the_annoyers
Team Members
- zinho
- qmx
- codezone
- andersonleite
What
The project objective is to build a place where people can tell what most annoy them where they live.
For example a high theft incidence in their neighborhood, crowded bus in their city, lots of holes in a street, scarce of hospitals and so on.
With this kind of information in hands we will show in a world map a high level vision of the biggest claimmed problems.
Entering in the detail of each country throw the map, we can analyse their biggest problems, the applicants complains in a city/state and the satisfaction of people in a determined region. Maybe some politicians take a look of them =D
The users can comment others people complains.
We can even make a rank of the problems, tag clouds and whatever comes in our minds (and what the time let us do)
Where
- Entry URL:
http://annoying-us.r09.railsrumble.com
How
paperclip
authlogic
cucumber
rspec
webrat
Comments
Hi hybernaut. We logged with OpenId and everything went fine.
Hello Ben, thank you very much for your comments. We really agree our app have some design poits to be improved and another questions too. We are really thankful for you sharing us this feedback. Thanks for your interest!
I was unable to add a new annoyance to this app using the OpenID path.
Overall, pretty annoying.
I’m not sure I see the point of this application; it’d be one thing if it provided a way for the annoyers to contact the annoyed and answer their concerns (sort of like a Get Satisfaction), but right now this just seems to be a place to vent.
Speaking of venting: the design isn’t great. It feels more like a lot of things were slapped together, with lots of different styles of illustration. Some fonts are hard to read, as well – and the error pages aren’t customized (which is an easy way to add a lot to the app).
As I mentioned above, the app feels incomplete… or if it is complete, then the vision feels too small. I’d really like to see some productive result from this. (And even what there is remains unfinished – broken image links when no file is uploaded for a complaint, for instance.) Also, posting a list of upcoming features on a Rumble site just calls attention to their absence.
Again, this feels like a partial implementation of existing sites – nothing too innovative, and nothing too promising as a differentiator from a rapidly-growing market.
Finally, returning to the same theme, this doesn’t strike me as a particularly useful application unless you include some means of resolving the annoyance.
I think this is part of a neat application. I just wish the rest of it had emerged during the Rumble, too.