for some of you! (details later.)

Backup Plan:

While I am building this thing, I will continue to look for remote support or systems administration work. If I find work, I will keep building this thing, because this things is interesting and useful to me.

I'm strictly looking for remote work at this time.

Second backup plan: When I get to GA, if I still don't have a job lined up, and plan 1 isn't generating enough revenue for me to live on,I will pursue an A+ certification, and become a computer tech in one of the surrounding towns.

Okay, so the thing I built and am currently polishing and preparing for release:

It's a simple static site generator that I wrote when I was doing websites for bands.

In the first incarnation, you filled out the config file with the color scheme, the logo, and a few photos, and then it generated ~12 websites based around a couple of simple templates, most of them were variations on the same few themes.

The second version of this project moved from the config files to a series of forms, and had a place for the bands (although I think I'm the only one that ever actually used it) to upload music and stuff, with a choice of selections as to how that music was displayed on the site.

Still, this was all very primitive. No access control, only a handful of very simple templates.

But it worked. It was an application.

So, next, I added rudimentary support for podcasts. I don't like the way the podcast pages display, and there are still bits here that need some work, but it's mostly finished. This is where I left the project.

It had always been my plan to finish this before we launched any of the Analog Revolution Podcasts, but life got in the way, and I used a wordpress plugin instead.

That's where the project stands.

It's a web front end and a static site generator, with a template system, and a focus around sharing media.

I'm working on:
- improving support for podcasts, and podcast networks
- User authentication/access control/isolation
- basic blogging functionality
- a few more templates
- Custom style overrides

Once all that is done, and I've done some hardening and verified that everything is safe and secure, I'll put the code up in a git repo and deploy the application somewhere publicly.

My plan is to offer free websites on subdomains (capped, at some reasonable amount) to whoever wants them.

For a small monthly fee, you will be able to uncap your storage, and use a custom domain.