We are full stack and flexible to campaign needs. For example, the donate app (native iPad front-end) is backed by a Rails API running on Heroku to aggregate donation data (particularly important since the FEC requires donation logs). Also, another group member built an Angular front-end dashboard for the campaign to authenticate with Google Apps and view/export donation data. We have generally found small, loosely coupled services to be a good model for allowing people to work in their areas of expertise and avoid blocking each other.
> Any more details on this? Sounds like an interesting idea for a spin-off.
The NYT article wasn't super clear but it's a Slack bot. It is open source at https://github.com/SandersForPresident/Butler. We have tried to open source as much as possible as we develop things. However it is not my project so I'm not the most qualified to talk about it.
No worries about the duplicate post! Glad it is getting attention.
The reason I read this article; to find out how this kind of bottom-up organisation works.
"features like the donation app, which incorporates the Square credit card processing software,"
You mention the front-end applications, how about the back-end?
"one built an Internet “bot” to help match newcomers to tasks appropriate to their skills."
Any more details on this? Sounds like an interesting idea for a spin-off.
ps: sorry for crashing the thread with a re-submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10168708) . For all the time I've used HN, there has never an attempt to avoid re-submission of a url multiple times.