Brian Gilham, founder of TTCUpdates, talks about how TTCU got started, how it works, and the future of his project.

1. The TTCupdates
Story
(Or: How I Got Really, Really Lucky)
Brian Gilham
StayFresh08
May 25, 2009

2. What is
TTCupdates?
Leveraging Twitter to help you get home.

3. What is
TTCupdates?
Leveraging Twitter to help you get home.

4. Over and over again
Mix PHP, MySQL, and CRON. Bake for one
minute.

5. Over and over again
Mix PHP, MySQL, and CRON. Bake for one
minute.

6. Over and over again
Mix PHP, MySQL, and CRON. Bake for one
minute.

7. December 13, 2008
First tweet is sent out.

8. Media coverage
Doing interviews on the GO train sucks.

9. Media coverage
Doing interviews on the GO train sucks.

10. Community Edition
We’re all in this together. Except, when we’re
not.

11. Community Edition
We’re all in this together. Except, when we’re
not.

12. Community Edition
We’re all in this together. Except, when we’re
not.

13. My only marketing
tip
If you don’t believe in your site, no one will.

14. Crowd control
Union Station was under water. I was fixing
bugs.

15. Crowd control
Union Station was under water. I was fixing
bugs.

16. Crowd control
Union Station was under water. I was fixing
bugs.

17. The Future
Where are we going with all of this?

18. The Future
Where are we going with all of this?

19. The Future
Where are we going with all of this?

20. Thanks!
As of today, TTCupdates is open-source. Want
my code? You can find it at:
http://code.google.com/p/ttcupdates/
Brian Gilham
me@briangilham.com
http://briangilham.com
@bgilham