Balloon. (Scripty postcards.)
Insane genius and ruby guru, why the lucky stiff, has created a little site called Balloon where you can make a hosted web page/ruby script in a few seconds. Some aspects of it remind me of tiddlyspot.com. The user experience is designed to be quick and painless. No long registration forms, etc. We may borrow some ideas from it. Some notes:
| Balloon. | Tiddlyspot. | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Have a “user” with a single password who can create multiple sites. Collect an email address (but don’t verify). | No users or every site is a separate user. | Considering move towards the concept of users with many sites in tiddlyspot but not sure as yet. Still keen to preserve “simple as possible” creation process. Considering collecting an optional email address. |
| First form is just site name. Worry about user/login details on the next stage. | We try to do everything in form. | Not sure yet but looking at making form shorter and having an optional control panel once you’ve created the site. |
| Ajax instant site available indicator. | Web 1.0 round trip to see if site is available | Yeah, we need one of those! |
| List of “featured” and/or “popular” sites. | No such list. | We have thought about doing one of these but decided that people should be able to opt in/out of it so secret santa lists and the like don’t end up featured on the home page. So will wait until we have that mechanism in place (another item for the upcoming control panel). |
Bradley Meck wrote:
What can I do to help you with the AJAX work?
Posted on 14-Jul-06 at 7:06 am | Permalink