I realized last night that I need to stop being a lazy web developer, and get off my ass and make something happen.

I’ve sat back and watched all of these awesome website applications come online, like digg.com, pownce.com, facebook.com and more, and I say “thats awesome, I wish I would have come up with that”.

The truth of the matter is I CAN do something like that, and I have the potential right at my finger tips for it to be big. For the last, almost 6 years I have developed a small but fun social network, notPopular.com, with over 25,000 members.

I’ve been admittedly lazy with the site and have let it go stagnant over the last few years. Its dated and worn. A number of time I have started building the 2.0 version of the site, just to trash it and start again. Last night I fixed a javascript bug that I had known about for 2 years… talk about lazy.

I work in burst of development, an idea will hit me and I will code like mad for a week, and then not touch it for 2 months. This is laziness. I need to stop this. I need to be steady with my development.

I love to code, I love new ideas for sites. Social networks are very interesting to me.

Many times I have felt left out of the online cool club, and I would think to myself, “If I lived in the bay area, things would be different, I could collaborate with people and make the next digg, pownce, or twitter”. or “I program all day for ‘the man’, I don’t feel like coding when I get home”. I’ve realized that those are just an excuses for my laziness. I need to get off my ass and do something about it. I need to develop web applications, if thats what I want to really do with my life.

This is my promise to myself, to complete the web projects I start, and to become consistent with their development.

If someone is reading this and has some awesome ideas for notPopular.com, speak now…. I’m on a roll