4 months to the day, the site is getting closer to be able to be released to the public.
yesterday i set the new version up on the smallest and least powerful internet facing amazon web services server.
the first thing i searched was all 8.5" decks available from 27 skate shops. it returned 320 decks and took 0.2 seconds.
once i do some more testing and make sure the site is updating itself properly, i'll grant everyone access again who already has a username and password.
i still have no idea if this is a thing that will actually get much use, but i've definitely enjoyed using it to get exposed to lots of different deck art.
edit: turns out there's way more than 320 8.5" decks across those shops.
this is more like it:
still short a few shops who tag their decks in a different way as compared to what i'm observing is "normal", but nearly 1000 more results discovered with only half a second increase in time.