RailsConf 2007 - Building Community Focused Apps with Rails

Posted by Jake Good
on May 18, 07

This was a very high level session that focuses more on the “what you should have known when building an app” rather than “how do you do feature of a community site”…



Here is the basic structure and some highlights:



Build a Plan



Resisting big infrastructure… Determine ownership… Revenue Stream that’s not ads… Don’t build features just because you think they’re cool…



Build the App



Think like a designer, make the front page “above the fold” (newspapers), use plugins, take code vacations.



Get Noticed



It’s a google world, smart URLs, leverage markup.



Recruit People



Obivous and easy to signup, require the least, Limit non-members, and create a API and developer network.



Decent presentation…

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