Today I launched Twitdevs. It is an extremely beta release, very much taking the philosophy of “if you’re not embarrassed by your first release you’ve waited too long”.
It’s a small Sinatra based app, which I coded up in a few hours. It is for people in search of freelancers for small projects and gigs and allows you to post a message, via the website, through the associated twitter account – @twitdevs describing what you are looking for and a budget and then if any freelancers following @twitdevs are interested in working with you; they’ll contact you directly over twitter to discus further.
The Road-Map
So there are obviously quite a few improvements I’d like to make as it such an early release:
- Complete redesign – I am not a designer, and although I can see good design, I cannot recreate it. The whole thing needs a redesign
- Twitter OAuth integration – I’d like you to have to login via your twitter account before being able to post messages, to block possible spam and to avoid people having to enter their twitter username
- List latest gigs (or just the latest tweets) through the website
Once that is done, I’d probably be happy pushing it a bit and seeing if I can get any traction with it – at the moment there’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem – i.e. no freelancers, no gigs, no freelancers etc. etc.
I think it serves a useful purpose but I’ll have to see what people think; if not it’s only a few hours of my life wasted.
Related posts:
- Who needs Twitter when you’ve got Facebook status updates?
- Tweetfactor – An experiment using Ruby, Sinatra, Twitter and Redis
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