stackius

Originally an idea sharing site, named ideaius. It has since transformed into a poorly named project management site, named stackius.

MVP

• Ability to post messages to a topic
• Ability to select messages and create a new topic with the selected messages
• Ability to annotate discussions
• Search

Data design

This is going to be incredibly read heavy. Data design might be similar to Twitter lists... but not really.

• Write once objects
  • Messages - text, user who posted them, timestamps, unique id
  • Annotations
• Update on occasion
  • Users - username, timestamps, password, email
  • topics - private, name, owner, other meta
• Write a lot
  • Join table / association between Messages and Topics.
    • I could just duplicate the messages when forking to another topic, but it'd be nice to have some sort of relation between the new and old topic.
    • Megastore equivalent in Ruby?
    • Redis?

Thoughts

• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/statsmix
• focus more on topic discussion? Thought organization?
• better dragging UI
• posting via email, txt, mobile app
• daily email of new posts in default (or maybe threads you're following?)
• testing. Look at what was started over at braindump

History

In 2008, I coded up a little site called wikidea. The site grew a little and became ideaius. I pitched it to a commitee at school and was given $100, which I never cashed. I then also stopped working on the project except for small things here and there. Near the end of 2011, I picked it back up. I switched from PHP to Ruby and created a simple site. After long discussions with @dmpatierno, I changed the name to Stackius and started working on something closer to chat, and further away from a wiki.