I agree with the comment on so many of the same things here.
I post something new, or different, and then in 1 day its on page 6 because someone posted 10 version of the exact same weather widget, or the 2000 calendar of the month.
The Biggest problem with all of this is lack of knowledge, yes you can take a simple weather widget and "SKIN" it 100000 times, but does that make it worth doing? Why not learn a LITTLE scripting (and i mean about 20-30 lines) that could allow you to have 1 weather widget with 2-3 or 20 skins or formats in it.
Look at the code i used in this widget:
KEWL KLOCKThe code it VERY simple and can be made to work on just about anything.
MY Goal with DX is to make things no one else has come up with yet, and I think Im headed in the right direction with these.
So far in the past few months I have posted:
Holiday CountdownAnd
Site CheckerThe Holiday Countdown was an absolute KILLER script wise, there are over 150 hours of REAL time in it. And that is why its a GADGET not a WIDGET, I have to protect that work, so that there arn't 50 of them on the site in a week. And yes I am selling it, but that is to try and offset some of the time i have INVESTED in this. And i will NEVER break even, it would take over 600 sales to = what i have in it, in time. Let alone bandwidth etc.
The Site Checker was something that was made in about 2-3 hours (initially) and then spent about 8 more "making it cleaner" so that it could do more then just ping a site.
So this is why I'm trying to start a better and more robust Tutorial list. Im starting out VERY slow so that anyone who wants to can begin to make even the simplest widgets, its going to take a LOT of time to get these done, the first 3 took move over 8 hrs to put together.
Here is the link to the post of the DX Tutorials -
DX STEP-BY-STEPLets all learn how to make DX widgets that are not the norm.