Review My App: Fluttr

[excid3]

http://fluttr.heroku.com

Fluttr lets you easily keep track of todo items. All you have to do is remember what url you choose. Keep it secret or share to have a collaborative todo list.

I'm learning Rails and Javascript so this has been my first good experiment. Took me just a couple of hours to put this together and I'd love to hear what you think!

[revorad]

Very cool for a couple of hours effort.

However, (oh I hate to say this) there are a bazillion todo apps out there. Every programmer must have made one.

I know you made this for learning. So, what I'd suggest is you take the same code and turn it into something more fun. Have a look at http://www.thathigh.com/. Technically, it's similar to your site, but it's a very viral social app, which people love.

Good luck with your experiments!

[oliverkrystal → revorad]

That's a statusnet site, which is in a manner similar to this. However, statusnet is more of an opensource twitter clone which doesn't seem to be intended to be a to-do list.

This on the other hand is a to-do list. Yes its pretty simple, but sometimes simplicity is elegance.

[excid3 → revorad]

I do like the idea of making it into some sort of game in order to provide motivation for completing items. Sharing of a list could be a little more obvious as well. Ill have to think on it a bit. Thanks for the ideas!

[djkn0x]

Impressive for such a short amount of time. I really like the simplicity (no signup / sign in) and that it is so easy to collaborate. If you want to expand further you should check out some of the functionality used in WorkFlowy (e.g. complete, reorder).

[excid3 → djkn0x]

Thanks, definitely would be a good way for me to continue developing the app and learn more rails.

[gus_massa]

I like it. But I think that an "undo/unerase" button would be useful.

[excid3 → gus_massa]

Definitely a good idea, I'll be adding a checkbox that will strike out the items so you can essentially "undo" them as well as permanently delete them as you like.

[excid3]

clickable: http://fluttr.heroku.com

[agdurrette]

I love it, its so simplistic :D