The Appsterdam App

[ElDragonRojo]

Let's talk about making an app

• We're always talking about what an Appsterdam app would be like.
• Not having once is perennially problematic, because squatters.
• Plus, you, know, App sterdam.

@spllr had the idea of basing it on GitHub, which certainly fits with the milestone It's on the GitHub.

We could build it out like this:

1. Accessing issues
2. Mutating issues
3. Accessing wiki
4. Mutating wiki
5. Accessing repo
6. Mutating repo
7. Pull Requests

In the end, you should be able to set up a GitHub account, mutate the repo with forking and pull requests handled transparently in the background, along with full support of the wiki—all in a way that is centered around the conversations in the issue tracker.

It should feel like a Twitter client that was somehow designed for getting things done.

Would it benefit from tying it to ADN support, or does GitHub render ADN redundant?

[sgoodwin]

So it's like a github client that only accesses the one repo with the Appsterdam logo on it?

[ElDragonRojo]

After considering the general case, I realized I want this for myself. Thus, the New Lemurs are proud to present Lemacs, the social network for turning conversation into collaboration.

Once we have it working with the Appsterdam repository as a test case, we will add the ability to manage multiple repos. Before that happens, we will fork a white label version for letting GitHub based organizations create their own collaborative social networks, starting with Appsterdam.

[ElDragonRojo]

@sgoodwin the experience would be like Twitter, but backend would be GitHub, with the details leading to collaborative work.