Bit Twiddlers
Team Members
- Jeff
- curtismchale
- Eric Krause
What
Trusted Network Sounding board for the ideas of inventors/entrepreneurs.
Keeps you from having to tell 4 or 5 different friends, whom you value and trust their opinions, about an idea over and over again.
Set up a trusted network, add some ideas, figure out if it's worth spending time on, and be on your way.
Where
- Entry URL:
http://ideabitbucket.r09.railsrumble.com- Info / Screencast URL:
- http://blog.thequeue.net/idea-bit-bucket/
How
My rails template:
http://github.com/jschoolcraft/rails-template/tree/master
Chris Lloyd's Gravtastic:
http://github.com/chrislloyd/gravtastic/tree/master
Typus:
http://github.com/fesplugas/typus/tree/master
BlueCloth
http://www.deveiate.org/projects/BlueCloth
bluecloth was for Markdown support
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
jQuery and prettyPhoto for the lightbox
http://jquery.com/
http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyPhoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/
newrelic_rpm is config'd but wasn't looked at during the rumble
http://www.newrelic.com/
authlogic, authlogic-oid, ruby-openid, and openid_selector for authentication
From this AsciiCast (of the RailsCast) http://asciicasts.com/episodes/170-openid-with-authlogic
thoughtbot-paperclip and imagemagick for attachments (bits) for ideas
http://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip/
gravtastic for gravatar support for users and trusted network
http://github.com/chrislloyd/gravtastic/tree/master
cucumber, rspec for testing
http://cukes.info
http://rspec.info
autospec for my sanity
ffmike/db-populate to shove some stuff in there for seed data
http://github.com/ffmike/db-populate/tree/master
Comments
I enjoyed the idea of the application (recording your ideas so you could get feedback on them from friends? awesome) and the implementation was mostly there. The logo actually made me laugh out loud once I realised it was a brain.
One of the main stopping points I found was that the idea of bits them selves was slightly lacking – the best I could get was it’s data associated with a file? I tried uploading a file (to be fair, a 4 or so megabyte zip file with an mp3) and the form just rerender, no errors or context for the failure what so ever.
I particularly liked the touch of putting screenshots on the front page of the application – it made it a lot easier to understand the idea.
Is that a pink brain in the trash bucket? (^_^) I like the idea. The usability has a few rough edges, and I think the user management would have to be handled a different way, perhaps using a method like github’s collaborator selection tool. Great job!
Great jobs on completing your app in such short time. I find the app to be useful for those who need to get immediate feedback on their ideas. I also like the fact that you included screenshots of the main areas of the site on the homepage.
Great job.