Talk n Tech is a group that we have on facebook for sharing good reads we find on the internet.
For a long time I've had this idea for creating an app for it, since having the group on facebook has a few drawbacks. Ok it has one drawback. And that is it forces you to visit facebook, which for me is annoying. For one thing, there are lots of distractions there when all you want to do is read. The only reason me and Jimbo decided to put it on facebook is so we can invite other friends to it, and also so that other people can checkout the stuff we're reading.
A few ideas I had for the app:
- Search (title and content)
I know you can just google for it. But this is better since there is fewer content to wade through.
- Tagging
Good for filtering stuff that you'd want to read right now.
- Quoting
This is something we often do in the facebook group, and it would be nice to have a discussion thread for every quote posted, as opposed to just one thread created in facebook.
- Voting
Good for filtering out the not so good articles.
- Save article
This is a very important feature. Aside from the app just giving out the link to the article, it saves the article so it won't be lost, in case the site goes down, or the article owner decides to remove the article.
- Related articles
Almost the same as filtering, but more specific.
So far that's it. What's holding me back right now from making this app is that it's still not justifiable to make. There are still few members in our group, so everything is still very manageable. I'm still looking for a very solid reason to put this into motion.
