Re:My Project: Qotr, a quote board for your friends
by yaz on Saturday April 28, 2012 @12:14AM
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The website looks very good in spite of the distracting ads. Good luck! Did you use a design library like bootstrap?
Re:My Project: Qotr, a quote board for your friends
by ajacksified on Saturday April 28, 2012 @11:05PM
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Thanks; we had an internal debate on wether or not to use ads, and we decided to see what happened if we included them. It is backed by bootstrap.
Boards are public by default; you can set up a whitelist to keep things private, and set mods and admins who can administer quotes and board settings. You can also set up sub-boards, such as "x.qotr.net" and "z.y.x.qotr.net"; permissions and quotes are inherited.
It has an API built in as well; you can make requests with a token you are assigned on your account page after sign up. It's a RESTful interface, so you can get/post/put/delete quotes to boards.
It uses PHP and MongoDB, hosted on EC2. We built this mostly in a weekend, and open-sourced a PHP framework that came out of it at http://github.com/Olivine-Labs/Mint (although we need to, um, build documentation and examples.) We're working on rebuilding and vastly simplifying Mint as well, over the coming months.