Yeah those those are fun, but also have their downsides. Basecamp wrote a great article about it: Introducing Boosts: an all-new way to show your support in Basecamp
Their approach is quite interesting too. I prototyped it for WIP, but eventually settled on regular comments.
But it's definitely something we can explore. We could have one type of reaction (👏), multiple types (e.g. 👏 😍 😢 🎉), or allow any emoji like Slack has:
I'm considering switching to a rich text editor for comments. It would also make it easier to add inline images, etc. I'm not 100% sure yet.
The [title](url) you tried should work. Make sure to start the URL with http:// (or https://)
What if you could "retweet" someone else's todo?
Then if you do get mentioned, you can choose whether to have it show up on your profile by retweeting or not.
It would also let you amplify todos where you're not directly mentioned. Perhaps because it's something really interesting, but it might be from a less known maker.
If WIP were to become more of a Twitter-like social network where you can follow people (recently launched a prototype of this) then it might make sense to add such a feature.
Good idea! Will need to research how to do this.
Btw, if while implementing it, can you consider make something available for API developers to be notified too?
I'm not sure graphql is very cool for streaming APIs, but maybe a simple outgoing webhook would be enough
Hey @marc, I plan to automate sending a message on a discord channel with the changelog of #sgtm.
It would be nice if you provide a webhook system or maybe just an RSS for now? this way I can easily configure posting with Zapier :)
Yes, Zapier integration would be very useful for a bunch of things. Definitely want to add this at some point.
RSS would be quicker to implement. But there's a bunch of different ways to implement it. And people might have different preferences depending on the integration they want to build.
I'll give this some thought the coming days. Feel free to ping me in a week to check the status.
👍 I haven't spend much time on SEO, because it doesn't immediately provide value for existing members. But as we want to grow WIP, it does make sense to leverage our content and showing up on more search result pages.
These are some excellent suggestions. I'll add them to my list. Thanks!
Ah yes, I want this myself as well. I've got a bunch of products I no longer work on but I don't want to delete them from my profile.
What if we call this "archiving" a product? They would be hidden under a "Show archived products…" link on your profile. And perhaps those product pages would include a prominent "Archived" label.
This would allow you to archive products that are sunset, sold, on-hold, etc.
Say we added a way to distinguish between personal and work products, how should we use that?
Perhaps streaks should not take into account personal todos. Anything else?
Are you interested in seeing personal products at all?
Yeah, it's definitely a tough call if you were to do this, how should it be done?
Some rapid fire thoughts:
The majority of people on this site have two "work in progress" categories.
The first being their businesses.
The second being themselves (Gym, meditation, whatever).
So I think it'd be cool to have two streaks, one personal, one business, to encourage some balance.
I think if this is done, and done right (The hard part), it could be really cool.
I wonder if a personal streak makes much sense though?
I think at that point product-specific streaks are more useful. So you can earn a streak for going to the gym regularly. But of course, having to do so daily would probably be too much for most people.
We could make those product-specific streaks customisable as they are more personal by definition anyway. You could just set your own goal (e.g. every other day). But then it's starting to sound quite convoluted.
Anyway. Adding a way to mark products as personal and not have them count towards the streak might get us most of the way there.
The majority of community interaction still happens in the chat. But me and @Jankeesvw are actively developing the website to facilitate it here as well.
The chat is great, but can be distracting and sometimes hard to follow. The website allows us for deeper interactions like this Q&A.
It seems like the notification system already works well to notify you when something relevant to you happened. So you post a question, someone answers. You get a notification email. That prompts you to check out their answer and perhaps reply to it. Which then sends them a notification email, etc.
That works well, because you already check your email inbox multiple times per day. And the emails are (hopefully) always relevant because they pertain to you personally and are actionable (e.g. we don't email you when someone likes your comment, because that's nothing you can act on)
But there's still the issue of getting people to the website in the first place. To post that question here. And to see what other people are up to.
For that we're experimenting with a weekly community digest sent via email. And also making the homepage more interesting to you by letting you follow specific individuals rather than every single WIP member.
We still have a long way to go though. Any suggestions are more than welcome.